October | 2016 | Make Mexico Pay for the Blog

“If I Had a Powerpoint, Here’s What it Would Say” – Jared Bernstein

In the Economic Policy debate between Jared Bernstein (liberal) and James Pethokoukis (conservative), the topics were discussed under the guise of being impartial to political parties or the election. However, as I witnessed, it’s difficult to talk about things such as economic stagnation, trade deals, and student debt without politics coming into play. What surprised…

The World As We Know It

I was four years old on September 11, 2001, which makes me a part of the last age group to have any memories at all of the actual day. Yet, those memories aren’t much – I remember being on the playground at school and hearing this loud siren go off and my teachers rounding up…

How to Get Away with…Limiting Individual Freedom?

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit have happiness.” We’ve all heard it before, the foundation of American freedom written into the Declaration of Independence. But who would have thought that this only applied to certain people?? Okay, maybe a lot of people realized this, so in this episode of How to Get Away with Limiting Individual…

Changing the Role of Women

When I was in high school, my art history teacher taught us about the Venus of Willendorf figurine of the Prehistoric era. There are many other Venus figurines that were characterized by similar features: wide hips, exaggerated breasts, etc. These qualities were supposed to highlight the prominent features of a woman that related to childbearing…

The Good Wife

One of the more significant roadblocks that House of Cards power couple Frank and Claire Underwood experience during their political rise is an abrupt question posed to Claire during an interview. A past political opponent had accused her of having an abortion, and Claire chooses to confidently affirm the allegation. In fact, she had had…

Even the Doctors Are Confused

Cristina and Owen’s debate over the starting point of life for a fetus displays just how controversial the topic of abortion is in the United States. The debate has been present since the 1970s and the argument seems to intensify as time goes on. For example, the recent #ShoutYourAbortion campaign launched in response to attempts…

More is “lost” than just a human life

In the song “Lost Ones” by J Cole, Cole explores and speaks on the effects of an unintended pregnancy from the perspectives of two young adults. The first verse is sang from the man’s point of view as he tries to justify an abortion, referencing their strained financial situation and the additional complications caring for…

The Blend Between Women and Abortion

I have always wondered about the history of women and their decisions about having an abortion and also found it quite interesting when relating this topic to TV shows like Scandal. I found that TV shows attempt to stay unbiased on the subject of abortion, to avoid offending a specific group of audience. In fact,…

Pro-life vs Pro-choice

It is hard to imagine a world where the topic of abortion isn’t a main division between political parties; however, it didn’t even become a full-blown political issue until the passing of Roe vs. Wade in 1973. Within his article, Halfman compares American policies to those of Britain and Canada. Abortion has increasingly been becoming…

Terrorism here, terrorism there, terrorism nowhere

If you ask anyone, terrorism is of course a very real issue and represents a great threat to the civilized world, being the act of mentally deranged people that are impossible to understand ; as we can see in http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/maps-and-graphics/Mapped-Terror-threat-around-the-world/. Well, according to L. Stampnitzky in Disciplining terror : how experts invented “terrorism” this terrorism…