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8 Reasons Young People Should (Still) Get Involved with the 2020 Election

Lily Seltz

Is New York City Ready? Navigating the NYC School Reopening

Tigerlily Theo Hopson

Is Your School "Specialized" or Just Racist?

Aisha Baiocci and AnnaBelle Medina

What Do We Want?: Teens Reflect on George Floyd Protests

Tigerlily Theo Hopson

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COVID-19: A Call for More Effective Measures

Madison Loughlin

The Debate on Thrifting

Natalie Peña

The Outsiders Guide: A Comprehensive Online Resource for Students of Color in NYC’s Specialized School System

Francie Brewster

Four Months after the Climate Strike: Here Are Actions You Can Take

Tigerlily Theo Hopson

Being Non-White in NYC's Majority White Private School System

Natalie Peña

Why History Teachers Should Teach Current Events

Lily Seltz

The Fate of Our World: Why America Should Be Charged with War Crimes for the Use of the Atomic Bomb

Tigerlily Theo Hopson

Why We Don't Have More Female CEO's (and Umpires)

Kate Griem

The Case Against Self-Driving Cars

Declan Gunn

The Drink Dilemma: Coffee Culture and Consumerism

Darya Farah Foroohar

Max Rose: Lit Enough to Politic

Declan Gunn

This Has All Happened Before: the Separation of Immigrant Children and the Criminal Tribes Act

Tigerlily Theo Hopson

A Meeting with NY-12 Congressional Candidate Suraj Patel

Matthias Schupp

Lawmakers are Exploiting COVID-19 Circumstances to Ban Safe Abortion Access

Natalie Peña

An Evening of Arts and Action

Francie Brewster

Our Right to Know: What Students Aren't Taught about Israel and Palestine

Tigerlily Theo Hopson

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On Pittsburgh and Hate

Jojo Barnett

We Shall Overcome: A Cloudy Day at the Capital

Tigerlily Theo Hopson

Kava-NAH or Kava-YAH: What You Should Know about Brett Kavanaugh

Betty Kubovy-Weiss

Three-Dimensional Undetectables

Reema Demopoulos

#SayHerName, It's Nia Wilson

Stella Tannen

NAFTA's Doom, and Why That Might Be a Good Thing

Declan Gunn

The Illusion of Happiness in Teenage Life

Darya Farah Foroohar

Modern Reformative Concentration Camps for Chinese Muslims

Reema Demopoulos

Why Black Panther is So Important

Kate Griem

MLK Day

Itajah B

"We Found a Dead Body"

Maria Milekhina

What's With White Women?

Lily Seltz

The Strange Traditions of America's Holiday Season

Kate Griem

My Thoughts on White Feminism in the Media

Josephine O'Brien

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Inspires NYC Girls

Kate Griem

Why the Harvey Weinstein Sexual Assault Scandal Should Not Be the First One of Its Kind

Sabina Topol

Trump's Islamophobic Twitter Vitriol

Reema Demopoulos

Hurricane Relief: Giving Beyond Cash

Lily Seltz

Here Come the Hipsters, Again

Matthias Schupp

One Size Fits All: But Does It Really?

Ginger Mullen

As a Lesbian

Pearl Skelton

2018 March For Our Lives: 37 Powerful Signs that You Need to See ASAP

Proof Schubert Reed

We've Had Enough: 13 Teens Weigh in on the Gun Issue

Lily Seltz

A Mourning of Injustice

Raifa Chowdhury

Logan Paul Doesn't Know Anything about Mental Illness

Betty Kubovy-Weiss

Open Letter on DACA

Lily Seltz

Open Letter on DACA

Lily Seltz

A Reflection on the One-Year Anniversary of the 2016 Presidential Election

Sonia Chajet Wides

Unacceptable Halloween Costumes: Other People's Cultures

Sabina Topol

Why Trump's New Birth Control Regulations Go Too Far

Kate Griem

The Las Vegas Shooting and What We Can Do

Josephine O'Brien

Shop Local!: How Big Corporations Are Destroying Unique New York

Lucia Barrera & Francie Brewster

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Being Non-White in NYC's Private School System

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Power and Violation: What My Health Class (and the World) Gets Dangerously Wrong

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From 20 to 12,000 in 30 Days: My Family Confronts the Coronavirus

Tigerlily Theo Hopson

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Contemplating Achievement: Life During (and After)

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Fighting the Not-So-Secret Boys' Club of Model UN

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My Experience with Politics at My Conservative Jewish Summer Camp

Minna Bachman

Billy Kuenzel: A Story of Friendship and Justice

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A Conflict of Body and Mind

Betty Kubovy-Weiss

Good Trouble: Rep. John Lewis’ Life & Enduring Legacy

Ava Andrews

Déjà Vu in Dissent: Being a Hong Konger in America

Amanda Li

A Town Called War

Declan Gunn

Something to Be Mad about This Week: Voting

Declan Gunn

Words in Action: Feminist Reading and What It Taught Me about Social Change

Lily Seltz

Trump to Federal Employees: Screw You

Declan Gunn

How the Popularization of Protest Culture Has Made Rallies Largely Ineffective

Darya Farah Foroohar

We Must Stop Normalizing Rape Culture

Amelia Cogan

Murder Not-So-Mystery: Salman, Kashoggi, and Trump

Declan Gunn

Yes, You Can Criticize Oppressive Islamic Theocracies without Being Islamophobic

Darya Farah Foroohar

March For Our Lives: My First Time

India Yeoh

Here Come the Hipsters

Matthias Schupp

Hope for a Unified Korea

Declan Gunn

Questioning My Home Away from Home: My Experience with Politics in My Summer Camp Community

Minna Bachman

Why This Year's Golden Globes Were a Turning Point in the #MeToo Era

Sonia Chajet-Wides

More of President Trump's Problematic Tweets

Raiana Khan

Net Neutrality: What Is It and How Can I Help?

Betty Kubovy-Weiss

Harvey Weinstein and Lupita Nyong'o: An Act of Victim Blaming and White Privilege

Sabina Topol

You Should Actually Care About Local Government

Lily Seltz

Amazon "Anorexia" Merchandise Controversy

Sabina Topol

The Irony of Melania Trump's Stance on Cyberbullying

Proof Schubert Reed

Under the Gun

Reema Demopoulos

Trump and the NFL: Complacency as a Term of Employment

Kate Griem

Pop Culture Figures in Activism

Josephine O'Brien

Don't Neglect this American Disaster

Lily Seltz

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