The University of Alabama has reported more than 500 cases since classes resumed…six days ago. Things are not going well this fall. An Iowa child has died of complications relating to COVID. The child died in June, but the child’s death was not made known until this weekend. The news comes at a very unfortunate …

Lori Loughlin, the former “Full House” star who is accused of bribing her children’s way into college, has been officially sentenced to two months in prison. It’s unfortunate that her crimes, which discredited the system of education in which millions of Americans invest their hopes, did not earn a more serious sentence.   In April, …

A black police officer from Greensboro, North Carolina after he made series of viral TikTok video speaking against systemic racism following the murder of George Floyd. The Greensboro police department claims that Officer Williams’s videos violated department policy, but there’s no way around it: this looks bad. This is the latest in a series of …

Is t he conspiracy community known as QAnon becoming dangerous? According to a recent Washington Post article, the Trump campaign actively courted the online conspiracy community QAnon in the lead-up to the 2020 election, which makes an alarming combination. According to a recent piece in Bloomberg Business, it might be time to try intervening in the …

One of the big reasons Trump won 2016 was the intensity with which people hated Hillary Clinton. Joe Biden simply doesn’t garner that kind of hate, and as a result, Trump won’t be able to use his bullying tactics to pump up his base. In fact, Pennsylvania, which Trump carried in 2016, is already polling …

It’s 100 days until the presidential election in November, and the nation’s mood is bleak. A whopping 80% of Americans think the country is heading in the wrong direction, and Americans’ sense of the economy and Trump’s job performance is correspondingly low. The nation’s low morale is evident in Trump’s poll numbers, which are not …

It’s almost unbelievable that a face mask, a small piece of fabric, can be the cause of so much strife in America. It’s almost unbelievable, but this is the fourth year of the most controversial presidential administration in living memory and the sixth month of a global pandemic during the most contentious period of racial tension since …

A new report in Foreign Policy has concluded that China’s treatment of the Uighur, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities constitutes genocide. The news come as China ramps up its attempts to wipe out the Uighur people by attempting to control their population growth. The government is forcible implanting IUDs,  sterilizing, and performing abortions on Uighur …

Twitter has continued its war against misinformation––or, against the president––by attaching another label to the President’s tweets. This time, Trump tweeted out a doctored video, which Twitter labeled as manipulated. The feud began when Trump took to twitter to complain about twitter, tweeting out a message heard ’round the world: Republicans feel that Social Media …

Despite the tremendous pressure from inside and outside the company, Facebook will not change its policy on (not) fact-checking political ads. Despite calls from civil rights leaders to curtail Trump’s (and Trump-inspired) calls to violence, Facebook has refused. Over 140 scientists who are funded by Zuckerberg and his wife have signed a letter condemning Zuckerberg for …

COVID-19 is on the rise in the United States again, but the White House is being almost entirely silent. While there are probably a few reasons this may be the case, one big explanation jumps to mind: the November election. If the Trump administration admits that there is a new outbreak, then they have to …

Facebook is not having a great week. Despite calls from civil rights leaders to curtail Trump’s (and Trump-inspired) calls to violence, Facebook has refused. Over 140 scientists who are funded by Zuckerberg and his wife have signed a letter condemning Zuckerberg for letting Trump spread misinformation. Last week, satirical websites went after Mark Zuckerberg hard by calling …