If you pay attention to unimportant news, then you are probably aware that President Trump is officially pulling us out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at the end of the year. This is nothing new — literally. We have left and rejoined UNESCO before. Ronald Reagan pulled us out, back when […]
In the wake of a devastating mass shooting in Las Vegas, the question of gun control is being brought up again. And, to be fair, it is not a bad question. I am very pro-Second Amendment, but that does not mean that I do not believe in any forms of restriction of what can or […]
There have been a lot of comments lately that paint Puerto Rico’s post-hurricane devastation and President Donald Trump’s response as “his Katrina.” In case you were out of the loop, any of Puerto Rico’s post-Irma problems have nothing to do with the fact it’s an island or had poor infrastructure beforehand. It’s Trump’s fault. If […]
I will be the first to say that Betsy DeVos was a pitiful choice as secretary of education. I am a proud product of the classic underfunded, small 1-A school, and I detest her educational elitism. However, her recent decision to reform Title IX is one decision that I can actually get behind. The purpose […]
In the midst of what have undoubtedly been a very dramatic few months, one major piece of news never quite broke out as it should have. California is winning the moral scavenger hunt. In the highest reaches of Californian state government, people are quickly finding chance after chance to remind you that they are morally […]
Unless you have been living under a rock of non-Confederate statue origin, you have no doubt heard and seen countless opinions on what we should or should not do with the Confederate statues that populate our parks and courthouses in the American South. “Tear it down!” some yell in their best Reagan impersonation. Others rally […]
This summer, a petition floating around the Ole Miss social scene caught my attention. The petition accused the university of atrociously failing at its sacred duty to pack enough fluff into our general education requirements for students to shell out an additional $100 or $200 for textbooks to classes we haven’t been forced to take yet. To my horror, I […]
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