Category: America Now

One of the most striking details to come from the Mollie Tibbetts murder case was that her alleged killer was able to legally work in the United States despite the government’s claim that he was actually an illegal immigrant. The suspect, Cristhian Rivera, worked for an Iowa dairy farm. While it was initially reported that […]

A Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index poll conducted between July 11 and July 18 found that small business optimism in the United States is at an all-time high, reaching 12 percentage points higher than last quarter. This is the highest level in the survey’s 15-year history according to Tullahoma News. Small business owners are reportedly […]

Twitter and Facebook have angered conservative users in recent weeks as prominent conservative activist Candice Owens had her account suspended and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones had multiple media accounts banned. Facebook had also shut down three other pages that they felt “sought to inflame social and political tensions.” The suspensions come on the heels of […]

We live in a society where self-medication and self-numbing is rampant. Everyone is attempting to escape themselves through distractions and escapism of all kinds. We become addicted to these distractions that take us away from the present moment, away from reality. These addictions can be towards literally anything – overthinking, negativity, sensory pleasures, mindlessness, television, […]

Rapper Kanye West has received intense pushback from Hollywood since he first started his Twitter rants this summer about how black Americans should not feel pressured to continue voting for the Democratic Party en masse. West started to question why “unpopular questions” were being punished by a societal “thought police” and stood up for the […]

A Houston Tex-Mex restaurant was feeling quite proud one night for hosting the Attorney General of the United States at its establishment. El Tiempo Cantina posted that it was an “honor” to serve Jeff Sessions and shared a picture of the owner standing next to him. But that was too much civility for some followers […]

While headlines continue to trumpet the latest events surrounding Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort, the focus on the soap opera that is the Mueller investigation has taken attention away from one of the most important issues confronting the nation, one that is bubbling under the surface and of which most Americans are not even aware. […]

With the anniversary of the Charlottesville protests approaching and as a fired White House staffer and former “Apprentice” star accused President Trump of racism, Kellyanne Conway hit the airwaves to defend the President’s record. Conway noted that “with respect to men and women of color,” there have been record low unemployment numbers under President Trump […]

Just days before the Trump administration reinstated snapback sanctions on the Iranian regime and its affiliated businesses, Fox News reported that the Islamic Republic test-fired a ballistic missile for the first time in more than a year. A Fateh-110 short-range ballistic missile was used in a “large-scale naval exercise by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard forces.” And […]

The search for missing Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts came to a tragic end as her body was found hidden under corn stalks in an Iowa cornfield. Police were led to the body by her alleged killer, 24-year-old Cristhian Rivera, an illegal immigrant from Mexico. It’s a sad but not necessarily surprising ending to the […]