By NEHA BHARDWAJ Staff Writer The media has repeatedly championed the so-called heroes during this “pandemic” – healthcare workers, scientists, and other frontline workers. Frankly, it sickens me to see such flagrant lies paraded about by the media sources that we trust to give us reliable information. So, in the spirit of dispelling these heinous...
Category: Opinion
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He Name, He Saw, He Conquered: the Chronicles of X-AE A-12 (A Satire)
By JAX ARMSTRONG Staff writer Dusk has fallen, and the Healers of Valor have risen to the second coming of the messiah. A genius, a savant, the unquestionable reincarnate of our leader, the future of the millenium, X-AE A-12. Conceived under the light of god, birthed from the Virgin Mary vicariously through the flesh of...
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7 Reasons Why We Support Joe Biden in America’s Most Critical Election Ever
By JAX ARMSTRONG, NEHA BHARDWAJ, LUKE CURTIS, NIKKI GHAEMI, ARUSH MEHROTRA, NIMA MOVAHEDI, & OZHAN ZARIFI Staff Writers 1. Joe Biden will protect our air, land, water, endangered species, and people Combating the growing threat, and considerable damage to climate change has become one of the cornerstones of the Progressive movement. These beliefs...
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Let’s Insult, But Better
By CHRIS CHAE Staff Writer You’ve all heard the saying: “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” That childhood proverb could not be more wrong. Words have power, they always have and always will. Words allow us to communicate, as they are one of the most clear and direct...
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In Support of a Pass/Fail Grading System
By NIKKI GHAEMI Staff Writer On Tuesday, April 14, the IUSD School Board voted unanimously to change grading to a “pass/fail” system for the 2020 spring semester, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision was made after considering different perspectives and a lot of deliberation. After watching the meeting via live stream and speaking with...
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How to Stop The Republican Assault on Voting Rights
By JAX ARMSTRONG Staff Writer A functioning democracy is one that encapsulates the voice of all of its participating constituents. The whole premise of a democracy is to give power to the people, specifically by letting them choose members of the government either directly or indirectly. Democracy in the United States is being compromised by...
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How the U.S. Government Failed its Economic Reaction to COVID-19
By LUKE CURTIS Staff Writer With nations across the globe fighting to mitigate an unknown enemy in the Novel Coronavirus, or simply COVID-19, countries have poured in billions to try to mitigate its spread as the number of cases outside China continues to grow. As the United States tries to grapple with this pandemic, it...
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Let’s Make Voting Mandatory
By ARUSH MEHROTRA Staff Writer Shortly after the 2014 elections, Senator Bernie Sanders admonished the country, saying “Americans should be embarrassed.” The low voter turnout, he wrote in The Guardian, “was an international disgrace.” Indeed, it is a disgrace. The fact that only about 36.4% of the American electorate took the time to go and...
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The Global Response to COVID-19
By ARUSH MEHROTRA Staff Writer I am sure many of you are familiar with Wuhan. Whether you are watching the TV, reading the newspaper, or just conversing with your family and friends, the word Wuhan seems to inevitably find its way in any of those situations. Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei Province, is...
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Governments’ Notable Successes and Failures in the Age of COVID-19
By NEHA BHARDWAJ Staff Writer It would hardly be an overstatement to say that coronavirus has hit the world like a hurricane. Since the first case in December of 2019, the novel coronavirus (otherwise known as COVID-19) has spread like wildfire. Over the past few months, coronavirus has grown from the faint whispers of an...