Opinion Category: News

Because the summit between DonaldTrump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un wasn’t surreal enough, the U.S. made sure to make it really weird by adding a strange movie trailer that the President presented to his counterpart. The trailer was publicly released by the White House on Wednesday and has since been viewed roughly 5 million […]

Runoffs can be some of the most nerve-wracking elections for a candidate. When no clear winner emerges from a packed field of candidates, the top two go head-to-head, with voters for those cut out of the race potentially swinging the election. However, one state has had enough of runoffs. On Tuesday, voters in Maine decided […]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions suffered a setback earlier this month when U.S. District Court Judge Michael Baylson ruled that the Trump Administration cannot withhold law enforcement grants from sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with immigration enforcement. The ruling applies only to Philadelphia for now, but Sessions is already floating new policies to make up […]

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has upended many of his chamber’s norms and rigorously supported right-wing causes as his party’s standard-bearer in the Senate. Now, he is being rewarded with a milestone: This week, McConnell became the longest-serving Republican leader in Senate history. McConnell, who has led Republicans for 11.5 years (and has overseen the […]

Two of the biggest personalities on the global stage met in Singapore on June 12 for what social media users are calling a “historic” summit. President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un joined hands in the Southeast Asian city-state to sign an agreement aimed at ending the North Korean nuclear weapons program, […]

President Trump and Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un had a grand old time together on Monday, but the mood was decidedly less joyous at last weekend’s G7 summit in Canada. POTUS openly feuded with other world leaders, some of whom are traditionally America’s closest allies, and called for Russia to be reintroduced to […]

President Donald Trump’s bulldog diplomacy has seen him biting the legs of other world leaders considered friends of America, and nowhere was that more on display than at the G7 meeting in Quebec last week. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron have both clashed with Trump, with Trudeau calling aluminum and […]

After years of waiting, the latest installment of the Ocean’s franchise has dropped. Ocean’s 8 features an all-female group of thieves whose ringleader is Debbie Ocean (played by Sandra Bullock), the sister of Danny Ocean (George Clooney in the older films). Debbie gets out of prison and promptly makes plans to steal a wildly expensive […]

Fresh off a contentious G7 summit at which he managed to isolate some of America’s closest allies, President Trump arrived in Singapore on Sunday to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. The two leaders have had a diplomatic on-again, off-again relationship, which caused the proposed June 12 summit to be cancelled mere weeks ago […]

Despite repeated efforts to pull the plug on the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare has proven surprisingly resilient. GOP lawmakers introduced bills in both the House and the Senate to repeal the ACA on Mar. 24, 2010, the day after President Barack Obama signed the health care overhaul into law. Subsequent efforts at repeal of Obamacare […]

This week marks 500 days in office for President Trump, and he made sure to tout what he feels are his biggest deeds to date. On Monday he tweeted: “We have accomplished a lot – many believe more than any President in his first 500 days. Massive Tax & Regulation Cuts, Military & Vets, Lower […]

Sanctuary cities scored a big win on Wednesday when a federal judge ruled that the Trump Administration cannot withhold law enforcement grants based on local immigration policies. The ruling from Senior United States District Judge Michael Baylson applies only to cities in his jurisdiction, such as Philadelphia. The City of Brotherly Love has declared itself […]

Social has never been a fan of Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, but after the resignation of two top aides, the former Oklahoma Attorney General has nearly hit rock bottom on social media. Senior Advisor Sarah Greenwalt and Director of Scheduling and Advance Millan Hupp both called it quits on Wednesday as scrutiny mounts […]

President Trump’s latest eruption ended with him revoking an invitation for the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles to visit the White House. Supposedly, most of the team was set to attend, but then that delegation was reduced to a handful of players, plus the team owner and the mascot. Trump—never one to be shown up—put […]

As former President Bill Clinton embarks on a book tour to promote his newly released novel, The President Is Missing (co-written by best-selling author James Patterson), you’d think he would be prepared for questions about his past. But that doesn’t appear to be the case – quite the opposite, in fact. On Monday, the Today […]

The U.S. Supreme Court has tackled innumerable controversies throughout its history, but the case of Colorado baker Jack Phillips has proved to be one of the most polarizing – at least on social media. In 2012, Phillips refused to create a wedding cake for same-sex couple David Mullins and Charlie Craig, who then hauled him […]

Colors can be an important part of any social movement. Take the distinctive pink associated with breast cancer awareness or the many rainbows and color palates of the LGBT community. Now, gun control advocates nationwide have claimed orange. The #WearOrange campaign was started after the death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, a Chicago teen killed in […]

President Trump has reached the 500-day mark in office, and with his lack of popularity holding steady, political prognosticators have turned to the November midterm elections to predict what the future of Congress might look like. Most administrations see their party suffer losses in the Midterms, but the stakes are especially high for Trump, who […]

President Donald Trump’s tariffs have taken close aim at China, which he has long derided as a global cheater, but now even allies are finding themselves under the economic gun. The Trump Administration announced last Thursday that steel and aluminum imports from Canada, Mexico, and the European Union would be subject to a 25 percent […]

President Trump’s quest to pardon famous people who blindly support him or have appeared on The Apprentice is proceeding full steam ahead. Last week, Kim Kardashian West visited the White House and asked President Trump to grant clemency to a woman named Alice Marie Johnson, who is serving a life sentence for a drug-related crime. […]

Cute kids can take even the most long-shot crusades straight to the White House, but 8-year-old Jordan McLinn’s is one health experts say could save countless lives. McLinn, who suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, became the national face of the “Right to Try” campaign after his family helped push then-Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana to […]

Drake might have bitten off more than he could chew this week after picking a fight with fellow rapper Pusha T. The hip-hop feud kicked off last Friday when Pusha T dropped his latest album, Daytona. One of the newest tracks, “Infrared,” made reference to a well-known criticism of Drake: That he uses ghostwriters to […]

Roseanne Barr had a busy Tuesday on Twitter, which ultimately ended with her hit show Roseanne getting cancelled because of racist remarks that she blamed on the drug Ambien. It all began when Barr tweeted that Valerie Jarrett, a former senior advisor to President Obama and an African-American, is what would happen if the Muslim […]

Christian Bale may have starred as Batman in the Dark Knight trilogy, but social media users across the U.S. have a new hero, and his name is just one letter off. Recent high school grad Christian Bales was due to deliver his valedictorian speech before nearly 100 of his classmates at Holy Cross High School […]

Outspoken gun culture critic David Hogg has Social back in his corner. Hogg was one of the student leaders to emerge after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla., last February, but he lost many fans after a backfired boycott against conservative pundit Laura Ingraham in April. Ingraham ended up with 20 […]

For the fourth year in a row, the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers will elbow it out for an NBA title. Like the previous three series, the Warriors enter as the heavy favorites, with a better record during the regular season and a far more balanced lineup. To be fair, that hasn’t always been […]

Although the Trump Administration is far from the first to break up families crossing the U.S. border illegally, its insistence on doing so under any and all circumstances is hitting Social as particularly cruel. Earlier this month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions enunciated the Administration’s zero tolerance policy, saying, “If you are smuggling a child then […]

One of sci-fi’s most storied characters got his own solo film this past weekend, but the numbers are less than stellar. Solo: A Star Wars Story follows Star Wars’ roguish smuggler Han Solo during his earliest days in a galaxy far, far away. The film stars Alden Ehrenreich as Solo, alongside Woody Harrelson, Game of […]

Superfoods and fad diets are social media passions, but one new nutritional innovation is getting no love online. Derived from crystals produced by the Pacific beetle cockroach to feed its young, cockroach milk first hit the scene in 2016 when Indian scientists said that essential amino acids and proteins could be found in the crystals […]

Whoever emerges victorious in the 2018 Stanley Cup Final will be taking home their city’s first-ever NHL championship. For the Washington Capitals, that would be 44 years in the making. For the Vegas Golden Knights, which won Game One on Monday, it would be one whole season of waiting. The Golden Knights are among the […]

The National Football League, alternatively known as the No Fun League, is coming to grips with protests during the National Anthem, and it has a message for players: Don’t even try it. Not content with blackballing Colin Kaepernick (and free agent safety Eric Reid), NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and a majority of team owners agreed […]

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is no stranger to public controversy, but Social seems intent on teaching her another lesson after she said that schools have a right to call ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) on potentially undocumented students. “I think that’s a school decision, it’s a local community decision,” DeVos told the House Education Committee […]

As school shootings become more commonplace, the American public is becoming increasingly concerned about safety in the halls of education. Rallies and marches in support of stricter gun control are frequent occurrences, but some citizens say they are ready for more drastic measures. Over the weekend, former Education Secretary Arne Duncan gave his stamp of […]

One Direction has been on indefinite hiatus since 2016, and the boy band void has mostly been filled by the South Korean group BTS, which recently performed at the Billboard Music Awards. But there are other contenders for the throne—one just put out an album and another has a highly anticipated record due out this […]

Seeing as Netflix has signed on seemingly every public figure of note in recent years, it makes sense that the streaming giant would bring in its latest big-name partners: Barack and Michelle Obama. The former POTUS and FLOTUS agreed to a multi-year deal on Monday, which they’ll use to “produce films and series for Netflix, […]