NEW YORK CITY—My family and I stepped inside after watching the fireworks. It was the third of July, the day Hamilton came out on Disney Plus. I sat down next to my brother as my mom turned on the TV. After seeing
NEW YORK—As zoos open their doors in the morning, they are expecting hundreds of people to stream through the gates. However, when there is a new animal the amount of people multiplies. Yet, as the visitors pour in, few know what happened
Within this section, our team reporters spoke to an array of local and national politicians in order to help shed light on police brutality, protests, and, ultimately, police reform. What is a piece of legislation you’ve created or helped push that you
WASHINGTON DC—When asking Margot Kirkland, director of a returning citizens’ program, what the biggest problems she faced when serving her clients were, “fear and mental illness” were the last I expected but they unveil the painful truth of the for-profit criminal justice
NEW PALTZ, NY—I picked up the phone at 7:30 p.m on a Wednesday night. I was calling Brian Cournoyer who is a member and board president on the New Paltz School Board. “I have been on the school board for six years,
Last October comics writer Steve Englehart found himself in the busy Exhibit Hall at the Baltimore Convention Center. For 15,000 comics, sci-fi and fantasy fans, it was time for Baltimore Comic-Con, the biggest event of the year. The crowd was a Halloween
Art by Katherine Giroux, 15 WASHINGTON, DC—After months of quarantine due to the novel coronavirus, the country erupted in anger and protests following the May 25 killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis who knelt on his neck, even
New York, NY—In the midst of COVID-19, people have been outraged about both the police brutality against Black people and about the looting that sometimes has occurred in some areas. Protests have happened all over the country and have had an impact,
BROOKLYN, NY—The first debate society was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1727. He called it the Junto Club, where he and other colonial aristocrats would converge behind closed doors to read, argue over, and write pamphlets. This elitist and palpably privileged image