10 March 2020 In January, Representative Theodore Deutch (D-FL) introduced the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. The bill proposes a fee on production and importation of fossil fuels based on the fuel’s carbon dioxide content. It would reduce U.S. Carbon Dioxide emissions by 40% in 12 years. Unlike a tax, the money would be… Read the full article
Category: Nonfiction Writing
Solving The Plastic Problem — Turning Plastic Debris Into Currency
7 October 2018 Plastic. The shape-shifting miracle material. It can take the form of nearly anything from a bag to a blow-up castle to a microchip implanted in a puppy. More than eight million tons of it are dumped into our oceans as a yearly regimen, and it is responsible for the one hundred thousand… Read the full article
Parkland Students Jaclyn Corin And Alfonso Calderon Visit Montclair High, New Jersey
16 June 2018 According to CBS News, the student-organized March for Our Lives drew more than 200,000 people in D.C., and millions nationwide. The Associated Press called it the largest youth protest since the Vietnam War. Jaclyn Corin is Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s junior class president and an outspoken critic of NRA-funded politicians. Alfonso Calderon is… Read the full article
Conservative Parkland Student Finds Middle Ground From The White House
11 April 2018 Kyle Kashuv is a junior attending Marjory Stoneman Douglas High. Like other students from Parkland, Florida, he has become a political activist after the tragic shooting on February 14, 2018. And he fights for Americans’ gun rights. After February 14, the student-precipitated Never Again movement gained momentum with the voices of Cameron… Read the full article
“We Are Ruled By The Dead” — A Comprehensive Guide To Gerrymandering
25 March 2018 America has a tendency to be ruled by the dead. Our politicians are not walking and breathing cadavers, but the practices of our government might as well be. Gerrymandering is one such practice; the manipulation of electoral boundaries so as to favor one political party or class. Simply put, no matter where… Read the full article
“I Share, Therefore I Am.” — Social Media Gives Us Meaning?
25 February 2018 Social networking is a give and take. It connects us, for sure—strengthening our relationships with ourselves and the world. But it also wrecks them. That is the reason for why using social media has become almost mandatory. We have become a global society, and as citizens of a global society, we need… Read the full article
What Does Price Actually Measure?
18 January 2017 Your pair of socks, that tenth-edition textbook, this glistening MacBook screen. Schoolgirls in Gujarat, clearcuts in Idaho, circuit boards clogging Chinese riverbeds. Who dwells over the children stooping over an atomic basin as they slap a pair of new sneakers before the cashier? Who lends a thought to the by-catch carcasses while… Read the full article