American politicians must take active, sustained steps to combat the economic and social challenges that make American motherhood a minefield, and they shouldn’t wait for massive upheavals like a pandemic to do it.
The National Emergencies Act allows the president of the United States to unilaterally declare a national emergency, halt all news casting, and order up to a million soldiers to the capital — all without congressional approval. Congress must amend it.
Based on the issues facing contemporary American society, there is clearly a desperate need for the effective, high-quality teaching of social-emotional skills that SEL can provide.
As the number of shootings in the U.S. is projected to increase, we must ask ourselves: Is our best defense really to hope that a “good guy with a gun” is always waiting around to save the day?
Eighteen years ago, I was born in Highland Park Hospital. Earlier this month, in the most harrowing day of mine, I watched the news numbly from my home as 25 people were rushed to that same building to be treated for gunshot wounds.
The most prolific human rights organizations in the United States and abroad value equal and unrestricted access to all maternal care, including abortion, as a human right.
After a tragedy, it is calming for many to rationalize some of the pain by casting the event as unforeseeable, and thus, unpreventable. That comfort cannot be found in Buffalo.
Our approach to ending gun violence cannot be treated as a merely political issue. Gun culture is so deeply embedded into states like Texas that we must also push for a transformative cultural change.
