On August 11, 2019, the presidential ticket of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner pulled off a major electoral upset against incumbent President Mauricio Marci in the Argentine primary elections. Based on their performance last month, they’ll be able...
As an outsider, I had found the ritual of US presidential elections to be fascinating, a helpless voyeur watching how the ebb and flow of war and peace may unfold for the coming years. By that time, I had lost interest in voting, I had become cynical and jaded wary...
The Second Amendment guarantees American citizens the right to bear arms, but both federal and state governments determine how citizens may legally exercise that right. And while both federal and state gun control laws regularly change, laws at the state level change...
Unless you’ve experienced a phone call informing you that a dear relative has been shot and killed (this author has unfortunately received such a call) you have no idea what Botham Jean’s mother and brother have gone through. When it is communicated to you that it was...
There is a very real shortage of affordable housing across America’s most dynamic areas, but rent control is an ineffective solution to this problem. It’s no secret that many parts of the country are experiencing a housing affordability crisis. Homelessness is...
Public protests were launched nationwide over the past two days in Iraq, growing in intensity as demonstrators slam the lack of a post-war recovery from the ISIS conflict, and continued corruption woes. While Prime Minister Abdul Mahdi confirmed the right of...
This is one of those stories that sounds like fiction and totally made up. But it actually happened. Over a long period of time. The warning signs was flashing as red as they could, but complex internal work relationships kept the employee hired far longer than...
Following the infamous Enron and Arthur Anderson scandal of the early 2000's our wise overlords enacted legislation to prevent history from repeating itself. The overreaction of Congress, to a couple of bad actors committing things that were already illegal, is a...
