Oxford High School Shooting
Around 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 15-year-old sophomore Ethan Crumbley came out of a bathroom in Oxford High School with a handgun and started firing, promptly killing four students. …
Articles by Lily Powell
Barbados Leaves the British Monarchy
The British Monarchy, which ruled over the Caribbean island of Barbados for 396 years, ended with a handover ceremony at midnight on November 29, 2021. This ceremony marked the birth…
Astroworld Festival Leaves 10 Dead: What Really Happened
On the evening of November 5, nine people, ages ranging 14 to 27, died during the chaotic Astroworld music festival in Houston. There was a crowd of over 50,000 people…
The Nobel Prize’s Persistent Diversity Problem is Systemic
This year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, physics, and chemistry all went to men, reflecting a longstanding absence of diversity in one of science’s most prestigious prizes. A total…
Pablo Escobar’s Cocaine Hippos: An Environmental Debate
Pablo Escobar brought hippos to his private zoo, which was a part of his Hacienda Nápoles estate in Colombia, in the 1980s. It is one of the most enduring legacies…
Democrats Want to Tax the Very Rich: Stop Saying it’s Radical
Many of the spending items in the tax bill Democrats are negotiating could be described as radical. After all, if we had reduced the cost of child care, expanded educational…