OP-ED

Apprenticeships offer a better path to economic mobility than student debt, as they allow people to earn while they learn and connect training directly to real jobs and employers.

The SCORE Act and President Trump's Executive Order would transfer billions in wealth from student athletes to coaches and institutions, grant the NCAA unprecedented control over college athletics, and deny athletes the right to fair representation, while leaving smaller sports programs and institutions behind.

The U.S. Constitution has been interpreted differently over time, with powerful people attempting to change the meaning of amendments to suit their own agendas, such as the Second and Fourteenth Amendments, and the Supreme Court currently hearing arguments on the issue of birthright citizenship.

While Congress is on recess, many Americans are still working, with the irony being that the people making decisions about work and economic policy often enjoy levels of job security and rest that many Americans will never experience.

Chicago is phasing out the subminimum wage for tipped workers, which is a legacy of slavery, to ensure that all workers are paid a living wage and have the dignity of a stable income.

On February 28, 2026, the first day of the 2026 Iran war, the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in the Shahrak-e Al-Mahdi neighborhood of Minab, Hormozgan province in southern Iran was destroyed by a missile strike, killing at least 175 people, over 100 of them school children, many of whom were from poor families and may have been of African descent.

President Trump attempted to end birthright citizenship in the US through an executive order, which was met with opposition from advocates and federal courts, and is currently being reviewed by the Supreme Court.

House Republicans have passed the Trump-backed SAVE Act, a voter suppression bill disguised as an "election integrity" measure, which makes it more difficult for certain people to vote and is designed to limit the number of Black people voting.

Millions of Americans took to the streets under the banner "No Kings" to protest the political system which they believe increasingly serves the powerful while ordinary Americans are left behind.

The SAVE America Act is a voter suppression bill that would disproportionately harm Black Americans by requiring specific proof of citizenship and implementing voter-roll purges, and is ultimately a modern-day resurrection of the poll taxes and literacy tests of the Jim Crow era.