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It’s time to pay attention to what is going on in France right now. On Saturday, the ‘Yellow Vest’ protests in Paris took over the Champs-Elysees. The protests started out as a rebellion against fuel prices but have since grown over the past few weeks into widespread civil unrest in the French capital and throughout the country. Hundreds of thousands of Yellow Vests have rioted and protested across France over the last three weeks. It all started on November 10 when thousands of demonstrators demanding lower gas prices and taxes marched on the Champs-Elysees. Since then, the destruction has escalated,...

California now has the fifth largest economy in the world, recently surpassing the United Kingdom. But the state’s prioritization of identity politics, illegal immigrants, and anti-business policies have doomed the future of a once great state, resulting in a mass migration of companies and residents. The Golden State is the most unequal in the nation. Democrats’ one-party rule of the state for decades has helped it become rife with both homelessness and uber-wealthy households. The number of homeless Californians living on the streets increased by 14 percent to more than 130,000 last year. California Democrats’ attempts to alleviate poverty have...

I am a Millennial. I am smackdab in the middle of this generation that now makes up the largest portion of the U.S. workforce. I write this out of love, a desire to inform, and a deep concern for where we are and where we are going. The over-analyzed, overly entitled, and increasingly struggling generation of Americans born roughly between 1981 and 1997 have been berated by a never ending stream of articles about them in recent years. They are the most ethnically and racially diverse in America’s melting pot so far, behind only the generation to follow it. Millennials...