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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By Eva Kroh
Last Monday, late morning, Mar-a-Lago staff and residents found themselves witness to an FBI raid of former President Donald Trump's private residence in Palm Beach Florida. Top secret and other sensitive documents were suspected
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By: Fatema Dinary
TikTok has grown in popularity in the past years since its remodel from Musical.ly in August 2018. With its short 15 second videos and easy content creation, viewing and sharing, this platform became a hotbed for community bonding and localized trends. But due to its addictive nature and competitive style,
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By: Liu von Engelbrechten
In May 2022, the first outbreak of a non-endemic monkeypox was seen in the United Kingdom. Since then, it has spread to the US through international travel and imported animals. Recently, a new spike in cases
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By: Elsa Plank
Recently it feels like the world has taken a few steps back. As the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, many have been stripped of their right to make their own decisions. But, the Supreme Court’s vote of 5-8 is a stark contrast to the beliefs of the U.S’s population
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By: Katie Harbaugh
One month ago today, June 24th, 2022, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade–the landmark Supreme Court case which had protected abortion access since 1973. In the weeks following
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By: Elsa Plank
As the holiday season has ended, the detrimental effects of the newest COVID-19 variant, Omicron, have infected the US.
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By: Bobin Park
The name Rockefeller rings a familiar note in most of us. Perhaps you’ve been to the Rockefeller Center in New York, where its Christmas tree decorations shine through the late city winters. Or if you happen to be interested in billionaires and business owners, you’d know that John Rockefeller was America’s first billionaire.
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By: Katie Harbaugh
On September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, amongst several other government buildings, were targeted by a radical terrorist organization, al-Qaeda. Twenty years later this event still has a great impact on daily life and major issues around the globe.
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