December 2, 2008
Are Iraq and Afghanistan in the Middle East or in Asia? Is Louisiana in the United States? Is it really “absolutely necessary” to learn a foreign language? Despite the United States’ global influence, many Americans ages 18 to 24 lack world knowledge, according to the National Geographic-Roper Public Affairs 2006 Geographic Literacy Study.

November 18, 2008
Racism is like a flame in a field of burning crops: easy to feel and smell if you’re up close, visible from the distant winding roads, and hard to contain no matter how much water you pour over it.

October 27, 2008
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” and why not put them to work as slaves too? After all, they did choose to come here, didn’t they? If you think slavery was abolished, think again.

October 14, 2008
You don’t have to go to Guantanamo Bay to witness flagrant human rights abuses by the U.S.

September 30, 2008
Let’s get the facts straight: Barack Obama is a Christian, not a Muslim, but even if he were a Muslim, should it matter? He is not a radical leftist nor does he support genocide through abortion.

September 29, 2008
You don’t have to be at the border to experience The Devil’s Highway; deportations can be just as frightening inside our borders.

April 10, 2008
Protesting the Border Wall Students from the Latino Policy Association (LPA), a graduate student organization in the Evans School of Public Affairs, are arguing that the building of a border wall between the United States and Mexico would only increase tensions between the two countries.