The United States is supposedly the most developed nation in the world, yet one look at the country’s poorly-structured healthcare system indicates otherwise.
Although the enactment of the Affordable...
It is Saturday evening, and I am rewatching Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie “Magnolia,” fully knowing that I will cry multiple times throughout the film’s three-hour runtime.
Watching sad films like...
T he 2020 presidential election will most certainly be divisive.Liberals have already demonstrated a lack of unity for this upcoming election, with 19 Democratic candidates in the running. Beyond the...
“Woah,” Haley Levin ’20 said in disbelief when she read the news of financier Jeffrey Epstein’s death Aug. 10.
Epstein had been awaiting prosecution on charges of assaulting minors and sex trafficking...
Attending Harvard-Westlake while managing a disability is difficult, but the school can make the lives of these students easier in establishing a FaceTime program for students to attend class remotely.
Although...
Juliette Kayyem, Belfer Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School and Former Assistant Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, spoke to history and journalism classes about the nature of contemporary...
Rosetta Lee, educator and diversity consultant, made a resounding political statement in her speech to the Upper School: in addressing micro-aggressions, students ought to maintain respect for the person...
Smiling widely, Haley Levin ’20 opened up her planner, revealing brightly-colored illustrations alongside her well-organized notes.
“I really like to doodle, so [my planner] is mostly just a vehicle...
Students should remain civil rather than cutthroat following the release of semester grades.
Harvard-Westlake is a community that thrives thanks to its academically rigorous environment. After all, our...
Just hours into her first day in Congress, Dem. Rep Rashida Tlaib proclaimed that she had a goal of impeaching President Donald Trump, specifically saying she would work to “impeach that mother-f****r.”...
As the U.S. midterm elections drew closer, Will Berlin ’19 said he was becoming nervous. Despite a number of new candidates rising to prominence, none of them seemed to have moderate tendencies. For...
With a few minutes remaining before her first period history class Sept. 28, Jaya Nayar ’20 focused intensely on her computer screen. She wasn’t working on homework or finishing up a last-minute essay....
Charlie Ewell ’19 traveled to Mongolia this summer to document musical traditions of the Mongolian people through the HWGo! program's summer fellowship.
Ewell travelled to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous...
Speeches from Salutatorian Nicole Bahar ’18, the first female Salutatorian in 12 years, and Valedictorian Vivian Liu ’18 highlighted the class of 2018's commencement ceremony Friday.
Bahar...
Every member of the field hockey team received a ring for their record-breaking season during a ceremony held during the First and Third
Assembly on Wednesday, Feb. 7 in Taper Gym.
The team maintained...
The Upper School now contains three all-gender restrooms, two of which were recently established for the 2017-18 school year.
The all-gender restrooms can be found on the third floor of Chalmers...
Nancy Chen joined the upper school Science Department as a Geology and Geology Honors teacher this year, replacing Wendy Van Norden.
Previously, Chen was a teaching associate at California State University,...
