Perspectives Blog

It's been another full week of sexual harassment being in the news. Today Sen. Al Franken (D) announced that he was resigning and yesterday Rep. John Conyers (D) retired from his seat early. Neither have official replacements yet. The upcoming Senate election in Alabama between Trump-...

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Today, the GOP proposed tax bill passed the House of Representatives with a vote of 227-205. House Speaker Paul Ryan called it the "single biggest thing we can do to grow the economy" and touted the fact that this is the first time since 1986 the tax bill has been rewritten, showing the...

Democrats won key races Tuesday night in New Jersey and Virginia, including the Governor in both states. Since then, the party has quickly turned their sights towards the 2018 Midterms. There is hope among some on the Left that this is the first "wave" of the "resistance" against...

The GOP's $4 trillion budget narrowly passed the House today in a vote of 216-212, after last minute negotiations with high-taxed states and those concerned with deficits. Next, the bill goes to the Republican-controlled Senate, putting the party one step closer to achieving tax reform...

In the past, the president had suggested that the U.S. might pull out of the Iran nuclear deal previously established under his predecessor. This week, President Trump announced that he would be decertifying the deal, but not pulling out of it. This action sends the deal back to Congress...

This morning, President Trump tweeted that the United States "cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) in P.R. forever!" Many news outlets took this to mean that he will soon pull out of the U.S. territory...

The largest mass shooting in modern American history took place on Sunday night in Las Vegas. The gunman shot from his Mandalay Bay hotel room into a crowd of 20,000 at an outdoor concert, killing 59 and injuring over 500 people . It is still unclear at this time what his motives were,...

It seems all media have some sort unofficial political affiliation these days: conservative, liberal, libertarian, Republican, Democrat, far right-wing, far left-wing — the list goes on. The institution associated with nonpartisanship is anything but. So what is the root? We recently...