This past Thursday, President Donald Trump claimed that his 306 electoral college votes lead to the largest electoral college victory since former President Ronald Reagan’s.That is false.Trump’s electoral...
Women get paid 79 cents on the dollar compared to men.The statistic permeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign last year, as she made closing the gender wage gap a crux...
Kent State’s current consent policy can be summarized colloquially as “No means no,” but it needs to be “Yes means yes.”The distinction is important.The exact phrasing of the current policy is...
Yes, dear reader, I did just ask that. I wish I could see the reactions of those who read that headline and what their faces convay. I imagine some of you may blatantly think "yes" to that question,...
May 1970 was a time that witnessed this country during a war that divided us as a people.As citizens gathered in the nation’s capital to protest the Cambodian Incursion and the events at Kent State,...
The fight for women’s rights has been ongoing since the latter half of the 1800s, constantly sidelined by other issues and drowned in misinformation.First, let’s clear these rumors of misandry.Feminism...
Congress works slowly.It has worked at varying speeds over the years with even more varying levels of success, but it has always gotten things done at a sluggish pace. This is, in part, by design; the...
Before I arrive at the crux of my column, it’s important to establish this: I don’t enjoy writing first-person columns. This isn’t to say that I believe personality has no place in opinion sections...
“As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in liberalism. But there was a rosy time of innocence when I believed in liberals.” These eerie words of G. K. Chesterton haunt me as I look...
Dear reader: There is no satire in today’s column. This is largely due to the fact that I simply can’t make this stuff up anymore, at least not for today. I just can’t — and won’t — do it because...
On Feb. 1, Betsy DeVos was confirmed as secretary of education in a rare tie-breaking vote from Vice President Mike Pence. Two Republican senators, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, voted against DeVos.Such...
Donald Trump is a fascist.This is not some cute talking point used to elicit a reaction or an opinion derived from a poorly-done Facebook meme comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler.There are many academics,...
