Poverty and homelessness in America have been an underlying issue for the majority of the nation’s existence. Costs of living drastically increasing year by year, making purchasing affordable housing and maintaining housing more difficult have amplified these problems. It’s hard to ignore the fact that the homeless population exists considering […]
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Statistical and Historical Evidence for Systemic Racism
The recent surge of protests against police brutality has brought into question the police’s ability to make a fair judgment to all groups of people and disregard racism. From an outsider’s perspective, it appears that the police, and more recently, the government, have a tendency to punish people of color […]
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How Teenage Influencers Impact Youth Activism
At the turn of the century, our society was introduced to a new form of media. It was a way for average people to connect with others across continents to share their pictures or messages. Use of social media has grown astronomically in the past decade and has resulted in […]
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LGBTQ: A Movement America Should Be Proud Of
In the past few months, it has become apparent that the fight for advancing the rights of minority groups has just begun. Along with activist groups like BLM and women’s rights, the LGBTQ movement lies at the heart of this battle. Learning the history behind an issue is crucial to […]
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Did NASA Really Discover a Parallel Universe?
The internet has done it again. Today it abounds with stories from tabloids like the New York Post, Express and the Daily Star—mostly quoting each other—that major on claims that NASA scientists have evidence that could prove the existence of a parallel universe. It’s all way overblown and misrepresents what the research in question is about. […]
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George Floyd Protests and the Insurrection Act
Protests broke out across the United States and around the world, calling for justice in the killing of George Floyd. Minneapolis Police killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes while detaining him for using a counterfeit $20 bill. The protests are for the large part nonviolent. […]
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America’s Political Future
America’s political future is at one of the most uncertain points it’s ever reached. But, what do we still know? Polarization Since 2004, America has consistently been becoming more polarized. While many hoped that COVID-19 would bring the two parties together to fight against a common issue, it has done […]
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The Police Brutality Riots: It’s No Longer About Justice
In America’s polarized politics, pointing to the errors made on both sides of the conflicts that divide us gets a bad rap. What has the Civil Rights Movement taught us? What did it say about police brutality? It just comes to show how little our society has actually come. This […]
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The COVID-19 Crisis on the Navajo Nation
COVID-19, commonly known as the Coronavirus, has disrupted day-to-day life for nearly everyone. From schools to travel, it has disrupted the way in which people accomplish some of their basic activities. The Navajo Nation sees this disruption perhaps more than anyone else. The Navajo Nation, a Native American Tribal Nation […]
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Entertainment during COVID-19
As the COVID-19 disease has escalated to become an international pandemic, many students are obeying stay-at-home orders and spending their time in quarantine. This effort comes from the academic administration to protect students from the dangers of the virus. Now with an unexpected amount of free time, students are finding […]