By: Madeleine Burke
With the second amendment being a hotly debated topic in current events, it’s no surprise that the amendment will soon be taken to the Supreme Court yet again. Why will this recent case be different?
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By: Bobin Park
On Friday, June 30th, the Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that businesses can refuse services to same-sex couples. Lori Smith runs a graphic design business called 303 Creative. Her case is that the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act will compel her to create websites for gay couples, which is inconsistent with her beliefs.
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By: Julia Zhu
On June 30th, President Biden's plan to forgive student loans, which aimed to provide up to $20,000 in forgiveness, was struck down by the Supreme Court (SCOTUS).
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By: Iris Qi
On June 29th, the Supreme Court struck down the practice of affirmative action, declaring UNC and Harvard’s admissions practices to be discriminatory towards Asian and white Americans. Affirmative action stemmed from the civil rights movement of the 1960s and is the practice of considering a student’s race in admissions.
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President Joe Biden has recently announced that he will be running in the 2024 election for his second term. He is currently one of the oldest presidents in office and will be 86 by the end of his second term, which has raised concerns over his age. During the video released announcing his run…
By: Haasini Sanisetty
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On March 13, 2023, The Biden Administration approved one of the most controversial and largest oil developments on federal lands: Willow, an oil reserve in Arctic Alaska.
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By: Shiwani Tamaskar
Monday, February 13, 2023 eight students at the Michigan State University were victims of a mass shooting. Three were killed and five were injured while a gunman was on the campus of MSU. The suspect was identified as Anthony McCrae, a 43 year old man who was later found dead from a self inflicted gunshot.
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AP African-American Studies is a pilot course currently being taught by 60 teachers across the country, with the AP test not officially launching until 2025. The general objective of this class, according to the Official AP African American Studies Course Framework, is to understand the black experience in America and its modern connections through African-American history, connections with the present, key figures, movements, art, literature, and more. Wilfred Chan for The Guardian says that “structural racism, racial capitalism, mass incarceration, reparations, intersectionality and Black Lives Matter” are required topics.
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By: Laila Kirkpatrick
Over 7,000 Nurses from two of New York’s biggest hospitals went on strike on January eighth.
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By: Margaret Chen
On Friday, January 20th, 10 people were slaughtered by a mass shooter at a dance studio in Monterey Park, California, a predominantly Asian community just east of Los Angeles.
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By: Iris Qi
The experience of Asians in America has been long and difficult, to say the least. One need to only look at the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Japanese internment during WWII, segregation, mass lynchings, and stereotyping to tell of a deeply racist society, an American history ridden with Asian hate.
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By: Shrividya Regadamilli
Whether it has to do with the lives being saved or the lives saving people, gender bias is often present in the healthcare community for reasons as simple as inherent belief stamped in by society.
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By: Haasini Sanisetty
Title 42 is a protocol that was put into place during the period in which Donald Trump was president. It basically says that federal officials are allowed to turn away immigrants at the border due to the risk that they might bring Covid-19 into the country.
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By: Madeleine Burke
On November 8, the 2022 midterm elections were held. However, more than inflation had an affect on this years midterms, abortion rights also made its mark on the ballot. With the fairly recent overturning of Roe V. Wade, the right to an abortion has become a popular topic of conversation when deciding which candidate to vote for.
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By: Madeleine Burke
On Tuesday November 8, the 2022 midterm elections will be held in Washington D.C. The midterms are some of the most critical elections of the year as they decide which members of the house will serve for the next 2 years. Every seat in the house along with 35 senate seats will be decided in this year's midterms.
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By: Laila Kirkpatrick
Affirmative action is a set of procedures used to eliminate unlawful discrimination among applicants for jobs and higher education. In 1961 President John F. Kennedy issued an executive order stating that "The contractor will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin."
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By: Gabby Pribisich
“No kill” or cultured meat is a very new concept that has recently been expanding among the scientific world. This meat is not from a living animal, but actually grown in a lab using a small sample of animal cells and then cultivating it to grow outside of the animal’s body using bioreactors.
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By Emily Jones
As the 2022 Midterm Elections were on their way, the concept of election denial became more discussed and apparent in the United States political system and scheme, and it is this concept of election denial that distresses a large number of experts who study democracy today. As a result of the “election fraud” claimed by former President Donald Trump
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By: Lucy Castellanos
Immigration in the United States is and will continue to be a very controversial topic. Following Trump’s presidency our nation saw grave restrictions on becoming a legal immigrant, not to mention how difficult it became for asylum seekers.
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By Bobin Park
Alongside the drily welcoming stalks of crops, the camp bus carried the ten or twenty-something high schoolers deeper into the Ohio valleys until houses finally dotted next to the road. Gambier, Ohio
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