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Valve, Steam, and a Monopoly on the PC Gaming Industry

Gilbert Coyle May 20, 2025

   Valve is a company with a long history in the gaming industry. They currently own the platform Steam, the largest personal computer (PC) games distribution service. Steam currently facilitates an...

A picture that shows stark contrast between the violence and force of the Vietnam War and people’s hope that they could make it end. This picture was taken in 1967 during an anti-Vietnam march (Photo By: Marc Riboud).

Answering The Call: How Music is a Tool to Mobilize and Organize

Faith Gralnick May 20, 2025

   How do you rally people together in the face of oppression for a common goal? Community organizing is the most effective way to protest oppressive governments. Music, for a long time, has been a...

A car pulls up to the Vault-Tec headquarters in the “Fallout” TV show, where they planned the mass destruction of the world for corporate profits, a theme throughout the entire “Fallout” series (Photo By: Amazon Prime).

Corporate Hypocrisy in TV Production

Quinn Welter May 20, 2025

   For decades now, large media conglomerates have been producing movies and television shows that push anti-corporate messaging, often very blatantly. From Disney’s production of “Andor” and...

President Trump speaks to onlookers on April 2, 2025, about the Liberation Day tariffs (Photo By: Daniel Torok/The White House).

Donald Trump’s Trade War is Backfiring. Badly.

Nathaniel Knoy May 20, 2025

   April 2, 2025. That’s the day that U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to impose the most extensive American tariffs since the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. President...

This painting is self-titled by The Poor Starving Artist, and was digitally produced in 2024; according to the artist, the painting is “centered around artists and painters and their struggle to make a living with most living in poverty.” (Digital artwork by The Poor Starving Artist)

“Heart to Art:” Staying Authentic in the Art World

Ellie Akre May 20, 2025

   If you’ve ever considered becoming an artist as a career path, or even watched a movie about someone trying to make it as an artist, you’ve probably heard of the “Starving Artist” trope–the...

Excellence of Standard: The Mediocrity of the A+

Alice Matticola May 20, 2025

   Grades are a means for teachers to show a student's progress and knowledge in a quantifiable way. To be able to communicate to students and their guardians the progress that is being made to meet...

Lincoln, one of the local barn Ride off Ranch’s lesson horses, waits for a rinse-off after being ridden (Photo By: Sara Nicholls).

It Takes Two: Horseback Riding Benefits

Sara Nicholls March 29, 2025

While horseback riding may seem like just a hobby or a recreational activity from the outside, there is a lot more to it than what most people give it credit for. As someone who has been riding for almost...

Nicolae Ceaușescu, Leader of Communist România (Photo By: Romanian National Archives).

The Fall of Communist Romania

Gilbert Coyle March 29, 2025

As President Nicolae Ceaușescu delivered his speech in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, yelling and screaming began. Confused, he raised his hand to quell the noise, as if it were applause. As Ceaușescu...

Grandpa Joe standing for the first time in 20 years in “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (Photo By: Paramount Pictures).

Fiction’s Most Annoying Characters

Asa Richman March 28, 2025

In movies and television, there are always characters that the viewers hate. Most of the time, they are villainous characters meant to be evil, but sometimes, the hated characters are the ones that are...

Poster that shows the books that are currently banned in certain areas of America (Photo By: Kate Mereand).

Dystopian or Nonfiction: Are the Books That Far Off?

Nayla Makinano March 28, 2025

Many authors, past and present, write dystopian novels about seemingly fictional worlds where things are extremely different from the one we live in today. These books may be based off of something the...

Left: Chrystia Freeland, former Financial Minister and former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. Right: Mark Carney, Economist and former Governor of the Bank of Canada (Photos By: The Canadian Press).

Canada’s Government Fell Apart. What Happens Next?

Nathaniel Knoy March 28, 2025

On Jan. 6, 2025, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation. Elected in 2015 to widespread acclaim, Trudeau and his government faced plummeting support levels throughout 2024 and...

Undertale directly telling you that it will judge you and change the ending of the game based on that. This discourages players from attacking or using violence to get the good ending. (Photo By: IGN)

When is Violence in a Game Wrong?

Jack Arguelles March 28, 2025

When is violence in a game wrong? Ever since video games began to become mainstream around 50 years ago, and especially with the release of “Mortal Kombat,” this question has been asked again and again....

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