The Washington Post’s pulled cartoon and presidential endorsement By: Yancheng Zhao Famous for exposing Watergate, The Washington Post has a long history of acting as a watchdog for wrongdoing in the government, given its location in the nation’s capital. However, its leadership’s recent actions to suppress editorial voices undercuts its values in promoting free press, […]
What’s the Interest in Interest?
Trump’s fiscal power threatens the Federal Reserve’s purpose By: Walker Cox 0.25% doesn’t seem like a lot. But when it comes to interest rates, even such a small cut could have serious consequences. In his address to the World Economic Forum in January, President Trump regaled top CEOs and world leaders with his supposedly bulletproof […]
A Worm in the Brain of the Healthcare Industry
RFK Jr. proves detrimental to the national and international healthcare industries By: Vivian Cain-Weingram On November 14, 2025, President-elect Donald Trump controversially appointed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Kennedy is a conspiracy theorist unfit to head the DHHS for the next four years. Kennedy’s past […]
Loss of Confidence in Europe
German Chancellor Scholz loses confidence vote By: Viola Shephard Olaf Scholz, the current chancellor of Germany has lost his no-confidence vote. A no-confidence vote is when the prime minister calls to move up the election for the new prime minister. Scholz had called for the no-confidence vote, a major sacrifice on his part, and was […]
Fact-Checking Phased Out
Meta’s policy changes and why they don’t help By: Vartan Arakelian We live in a world where the abundance of online material and social media users understandably results in large amounts of misinformation that are more accessible and disseminated faster than ever. The solution to this societal issue, according to Mark Zuckerberg, is to abandon […]
UCLA’s Reaction to the Palisades Fire
Distress in the UCLA community rises as communication declines By: Harper Dubovik Although the state of California takes rigorous precautionary wildfire measures, no program could prepare Los Angeles for the Palisades fires on January 7th, 2025. The flames that started off as a small brush fire in the Pacific Palisades soon destroyed over 20,000 acres. […]
Western Unity at Stake
President Trump hopes to buy Greenland By: Oliver Straight Nissen Early this year, President Trump stated that the U.S. “needs Greenland.” This declaration, however, did not come fully out of the blue. In 2019, during his first administration, President Trump visited Denmark, which owns Greenland, to discuss buying the territory. It came as a surprise […]
Trump, It’s Time for Reform
Why criminal justice reform should be at the top of Trump’s agenda By Tia Reddy President Trump in a Manhattan court facing charges in his hush money case. On January 20th, 2025, Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. However, just six months prior, he had been found […]
The Truth of Aviation Safety
The danger behind media bias and distortion By: Ahna Jung Imagine sitting in an airplane, when all of a sudden, the engine falters. Helpless, you watch as the plane plummets rapidly to the ground, and the only thing you can hear in these final moments are the shrieks and cries of everyone around you. This […]
The Democrats Are In The First Stage of Grief – Denial
By: Sophia Stafford The Democratic Party needs to take responsibility for their defeat This November, the Democratic Party lost the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and their dignity. The election was undeniably a disaster for the Democrats, but their reaction to the loss is equally troubling. “It’s official, America’s elected its first […]