Category: USA News
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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…
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“Florida Seeks to Restrict Education, Many Others Follow Suit” by Max Negbaur ’24
Since last year, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (whom Trump christened “Ron DeSanctimonious”) has been striving, with great success, to clamp down on Florida school curriculums, spearheading a national right-wing reactionary movement to control and limit public education. It started with the “Parental Rights in Education Bill”, or more commonly known as the “Don’t Say Gay…
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“Drive On, UAW, Drive On” by Max Negbaur ’24
The United Auto Workers, the labor union that represents car assembly workers for Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis, ended its strike barely a week ago, having finally reached a tentative agreement with General Motors on October 30. In the process, the UAW got something unions almost never get: exactly what it asked for. At the…
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“Lewiston Maine Shooting” by Molly Castle ’25
It is difficult to determine exactly how many mass shootings there have been in 2023 so far. Different sources have different standards for what exactly qualifies as a mass shooting, but the general consensus is that there have been over 500 in the 300 days since the year began. One of the most deadly so…