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© rawpixel, 123RF Free Images Arriving in the United States can feel like stepping into a whirlwind — a mix of excitement, uncertainty, and opportunity. Whether you’ve come for work, study, or family, adjusting to life in a new culture takes time. But you’re not alone: millions have walked thisContinue Reading

A quiet neighborhood- a dog barks in the distance. A mild breeze soothes the day’s anxieties. Dusk approaches, and with it, the looming curfew. The phone rings—a family member or friend checking in, ensuring you’re safe. This is the new normal: safety checks, a ritual born of necessity in uncertainContinue Reading

Opinion Editorial Since 2016, warning sirens have been sounding out about the existential threat to democracy in our beloved America. Until now, it seems it has fallen on deaf ears. Well, here we are. The mobsters have taken over the United States. Are we happy? Are we cheering this newContinue Reading

Jaelle Terrell The Supreme Court ruling against LGBTQ rights is a blow. It is a setback. MSNBC reported that this decision “made millions of Americans poorer. Remember the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” It’s not aContinue Reading

So, here we are in this great US of A in the year 2020 STILL fighting for civil and human rights — endowed to every citizen as stated by the U.S. Constitution. How does that happen in a country born on the premise of freedom and the pursuit of happinessContinue Reading

At a sprawling steel mill on the outskirts of Philadelphia, the workers have one number in mind; and it’s not how many tons of steel produced every day, or how many hours they work. It’s where each of them falls on the plant’s seniority list. ArcelorMittal, which owns the mill,Continue Reading

President Trump issued an unexpected and typically uninformed…well…stupid, executive order Thursday night creating a federal task force to investigate the U.S. Postal Service’s finances, including its pricing and workforce costs. “The USPS is on an unsustainable financial path and must be restructured to prevent a taxpayer-funded bailout,” the executive orderContinue Reading

Just as Herbert Hoover, the last Republican “businessman” did, President Trump and the GOP has implemented isolationism, personal enrichment, and a gross ignorance of knowledge about governmental economics, into a death spiral for the U.S., in the world leadership role. Incidentally, Hoover also had an all-Republican Congress at his disposal.Continue Reading

I ’ve been a critic of President Obama and Eric Holder’s decision to ultimately not prosecute any of the major (or even minor) perpetrators involved in the 2007 housing crash ever since I started this website a couple of years after the actual 2007 Housing Crash. In fact, it wasContinue Reading

Long before his Royal Trumpness had the balls to make it his actual campaign slogan, the Republican Party was promising to Make America Great Again. Usually couched in the imaginary language of “tradition,” Republican leaders have long celebrated the fabricated idea of an American golden era, circa 1945 to 1958,Continue Reading