The Syrian Civil War is over. It is a bitter pill to swallow for those in the West who hoped all the years of sacrifice, suffering, and chaos endured by the Syrian people would ultimately end in regime change. While we grapple with our whiplash, courtesy of the consequences of…

Too often, international negotiations are treated like the zero-sum game they aren’t, with players trying to rush a premature outcome in order to feel powerful. Lack of empathy and an unwillingness to put in the hard work of building genuine trust create the largest roadblocks. Because empathy is such a…

I unequivocally condemn the disgusting anti-Muslim display and sentiment shown in the West Virginia Statehouse against U.S. Senator Ilhan Omar. I am appalled people in my own party did something that’s not only hateful and discriminatory but puts lawmakers’ lives at risk. While I object to such discrimination on fundamental…

There is no American history without black history. Black history month is necessary because this truth is often ignored. Being reminded of various aspects of black history throughout the month caused me to reflect on how perfectly the history of black Americans exemplifies many of our most important American values. …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) affect and will continue to affect many aspects of our everyday lives at an increasing rate. Because it affects everybody, it is important for everybody to understand these issues at a basic level. The content of this blog post will likely seem a…

I began Holocaust Remembrance Day with a tweet from Tim Cook: But as a pragmatic person, it quickly made me ponder what it means to make sure history never repeats itself. How do we prevent horrors like the Holocaust from happening again? I don’t know what the definitive answer…

I used to think of the Book of Job in a very shallow way. I viewed it as a story about how if you allow God to allow you to arbitrarily suffer for long enough, you will be rewarded. …

Now probably seems like the oddest time in history for an educated, millennial woman to become a Republican. So why am I doing it? Basically, I stopped caving to social pressures, focused on my personal values, started thinking critically about the things I read, see and hear, and allowed myself…

I am firmly of the mindset that government functions better when it acts more like private enterprise. That is, lean, efficient, and effective. It was this mindset that led me to an odd realization; Recent tariff policies set by the Trump administration remind me of a common rookie mistake made…