As the Puerto Rican economic recession approached its 10-year mark, the island’s government was preparing to unveil a new budget plan for the 2016 fiscal year. Recognizing the failure of spending cuts ...

Charles W. Mills is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Born in the U.K. and raised in Jamaica, he is a leading thinker in social and political ...

On the campaign trail for the 2016 Presidential Election, then-candidate Donald J. Trump spared no words in expressing his opinion on Islam. In an effort to rationalize his promise to block the entry ...

In the current political climate, many disenchanted Americans have expressed, to various degrees of sincerity, a desire to escape to Canada. “If Trump gets re-elected, I’m crossing the border North.” ...

Foreign aid is an often-cited example of public misperception of U.S. government operations. A 2015 Kaiser Family Foundation survey asked Americans what percentage of the U.S. budget they thought went ...

Image by Himanshu More licensed under the Unsplash License. According to the latest data from the Migration Policy Institute, 2.7 million Indian immigrants live in the United States, with thousands ...

As the media continues its seemingly endless stream of discussing the results of the 2020 Presidential Election, it is important more now than ever to remember that the ballot had more than one page ...

In late 2001, Marilyn Vann, a woman with Cherokee and Black ancestry, applied for citizenship to the Cherokee Nation. She was denied on the basis of her Black ancestry. Experiences like these raise ...

In the last five months, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a physician, immunologist and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been branded as everything from a “Chief fearmonger ...

When it comes to flood myths, China’s is not as well known as Noah’s Ark, but just as influential. Legend says that four millennia ago, the Yellow and Yangtze rivers frequently flooded, with ...

The United States claims to be “the land of the free,” yet its prison system says otherwise, representing a long history of oppression toward people of color. The United States prison system is one of ...

“Maybe I’ll go to Trump University,” I responded with a laugh. Though this conversation took place years ago during junior high school, I can still recite it from memory. Maybe because it still stands ...