This piece is about striking teachers, so I want to start by thanking all of my teachers from the bottom of my heart for their dedication, each and every day, to their job and to us students. I encourage...

To most Americans, taxes are an inevitable fact of life (the only constancy, of course, besides death). We groan about them, we question their necessity, and we complain about the government’s wasteful...

We live in a new era, a changed era, a -- dare I say -- revolutionary era. Times have changed for men and women in America, nay, across the world as lifetimes of sexual harassment and assault, toxic work...

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” - Joseph Stalin (attributed) American foreign policy is complicated. Although we prefer imagining (rationalizing) that all our foreign...

The United States has been a true democracy for at most just over fifty years, a reality running counter to the tales we’ve been told of our freedom-heavy, egalitarian way of governance longevity. Only...

I was waiting at Duquesne for my flute lesson to begin when I received the alert about the senseless shooting, which killed 11 people and wounded multiple others, that occurred this weekend at the Tree...

In 2030, we’ll be just entering the years in which the dewy drops of youth have begun leaching from our cheeks. We’ll hopefully have stable jobs, perhaps a family, and be relatively happy, settling...

Theodore Roosevelt once proclaimed that “we have a right to demand that our judiciary should be kept beyond reproach.” A seat on the any court, especially the highest court of the land, is a privilege...