Imagine waking up at 1am in the morning to aggravated yelling of “stop moving or I will shoot you in your fucking head” repeated over and over again as a threat with an increasing determination. On November 15th, that is exactly what I woke up to as officers surrounded and…

TW: Sexual Assault Within the discourse surrounding sexual assault, inevitably people bring up false reporting and argue that individuals who issue false reports of sexual assault should be punished. Proponents claim that in order to get people to trust survivors who report instances of sexual assaults, we must eliminate the…

Last week, Washington University’s Student Life newspaper published an op-ed arguing that conservative ideologies should not be considered equally to other principles in an academic setting. In response, conservatives and liberal “defenders of free speech” alike decried this as intolerance, enraged that conservatives might not feel welcome on campus. This…

In a country controlled by conservatives in all three branches of government, let’s pour one out for the real victims within society: disproportionally wealthy, white conservative college students. According to a recent Washington University Studlife article, conservative students face derision for their beliefs and feel as if they are treated…

Over the last few weeks, the area around Washington University suffered from incidents including break-ins, car theft, and even a shooting. Understandably, many members of the community, especially the students living off-campus are rattled. One student wrote an op-ed about the ongoing situation, and provided some reasonable steps that Wash…

“If the institution(of policing) as a whole is illegitimate due to its inherent racist nature, then one must transcend an ‘anti-police brutality’ mentality and become anti-police; nothing less will suffice. And we must advocate for the complete and utter abolition of the police to be replaced by institutions created from the bottom up.” Read the story: http://www.stlamerican.com/news/columnists/guest_columnists/abolish-the-police/article_fa32598e-e9e9-11e8-b503-5b362ff0f35c.html

Recently, Venezuela has been hit by waves of protests from the opposition over the legitimacy of Maduro’s presidency. Elected in 2018, President Nicolas Maduro took office on January 10th, 2019 to start his second 6-year term as president of Venezuela. In response, Juan Guaido, the head of the National Assembly…

Recent buzz surrounding tax rates spurred a debate between the left and the right about the idea of a 70% marginal tax rate. This debate was re-ignited by Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, a first-term member of Congress from New York. Conservative opponents responded by mischaracterizing the proposed increase in the marginal tax…

The Struggle Against Systemic Racism must extend to victims of US Imperialism On August 11–12 2017, white nationalists and other hate groups held a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville to intimidate and assault minority groups, and allies who dared oppose their racist agenda. One white supremacist drove a car…