Politics & Current Events

Section One: This Is Not Journalism Let’s say it plainly and without hedging: Fox News is not practicing journalism right now. Journalism investigates power, challenges authority, and demands accountability. What Fox News is doing instead is running interference for Donald Trump. As renewed attention on the Jeffrey Epstein case raised serious questions about who was […]

Section One: The Seduction of Comfortable Lies There is a strange comfort in being told everything is fine, even when lived experience says otherwise. When someone says racism no longer exists, or that the economy is thriving for everyone, or that the country is in its greatest moment, they are offering reassurance, not truth. Those

Why This Situation Hit a NerveThe DK Metcalf suspension struck a nerve because it fits a pattern people have seen too many times to ignore. When Black athletes respond to racist provocation, the system suddenly becomes very strict, very fast, and very unforgiving. According to reports and circulating footage, Metcalf had words with a fan

The Story We Were Taught to BelieveOne of the most powerful lies many of us were taught is simple and comforting: the United States is number one. Not just number one in a specific area, but number one by default, by destiny, by moral right. The message wasn’t just that the country achieved excellence, but

A Life Interrupted by a False AccusationJoyce Watkins was thirty-four years old when her life was taken from her, not by a crime she committed, but by a system that decided she was guilty before it proved anything. She would not be exonerated until 2022, at the age of seventy-four. That means Joyce lost nearly

Why This Incident Struck a NerveWhat makes this situation so infuriating is not just the accusation itself, but who made it and how casually it was done. A young YouTuber with no children, no investigative journalism background, and no accountability showed up at a Minnesota daycare and made sweeping fraud accusations against an entire Somali

Why Public Education Has Always Been About More Than SchoolsPublic education has never been just about classrooms, test scores, or graduation rates. From its earliest form, it has been one of the primary ways a democratic society protects itself. A strong public school system teaches people how to think, not what to think. It introduces

The Scale of What the DOJ Is Sitting On The idea that the Department of Justice is now in possession of 5.2 million additional documents related to Jeffrey Epstein is almost hard to comprehend. That number alone tells us this is not a footnote or a procedural update, but a massive expansion of an already

What Is Happening in Sudan and Why It Matters Sudan has been experiencing one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes in the world, and yet it remains largely invisible in Western political discourse. What is happening in Sudan is being ignored because Black suffering in Africa rarely creates urgency for powerful governments. The United States continues