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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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