Category: 43.3 Fire

“Anyone who harms these good men is going to burn. God Bless our Agents. Glad to see brave young men defending Christian values!”  Those are the words of my religious education teacher, whom we shall call Mrs. X. Her strongly worded sentiment was in reaction to a Facebook post of protestors in Minneapolis resisting U.S. […]

Paul Bunyan’s in the market for an ox that’s new;Ol’ Babe the Blue is done & through—Killed over in Illinois just last June. So Paul built a cross 200 feet tallAnd dragged it from Springfield on an 88 mile haul. And Pontius Pilate Pritzker gave him 40 lickswith the aid of the State House Majority […]

We have been taught, quietly and relentlessly, that success takes a singular form. In the West, especially in spaces of prestigious academia such as our own, after all, the capitalist program does not announce itself as ideology. It presents itself as inevitability. It trains students to believe that worth is measured by mobility, that greater […]

Over the past decade, American politics have been uprooted, spun in a circle and turned on their head every four years. The first Trump Administration disrupted the norms of establishment politics, altered the historical direction of American foreign policy strategy by challenging NATO and consolidated American decision-making power within the upper ranks of the executive […]

As the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches, a conflict that has turned into a grueling war with tens of thousands of deaths, Russia’s successful invasion of Crimea in 2014 must be reevaluated. I will examine how the operation, which faced little resistance from the Ukrainian military, was ultimately a mistake by […]

The last time a Democrat won a U.S. Senate race in Texas was in 1988. That could very well change in 2026. The Democratic primary race between Texas State Representative James Talarico and Representative Jasmine Crockett has captured the attention of the masses, and for good reason. While we are still far out, polling data […]

On the morning of January 3rd, my day started off on my phone, as it does just about every day. It wasn’t long after I popped in my contacts that I saw a notification on Apple News that made me do a double-take. Overnight, the United States military had invaded another sovereign nation and kidnapped […]

I grew up in Jakarta, where fear had a specific shape. Traffic that could trap you for hours, flooding that came without warning and the casual violence of a city built on precarity. My mother’s anxieties were immediate and material:will the rain flood the streets; will the protest turn violent; will the rupiah collapse again? […]

September 5th, 2025. Social media commentators latch onto a vintage clothing reseller’s attempt to sell infamous sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s own monogrammed quarter zip sweatshirt. For the price of eleven thousand dollars, Instagram account @restricted.lifestyle claimed to have found the item in a Miami-Dade County thrift store before purchasing it for resale in their social […]