Op-Eds

A letter to white activists

Cry for your own life, but get mad about what happens to Black people in this country.

Our approach to addiction isn’t working

Addiction is your problem, too, even if you think it isn’t.

Jessica Krug and Jewish trauma

I made up a story to suit the silences of the family I was born into, and the non-truth I made up slid perfectly over the gaps in my own story of self. 

The case for climate education

If we wouldn’t send our students to college unprepared, we cannot send them into the climate crisis unprepared either. 
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My awakening to American racism

I never even considered that this disease which seemed so far in the past was still very prevalent. 

Surviving two pandemics

They refuse to accept that a system that shoots unarmed Jacob Blakes but protects armed Kyle Rittenhouses is a just one.

Weed is most dangerous when it’s illegal

Making weed illegal doesn’t stop kids or anyone else who wants to use it from doing so.

Why the truth is so hard to find

The best way to see truth is as a rainbow of grays.

The College Board needs to teach a more diverse history

Despite what Americans are taught, the world didn’t start with the arrival of Europeans and end when European countries lost their colonies.

My growth started with a sentence

I am a student journalist. This means that I’m a learner.