On July 27th, the GOP’s “skinny repeal” of the Affordable Care Act — more commonly known as “Obamacare” — was rejected due to unanimous opposition by Senate Democrats, as well as negative votes from three Republican senators, including Arizona senator … Continue reading The “Skinny Repeal” and How “Party Loyalism” Is Influencing Healthcare Reform Efforts
We live in a world whose inhabitants are obsessed with the LGBTQ+ community. We can see, wherever we look, individuals and organizations advocating for equality and rights that members of this community are supposedly denied — such as the so-called … Continue reading What If: The Consequences of Performing Uterine Transplant Surgery
I’ve found the most ludicrous article that’s ever been published on this ridiculous thing we call the Internet: https://medusamagazine.com/beyond-pro-choice-the-solution-to-white-supremacy-is-white-abortion. It’s short but loaded, and as I was reading it, I was sure that it was satirical — but it’s not. … Continue reading Off the Deep End: My Response to an Article Calling for the Abortion of White Babies
It has been less than a week since three ISIS fighters (I am refraining from calling them soldiers because I do not wish to taint the good name of real, honorable soldiers) decided to wreak havoc on the Southwark area in … Continue reading “Part and Parcel”: A City Girl’s Stance on Sadiq Khan’s View of City Life
The state of New York has given rise to a multitude of well-known politicians, the majority of whom are at least mildly embarrassing — Bill de Blasio, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Bratton, Hillary Clinton, Andrew Cuomo, Chuck Schumer, Al Sharpton, Donald … Continue reading The Guilty Weiner: Why the Left Should Be Harsher on Anthony Weiner
When I first saw that New York—my home state—had become the first state in the United States to offer free college tuition to State residents, I was sitting at my desk in my dorm room in Virginia, editing for the … Continue reading Cuomo’s Cage: The Cost of New York’s Excelsior Scholarship
I still remember November 8th, 2016 like it was yesterday. I had been watching the election results come in at a senior friend’s apartment with a couple of friends when we collectively decided to go crash the viewing party in … Continue reading My Life as a Conservative at a Liberal Arts College: Stupid Things I’ve Heard on Campus This Week
On October 24th, 1975 women all throughout the small island nation of Iceland dismissed their children and their jobs and went on strike to demand equal rights, as at that time women earned less than sixty percent of what their … Continue reading The Insignificance of ‘A Day Without a Woman’ from a Woman’s Perspective
I walked into the communal bathroom that I share with the two dozen or so other girls that live in the same hall as me here at the University of Richmond’s Lora Robins Court a few months ago and saw … Continue reading American Citizenship: Unchanged Since 1787
On February 13th, 2017 President Donald Trump met with Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, to discuss trade and the challenges working women face. Ivanka Trump, the President’s eldest daughter, was among the female entrepreneurs present at the meeting. She … Continue reading Working Women and Conservative Feminism
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