Enjoying a handsome lead in the polls, Donald Trump has been the beneficiary of a rhetoric that are equal parts alarmist, nativist, and racist, that has made manifest the latent sentiments of many Americans. Though seeming ideological opposites, the real estate mogul’s campaign and its supporters have striking similarities to those of a certain freshman…

Let’s take a moment to consider what comes to mind when you hear the word “socialist.” If negative connotations of some sort abound when you hear this word spoken, you are not alone. Horror at the idea doesn’t originate in the 21st century. In the Vermont Cynic, a student publication at the University of Vermont,…

A fetal diagnosis of Down Syndrome may prompt a woman to confront one of the toughest choices of her life. She must decide if she can provide her future child with critical care and support, so she should always have the right to make that choice.

Vice President Joe Biden is leaning closer to a bid for the presidency, recently meeting with influential members of his party and hiring a communications director. Biden, 72, looks to jump into a Democratic field upended by candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and plagued by Sec. Hillary Clinton’s weak poll performance.

As party lines grow deeper, the gap between them continues to stretch. On the Republican side, candidates who don’t take the most conservative stance are considered the black sheep of their party while the second most prominent Democratic candidate calls himself a socialist.

Between the newly restructured SAT and the PSAT, you’d think that The College Board would have its hands full, but it also buckled to the critics who challenged the framework of the Advanced Placement United States History class with the 2014 curriculum  (APUSH”) as  not being patriotic enough, and in some cases, it was even…

An elderly man with withered skin and a wiry, white beard parks his truck on High Street. He sits dazed and with an expression of apathy, which appears out of place inside his obtrusive truck on which are  plasters of graphic pictures of abortions and with screams for pro-life slogans in bold red font.

The Republican field for the 2016 Presidential election grows larger by the day. And we’re just getting started.

Written by Maddie Vaziri’16 It took Dzhohkar Tsarnaev seconds to place his backpack of explosives on Boylston Street; it will take years for the 264 people harmed by bombs to recover. It took only four days for Tamerlan Tsarnaev to be released from his crimes in death; it will take a lifetime for the families…

Last Friday, April 17th, was the national Day of Silence, an event that calls attention to anti-LGBT bullying. Students across the country vowed to take some form of silence to stop effects bullying. This day of recognition has grown from its humble beginnings to over 8,000 participating schools.