So, this is the last blog post of the year. What better way to celebrate such a momentous occasion than by discussing one of the most divisive issues in the nation: abortion. Abortion has been in the news a lot in the past decade, and recently it has been talked about for all the worst…
Sexuality is an integral part of an individual’s identity, but it has also recently skyrocketed to one of the most divisive issues in the nation. As I established in my previous post on gender identity, identity has no business being debated as if it is a political issue. The way that one person identifies does…
Out of all of the freedoms awarded to us by the government, freedom of religion is one of the most highly debated. Not because people are debating whether or not we should have freedom of religion, but more so because there are many opposing ideas of what this freedom should look like. Freedom of religion…
While some hot-button issues are topics that have been around for decades or even centuries, there are also a lot of questions plaguing American politics that have only started to be asked in the past few years. One example of this sort of issue would be gender identity. While transgender and nonbinary people have existed…
Healthcare has been a divisive issue for a long time in American politics. From all the way back in FDR’s 1944 State of the Union Address when “adequate medical care” was referred to as a right of every family until today when healthcare is more expensive and harder to get for several different groups of people,…
Climate change has been in the news a lot in recent years. Whether the news stations were urging people to care or denying its existence, climate change has quickly become one of the biggest political issues in the nation. I do, however, find this rather odd. Why is climate change a partisan issue? Scientists have…