In June of 1971, President Richard Nixon made drug abuse “public enemy number one.” This...
Author - Ryan Nowrouzi
The United States nuclear strategy has issues
Historically, the United States has assumed the role of acting as the world’s nuclear police force...
Medical advancements could worsen healthcare inequality
Progress and innovation are two words that have a positive connotation in almost all settings. In...
America’s public defense system needs an overhaul
Historically, public defenders are drastically overworked and alarmingly underfunded, and, as a...
Professors should increase use of blind grading
Essays and other projects that inherently require a more subjective grading procedure open the door...
Dangerous rhetoric fuels paranoia and hate
The bully pulpit of the White House has become the misinformation pulpit under President Trump. In...
Corporal punishment needs to end now
Traditionally, corporal punishment has been used on children in different settings as a means of...
Sanctuary cities create a safer society
Political talk on immigration has obscured the meaning of the term sanctuary city. A...
The death penalty is not a viable punishment for crime
The death penalty is barred in much of the world, but it is still permitted in 30 of our 50...
Who benefits from private prisons? Not inmates.
In the United States, there are currently 2.3 million people incarcerated in a state, federal or...