Dear Reader, I’ll admit it – I love complaining. I think everyone does, even if they'd never say so out loud.   I wouldn’t describe myself as someone who’s negative all the time, since...

“When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.”  Jean-Jacques Rousseau penned this quote on the brink of the French Revolution: an era of famine, a crumbling faith in...

When I was hit by a car, there was one main reason why I was able to walk it off and be fine: low hoods and low weight. That's key, because over the past decade, headlights have grown brighter, visibility...

Picture this: It’s January, in the aftermath of the holiday season. Pure chaos — your little cousins are darting in and out of the house. Presents are overflowing the dining table, stacked on top of...

For so long, we’ve been fed inspirational lines about how Gen Z is going to change the world – how youth activism is finally going to turn the tide. We were supposed to rise like a phoenix from the...

The biggest names in the entertainment industry have now created mini versions of themselves, subject to the criticism of thousands over the age of 25. It seems that society has forgotten that commenting...

Dear Reader, I never used to be the type of person who was afraid of getting older. I can’t remember ever flipping through childhood photo albums wistfully or crying at my elementary or middle school...

Well, folks, it’s happened. The powers that be have been defeated! The armies of Big Pharma have been vanquished! Now, the new powers that be, our lord and savior, RFK Jr. and his allies, have arrived...

After my first test in AP Psychology, over a month ago, I didn’t know grades had been released until a classmate of mine demanded one day, “Zoe, what’d you get?” So I told that classmate the...

As of 2024, 61 million Americans were reported to have a disability of some kind. Of those 61 million, 10% of them were “Americans with disabilities that offer no evidence of their presence through visual...

Imagine this. The guy you’ve been talking to for about a month suddenly comes up to you at lunch and says, “I don’t think we should talk anymore. It’s not you, it’s me. I have to focus on basketball.”...

We live in an age where all activism efforts fit neatly into a cropped and hashtagged box. Justice trends for only 24 hours before vanishing beneath a new viral sound. In this era of performative compassion,...