For more than a decade now, the American political system has focused incessantly on healthcare and health insurance. High-profile tragedies have directed public ire towards American healthcare and insurance companies and now foster support for a central plank in the Democratic Party’s implicit platform — Medicare for All. Critics of America’s free market healthcare and...
California’s Fair Pay to Play a foul for athletes
I never expected publishing a Christian daily-devotional book for athletes could land me in trouble with the National Collegiate Athletics Association. As a college athlete, the NCAA barred me from publishing my book, even if I donated all of the profits, as it would be a way for me to use my “name, image, and...
1619 Project disregards history’s heroes
The New York Times made news this summer with the 1619 Project, a series of essays and articles written with the goal of rewriting American history, using the year 1619 as the founding of our country, as that was when the first African slaves were brought to the New World. According to The New York...
Emergency risk protection orders: point of compromise on gun control
A man in Washington posted on Facebook in June that he wanted to commit a mass shooting at a synagogue and that he was “shooting for 30 Jews.” He previously posted photos of himself with firearms and Nazi salutes. Law enforcement officers in Washington obtained an emergency risk protection order (ERPO) and removed an AR-15...
Market-run healthcare system puts profits over patients
Jesy Scherer-Radcliff probably didn’t think a Friday in June would be his last day on earth. Scherer-Radcliff passed away on June 28, 2019 at 21-years old from “complications of his diabetes,” according to his obituary, but the true story remains buried in interviews with family members: Scherer-Radcliff, a diabetic diagnosed 11 years ago, was unable...