Soccer’s Exorbitant Costs Soccer belongs to the people. But in the United States, it is hoarded by the wealthy. Like housing, healthcare, and groceries, American youth-soccer has become prohibitively expensive. It can run families as much as $10…
Fetal mortality rates in the United States have been on an overall decline since the 1990s,[1] but data demonstrates that there is a stillbirth crisis across the nation.[2] Yale School of Medicine found that 20% of all pregnancies across the United States…
With the second Trump Administration’s takeover of the District, including the surge of federal policing and the deployment of the National Guard,[1] the question of statehood has returned to the forefront. Often, these discussions center on democratic…
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides monthly food assistance—commonly referred to as food stamps—to low-income households, helping one in eight Americans buy groceries.[1] The program serves about 42 million Americans, with…
Worker protections are on the decline. While this might not be a surprise for those reading the news or for those with knowledge of the current political leanings of the federal executive and legislative branches, the extent, and speed, of which these…
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.[1] – Horace Mann When the great educational reformer Horace Mann wrote these words, he echoed an…
When the United States federal government needed women’s labor during World War II, it publicly funded childcare upon the assertion, “[y]ou cannot have a contented mother working . . . if she is worrying about her children.”[1] Currently, in 2025…
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (“VRA”) prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or membership in one of the specified minority groups.[1] Although the Supreme Court has continuously narrowed…
On October 31, 2025, the same day two federal judges ordered the Trump Administration to stop withholding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Payments (SNAP), formerly food stamps, from the 42 million Americans who rely on it,[1] the United States Department…
History does not exactly repeat itself, but the present often gets its cue from the past. See if this sounds familiar: utility bills on the rise with no end in sight, electricity being syphoned off and prioritized in select areas of the grid, and access…
