United States Of America
Social Policy

Abortion
There may be no more contentious issue in our country today than abortion, a subject that gets to the very essence of life and

Title IX
It’s easy to forget the storm surrounding the implementation of Title IX, but to colleges and universities…and to generations of women, its effect has

College Debt
My purpose in writing Snippets is to provide context for current issues…how did we get here. This particular Snippet will be different since there

The Double V
A Simple Letter Early on a quiet Sunday morning an armada of Japanese ships and airplanes attacked American military bases at Pearl Harbor on

Racism
A Decade of Summer / A Century of Winter What I have trouble understanding is how we got from muskets to AR-15 assault weapons

The Second Amendment
In a time, long gone, when we were British colonists, promising fealty to the English king, their soldiers could enter our homes and confiscate

Indigenous People
There is something in man’s DNA that encourages him to conquer and subjugate those he considers inferior. And anyone who doesn’t look like him,

Vagrancy/Homelessness
Somewhere along the way we have empathized on our way into a homelessness crisis. In Los Angeles County 10 million residents skirt around the