Mass Shooting After Mass Shooting: Why Isn’t The Country Doing Anything?

On Saturday, August 3, a massacre occurred. Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old white supremacist, was suspected of shooting down a Walmart in El Paso, Texas with an AK-47-style assault rifle, killing 22 people and injuring 24 others. Crusius wanted to stop a “Hispanic invasion of Texas” according to a manifesto police believe he wrote. The manifesto […]

Hong Kong Extradition Bill: Autonomy Is Autonomy

On July 21, 2019, Hong Kong became a war zone. The day started peacefully, with citizens marching the streets of Hong Kong, opposing the recently stated extradition bill. But, the peacefulness would end soon after, when raid police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters. The controversial bill which sparked these protests could send […]

It’s Time To Melt The ICE Raids

“Everybody is scared. Yesterday my business was too slow. Today my business is too slow too because everybody is looking for ICE.” These are the words of Reverend Juan Carlos Ruiz from the Lutheran Church of Good Shepherd in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York. Recently in cities with a high foreign-born population, the US Immigration and […]

UMN Researchers Spot Correlation Among Latest Crop Yields & Climate Change

Introduction Third-world and developing nations are already used to having their fair share of hard-working farmers cultivating the top global crops, including rice and wheat, but world climate change has made raising these crops much more difficult by altering temperature and precipitation patterns. According to a study held by the University of Minnesota’s Institute on […]