OPINION: Jon Moxley Needs To Lose AEW World Title To Swerve Strickland
The anticipation for AEW Dynasty 2025, which will take place at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia on April 6th, 2025, is reaching a fever pitch. At the heart of this event lies a pivotal clash between two of AEW’s prominent figures: the reigning AEW World Champion, Jon Moxley, and the widely popular Swerve Strickland. This […]
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The Great Black Church Schism—How Black Americans’ Becoming Less Religious Will Impact Future Elections | Opinion
In recent years, research has consistently shown Black Americans becoming less religious. In a 2023 Pew poll, 72 percent of Black people identified as Christian, with 24 percent identifying as religiously unaffiliated. Just a decade earlier in 2013, 79 percent identified as Christian and 16 percent identified as religiously unaffiliated. For political epidemiologists like myself […]
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Trump Is Trampling the Constitution With Bogus Emergencies | Opinion
Americans should beware of emergencies—real and imagined. All the famous dictators accumulated their power during so-called “emergencies.” So far, President Donald Trump has invented a bunch of bogus ones and Congress almost opened the door to a real one when Democrats contemplated allowing a government shutdown last week. Here we have a president trying to […]
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Will the DEI Backlash Bury Pay Equity, Too? That’d Be a Costly Mistake | Opinion
The past few months have seen upheaval in the employment law compliance landscape. The headlines mostly reflect the eradication of all federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. But one of the greatest impacts to the private sector was eliminating the requirement to prepare most Affirmative Action Plans (AAPs) by federal contractors and subcontractors—which among […]
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Congresswoman: House Republicans Should Stand Up to Elon Musk | Opinion
One month into President Donald Trump‘s second term, only one person in the country has achieved as much attention as the president himself: Elon Musk. But there is an important distinction between the two men. I’m a Democrat who was elected on the same night as Donald Trump, in a district and a state that […]
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Donald Trump Is No Andrew Jackson—Or Even Richard Nixon | Opinion
Do past mistakes justify new ones? Some supporters of President Donald Trump‘s Administration are pointing to historical illegalities to justify the current ones. They should consider the “two wrongs fallacy” that reminds us that two wrongs don’t make a right. Indeed, Americans have historically rejected lawless behavior and, indeed, so have the law breakers some […]
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Canada Will Stand Firm Despite Trump’s Disastrous Tariffs | Opinion
Tariffs on. Tariffs off. Tariffs on. Tariffs off. Just a day after President Donald Trump imposed long-awaited tariffs on Canada, his administration swiftly granted exemptions for the auto industry until April 2 and effectively removed goods shipped under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement—amounting to 38 percent of Canadian exports—from the tariff list until next month. Last week […]
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Rep. Biggs: Trump Address to Congress Nothing Less Than Epic | Opinion
Donald Trump delivered an epic joint address last night. It was great. One for the ages. His speech was inspirational, aspirational, hopeful, visionary, patriotic, and reminded the world what the United States of America is like when people who truly love our country and countrymen lead it. Trump spoke of free speech and a restoration […]
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On Israel, the International Criminal Court Is Wrong on the Law—and the Facts | Opinion
On Thursday, the International Criminal Court (ICC) took the extraordinary and deeply flawed step of issuing arrest warrants for both the leaders of Hamas, a designated terrorist organization, and the leaders of Israel, a democratic state engaged in self-defense against those very same terrorists. This decision is not just morally indefensible, it was wrong on […]
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To President-Elect Donald Trump: The Paris Climate Deal Is Good for Business | Opinion
As President-elect Donald Trump‘s transition team prepares executive orders to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, scientists confirm that 2024 is not only the hottest year on record but the first year to exceed the Paris agreement threshold, a global pledge by 195 nations to work to keep warming under 1.5 degrees. Withdrawing from the […]
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