Atop the hill at the Lake Erie Bluffs, you can see the lake stretch on for miles lit up from the sun falling beneath its waves in the horizon....
BREAKING: According to a draft of the majority opinion leaked to Politico, the Supreme Court has voted to strike down the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision which protects a woman’s choice as to whether or not to have an abortion. The opinion was written by Justice Samuel Alito who was joined by Justices...
In recent weeks, even amongst the chaos and confusion of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, global attention has been on France as they prepared for their latest presidential election. In 2017, first-time candidate Emmanuel Macron and his centrist En Marche! party secured a decisive victory over far-right...
Multiple states across the country are instituting new laws that some consider being harmful to the LGBTQ+ community. Nearly 240 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced to the United States in 2022 alone. In Ohio, a bill was recently introduced that appears to be the state's version of Florida’s...
On Feb. 25, President Joe Biden nominated D.C. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court. After speaking with members of the Senate and an unorthodox series of confirmation hearings, Jackson was confirmed to the Supreme Court, becoming...
Benjamin Franklin once said, “In this world nothing can be certain, except death and taxes.” And truer words have never been spoken. Every year in mid-spring, the U.S. federal and each state government requires the vast majority of its citizens to file their income tax returns to determine whether...
On Dec. 14, 2012, a gunman shot and killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Six years later, in 2018, Alex Jones, a right-wing talk show host, claimed that the shooting was staged, using fake child actors. Jones is now facing numerous lawsuits from the...
In the ongoing Russian war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of placing landmines during their retreat from Ukrainian land –– a violation of international law. Ukrainians are trying their best to flee from the city of Mariupol, but the International...
On Mar. 28, 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the infamous “Don’t Say Gay” bill into law. Despite the outrage in Florida and other states in the nation leading up to the imposition of the new law, DeSantis still approved the bill starting a new reign of bigotry in Florida. Arguments have...
Sworn in as the Representative for the Ohio 11th Congressional District on Nov. 4, 2021, Rep. Shontel Brown has been representing University Heights — and, therefore, John Carroll — in Congress for just over 100 days. In that time, she has enjoyed meeting colleagues and constituents, working with...
Over the past couple of months, the Ohio legislature has grappled with the Ohio Supreme Court over the issue of new redistricting maps. The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected three different maps made by the Ohio Redistricting Commission. This commission has proposed new maps that favor Republicans over...
Since the beginning of the Russian war on Ukraine, millions of refugees have fled the country to nearby nations, causing the United States to announce the acceptance of up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees. In the first two weeks of March, only seven refugees have been accepted to the United States. On...
The U.S. Senate voted on March 15 to effectively eliminate daylight savings time. The bill, championed by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, is meant not only to save American’s the trouble of readjusting their sleep schedules but to increase public well-being as well. Daylight savings time, though often...
Have you ever smoked marijuana? I know that's a bit of a loaded question, but more and more people seem to be answering “yes”. As of 2021, approximately 49% of American adults have at least tried marijuana, an all-time high (pun intended). With numbers that high, you’d think marijuana was...
George Floyd’s name will go down in history as the impetus for the widespread Black Lives Matter movement in 2020. He was killed by four police officers in Minneapolis after a clerk in a convenience store called the police on Floyd for using a counterfeit $20 bill. The four officers that killed...
On Jan. 27, Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, first appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994, announced his intention to retire. At that moment, President Joe Biden faced his first major foray into judicial politics during his term. During the 2020 campaign, Biden promised that he would appoint...