My eyes dart between the variety of leather bound classics on the bookshelves at Barnes & Noble, each title inviting my curiosity. The Great Gatsby. Little Women. 1984. Frankenstein.  While...

“Woah, that person looks so different without their mask on!” If you have thought this, then you might have fallen victim to the phenomenon of mask fishing, made possible by the widespread use of...

Around the world, nativist ideas have rapidly grown in popularity. The fuel for this ideology's popularity has, more than anything else, been fear. Both xenophobia and economic insecurity in the poorest...

The college admissions process tends to be one of the more stressful periods of high school for students. At Bronx Science, where highly motivated students thrive in a prestigious, highly competitive academic...

Mayor Eric Adams took office on January 1st, 2021, and immediately he has become a divisive topic in the Bronx Science hallways. His positions on eliminating remote learning options for public school students,...

Last month, the Golden Globes took place, but without many of its hallmark embellishments: there were no celebrities, no red carpet, and no live broadcast. NBC, the network that normally airs the event,...

President Joseph Biden has had a rough past year. Since his inauguration on January 20th, 2021, he has struggled with maintaining high approval ratings. For his first few months in office, Biden maintained...

According to the Rasmussen Report, Vice President Kamala Harris’ approval ratings dropped to an all-time low of 39% in December 2021. With 50% of respondents strongly opposing her, this is an alarming...

On December 12th, 2021 Miss India, Harnaaz Sandu was crowned Miss Universe, earning the first Miss Universe India victory in the past twenty-one years. Just four days later, Emma Broyles, a Korean-American...

With college applications, the recent spread of yet another COVID-19 variant (Omicron), and the anxiety surrounding the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the start of 2022 is far from what we hoped it would...

The use of over-the-counter diet pills and muscle-building supplement products have only gained popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the amount of time young people spent online skyrocketed. It...

Street harassment is a unique evil. Getting harassed by men old enough to be your grandfather is perplexing and dismaying — it’s never completely clear why a complete stranger goes out of his way and...

For hundreds of years, humans have exploited the Earth for their gain; in return, we got tall skyscrapers and new technology, while the Earth got a death sentence. Climate change has been an ongoing issue...

The first world no longer troubles itself with industrial manufacturing; instead, it has been delegated to the rest of the world. “Made in the USA” has rarely been seen for decades, and from its remnants...

That straight, fine, freestanding line. A single letter repurposed as a word, ambiguous if you think too hard. Though not an indefinite article, some would say it is indefinite. Absent of any curves, this...

The 2012 presidential election saw an unprecedented increase in a new type of financial support for the two major candidates: dark money. How much of this money was there? $143.9 million.  Dark...

While the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has long been lauded as the “firefighter of financial crises," to steal a Billy Joel line, it is the IMF that started the fire. By demolishing development...

I) THE INTRODUCTION: The discovery and exploration of one’s culture and history is a beautiful yet tumultuous rabbit hole, I think, with it oftentimes not being everything you thought it would be....

Gangsters, shootouts, mass arrests at weddings: all of these and more are central to Neapolitan crime films. While these dangerous yet exciting events do happen in real life, the dramatized version that...

Welcome to High School: Your Daily Funhouse Mirror Visit! Of course, one does not usually associate rigorous education with carnival-like activities, but self-image can be deeply compromised when one cannot...