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“What will we grow from this crisis?” These words were in my head as I was walking in Rogers Park recently, a north side Chicago community, wearing an orange arm band and orange whistle on my way to my neighborhood Rapid Response Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (ICE) School Watch. These same words jumped out at […]

One thing you can say about the president is that he likes to change things.  He wanted the Gulf of Mexico renamed the Gulf of America, signing an executive order making it the official name for the federal government.  He also signed an executive order changing the highest peak in the nation back to Mount McKinley from […]

Climate models have become the backbone of modern climate policy—embedded in regulations, ESG mandates, and fiscal planning. Because CO₂ is universal and measurable, it makes the perfect base for taxation: link emissions to catastrophe through a model, and you create a perpetual revenue stream from daily life. Every modern model rests on three adjustable assumptions: […]

I’ve spent most of my adult life in elected office, first as the County Clerk of Jefferson Davis County in Mississippi and eventually representing that state’s 4th Congressional District in the in the U.S. House of Representatives. There are upsides of making a living in public service. For me those were supporting investment in my […]

President Trump’s nationwide sweeps of immigrants, both documented and undocumented alike, as well as against Latino/a U.S. citizens has thus far raised insufficient public attention. While the recent No Kings Day nationwide protests demonstrate deep disdain for the President’s policies, they in no way seemed centered on his wholesale almost daily attacks on immigrants. Despite […]

More than a year ago, while campaigning, President Donald Trump claimed to have saved “flavored vaping” and promised voters he would do so again. Nearly ten months into his current administration, that promise remains unfulfilled – if not outright broken – for the more than 20 million American adults who rely on flavored vapor products […]

Like all healthcare professionals, I have experience with being humbled by mentors, colleagues, and even patients. But never a computer … until recently. A few weeks ago, the father of a newborn I examined asked me a common question about baby spit-up – one I’ve answered thousands of times. Although I believed myself to be […]

The name Andrew Tate stirs strong emotions. To some, he’s a hero, a truth-teller in a world where men have gone soft, a defender of manhood. To others, he’s a villain, a dangerous voice spewing misogyny and violence often called the “king of toxic masculinity.” I took a deep dive into his world recently, listening to hours […]

In light of No Kings Protests that drew an estimated 7 million people in cities across the nation, it’s important to revisit the meeting of 800 top military officials last month, where President Donald Trump suggested using “some of these dangerous cities” as training grounds for the military. This threat of force — which millions of Americans clearly don’t want […]

When I was twelve, I sat in a tall courtroom, testifying to a judge about my child abduction case under the Hague convention. I was born in the United States but moved to Singapore as a child. When I was twelve years old, my mother fled Singapore, bringing me and my brother to the US. […]