Black Lives Matter.
Justice Is Not Blind Since time immemorial, innocent black people in the United States have been murdered and their killers...
Climate (In)justice: Another Example of Systemic Racism?
Whether you like it or not, climate change is connected to almost every aspect of society and life. It is...
Political Timeline: September 2019 to June 2020
September On September 24, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the Trump impeachment inquiry after his call with the Ukrainian prime...
Debate Rewind: 2019-2020
Although speech and debate have been present here at Mountain Lakes High School for many years, in the past few...
America’s Great Choice and its Possible Consequences
It is clearer now than ever that our world is in a climate crisis. The burning of fossil fuels has...
Justice is Alive and Well: the SCOTUS Response to COVID-19
Throughout the past two months, the COVID-19 pandemic has dominated the national news cycle. The White House and Capitol Hill...
Celebrating Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
The History Behind the Holiday In 1979, an act to make May 4–11 “Pacific Islander week” was passed in Congress....
Learning from South Korea: What Can We Do?
As one of China’s East Asian neighbors, South Korea was infected with SARS-CoV-2 mere weeks after China reported the emergence...
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures
To many of us, it seems that the COVID-19 pandemic and consequential quarantine has lasted a lifetime. However, the timeline...