Immigration enforcement weakens labor markets, local economies, and growth Within the first 50 days of President Donald Trump’s second term, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made 32,809 arrests. While most of these arrests were targeted towards illegal immigrants with criminal records, ICE has also turned its attention to arresting immigrants (some illegal, some not) […]
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Trump Threatens to Militarize Chicago
Trump’s Dangerous Overstep has Alarming Ramifications The last time a president sent federal troops to Chicago against local officials’ wishes was 1894, during labor riots that paralyzed the nation’s railways. What “emergency” does President Trump see in 2025 that justifies repeating that dark precedent? Trump’s threat to deploy federal troops to Chicago represents a dangerous […]
The Faux Inflation Reduction Act and The Big, Ugly Bill
Broken congressional promises and bipartisan hypocrisy in America’s debt crisis On July 1, 2025, Senate Republicans passed one of the most disastrous pieces of fiscal legislation in recent American history. Hailed as the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill,’ the legislation prompted Republicans to cheer over what Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) described as “taking away health care from […]
Pricing America Out of Its Own Future
How might the H-1B price increase impact the U.S.? In a bold and controversial move, President Donald Trump has recently introduced a new policy requiring companies to pay $100,000 application fees for an H-1B visa: a non-immigrant visa permitting U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers with specialty occupations requiring a bachelor’s degree or higher. […]
Accountability Wins
California outlaws masked law enforcement officers For months, Californians have watched masked officers storm homes, stop cars, and disappear into the night without a trace of accountability. Now, the state is finally pulling off the mask. The debate over California’s decision to ban law enforcement officers, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, from wearing masks […]
Tell Me, What Does Palantir Actually Do?
If you could forgo college for big bucks in Silicon Valley, would you do it? High school seniors stress about Common App essays and EA/ED deadlines. That’s a fact plainly visible across school districts in America. At some point along the trek to January, many will question why they even subject themselves to weekends of […]
The Echo Chamber That Changed America
How the “manosphere” won Donald Trump the 2024 election To understand how the manosphere plays a big part in today’s government, it is crucial to understand what the concept actually is. According to UN Women, the manosphere describes the online collection of podcasts, blogs, and videos that claim to help solve men’s problems but often […]
The Good and the Bad of Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rico Concert
The two-faced truth of the artist’s concert residency experiment Bad Bunny, one of the most famous Latinx artists in the world, has recently gone viral for his one-of-a-kind “residential concert” in Puerto Rico. Titled “No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí,” Spanish for “I Don’t Want to Leave Here,” the concert experience involved Bad Bunny performing […]
A New Future Of Education
How phone bans pave the way for a distraction-free school system You are sitting in first-period English and listening attentively to your teacher when, all of a sudden, you hear a buzz. Someone’s phone is going off. Everyone turns to watch as your classmate scrambles to turn off their ringer, pulling out their phone to […]
How Efficient will the Department of Government Efficiency Be?
Inherently flawed new initiative exposes government flaws By: Dean Riaz Donald Trump represents a slew of presidential firsts. He is the first president to have been impeached twice while in office and also the first president to speak in hyperbole. Dreamt up by billionaire Elon Musk and President Trump on the campaign trail, the Department […]