Ryan Farrick is a freelance writer and small business advertising consultant based out of mid-Michigan. Passionate about international politics and world affairs, he’s an avid traveler with a keen interest in the connections between South Asia and the United States. Ryan studied neuroscience and has spent the last several years working as an operations manager in transportation logistics.
On Wednesday, Senate Democrats, joined by three of their Republican colleagues, pushed through a measure intended to restore Obama-era rules on net neutrality. While the effort seems doomed to eventual failure, liberals in the House have already taken up the effort and started collaborating on a discharge petition. “With majority leadership in the House opposed
Michigan State University will pay $500 million to the victims of former physician Larry Nassar, who molested hundreds of girls and young women while working as a sports medicine specialist on-campus. According to the New York Times, the settlement will entail the largest amount ever paid in a sex abuse scandal involving an American university.
A bicameral, bipartisan bill called the Protect and Serve Act of 2018 could enhance penalties for assaulting police officers. The Washington Post describes the legislation, now pending in both chambers of Congress, as akin to considering attacks on law enforcement as hate crimes. Blasted by the paper as a ‘terrible idea’ with the potential to
Senate Democrats will force a vote Wednesday to repeal the Trump administration’s changes to net neutrality rules. The measure, writes CNN, is backed by tall 49 of the Democratic Party’s senators. Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R) is expected to defect. Analysts believe the effort will pass through the Senate but are skeptical of its prospects
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos dismantled a team of departmental investigators tasked with taking on abusive for-profit colleges, according to a Sunday article published by the New York Times. Once comprised of a dozen lawyers and workers, the team has been scaled back to include only three employees. Under the Obama administration, the taskforce looked
Moderate House Republicans are defying party leadership to force through a deal shielding recipients of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program from deportation. The last-ditch effort is being led by five conservative centrists, who, according to POLITICO, filed a discharge petition Wednesday. Hoping to pressure President Donald Trump into protecting Dreamers — young
President Donald Trump’s Tuesday decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal left his predecessor fuming, politicians scrambling and a handful of allies singing his praises. The treaty, negotiated by former President Barack Obama, lifted economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic in exchange for a cessation on nuclear weapons development. Seven countries, including the United
Prosecutors in different jurisdictions will investigate the assault allegations which forced New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman out of office. Schneiderman, who’d cast himself as a champion of women’s rights and staunch opponent to the Trump administration, was accused of violently attacking several former partners. The four women, speaking to The New Yorker, described the
The Trump administration is laying down new mandates that’d see more immigrants prosecuted for illegal entry to the United States – a move advocates fear will lead to the separation of families. Under the new policy, the Department of Homeland Security will refer ‘100 percent of illegal southwest border crossings’ to the Justice Department. U.S.
On Friday, the Trump administration ended a special immigration program for some 57,000 Hondurans. The decision, said Michael Martin of National Public Radio, is only the latest in a series of similar actions. ‘Temporary Protected Status’ – an immigration category protecting refugees of natural disaster and manmade catastrophe – was revoked for Nicaraguan and Salvadoran