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Trans Service Members Fought Trump's Ban in a History-Making Congressional Hearing

By Christianna Silva On Wednesday, February 27, five transgender service members made history on Capitol Hill, testifying before the Residence of Representatives about why the president’s proposed ban on transgender service members is unjust. Democratic Representative Jackie Speier of California invited the service members to openly speak about their experiences in the military fo..

Congress Shouldn't Need Cohen to Tell Them Trump Is Racist

By Christianna Silva On Wednesday, February 27, Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer,” appeared in Washington, D.C. To testify before the Residence Oversight Committee about his history with his former employer. “I am ashamed because I know what Mr. Trump is,” Cohen mentioned in his beginning remarks to the committee. “He is a racist. He's a c..

Watch Jennifer Lawrence Break Down How America's Political System Has Failed

By Lauren Rearick Jennifer Lawrence believes the current state of the American government is damaged, and she wants you to help hold politicians accountable so that they fix it. The actor and political activist has teamed up with RepresentUs — a nonprofit company working to end corruption in government — to star in a short film titled “Unbreaking America: Solving the Corruptio..

42 Student Protestors Were Arrested In Washington D.C. — And They're Not Done Fighting

By Christianna Silva More than 100 young climate activists rallied in front of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office on Monday over his opposition to the Green New Deal, resulting in almost 50 young people being arrested on Capitol Hill, according to CNN. The Green New Deal is a 10-year climate change initiative, sponsored by Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of N..

Both Democrats and Republicans Condemn Trump's Border Wall National Emergency

By Khushbu Shah On Friday morning (February 15), President Donald Trump declared a national emergency to secure the cash he needs to fund his wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, funding he has unsuccessfully lobbied for from Congress for months. Several had speculated this was coming, as Congress again rejected to fund his wall in late January immediately after he ended the initial p..

In State of the Union Address, Trump's Attempts at Bipartisanship Fall Flat

By Khushbu Shah Thanks to the longest-ever partial government shutdown in U.S. History, President Donald J. Trump delivered his second State of the Union address to members of Congress a week later than expected. Earlier this month, the President told reporters the speech would give attention to the theme of bipartisanship, even because the threat of another shutdown deadline looms, ..

Will Presidential Hopeful Cory Booker Prove He's For the People?

By Taylor Crumpton Permit New Jersey Senator Cory Booker to reintroduce himself: on the initial beginning day of the third Black History Month under President Trump (a day that’s not going also well for him), the politician shared his origin story with the American public in hopes to shift the electorate towards his favor in the upcoming 2020 presidential election. His announcement..

The Last Act of 'Dirty Trickster' Roger Stone

By Alex Thomas all the Trump associates that have shaped Donald’s trajectory to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 66-year-old Roger Stone is… well, one of the nastier ones. Stone’s is a name you’ll visualize scattered across newspaper stories from the past few decades, dating back to mentions of his relationship with Richard Nixon and slowly climbing up until he became the center of ..

Kamala Harris' Fight for the 2020 Democratic Nomination Won't Be Easy

By Eboni K. Williams Let her tell it—as she did in front of over 30,000 people in Oakland, California this Sunday, officially launching her 2020 presidential campaign—and California senator Kamala Harris is an overjoyed daughter of Oakland. She was place on Earth to a Jamaican father and Indian mother, who studied with each other at UC Berkeley while fighting side-by-side for the..

Why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Was More Than "I Have a Dream"

By Preston Mitchum Today marks the 36th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a federal holiday celebrated every third Monday of January. It’s often a day where we recommit ourselves to acts of service and revisit the legacy of Dr. King, a civil rights activist and member of Alpha Phi Alpha, Fraternity, Inc., Who protested white supremacy and institutional violence at the..

What's Up With the Controversy Dividing the Women's March — And What Should You Do About It?

By Talia Lavin Earlier this week, the Democratic National Committee officially pulled support from the 2019 Women’s March, the third iteration of an event that galvanized millions of ladies to take to the streets across the country on the day immediately after Donald Trump’s inauguration as president. Not also long ago, this decision would have been shocking — especially given ..

How California Students Are Leading the Fight for Tuition-Free Community College

By Maxwell Lubin, Founder of Rise California California is residence to over 2 million community college students — more than the whole populations of Vermont, Wyoming, and Washington, D.C. Combined. Although the rising cost of higher education — which has increased over 1,100 percent nationwide since the late 1970s — has left tens of thousands of California students famished a..

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