The amount of toxicity on Twitter has inspired a lot of chaos online. There is always a new celebrity being canceled, a new reason to hate a YouTuber you have never heard of, or a new controversial tweet...

Due to COVID-19, technology use in the homes of students skyrocketed for classes and meetings.  Although this may have made life easier by allowing students to attend class in their  pajamas,...

As another academic year in school year is coming to a close, some students may have their sights set on summer plans. But for college-bound seniors, this excitement may be shrouded by the oncoming financial...

Join clubs! Make friends! Take lots of A.P. classes! Stand out from the crowd! Prioritize your mental health! This is all advice that I have received over the past few years of high school, as I am...

Where others had their Central Park, I had the Woodlawn Cemetery. I was raised overlooking a cemetery. It was located right across the street from my apartment building.  “Almost every day, we...

Brett Jones is not exactly a sympathetic martyr.  At 15 years old, Jones killed his grandfather in a brutal murder that prompted a Mississippi judge to sentence him to life in prison without parole....

Cryptids -- we have all heard of them, even if we do not know them by that name. Cryptids are, as the name implies, cryptic creatures, monsters whose existence is, at best, in contention, with the most...

Wake up. Log in. Join Zoom class. Complete homework. Sleep. Repeat. For over a year, this is the cycle that I, and many other students worldwide, have grown accustomed to. During the Coronavirus pandemic,...

The Joseph Biden administration introduced The American Jobs Plan, initially a $2-trillion infrastructure proposal that attempts to address the growing call for further investment and revitalization down...

Since President Biden took office in January 2021, there is no doubt that the vaccine effort has made great strides. In January 2021, only 3 million Americans in total were vaccinated, and the Coronavirus...

In the United States, the current vaccines that protect against COVID-19 authorized under an Emergency Use Authorization are those offered by Pfizer-BioTech, Moderna, and  Johnson & Johnson. Out...

Born and raised in an era of social media, one of the first lessons Gen-Z is taught is that what is posted on the internet stays there forever, even long after a delete button has been pressed. Most embrace...

My greatest fear is for someone to come up to me and tell me: “You’re an INFP.” If this someone knew me for a day or two, I would maybe forgive them. If we knew each other for more than a month,...

On April 12th, 2021, 1.8 million Muslims around the world looked up to the sky, hoping for a new moon. This new moon marked the beginning of the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and the holy month of...

New York is coming out of a pandemic. We are in a crime epidemic. We are reckoning with racial inequity. Our schools and transportation systems are woefully underfunded. We are in a climate emergency....

In a vacuum, it is difficult to say there is anything inherently wrong with theorizing about extraterrestrials. It is undeniably an attention-grabbing idea, and moreover, there may be an actual place for...

Imagine yourself on the moon, strapped into a spacesuit while your name circulates around the internet. Or perhaps imagine that you are a CEO making millions of dollars on a weekly basis. Although these...

After over a year of masks, social distancing, and working and learning from home, it feels like the COVID-19 pandemic is finally coming to an end in the United States. How long it takes for us to ...

When a major environmental catastrophe occurs, climate change’s effects are often cited as the catalyst. While that is almost certainly the case, these events are not entirely out of our control, as...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a frightening experience for all Americans as the lockdown started over a year ago and halted all of our lives since. However, the situation in American appears to be improving...