Video after video, minute after minute, hour after hour. After opening a social media platform, time seems to drift away. Every few minutes you promise yourself you’ll stop watching, but you stay hooked, unable to focus on any other task.  For many social media users, this experience is a normal occurrence, and for a good reason. Social media is purposefully designed to keep people engaged and constantly using the app, which has led it to become an addiction. This social media epidemic is something that people today, especially teenagers, have to face. According to Forbes, 42% of kids in ..read more

  Colombia:  Thousands of people from Colombia took to the streets to protest the current leftist President Gustavo Petro and his reforms. According to Reuters, the protests have been happening since 2022 when Petro was elected, but recently became widespread due to his comments about rewriting the constitution. This came after Congress struck down Petro’s plan to expand medical insurance. In response to Petros’ attempt at passing these laws, over 70,000 Colombians braved the rain and gathered in Bogota on April 21. They marched to Bolivar Square near the presidential palace, scream ..read more

The Golden Gate Bridge protest The Golden Gate Bridge before the events of this protest. Photo: Joshua Watterson The protesting organization A15 obstructed key economic routes on April 15 to put pressure on governments all around America and even protests in Greece, Spain, and Australia to support Palestinians in Gaza. The protest on the Golden Gate Bridge lasted for five hours and temporarily closed all lanes of traffic. As part of the protest, the protesters used handcuffs and PVC pipes to make removing them from the bridge as hard as possible. This resulted in 26 people being arrested on th ..read more

Just four hundred miles south of Miami, Cuba has proven itself to be a thorn in Washington’s foot. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, Cuba has been alone in the world, its biggest ally tossed to the dustbin of history. But remarkably, the Cuban nation has withstood the test of time, managing to survive in the new world order it was subjected to overnight. In the face of oblivion, Cuba has faced the wind for decades, alone. Against all the odds, they’ve come as an unlikely survival story. Cuba’s medical program, for example, has been a frontrunner in global solidarity. During ..read more

“One time during an international call, our finance girl had joined to help with the logistics,” grimacing at the memory, Haley Oba, a long-time member of Space Cookies FRC 1868, recalls, “And after some awkward silence, they just simply asked where our finance dude was.” However, as Oba points out, discriminatory experiences are more common than most people think — especially to Space Cookies, an all-girl robotics team working at the NASA Ames Research Center. “I mean, I can tell that some people think that we are incompetent,” Oba said. “Some people don’t think we deserve respect.” The Palo ..read more

This year, universities such as Wellesley College and the University of Southern California increased tuition to over $90,000 — a number unprecedented in college history.  Adjusted for inflation, research from the U.S. News and World Report shows that colleges have increased their rate from 38% to as high as 56% in the past 20 years. Universities have increased their tuition year by year, and in a few years, college tuition and fees may regularly exceed $100,000. As a result, many students have found themselves questioning whether earning a higher degree is worth it even with the cost. An ..read more

One-hundred-thirty-five million dollars. That is the amount of cash in reserves that Palo Alto Unified School District has for the 2023-24 school year. That number has been the crux of a conflict between Palo Alto Staff and district leadership in a struggle over contracts and benefits for the upcoming school year, especially over wages. Earlier this month, for the first time in 15 years, the Palo Alto Educators Association, alongside its sister organization, the California School Employees Association, filed for an impasse with PAUSD. As of May 13, a tentative agreement has been reached, and t ..read more

For a ‘liberated zone,’ as declared by a black, red, and green poster in the camp, it’s not large. Two dozen or so tents. A community library. And plenty of banners, posters, and signage plastered all around its compact perimeter. But here in White Plaza, the heart of Stanford, pro-Palestinian protestors have entrenched themselves. As universities struggle to extinguish protests over their perceived role in the ongoing Israel-Gaza War, the “Sit In to Stop Genocide” has become the most visible aspect of student discontent over the conflict.  Since April 25, protestors have occupied part of ..read more

In 1964, the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley, began as a way to protest the university’s restrictions on political activities on campus. Small protests quickly escalated to large-scale demonstrations, such as at Sproul Hall, where around 1,000 students gathered together on Dec. 2 as an act of civil disobedience.  Police responded to the show of courage by arresting 733 students on counts of trespassing. The following years were marked with students fighting bitterly against the university, exacerbated by the Vietnam War. One such protest at People’s Park in ..read more

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