by Arishka Jha | Mar 4, 2025 | Article, Climate, Politics
Burnt orange skies, suffocating air, dying trees—I used to think that climate change was a far-off issue that was distant from my community, but all that changed after the fall wildfire season of 2020. Having heard that these wildfires were made so much worse by...
by Milan Duong-Gordley | Mar 4, 2025 | Article, Education, Money, Politics
During the pandemic, many students fell behind in their learning as they had to grapple with the loss of their school community and social life, COVID deaths and its other effects, and family hardships (Doan-Nguyen, 2023). Test scores universally declined and the...
by Gwendolyn Domine | Mar 4, 2025 | Article, Education, Politics
As a girl who’s lived in Mexico, Texas, and California, I’ve experienced many sides of the political spectrum. Although I was too young to remember much of this, I still feel a strong connection to the two locations I’ve lived in my past. Growing up in border...
by Carson Middleton | Mar 4, 2025 | Article, Education, Money, Politics
American education is in crisis. Approximately a third of U.S. high school students are behind grade level in reading, writing, and math. A majority of Americans are pessimistic about the quality and direction of education. Even as our nation seeks to pioneer...
by Victor Do | Mar 4, 2025 | Article, Education, Politics, Youth Voice
I am just one of the countless voices fighting for ethnic studies, not just for its existence as a class, but as a movement that needs to be heard. I live in Little Saigon, a community of immigrants and refugees from Vietnam—a group that has persisted in preserving...
by Deeksha Venkat | Mar 4, 2025 | Article, Politics
The Bay Area is often described as a ‘bubble,’ an area of people echo-chambering themselves with the same progressive values. This ideology makes many people view it as a progressive utopia—they believe that despite being out-of-touch with other political viewpoints,...
