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Democrats Need a New Playbook: The Value of Bread-and-Butter Politics

By using the playbooks of those who have defeated them, Democrats may have a renewed chance at righting the future of their party and their country.

“Good Guy with a Gun”: A Response to the Greenwood Park Mall Shooting

As the number of shootings in the U.S. is projected to increase, we must ask ourselves: Is our best defense really to hope that a “good guy with a gun” is always waiting around to save the day?

It Happened Here: Life in the Shadow of the Highland Park Shooting

Eighteen years ago, I was born in Highland Park Hospital. Earlier this month, in the most harrowing day of mine, I watched the news numbly from my home as 25 people were rushed to that same building to be treated for gunshot wounds.

Poor Decision-Making: Abortion and American Violations of Human Rights Law

The most prolific human rights organizations in the United States and abroad value equal and unrestricted access to all maternal care, including abortion, as a human right.

A Completely Precedented Attack

After a tragedy, it is calming for many to rationalize some of the pain by casting the event as unforeseeable, and thus, unpreventable. That comfort cannot be found in Buffalo.

Ending Gun Violence Requires Transformative Cultural Change

Our approach to ending gun violence cannot be treated as a merely political issue. Gun culture is so deeply embedded into states like Texas that we must also push for a transformative cultural change.

Biden’s “Crack Pipes” Might Be a Good Thing, Actually

The gut urge to reject all safe drug use initiatives may be tempting, but we ought to take a second, more measured look.

Disembodied Borders: The Fallacy of Immigration Under Biden

Lost in the Biden administration’s progressive campaign rhetoric is the undeniable reality of sustained, nativist violence committed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers against the “huddled masses” at our borders.

Yet Another School Shooting

This is the present we have picked. A present in which the American way becomes the mere skill of pretending that there is nothing to grieve even as we mourn.

No, It Won’t Stop

Simply put, America is condemned to a future of mass bloodshed that is hypothetically completely preventable but realistically inevitable and intractable.