Election Day: When the Voting Ends and the Counting Begins

After a long and often bewildering campaign, we have finally reached Election Day—the conclusion of a season of charged rhetoric, legal posturing, and overwhelming early-voter turnout. Today, however, is only the end of a beginning. We the people have been tasked with selecting a title for the next chapter of American history, and after nearly two years of deliberation, the time for making a choice has come. Millions of us across the country have already submitted ballots, and millions more will cast votes before the polls close.

Tough on China: How a Trade Alliance Can Stop a Trade War

As part of my political science degree, I took a course titled International Relations Theory. For my final project, I drew a fascinating subject that I have been contemplating since the 2016 presidential campaign: U.S./China relations through the lens of neoliberalism/globalism. The following is my case study analysis, which if I were in a position to have a policy stance on the subject rather than just an opinion, this would be it.

The Value of Multicultural Education

I was recently showed an older video on fixing the U.S. education system through the elimination of racial and cultural identifiers and felt compelled to share some of my writings on the subject from my time in the Montana State University education department. What follows is actually a compilation of ten smaller papers in response to assigned readings from a course textbook. While it may at times read like a review, the supplemental research and context add substantially to the original work.