“She should be careful. She’s making herself look like an activist.” An older woman had made this comment, laughing, after I read out my prayer to the church. At 12 years old, I had just made...

I remember the story in hazy memories. A girl constantly chatted, with no regard for how her words impacted others and herself. One day, her father told her to write down all her words on a piece of paper...

I vividly remember being nine years old, desperately watching YouTube tutorials on how to trick your parents into thinking you were too sick to go to school. To nine-year-old me, school was boring and...

“Along the brow of this hill and down its visible face to the seam of the plain, thousands of black tree trunks jutted from the earth. They varied in height, like a crowd of people ranging in age, and...

In 2024, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office issued a statement that Israel was fighting a “just war” in its conflict with Hamas, a militant terrorist group.  The Carnegie Council...

Why do conflicts happen?  Drawing from history, they might stem from land, religion, or even racial differences. But I’ve noticed a pattern among countries that have experienced conflict that spilled...

My interest in journalism began in elementary school. I remember my dad giving me an article about migrant children in detention from The New York Times to read. As I looked through the article, I remember...

The day after Donald Trump was elected to his second term, my classmate and I were discussing his presidency. My classmate mourned the loss of democracy, stating that once Trump was sworn in, he would...

The United States of America has been toppled and replaced by the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian society. Women are property of the state, and the few fertile women who exist are classified as “Handmaids”...

As she went through school, a sense of fear began to form inside Rachel Smith's mind.* Restless feelings encompassed her body. That morning, she had slid a note into her mother’s laptop, confessing her...

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to launch the largest deportation operation the country had ever seen. Yet as the president works to make good on this promise, the administration is sweeping...

As political violence sees spikes in the United States, students and community members alike are expressing concern over the uptick in brutality.  The rapid increase has become clear to many Americans....

As the actions of President Donald Trump's administration stir controversy, demonstrators are taking to the streets of San Francisco to voice concerns about topics such as due process and human rights.  The...

As immigration raids flare up across the Bay Area, students at Carlmont High School are expressing fear and anger over the actions of federal authorities.   Over this past summer, the U.S. Immigration...