As someone who views American politics from afar, I have some major preconceived notions about Democrats and Republicans. To me, these two parties are the complete opposite of each other, and for the most part I thought all Democrats and all Republicans had the same...
Angela Davis is an activist, scholar, writer, and retired professor at the University of California-Santa Cruz, in the Department of Consciousness. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1944, and as a young African-American women she experienced racial prejudice and...
The past week has been an incredibly tumultuous one in the United States. How many times this year have we said that? Following the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville and the death of Heather Heyer social media erupted...
Tammy Duckworth was born in Thailand, but moved around Asia due to her father’s work with the United Nations. As a result she is fluent in Thai and Indonesian, as well as English. At the age of 16 her family moved to Hawaii. She graduated with a...
In writing and shaping this column over the last eight months, I’ve tried to strike a balance between U.S. and non-U.S. news. This week, I felt compelled to write about the state of reproductive rights in America. Political policies all around the world shape...
