On Wednesday across the country, hundreds of pro-Trump demonstrators gathered in state capitals to oppose President-elect Joe Biden’s win. They massed outside statehouses, rallying while rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. From Georgia to New Mexico to Oklahoma, crowds of people carried signs emblazoned “My vote was stolen!” and “Stop the steal” and […]
Pass the torch! That was the rallying cry of young presidential candidates like Congressman Eric Swalwell, Andrew Yang, and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro this election season, who routinely used the debate stage to highlight the geriatric tendencies of their elder competitors. Instead, 78-year-old Joe Biden and 74-year-old Donald Trump faced […]
Hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building in Washington D.C. Wednesday afternoon, pushing past metal barricades and security guards and breaking fences along the way. The group, many carrying American flags and Trump 2020 flags and signs, were protesting the transfer of power from President Donald Trump to President-elect Joe Biden. As the Senate […]
Business leaders around the country are uniting to urge Congress to certify a win by President-elect Joe Biden without delay, arguing that any attempt to “thwart” the process would “run counter to the essential tenets of our democracy.” On Monday afternoon nearly 200 leaders signed the short, open letter asking legislators to certify Biden’s presidency […]
Nancy Pelosi was narrowly reelected Sunday as speaker, giving her the reins of Democrats’ slender House majority as she and President-elect Joe Biden set a challenging course of producing legislation to tackle the pandemic, revive the economy and address other party priorities. “We accept a responsibility as daunting and demanding as any that previous generations […]
So long, annus horribilis. Farewell, O rotten plague year. Dominus vobiscum. But as we utter our long-practiced goodbyes to 2020, let us pause for a moment to reflect upon the glad tidings that lay hidden in its miasmic haze. Yes, surprising as it may seem, there were some things that turned out darn well in […]
It’s all hands on deck in Georgia with just one week until two runoff elections that will determine the fate of the Senate and President-elect Joe Biden’s first two years in office. Politicians and political strategists, meanwhile, worry that an ongoing debate over stimulus checks will be a determining factor in the two races between […]
After days of will-he-or-won’t-he turmoil, President Trump signed the $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill Sunday evening. Now, $600 stimulus checks will begin to be deposited into Americans’ bank accounts on Tuesday night, and physical checks will be mailed Wednesday, according to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. The president previously said—after the relief bill had been passed—that […]
As college students throughout the nation struggle between online and for-profit college, reimagining and surfing exactly what the higher education landscape resembles beneath the burden of a pandemic which has murdered over 320,000 Americans and contaminated 18 million {} convention remains: hefty lodging prices and past-due student loan debt. This season, the USA broke records, […]
On Nov. 18, almost a year into a pandemic which has killed over 300,000 Americans, a contemporary miracle happened: Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its spouse BioNTech declared the vaccine candidate was demonstrated in clinical trials to get a 95% efficiency rate without severe side effects. The rollout, that they stated, would start in just a month of […]