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Under the guise of work optimization, the current president signed an executive order for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to “reform the federal workplace to better serve Americans.”  In addition to cutting jobs forthright, President Trump is eradicating remote work for federal workers as a passive strategy to reduce the federal workforce, and thereby, government spending. However, ending […]

In Trump’s January 20th executive order, “Unleashing American Energy,” he criticized the “burdensome and ideologically motivated regulations” on America’s energy resources passed in recent years. He then immediately imposed burdensome and ideologically motivated regulations on offshore wind development, halting new permitting and withdrawing all federal waters from leasing. Given that Trump has frozen billions of dollars in climate […]

At a time when the country is ripe for intellectual terrorism, the Trump administration’s attacks on education and the executive order mandating the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America rewrite historical and geographical narratives and chip away at our capacity to think for ourselves. The U.S. ranks 24th out of […]

The recent AI Summit in France underscored a pressing set of questions: who makes the rules for artificial intelligence, and does a rules-based framework even make sense in a world of shifting political and economic landscapes? The world’s two most influential regions, the U.S. and Europe, are prioritizing vastly different approaches: the U.S. remains largely market-driven and […]

 America’s freight rail serves an indispensable role in the transport of goods throughout our nation. In fact, nearly 1.5 billion tons, estimated at almost $19 trillion, of U.S. commerce is shipped annually by rail. Unknown to many, however, is that the long line of rail cars riding the tracks relies on wireless communications for safety […]

Once considered sanctuaries of knowledge, meeting, and community, libraries now face a stark and growing threat: insecurity. As a librarian, I have witnessed firsthand how spaces once filled with peace and inspiration have become infiltrated by violence and drug dealing. At the same time, libraries are forced to navigate a digital world—one where information is […]

One of my favorite cartoon characters from childhood is Angelica Pickles from “Rugrats.” She was about three years old and was convinced that her baby cousins, Tommy and Dil, were plotting and planning against her. In contrast, Angelica would blame her cousins for things they didn’t do to maintain her authority over them. She said […]

The recent removal of information on birth control, domestic violence, and abortion from U.S. government websites is not just a bureaucratic adjustment. It is an ideological move, signaling the next phase of the Trump administration’s push to restore traditional values in their most conservative form. These changes come amid the dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) […]

Bluesky was supposed to be different—a fresh start, a reinvention of good-old Twitter without the trolls and toxicity of X, a digital paradise free from Musk’s chaos or Zuckerberg’s greed. But here we are, barely a few months into its boom, and the cracks are already showing. Bots are everywhere, political grifters are gaming the […]

At a recent holiday gathering, I was reminiscing with friends about our sometimes painful, sometimes amusing experiences of growing up across cultural boundaries. Thinking about our kids’ lives, I voiced something that had been troubling me: We talk a lot to our children about self-care and drawing boundaries. But we all had experiences in our […]