Centrists. What are we gonna do with them? Today I want to talk about something that has been really annoying me about them recently. Namely, the title of this piece. As some of you might be aware, we’re in the midst of the 2020 election cycle. We started with roughly 5 million candidates on the…
Month: January 2020
The Poor People’s Campaign: Martin Luther King Jr’s Forgotten Legacy
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day, y’all. In honor of this holiday, I wanted to write a bit of a tribute to one of the greatest civil rights heroes of all time. I didn’t want to simply re-tread the usual information that we all learned about in grade school, though. So I decided to talk…
Millennials: Perpetual Scapegoat
When someone says “millennials”, what pops into your head? Perhaps it’s an image like the one above. A bunch of young people, heads glued to electronic devices, caring nothing about the world around them. Or maybe you think of some douchebag hipster talking about microbrews or their latest backpacking trip through Tibet, or whatever. Maybe…
Iran: How Did We Get Here?
Last night, our relationship with Iran boiled over. Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani was assassinated by an airstrike ordered by the United States. While every media outlet quickly adopted the establishment line of “he was a terrorist so it’s good we killed him and this was totally defensive”, I’m here to bring you the real…