Lettuce survived longer than Liz Truss remained prime minister. It’s a sad day when a leader is unable to outlive a piece of vegetation. Not only is it a somber day for Truss, but it is a dismal day for the people of the United Kingdom. It should always be about the people over the...
Any mother who hears that her unborn child has little chance of surviving outside the womb faces a heartbreaking choice: go through with the pregnancy and birth, or end the pain now. For my parents, it wasn’t a choice at all. Twenty years ago, they were newlyweds joyfully expecting their first child. Halfway through the...
The extremity of Proposal 3 is reminiscent of eugenics laws proposed and passed in the early 20th century. According to Lutz Kaelber, associate professor of sociology at the University of Vermont, Michigan passed a law in 1923 which allowed doctors to sterilize those deemed mentally unstable. In 1929, this law expanded to include individuals diagnosed...
Any Michigander that has turned on the TV, watched a YouTube video, or opened a social media platform in the last month has likely been unable to do so without watching several out-of-context, poorly-edited sound bites from Michigan gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon. The ads, with the aid of a menacing voiceover, detail Dixon’s stance on...
Despite concerns from both sides of the aisle about the power and influence one man has to buy a major social media platform like Twitter, this deal gives America something invaluable: an experiment in social media. After a dramatic saga of big promises and billion-dollar offers, CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk finally closed the...