“You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” – Barack Obama
For my first “article” I would like to write a bit about the unfortunate effects of meat consumption. It’s definitely not a new topic and one that has been discussed and written about rigorously, but I feel it’s a topic worth losing my Utopia Politico virginity to. While people generally know that there are some [...]
The length of time it takes for the blogosphere to react to a congressional session is now, mere minutes. It has come to this contributor’s (also a high school history teacher) attention that some of our representatives need a history lesson. Luckily, the lesson was provided by another media source, CNN. The lack of insight [...]