President Donald Trump has announced plans to designate Mexican cartels as Federal Terrorist Organizations, which would enable a wider scope of U.S. action. Analysts who study Mexican security express skepticism that the terrorism designation would do much good. Would you support waging war on cartels?...
Planned Parenthood is a non-profit organization that provides reproductive health care. In their 2014 Annual Report, PPFA reported seeing over 2.5 million patients in over 4 million clinical visits and performing a total of nearly 9.5 million discrete services including 324,000 abortions. Its combined annual revenue...
Presently the administration is pursuing criminal charges against all individuals who attempt to cross the U.S. border illegally. Adults caught at the border are designated to the Department of Justice. Any children accompanying those adults are treated as unaccompanied minors and temporarily placed in detention...
In 2015, 638,169 legal induced abortions were reported to CDC from 49 reporting areas. The abortion rate for 2015 was 11.8 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years, and the abortion ratio was 188 abortions per 1,000 live births. Abortion is legal in all U.S. states,...
President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to his former national security adviser Michael Flynn who had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election....
Cancer Drug Parity Act 2019: This bill requires health plans that cover anticancer medications administered by a health care provider to provide no less favorable cost-sharing for patient-administered anticancer medications. Proponents say treatment efficacy, not price, should be the deciding factor when patients are choosing between...
Lynching- as horrific as it sounds recollects its own consequences in a manner that ends up costing the lives of several people. Making it illegal at the federal level, and adding a hate crime enhancement, rights the historic wrong of the crime itself being allowed to...
Freedom of conscience — which in the context of this bill can be understood to be interchangeable with freedom of religion — is enshrined in the First Amendment. Those who are in favor say that the government should neither try to decide what religious beliefs are...
The frontrunners to be the next VA secretary under President-elect Joe Biden include several veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars like former Rep. Patrick Murphy and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Who do you think will be a better choice?...
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued guidance urging Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving. But millions of people are still planning to travel over the holiday week as new coronavirus cases approach 200,000 a day in the United States....
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered our lives as we know it. While we are changing old behaviors, there are new routines that need to be adopted. First and foremost is the habit of wearing a mask whenever in a public space. Yet the messaging on the...
As United State president elect – Joe Biden prepares for a chaotic and possibly contested transition of power in January, the future of the US-China relationship sits most unnervingly on the fence between continuity and change. Like most foreign leaders around the world hoping to reset...
The 2020 presidential US election was undoubtedly one of the most tense battles for presidency that the country has ever witnessed. The world along with millions of anxious US voters watched with abetted breath, as President Donald Trump and his challenger Joe Biden remained locked...
In the mass protests that followed the killing of George Floyd, in May 2020, the angry chants of demonstrators reverberated the streets across the US demanding defunding and disbanding of the Police Department. Amid a growing concern over systemic racism and police brutality, those in favour of budgetary...
Nearly two-thirds of Americans support the break up of big tech companies, Amazon, Facebook, and Google. They think its a good idea as the content they're showing people is ranked mostly on whether the company is making money off of it or not. The result...
The United States has been silently decreasing its troop strength in Afghanistan even though there isn't a peace deal with the Taliban yet. Opponents say this might undermine U.S.'s role in any future negotiations with the insurgents....
Hong Kong has witnessed months of protests ignited by an extremely controversial plan to allow extraditions to mainland China. The government defended the proposed amendments by saying it would help "plug the loopholes" so that the city ceases to be a safe haven for criminals. But opponents...
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