Op-Ed: Pot smokers could be the demographic that chooses our next president

Op-Ed: Pot smokers could be the demographic that chooses our next president

With a new presidential election more than a year and a half away, the long road to the voting booths has already begun. Numerous Democratic candidates have already made official announcements regarding their intended runs and President Trump started laying the groundwork for important talking points that are sure to resurface throughout his own re-election […]

Acting defense secretary under investigation for alleged Boeing bias

Acting defense secretary under investigation for alleged Boeing bias

Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing executive with no other government experience, is now the nation’s longest-serving acting secretary of defense in history, having taken on the role after James Mattis resigned in December. Some believed that Shanahan’s “acting” prefix would soon give way to a formal appointment to the job, but that effort has been delayed […]

Op-Ed: Russia’s new ‘fake news’ bills demonstrate censorship, oppression

Op-Ed: Russia’s new ‘fake news’ bills demonstrate censorship, oppression

The idea behind wanting to ban fake news seems simple enough: you find the “news” content that isn’t representing the truth objectively and legitimately, then prevent those sites from disseminating their material. However, in practice, laws are written and enforced by a nation’s government—making a legal ban on “fake news” into something else: a powerful […]

Could Trump face a Republican challenger in the primaries? Jeb Bush says he should

Could Trump face a Republican challenger in the primaries? Jeb Bush says he should

Prior to the 2016 presidential election, Jeb Bush, son and brother to two former U.S. presidents, was among the Republican Party (GOP) lawmakers pursuing the GOP’s presidential nomination. Name recognition may have been on his side had another man with TV notoriety not entered into the race. Donald Trump would go on to secure the […]

Breaking: President Trump orders Boeing 737 aircraft grounded

Breaking: President Trump orders Boeing 737 aircraft grounded

Following Sunday’s Ethiopian Airlines crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8 and October’s Lion Air crash in the same aircraft, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that his administration was issuing an order to ground all Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 aircraft in the United States. “We’re going to be issuing an emergency order of […]

Watch: SUV plows into barrier toward President Trump’s motorcade in Alabama

Watch: SUV plows into barrier toward President Trump’s motorcade in Alabama

A presidential security detail has to prepare strategies to defend one of the most powerful government officials in the world against technologically-advanced and well-planned threats. This includes elite-level military attacks, domestic or foreign terrorists, or a mentally-deranged individual with no real overarching political motivations beyond just killing the president. However, as a recent video shows, […]

North Korea’s Jong-un ramps up missile activity after Trump Hanoi summit collapse

North Korea’s Jong-un ramps up missile activity after Trump Hanoi summit collapse

Just days after the collapse of the Hanoi summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un, there are reports of Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) activity on the north side of the Military Demarcation Line. According to information from Reuters and the South Korean press, supply trucks were seen entering […]

Trump and Jong-un talks collapse in Hanoi with no new deal

Trump and Jong-un talks collapse in Hanoi with no new deal

The recent meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un, which took place in Hanoi, Vietnam, has reportedly resulted in no deals or agreements regarding denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. According to Reuters, President Trump blamed the dissolution of talks on North Korea’s unrealistic demand to lift all U.S.-implemented sanctions […]

Republicans and Democrats came to fight, but Cohen hearing yields no clear winners

Republicans and Democrats came to fight, but Cohen hearing yields no clear winners

President Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Wednesday, in what proved to be an unusual combination of politics and theater. While President Trump may have been the hearing’s intended target, Cohen himself proved to be the focal point. For those who question my motives for […]

Op-Ed: One simple question you can ask yourself daily to make this country better

Op-Ed: One simple question you can ask yourself daily to make this country better

If you spend any part of your day online, it’s pretty difficult to avoid America’s far-reaching outrage machine. Each day, some new controversy promises to further the divide Americans socially, politically, culturally, or racially. Each day, another prominent person is accused of saying or thinking something large swaths of the American people find repugnant. Each […]