In less than three months, Avery Kim ’25 will look down to see his 2024 presidential ballot. After completing the registration process and reading the news daily for campaign updates, the moment will...
Hannah Shahidi, Assistant News Editor
• December 18, 2023
“Health insurance in the United States is bullsh*t.” “Things you didn’t know were rape culture.” “What is genocide?" Painted in pastel colors, these phrases dominate our social media feeds....
Eden Conner, Assistant Opinions Editor
• September 21, 2023
On Nov 4, 2008, the Americans who signed up for former President Barack Obama’s text updates received a final message: “All of this happened because of you. Thanks, Barack.”
Obama was the first...
Zoe Goor, Layout Assistant and Staff Writer
• May 24, 2023
The first word of President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign announcement video is “freedom." The landing page of the Republican National Committee displays the phrase (in big red and white letters):...
Claire Conner, Print Managing Editor
• March 22, 2023
In the Luhansk region of Ukraine, a Russian military training facility sorts recruits using colored wristbands. They are preparing to fight in the trenches at Bakhmut, an eastern Ukrainian city that’s...
The 2022 LA mayoral election between Congresswoman Karen Bass and businessman Rick Caruso ’76 is too close to call at the time of writing. As of Nov. 11, Bass leads Caruso by 4,484 votes with 62% of...
Claire Conner, Print Managing Editor
• November 14, 2022
On Wednesday, Nov. 8, it was election night in America — but that didn’t carry the meaning it once did. Just four years ago, poll workers, pundits and eager citizens stayed up until every race had...
Claire Conner, Print Managing Editor
• August 24, 2022
There are few decisions as difficult to make as those regarding the current inflation crisis. Forming economic predictions during unprecedented times yields little that is concrete or easily interpretable,...
When National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021, she laid out a vision of hope and unity for the United States' next...
On a Friday afternoon, an Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. Government and Politics class sat in its Seaver classroom, deeply immersed in a discussion about the events that had transpired the day before: Russian...
Claire Conner, Assistant Opinion Editor
• March 24, 2022
President Joe Biden signed a $1.5 trillion spending bill March 15, enacting legislation that is historic on multiple fronts: It provides the largest increase in funding for high-poverty schools in a decade,...
Struggling to pay attention in her physics class on Zoom on Jan. 6, 2021, Olivia Feldman ’22 had been zoning out before her phone began to buzz repeatedly. Overwhelmed by a creeping sense of anxiety...
