Despite repeated judicial rulings rejecting Trump’s 2020 election claims, he persists. Proving that his ego burned through his prefrontal cortex and seared his last shard of reasoning capacity, after his attempt to extort Minnesota voter rolls failed, Trump’s FBI raided an election center in Georgia and seized them directly. Both acts were preludes to a dangerous fantasy, one that ends in “taking over” national elections.

For a long time, I believed teaching meant leaving parts of myself at the door, after focusing on a full-time career that made me feel like I had to dress a certain way, talk a certain way, and act a certain way to “fit in” with the then Miami-based journalism crowd.

In this tumultuous era of rapidly shifting policies and laws, Americans are told to obey rules that seem fueled by hate, instead of humanity.

There are performances you watch, and then there are performances you live inside. Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was the latter. Not just because of the music or the scale of the stage, but because of how deeply it reached into homes, histories, and hearts across the world.