In June 2016, my father and I attended a political rally for a presidential candidate passing through my hometown. I loathed the candidate, and I loathed almost every second of the rally. His policy proposals were absurd, his logic flawed, and his rhetoric inflammatory. The candidate was none other than President Donald J. Trump. I...
The merits of Brett Kavanaugh as a Republican nominee are clear, as are the reasons why Democrats fear his confirmation. As a conservative judge in the mold of the late Antoni Scalia, he would likely undermine union power, Civil Rights era voting protections, and Roe v. Wade. Kavanaugh’s background as a White House lawyer has...
Outside of Española, New Mexico, stands a statue of Don Juan de Oñate. For his direct descendants, and many Spanish-American New Mexicans who trace their ancestry back to colonization, he is symbolic of the spirit of exploration and of Spanish culture in New Mexico. For the Pueblo peoples of New Mexico, however, Don Oñate has...
The Women’s March on Washington was not a protest against the inauguration of our 45th president. It was a response to it. While President Trump’s shadow loomed large over the proceedings of the most local outpost of the event, The Women’s March Ann Arbor, the atmosphere was more joyful and less vitriolic than one might’ve...