For many high school students, stress has become a normal part of everyday life. Between difficult classes, endless homework and trying to maintain a social life, many upperclassmen constantly feel overwhelmed....

How can one's religion encourage a balanced approach to spiritual health? Spiritual health has gone largely unnoticed when it should actually be worth mentioning. It is very important that in a global...

Imagine yourself walking by a line stretching down the block for a viral Manhattan café, then seeing tourists hold up their phones to film pastries they first saw on TikTok. However, just a few subway...

In New York City wealth is impossible to ignore. Luxury apartments tower over public housing developments, designer stores line, major avenues, and social status often feels tied to money. Few places reflect...

As of 2025, 62% of teens report that society teaches people to be ashamed of their periods, according to PERIOD, a world-wide non-profit formed to combat period poverty and stigma. Whispers, shoving pads...

East New York, Brooklyn, is one of those familiar places that you’ve heard a lot about so much that you think you know it. The bus stops, train stations, corner stores, and the summer chime of ice cream...

The poet Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie once said that “the consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we...

As you walk through the doors of a New York City high school, you notice the crowded hallways, the students flashing by as they rush to class, while others linger by their lockers talking to their friends....

Everything has a rating: restaurants, movie theaters, amusement parks.  Everything! But, how does one rate something as drastic as the ability to save a life? Hospital ratings would seem to be on a much...

“I don’t think students your age should be reading these books with gay characters,” my elementary school librarian quipped after I returned the graphic novel Drama by Raina Telgemeier.  After...

It’s evident that the 2025 Mayoral election became one of the biggest events this decade, rivaling that of a presidential race. The mayoral race itself was relatively close, with the race results being...

When it comes to school, a general idea pops up in our heads: books, studying, teachers, hallways that are packed like sardines, etc. Some people even think of clubs or school events like dances or trips....