“Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you.” — actress Viola Davis As women navigating the modern world, we are constantly presented with a very narrow view of what women look like, which is reinforced everywhere we look — ...
It’s no secret: The free market has its critics in the United States. Elected officials routinely scapegoat free enterprise as the source of America’s problems, claiming it is “not a redeemable system.” Apparently, the free market has been “failing” for years. It’s no wonder ...
Natassia Smick, a mother of two, is working on getting her bachelor’s degree. She and her husband earn around $33,000 annually and depend on $2,000 from the earned-income tax credit to help make ends meet. Unfortunately, instead of getting the tax refund they were owed and relied on, the ...
We often wish to give ourselves the benefit of the doubt. We want to believe that we can come together for a common cause when in reality, we are more likely to come together against a common enemy. History has shown us that a mutual hatred against an external entity has a greater probability ...
I grew up in a family that ate dinner together every night. I remember seeing my father feel crestfallen when Hubert Humphrey lost to Richard Nixon in 1968. The margin of loss was small (0.7 percent of the popular vote), and as a family, we had the opportunity to digest why my dad cared so ...
Advocates of holding a new constitutional convention have filed a lawsuit in Texas, asking a federal court to order a constitutional convention to be held in Kansas by January 31, 2023. A U.S. representative has introduced legislation to provide for a convention. The bill will not move forward ...
