Category: USA News
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Egg Prices Hit an All-Time High… by Julia Robinson ’26
If you’re an egg-lover like me, you may have noticed an increase in egg prices lately. Egg prices have increased by 60% since last year, that’s right, you read that correctly. Last year, a dozen of eggs were $2.95 however today the average price stands at $4.95, some stores even going as high as $10.…
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Celebrating Women’s History Month at BHSECQ by Rassa Kia-Young ’27
The month of March is always an important one, as it is the annual celebration of women’s history and the contributions women have made to STEM, activism, politics, literature, art, and more. These contributions are invaluable to our history and culture, and all throughout March they are acknowledged, remembered, and celebrated. It is a month…
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January’s Southern Snowstorm by John Dean ’26
2025 is off to a crazy start when it comes to weather. As fires raged in LA, the Southeast was dealing with the opposite problem: a blizzard that brought record-breaking levels of snow to a region that often goes years without receiving a single flake. On January 20th, dangerously cold temperatures were felt as far…
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TikTok Was Banned… Here’s What You Should Know by Julia Robinson ’26
On January 19, 2025, the short-form video app known as TikTok was banned in the United States. Anyone in the country who tried opening the app would be met with a pop-up that read: “A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now. We are…
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Linda McMahon and the Future of Public Education by Molly Castle ’25
Public industries in the U.S. are more politicized than in other developed nations. (The recent shooting of a healthcare CEO is a potent reminder of the dangers and frustrations of a predominantly private and for-profit healthcare system). Public schools have not escaped politicization either. Recent disputes over book bans in K-12 schools and the widely…
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Student Arrests over Pro-Palestine Demonstrations by Molly Castle ’25
If you have opened the New York Times app in the last month, or turned on the news, chances are you’ve seen something about the pro-Palestine protests taking over campuses across the country. What started as a sit-in on a green of Columbia’s campus spread quickly across the country, with some protests and encampments even…
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The Clock is Ticking for TikTok by John Dean ’26
Over the past few years, TikTok has become one of the most well-known and widely used social media apps. After rebranding from musical.ly in 2018, its popularity skyrocketed, growing exponentially during the pandemic. Everyone was stuck inside, with nothing better to do than spend hours scrolling. Its rise forever changed the internet, bringing with it…
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Francis Scott Key Bridge and What It Reveals About US Infrastructure by Molly Castle ’25
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 26, seemed sudden and unbelievable. What is astonishing, however, is that experts have been warning for years that the bridge was not structurally sound and likely to collapse from a direct collision with a ship. As early as 1980, engineers warned that…
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2024-2025 FAFSA: Is It A Flop? by Maggie Chen ’24
On December 27, 2020, the FAFSA Simplification Act was passed. Plans to make the FAFSA application more accessible to students across the country were made. The new FAFSA would finally become available to students in 2023. The application went from about 118 questions to now, 36 questions. Though much shorter, the FAFSA has been far…