Chlece Neal’s client was a 14-year-old father seeking a shared custody agreement with his infant’s 16-year-old mother. The 8th grader wasn’t eligible for assistance from Legal Aid because his family’s annual income exceeded 125% of the federal poverty line, about $30k a year for a family of four. However, traditional…

Day 1: Monkeys! I’m awake in my cabin in the Amazon rainforest at 6:00am. The relentless downpour on our tin roof on top of the high humidity and excitement of being here has me up before dawn. So much happened yesterday that I know if I don’t write it down now I’ll forget…

The Democratic Party is too powerful. In the last century it has always selected one of the two candidates voters can choose for president. However, voters don’t directly elect the Democratic nominee. They vote for one of 3,768 delegates who, at the Democratic National Convention, cast a vote alongside another…

In a 1995 interview for his book Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama, then a Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, called for a society based on collectivism and the common good. He argued not just for the Democratic Party’s popular policies of the day but also a…

There’s a semantic argument replaying across the country in dive bars and over Thanksgiving dinner tables wherein a perceived more woke minority attempts to convince a white person they cannot experience racism because racism is defined as a historically disempowered group being discriminated against based on their race and the…

I like to play and watch video games online. For years now, I’ve followed the Twitch stream of one of my favorite gamers, a white man whom I would watch play online for hours because he was arguably the best in the world at a game I enjoy. Every day…