Love's Labor Lost at FIFA 2022?
As the month of November draws to a close, the entire world is sitting, watching arguably the most widely followed sports competition...
Statehood for Puerto Rico
It was September of 2017. Hurricane Maria – a deadly Category 5 hurricane, possibly the most destructive Atlantic storm on record,...
Ketanji Brown Jackson Sworn In
"For too long, our government, our courts haven't looked like America," President Biden said earlier in February this year when he...
Yay Kansas!!
I am ecstatic, as I write this. Voters in Kansas rejected a proposed state constitutional amendment last week that would have said there...
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle…
The United Nations – in existence for over 75 years now – our foremost intergovernmental organization fighting for global harmony in a...
Digital Town Square Doesn’t Need a New Sheriff
Earlier this month, the billionaire businessman and loose-cannon Tesla and SpaceX icon Elon Musk persuaded Twitter's reluctant board...
Breaking Quorum
On July 12, Texas House Democrats packed their bags and left for Washington DC in an effort to block passage of GOP-led voting...
Let kids stay safe
Most schools in the US (and across the globe) have now been in largely virtual mode for about a year. It has come with a set of...
Safety First
We have now been living through this pandemic for over a year and a half. We have way more data points and we know a lot more about how...
No Struggle = No Progress
Imagine a white Buick LaCrosse heading down the road on a slow Sunday. Driven by a young Black American, his girlfriend by his side - the...
Tragedy hits Astroworld Concert
On Nov. 5, the Astroworld Festival, an annual music festival held by rapper Travis Scott in his hometown of Houston, Texas, quickly...
Dawn of a New Era
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr will swear in as our 46th President. As I write this line, my hand shakes a bit. I wasn’t quite sure, going...
COVID19: New Term in Our Lexicons
I had never heard of the Chinese city of Wuhan until very recently. A city of 11+ million is suddenly in news because of the SARS-CoV2,...
Is the future hybrid?
With the Pandemic still ongoing and the fight against the COVID 19 Pandemic still waging, the question lingering on everyone’s mind is...
Let Them Dream
I have friends who, like me, are in high school; but are undocumented. Just like me, they dream of a bright future. They too want to...
Gas prices skyrocket
Last night on the way back from my class, my dad pulled into our local Valero station to fill gas into his SUV. “Fill her up, please,” my...
We must return to diplomacy
War has returned to Europe after 75+ years. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has generated much debate across our nation about a whole bunch...
Nobody’s free until everybody’s free
Juneteenth is a holiday celebrated on 19 June to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in the US. The holiday was first...
Marijuana is legal in NJ. Now what?
There has been a precipitous decline in public trust in journalism and the media, at large. Over the past several years, sources of...