Usage of Tik-Tok conflict teens, teachers and the FBI The FBI director, Christopher Wray deemed the popular social media app known as TikTok, a "national security" threat in front of Congress in...
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Supreme Court cases to keep an eye on
A little less than a year ago, June 24 2002, the entire United States had their eyes looking towards the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) when they released Dobbs v Women's Health...
Films, Fascism, and The Future
A little while back, in the dark recess of what I call free time, I was exploring some online discussion of a fairly obscure show from the '80s called Legends of the Galactic Heroes. The...
Musk and war
Elon Musk's role in politics This September, Elon Musk, the world's richest man, lunched at a lavish, unnamed golf course in Aspen, Colorado. Musk was attending The Weekend- a private event with...
2022 Midterms Elections overview
"The midterm is a litmus test. It's an assessment of how well people like the president," Eamonn Manion, American History and Economics teacher at MA, said. Last month, while students may have been...
Short Takes: November Election
Go Out and Vote 34 seats in the US senate, all eight of the Minnesota seats in the house of representatives, Minnesota Governor, and Minnesota secretary of state are all on the ballot this november....
Short Takes: Trump Mar-a-Lago Investigation
FBI begins investigation of Trump's Florida estate Earlier this fall, the FBI began an extensive investigation of...
Roe at risk
Now almost a half-century old, Roe v Wade (1973) is a Supreme Court case famous too many and infamous to most of the...
Justice KBJ added to Supreme Court
What Ketanji Brown Jacksons's Supreme Court seat means in history One hundred and fifteen justices have served on the...
The importance of truth in a time of uncertainty
What it means to navigate a "post-truth" world "What is a woman?" "I don't know, I'm not a biologist." This is the...
Criminal trial exposes larger problem of human trafficking
Human trafficking and its global impact 50% of US trafficking victims are girls under the age of 18 Girls as young as...
Maxwell conviction raises questions
How Epstein's associate used her womanhood to sex traffic young girls On Dec. 29, 2021, a jury in New York City...
The truth’s not so hard to find
How can you find truth in all the noise In a recent poll by Minnesota media outlets, it was found that a year after...
Post-Trump political participation
After four years of political polarization, how are students responding? "So help you God?" "So help me God."...
Biden’s plan would rebuild nation, Minnesota
What America can build with trillions of dollars Possibly the largest bill of the generation is being discussed, one...