On April 12, two black men were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks while waiting to meet a friend. They hadn’t bought anything while waiting. The friend showed up during the arrest when the store’s manager called the police. #BoycottStarbucks is a recent example of movements and activism being spread through Twitter. Using the hashtag as […]

Andy Slavitt served as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Obama late in his presidency. Earlier this year, he launched an initiative called The United States of Care (USoC). Slavitt’s team promotes USoC via #HealthcareOverPolitics. Here is my column on the background on why we launched @USofCare today. It’s to put #healthcareoverpolitics […]

There are plenty of dietary restrictions out there today (think: pescetarian, gluten-free, low-carb). None, however, seem to catch flack as much as veganism. To go vegan is to eliminate all animal products from one’s diet – a hardcore vegetarian, if you will. As a flexitarian, a person “whose normally meatless diet occasionally includes meat or fish” […]

After the horrific Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida, many people in the US have argued again whether #guncontrol laws are still too loose. No actual promotion of sensible #guncontrol. Just misleading questions and false accusations. We need universal background checks, a new assault weapons ban, gun buyback programs, & reforms to our mental […]