Keeping in line with his campaign promises to take a tough stance on trade with China, President Donald Trump has placed the United States into a full scale trade war with the People’s Republic of China. On June 15, 2018 Trump announced tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese imports and, as of July 6, 2018, […]
Russian interference by means of election meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election is looking more concrete rather than conjecture with each new indictment that special counsel Robert Mueller issues. The American public is outraged at the possibility of American elections losing integrity, especially at the influence of one our “former” sworn adversaries. Despite all […]
After several months of slinging insults back and forth, Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un made history on June 12, 2018 when they successfully converged in Singapore with hopes of bringing peace to the Korean Peninsula. It was the first time in history that a North Korean leader and an acting American president discussed Diplomatic […]
As the American economy becomes increasingly concentrated in a handful of large metropolitan areas, housing has become an ever-pressing issue as longtime residents and new arrivals compete for housing stock that in many cities has not kept up with population growth and demand. While this phenomenon is seen in cities across the country from Austin […]
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse over 90 Americans per day die following an opioid overdose [1]. With the combination of emergency response personnel, lost productivity, medical services, and addiction treatment, opioid addiction costs the United States $78.5 billion each year this problem persists and worsens [1]. Why is it that as a […]
Recently, a year-long study conducted by a team of economists from Stanford, Harvard, and Brown found that low-income college students who received aid throughout their four years were able to achieve middle-class and even upper-middle-class status later in life. The study measured how every single U.S college assisted kids from working-class families, and how that […]
