Eight days before Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz visited Ann Arbor with musical guest Maggie Rogers.

Eight days before Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz visited Ann Arbor with musical guest Maggie Rogers.

Eight days before Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz visited Ann Arbor with musical guest Maggie Rogers.

Eight days before Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz visited Ann Arbor with musical guest Maggie Rogers.

Eight days before Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz visited Ann Arbor with musical guest Maggie Rogers.

Now more than ever before, I have found myself with a fuse shorter than imaginable. I am a ticking time bomb, eager to be set off preemptively. Harmless slights from my siblings lead to prolonged campaigns of verbal exodus consisting of every insult in the book and insignificant disagreements with my parents are the catalyst to what seems to be the next world war.

On Aug. 26, the United State’s Departments of State and Commerce announced a plethora of sanctions that are set to be enacted against leaders of construction companies — owned by the Communist Party of China (CPC) — which officials deemed as participating in malign state projects in the South China Sea.

As tribalism deepens in the United States and around the world, political polarization follows. The tendency of people to group themselves based on ideology creates environments where beliefs outside of one’s norm aren’t present and ultimately lead to echo chambers that make people unable and unwilling to listen to other perspectives. 

As schools around the country reverse their face-to-face reopening plans, it seems less and less likely that the University of Michigan will make it through the first few weeks of classes with the current hybrid model.

It’s been colloquially called the blue wave, the suburban tsunami and the “Trump thump,” but there is one nickname for the 2018 midterms that we liberals normally shy away from: the most expensive midterm elections ever. Why?