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Prison overcrowding is starting to become an increasingly more expensive and dangerous problem in America.

Americans need to hear the truth, but, how do we determine real news journalists from fake news journalists?

This article summarizes the history and misdeeds of the Mexican drug cartels. The scope of this international problem is discussed as well, emphasizing its impact on the United States, perhaps the only country powerful enough to stop them.

Ted Bundy's reign of terror may have begun during his teenage years with a many as a 100 murders, experts say. Lynda Ann Healy was one of his victims.

Donald Trump may very well be the worst president in American history. Here is a convenient list of important facts about Trump's presidency that you may have forgotten.

What is social distancing and how it affects you. What do you do in social distancing.

This article explores one of society's complicated and most interesting social issues: the generation gap. What complications does this social phenomenon create? Can the generation gap ever be bridged?

I wish it was considered normal during times of no pandemic.

On Thursday 23rd June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. This article gives the author's first impressions of the referendum campaign, and the aftermath of the result

Why do people put down wild animals in captivity while being perfectly fine with domesticated animals in human control? Are domesticated animals really that different from exotic animals?

Andrew Cuomo follows in the footsteps of his late father Mario Cuomo, the 52nd Governor of New York. Brother Chris Cuomo is a CNN journalist.

Gun control is an important topic that, when discussed in a manner of politicking, often comes to a point where rights on all sides are called to be infringed upon. Logic, patience, understanding, and practicality can see the issue addressed progressively for all.

Chocolate bars have a dark, often untold story of human trafficking and child slavery. Cocoa plantations on the Ivory Coast use unpaid child labor to harvest the cocoa beans, often employing tactics such as physical abuse by overseers on plantations in West Africa.

Support homosexuality or leave! Those were the choices Christian counseling student Julea Ward faced when her faculty demanded she approve same-sex relationships when counseling homosexuals.

Gannon Stauch was reported missing from his home in Colorado in late January 2020. Shockingly, on March 17, his body was found 1,377 miles away in Pace, Florida.

This blog is about the "#MeToo Movement," its origins, its expansion, and what the movement plans to draw attention to and improve.