July 19, 2024

Toning down the rhetoric solves nothing

There was nothing surprising about the assassination attempt against Donald Trump. To watch the scene play out in real time, it was possible to be struck by feelings of sadness or nausea. Certainly, those in attendance at the rally in Butler, Pennsyl...

November 4, 2023

WashU sides with the anti-Semites

On Wednesday the 25th of October, a group of students walked out of classes at Washington University in St. Louis to protest Israel’s response to the terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas. The students claim that Israel is currently carry...

July 20, 2022

St. Louis chooses to fund abortions

On July 15, the St. Louis board of aldermen voted to establish a new fund that would help women in the St. Louis area travel to neighboring states to obtain abortions.  The new Reproductive Equity Fund was funneled into a vote distributing ...

August 13, 2021

The pandemic is over: Time to return to normal

The pandemic is over.  This statement might seem counter-intuitive, as COVID cases are on the rise and the Delta mutation is sweeping through the state, but it is the truth.  The pandemic is over, and it is time for life to r...

May 7, 2020

Joe Biden and the hypocrisy of #MeToo

Tara Reade's accusations about Joe Biden have exposed something already expected about the #MeToo movement: that it could, and would, be exploited for political purposes.  In this case, the fact that the most vocal members of the moveme...