Author Tyler Heffern

It has been a raucous week, though more aptly, a raucous year. The coronavirus pandemic has ravaged the world, resulting in over one million deaths worldwide, and 200,000 within the United States...

When you think of an Egyptian queen, it’s natural to imagine Cleopatra, a lover of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony. She was the last ruler of an independent Egypt before Rome conquered it and she, facing...

The Hagia Sophia, or “Holy Wisdom,” in Istanbul, Turkey was, for centuries, at the heart of the Christian Byzantine Empire. Then it was also the heart of the Muslim Ottoman Empire. Today it remains the...

Since 1787, our Constitution has authorized only one system to elect an American President: the Electoral College. Ever since that time there have been strong criticisms of the system paired with attempts to...

I recently read the comments on an interesting Opinion piece in the New York Times and was shocked. The article was titled “Why We Should Lower the Voting Age to 16,” and argued that teens are just as...

The recent revelation of a massive and illegal absentee ballot “scheme” in North Carolina has forced the State Board of Elections to call for a new round of voting. It has also stirred up the age-old fear...