If political history has taught us anything, it's that the fastest way to break a headline isn't record-breaking global heat or ongoing humanitarian crises — it’s a president wearing the wrong outfit.
The United States is one of the only developed countries without universal health care, and expert Rosemarie Day has some solutions for that growing issue.
On this episode of Blaming the Messenger, The Daily Free Press discusses two presidents who, ideologically, could not have been more different: George W. Bush and Barack Obama. However, both presidents...
Incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Ed Markey and Republican nominee Kevin O’Connor faced off in their first and only debate Monday evening. The two are competing for a U.S. Senate seat.
I wasn’t interested in understanding politics or reading the current happenings in the United States until President Obama’s second term. That was when I realized that I was soon going to be a voting, active citizen of this country. I’ve always been passionate about women’s rights and women’s empowerment, which is why it struck a chord with me when Barbara Bush passed away last week after suffering from congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or C.O.P.D.
Last week, former FBI Director James Comey decided to be interviewed on seemingly every possible political media platform. I read the transcripts of his interviews with George Stephanopoulos, Stephen Colbert, Rachel Maddow and Michael Barbaro. And from what I gathered, Comey seems obsessed with justice.
Trump has been president for exactly one year and 79 days. He can serve out the remainder of his term, which would end in 2020, or he could get reelected and sit in office until as late as 2024. To many people, that can and does feel like a long time. But If you think about it, that’s only a slice in the absolute long-term political trajectory. As easy as Trump did away with Obama’s policies, Trump’s successor can do away with his.
Last week, pictures of Malia Obama blowing smoke rings were published in a conservative magazine. They quickly blew up online, receiving both negative and positive attention. This is not the first time...
“If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur” — Anonymous
I imagine some people would chalk up my writing habits to sheer laziness. Every week, on the night before my article is due,...
So the infamous Bowe Bergdahl is back in the news cycle. Remember him, the soldier who walked off a United States Army base in Afghanistan, was captured and held by the Taliban for five years and got traded...
On Tuesday, an attack on the rebel-held Syrian town of Khan Shaykhun killed 58 people. It is not immediately clear which regime-backed force carried out the attack.
One thing is clear: people were killed...
