Opinions
Redefining My Hair and Myself
Learning how to love my wavy hair has taught me to look past racism, find my community of support, and love myself.
The Zigzag and the Line
A movement meant to defend democracy must use logic rather than pressuring students to display unity.
Neoliberalism is Ruining Queens
By Lukas Varana
Large Private Investments are bleaching what made Queens so vibrant.
Why We Ignore Ongoing Genocide in Sudan
Western indifference towards the suffering of the Sudanese people needs to end now.
Hudson Valley On a Mood Board: The Rise of Upstate Pieds-À-Terre
People in the Hudson Valley region have faced housing crises, as well as increased prices for goods as a result of an influx of wealthy New York City residents, highlighting the need for Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax to extend statewide.
Stuyvesant’s Financial Literacy Failure
Despite overwhelming student demand and Stuyvesant’s unique reputation for its rigor, Stuyvesant has failed to expand its personal finance curriculum.
Where is the Republican Party Headed?
By Lukas Yao
Trump has amassed a generational coalition of supporters, but irreconcilable factional differences within leave the future of the Republican Party up for grabs.
The Hidden Costs Behind “Taxing the Rich”
The effects of increasing income taxes on the richest in America disrupt the future of American wealth.
The Faucet, Not The Pipeline
By Niam Kaufman
The U.S. has spent decades protecting Gulf oil with carrier groups, and said nothing about the desalination infrastructure that actually keeps the Gulf alive.
Reversing Progress: The Cost of Mamdani’s “Caring” City
By Nayoung Lee
By prioritizing consent over intervention, the city trades safety for the idea of comfort, at the expense of both the public and individuals in need of help.
The Downfall of Old Media is Actually Its Life Support
By Alice Frank
Social media, what has been viewed as the armageddon of traditional media, can actually be the one way its presence is sustained.
Green Colonialism: When Sustainability Sustains Inequality
Green energy resource neocolonialism is a detrimental form of exploitation, preventing developing nations from developing renewable energy infrastructure necessary for independence and economic growth.
Set Students Up for Success: Mandate Financial Literacy Courses in New York
By Dinara Gargu
New York cannot keep treating financial literacy as optional when students are already making decisions about money without ever being taught how to do them.
NYC Subway Etiquette Needs to Change – But Not Why You Think it Does
By Zahra Kumar
Commuting in New York can be excessively uncomfortable due to surrounding passengers and infrastructural issues, reflecting broader problems within NYC’s culture.
Threatening American Democracy Isn’t Bringing Democracy to Iran
Trump’s recklessness in his war of choice in Iran is unparalleled in American imperialist intervention in the Middle East throughout history, boding ill for the integrity of American democracy and the future of the Iranian people.
Impersonal Business
By Alice Frank
The partnership between Musk and Anthropic reveals how AI’s explosive growth is rendering personal ethics irrelevant in business, for better and for worse.
Stuyvesant’s Budget Cuts: To No Surprise, the Humanities Classes Are the First to Go
By Seoyeon Yu
As Stuyvesant is set to receive less funding for the upcoming school year, high-performing and high-interest humanities courses have become the first in line on the chopping block, with seemingly no justification.
The Atrophy of Activism: Capitalism Works—Their Activism Doesn’t
Sarah Paulson’s outfit in the 2026 Met Gala exposes how modern activism has decayed into nothing more than a symbolic performance.
The Hidden Costs of Our Donation Bags
The clothing donations we send to Africa as a seemingly harmless display of charity are destroying African industrial capabilities and crushing the environment under the weight of our unwanted clothes.
Ring of Ruin: The Growing Space Debris Crisis and Lack of Regulation
While space poses incredible opportunities for scientific research, increased effort needs to be directed towards ensuring space debris levels are mitigated through strengthened legislation.
Why America Shouldn’t Do Brexit
By Mace Elinson
America is on a course to alienate itself completely from other nations, and Brexit shows us what that looks like for the US’s future.
Self-Driving Cars are the Future of Transportation
Baseless talking points and fear-mongering distort the truth; autonomous vehicles are an amazing innovation with the potential to increase safety and wealth.
Self-Driving Cars are the Future of Transportation
Baseless talking points and fear-mongering distort the truth; autonomous vehicles are an amazing innovation with the potential to increase safety and wealth.
The Simplification of Cultural Dishes
By Angelina Lu
The simplification of cultural dishes and erasure of their history is becoming more prevalent in today’s fast-paced society.
How Narendra Modi Has Failed India
Despite Narendra Modi’s immense popularity, the results of his administration have been far from ideal for India.
NYC Subway Etiquette Needs to Change – But Not Why You Think it Does
By Zahra Kumar
Commuting in New York can be excessively uncomfortable due to surrounding passengers and infrastructural issues, reflecting broader problems within NYC’s culture.
What is the American Identity?
With Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance, questions about what the American identity is have been surfacing, with the Trump administration pushing a secular view that goes against the multicultural identity America should embrace.
Mayor Mamdani’s Office of Mass Engagement
By Alice Frank
Mamdani’s Office of Mass Engagement has the potential to be revolutionary or dangerous—and it all depends on the New Yorkers who participate.
In Defense of Dissent
By Nina Benson
A look into the importance of disagreement to development, especially in an era defined by social media and trends.
More Than a Game: How Cards Connect Generations
Games are a way for our generation to create lasting and natural relationships with their elders.
Drug Enforcement and the Venezuelan Power Grab
The Trump administration has conducted boat strikes and captured Nicolás Maduro, actions that violate both U.S. and international law, all while misrepresenting the legality of the circumstances through rhetoric in order to pursue larger geopolitical and economic interests in Venezuela.
The Dawn of a New World Order
By Lukas Yao
The world as we know it is changing, and the winners will be those who can adapt.
How Hong Kong was Tamed in Six Years
Conditioned fear is the biggest tool in an authoritarian tool kit to prevent political dissidence in Hong Kong.
Lost in Translation: Hinduism’s Fragile Diaspora
Hinduism is quickly losing its message with second-generation Hindus.
May the Odds be Ever in Their Favor
By Tiffany Wang
President Trump’s “Patriot Games” is an attempt to distract us from America’s systematic failures—from school shootings and crumbling classrooms to global apathy—to project its youth and accomplishments, echoing the manipulative pageantry of The Hunger Games.
True Luxury Comes in the Mail
Rewards credit cards are quickly redefining how consumers access travel and luxury experiences, allowing for more access to luxury experiences however they aren’t fully equitable and require users to do proper research to find the best fits.
How Medical Research Failed Your Mother
90,000 women died preventable deaths because a flawed study convinced them their life-saving medication would kill them, and because the medical establishment has never prioritized getting women’s health right.
The Lord of the Corporations
Companies named after LOTR components use its mythology to project themselves as heroic, even as their real-world actions undermine the same ideals they claim to represent.
Breaking Injustice Requires Breaking Rules
We must build the next generation into one ready to fight for democracy, our rights, and our communities, and a generation of political advocates won’t come from weekend protests or civil discussions alone.
Redefining My Hair and Myself
Learning how to love my wavy hair has taught me to look past racism, find my community of support, and love myself.
The Zigzag and the Line
A movement meant to defend democracy must use logic rather than pressuring students to display unity.
Impersonal Business
By Alice Frank
The partnership between Musk and Anthropic reveals how AI’s explosive growth is rendering personal ethics irrelevant in business, for better and for worse.
Stuyvesant’s Budget Cuts: To No Surprise, the Humanities Classes Are the First to Go
By Seoyeon Yu
As Stuyvesant is set to receive less funding for the upcoming school year, high-performing and high-interest humanities courses have become the first in line on the chopping block, with seemingly no justification.
Neoliberalism is Ruining Queens
By Lukas Varana
Large Private Investments are bleaching what made Queens so vibrant.
Why We Ignore Ongoing Genocide in Sudan
Western indifference towards the suffering of the Sudanese people needs to end now.
Hudson Valley On a Mood Board: The Rise of Upstate Pieds-À-Terre
People in the Hudson Valley region have faced housing crises, as well as increased prices for goods as a result of an influx of wealthy New York City residents, highlighting the need for Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax to extend statewide.
The Atrophy of Activism: Capitalism Works—Their Activism Doesn’t
Sarah Paulson’s outfit in the 2026 Met Gala exposes how modern activism has decayed into nothing more than a symbolic performance.
Stuyvesant’s Financial Literacy Failure
Despite overwhelming student demand and Stuyvesant’s unique reputation for its rigor, Stuyvesant has failed to expand its personal finance curriculum.
The Hidden Costs of Our Donation Bags
The clothing donations we send to Africa as a seemingly harmless display of charity are destroying African industrial capabilities and crushing the environment under the weight of our unwanted clothes.
Where is the Republican Party Headed?
By Lukas Yao
Trump has amassed a generational coalition of supporters, but irreconcilable factional differences within leave the future of the Republican Party up for grabs.
The Hidden Costs Behind “Taxing the Rich”
The effects of increasing income taxes on the richest in America disrupt the future of American wealth.
Ring of Ruin: The Growing Space Debris Crisis and Lack of Regulation
While space poses incredible opportunities for scientific research, increased effort needs to be directed towards ensuring space debris levels are mitigated through strengthened legislation.
The Faucet, Not The Pipeline
By Niam Kaufman
The U.S. has spent decades protecting Gulf oil with carrier groups, and said nothing about the desalination infrastructure that actually keeps the Gulf alive.
Reversing Progress: The Cost of Mamdani’s “Caring” City
By Nayoung Lee
By prioritizing consent over intervention, the city trades safety for the idea of comfort, at the expense of both the public and individuals in need of help.
The Downfall of Old Media is Actually Its Life Support
By Alice Frank
Social media, what has been viewed as the armageddon of traditional media, can actually be the one way its presence is sustained.
Green Colonialism: When Sustainability Sustains Inequality
Green energy resource neocolonialism is a detrimental form of exploitation, preventing developing nations from developing renewable energy infrastructure necessary for independence and economic growth.
Why America Shouldn’t Do Brexit
By Mace Elinson
America is on a course to alienate itself completely from other nations, and Brexit shows us what that looks like for the US’s future.
Set Students Up for Success: Mandate Financial Literacy Courses in New York
By Dinara Gargu
New York cannot keep treating financial literacy as optional when students are already making decisions about money without ever being taught how to do them.
Self-Driving Cars are the Future of Transportation
Baseless talking points and fear-mongering distort the truth; autonomous vehicles are an amazing innovation with the potential to increase safety and wealth.
NYC Subway Etiquette Needs to Change – But Not Why You Think it Does
By Zahra Kumar
Commuting in New York can be excessively uncomfortable due to surrounding passengers and infrastructural issues, reflecting broader problems within NYC’s culture.
Threatening American Democracy Isn’t Bringing Democracy to Iran
Trump’s recklessness in his war of choice in Iran is unparalleled in American imperialist intervention in the Middle East throughout history, boding ill for the integrity of American democracy and the future of the Iranian people.
Self-Driving Cars are the Future of Transportation
Baseless talking points and fear-mongering distort the truth; autonomous vehicles are an amazing innovation with the potential to increase safety and wealth.
NYC Subway Etiquette Needs to Change – But Not Why You Think it Does
By Zahra Kumar
Commuting in New York can be excessively uncomfortable due to surrounding passengers and infrastructural issues, reflecting broader problems within NYC’s culture.
The Simplification of Cultural Dishes
By Angelina Lu
The simplification of cultural dishes and erasure of their history is becoming more prevalent in today’s fast-paced society.
What is the American Identity?
With Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance, questions about what the American identity is have been surfacing, with the Trump administration pushing a secular view that goes against the multicultural identity America should embrace.
How Narendra Modi Has Failed India
Despite Narendra Modi’s immense popularity, the results of his administration have been far from ideal for India.
The Problem with One-Size-Fits-All Learning
The rigid, uniform structure of many tutoring centers often leaves students feeling overwhelmed and disconnected from their public school learning, lacking the personalization that could truly enhance their academic understanding.
Mayor Mamdani’s Office of Mass Engagement
By Alice Frank
Mamdani’s Office of Mass Engagement has the potential to be revolutionary or dangerous—and it all depends on the New Yorkers who participate.
In Defense of Dissent
By Nina Benson
A look into the importance of disagreement to development, especially in an era defined by social media and trends.
More Than a Game: How Cards Connect Generations
Games are a way for our generation to create lasting and natural relationships with their elders.
Drug Enforcement and the Venezuelan Power Grab
The Trump administration has conducted boat strikes and captured Nicolás Maduro, actions that violate both U.S. and international law, all while misrepresenting the legality of the circumstances through rhetoric in order to pursue larger geopolitical and economic interests in Venezuela.
The Dawn of a New World Order
By Lukas Yao
The world as we know it is changing, and the winners will be those who can adapt.
How Hong Kong was Tamed in Six Years
Conditioned fear is the biggest tool in an authoritarian tool kit to prevent political dissidence in Hong Kong.
How Medical Research Failed Your Mother
90,000 women died preventable deaths because a flawed study convinced them their life-saving medication would kill them, and because the medical establishment has never prioritized getting women’s health right.
Lost in Translation: Hinduism’s Fragile Diaspora
Hinduism is quickly losing its message with second-generation Hindus.
May the Odds be Ever in Their Favor
By Tiffany Wang
President Trump’s “Patriot Games” is an attempt to distract us from America’s systematic failures—from school shootings and crumbling classrooms to global apathy—to project its youth and accomplishments, echoing the manipulative pageantry of The Hunger Games.
The Lord of the Corporations
Companies named after LOTR components use its mythology to project themselves as heroic, even as their real-world actions undermine the same ideals they claim to represent.