I have spent many nights like these. Swaddled in my compulsory need to read and several layers of blankets, I scroll to the next article and ready to envelop myself in the comforting lilt of words. There is an innate and almost childlike joy in these stolen late-night...
To deconstruct the origins of change, you first have to define what change is. Change is, philosophically, a difference in a state of affairs at different points in time. The question at hand is how to change a state of affairs. My answer may seem general, but I’ll...
Disney Channel has seemingly steered away from teenage wizards and singer-songwriters living “the best of both worlds” and is shifting gears to more pressing topics. While this might be surprising for those who have grown out of Disney Channel shows and have no...
Ishwar Mukherjee, a 17-year-old student at Scarsdale High School in New York began a program called “33Birds” with his fifth-grade teacher in 2013 with the goal of offering benefits for underprivileged children in their local community. “33Birds,” a program “run by...
All news about shootings is old news in the U.S.A. To many Americans, there is simply too much going on to keep count of the dead. For all our claims that we are a developed country, gun statistics seem to prove the opposite: the U.S. is a part of the six countries...
It’s the second day of school. I arrive at my bus stop at 7:02 a.m. Four minutes pass, and my bus doesn’t appear on time. It’s the first week of school, I thought. No need to worry. Another five minutes pass. It should have been here by now. Dread creeps in. I text my...
Once, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi stood for a democratic Burma during its regime change in the late 1900s. Now, the State Counsellor is complicit in the ethnic persecution of the Rohingya in her own state. The Rohingya are a stateless, Muslim minority,...
Article Review: Student’s controversial painting of Ferguson removed from Capitol display Description: Police brutality is a discussion gaining increasing traction. From Colin Kaepernick's kneeling to school discussions about racism and systemic violence, the...
You see the trees — Clear wooden border, a distinct separation between two places. One side by nature different. We’re the same though; two homo sapiens with keratin hair and keratin nails and vessels pulsing with blood throughout our bodies. So how are...
El 20 de junio, el presidente Donald Trump firmó una orden ejecutiva para cesar la separación de las familias en la frontera de los Estados Unidos, una política de "tolerancia cero" que su administración estableció a principios de mayo. La administración de Trump...
