Not all people who plug products on Instagram have big follower numbers. (Wikimedia Commons) You can’t open your Instagram feed without seeing those #ads popping up across your screen. Instantly, recognizable influencers hold up shampoos, hair gummies and various drinks against luxurious backdrops, plugging products in return for commissions. It is widely known that “influencing”…

  Jeff Sessions, US Attorney General, resigned on November 7. (Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons)   On November 7, the United States Attorney General submitted his letter of resignation to President Trump, who has hounded him for months  Once, Trump was quite fond of his Attorney General, lauding Sessions as “a world-class legal mind,” and “a truly…

House Representative Steve King (R) of Iowa speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Gage Skidmore/Flickr Voters rallied to cast their ballots in the midterms on Tuesday, November 6, with voter turnout hitting a 50 year high. Yet as people strived to make their voices heard, some controversial candidates also made it into…

On Tuesday, November 6, Democrats wrested control of the House from their Republican rivals.  Courtesy/Wikimedia Commons   For the past several years, racism, demagoguery, fraud, corruption, elitism, obstructionism, and just about every other word describing how not to run a country have been rampant through Capitol Hill. Congress can’t agree on anything: every split decision…

Air Force Reserve Senior Master Sgt. John Daniels speaks with Senator Brown in Youngstown, Ohio. Youngstown Air Reserve Station  My grandfather was a political science professor for over fifty years. He walked my mom to the polls when she was eligible to vote, and he taught her an important political truth. Most people in the world…

A memorial honoring the lives of those who died in the Tree of Life synagogue. (Wikipedia) “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” read a headline for an article in The Onion after the Isla Vista killings in 2014. Despite being the work of a provocative satire news source, it…

Senior Vikings, Mira Bhasin and Malcolm Klingbeil, lead the football student section on Friday, August 31. Kayla Podgurski’19/Media) On the night of Friday, October 12, I, like many others, braved the cold weather to witness what, in my opinion, was one of the worst student-section performances in recent memory. To clarify, Upper School students were…

The migrant caravan headed for the US-Mexico border has reignited America’s debate over immigration. “Fibonacci Blue”/Flickr   On November 3, nearly 7,000 Honduran migrants passed through Mexico’s southern Oaxaca province on their way to the US border.  This “caravan” has reignited America’s incendiary debate over immigration.  Many of the caravan’s refugees endure the grueling trek through central America…

Scrunchies are making a big comeback, partly because of Chamberlain. Wikimedia Commons With 5 million YouTube subscribers and 4.8 million Instagram followers, Emma Chamberlain has become a household name, at least to teens. Her refreshing habit of blurting out the first thing that comes into her head while vlogging has won her legions of  fans in the…

Elizabeth Warren at a campaign rally in Massachusetts (Flickr) Massachusetts Senator and Democrat Elizabeth Warren’s selection of “minority status” on certain documents were first revealed in 2012 when she was running for a seat in Congress. Since then, she has received constant pressure to prove her Native American heritage and that she didn’t pose as…