Expanding legal immigration should be a priority
The debate over border and immigration policy has been and continues to be at the fore of the political divide,...
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Tighten and strictly enforce gun-safety laws
At long last, our society seems to be realizing the urgent need for stricter gun-safety laws and stringent enforcement. Shannon...
Stop maligning pro-Palestinian protesters
Although I sincerely hoped to move on from discussing the tragic Israel-Hamas War, recent events have demanded otherwise. A couple...
‘Old Man’ Biden gives grand-slam speech
In a lifetime of listening to presidential State of the Union addresses, President Joe Biden’s Thursday night speech was one...
U.S. should carefully choose targets for airstrikes
On Jan. 28, three U.S. Army soldiers – Specialists Kennedy Sanders and Breonna Moffett, as well as Sgt. William Jerome...
Paloma Picasso?! A dream, hallucination?
The other day, while re-shuffling some of my old photographs, I pulled up one that struck me like pleasant lightning,...
Social media threatens democracy
Social media is the worst manifestation of modern-day technology. I say this as someone who used to spend nearly an...
The United States enables violence in Latin America
Although much of the focus of the global news cycle remains on the Middle East, today I turn to a...