NEW YORK (ViaNews) – The lead character of Samuel Tayler Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ wore an albatross hung around his neck. It served as a symbol of his hubris, which led to utter failure. This could well describe the Republican Party as it is weighed down by a small Republican faction: the…
Throughout the 2016 U.S. presidential election, then-candidate Donald Trump ran on a hardline immigration platform that promised to increase border security and end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). The time has arrived wherein President Trump is attempting to fulfill his promises to the American people, but not everybody agrees with his actions….
Last month I attended a “Medicare for All” rally in Kansas City. The rally was hosted by a variety of groups, including the National Nurses United. Health care professionals at the rally spoke about how they believed our country was moving forward in discoveries in health, but backwards in the actual healthcare provided to people….
All eyes are on Washington DC as Donald Trump rampages through the Republican Party like the proverbial bull in a china shop. Weekly scandals, many of which would bring down any other politician, has the country on the edge of its seat waiting for the next episode–or the end of this presidency. The chaos threatens…
In 2015 civil rights activist Bree Newsome climbed the South Carolina state house flagpole and removed the Confederate flag. Since then, there has been a growing movement challenging confederate flags and monuments in public spaces that act as symbols of a white supremacy culture in America. Weeks ago in Charlottesville South Carolina, white supremacist groups…
In 2017, it’s nearly impossible to find a sporting event of any size that doesn’t begin with the singing of the National Anthem. From the smallest high school basketball game to professional baseball’s World Series, the officials won’t start the game until the assembled crowd has warbled its way through the anthem. But it wasn’t…
An American president’s Chief Strategist is rarely known outside of those who follow politics. Steven Kevin Bannon has proven to be an exception. Democrats and Moderate Republicans, have viewed the executive chairman of Breitbart News with suspicion and hatred in his short tenure. The man credited by Time magazine as “‘The Great Manipulator’, the second…
Standing in Charlottesville, Va is a 26ft (7.9m) statue of General Robert Edward Lee. Unless an observer knows its historical significance, it is a fairly innocuous statue. The memorial is merely a man sitting atop a horse mid-stride. On Friday, August 11, this sculpture became a lightning rod for protests and riots in this small…
At the top of the Keystone State, in the region known as NEPA (Northeastern Pennsylvania), you’ll find the County of Wayne, home to a little over 52,000 people. It’s not a large county – it encompasses just 751 square miles – and on the face of it, it might seem to outsiders to be rather…
President Donald Trump warned North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Friday that he will “truly regret it” if his isolated country messes with the United States, as the tensions are circling in U.S. and its allies of a possible strike to be ordered by Kim on Guam, a Pacific military base of U.S. Early Friday,…
