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  • The Egg Essay 

    Alaina Baumohl, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus | Artwork by Eric Kim, Design Director Emeritus Eggs are the greatest food form to have been created. I eat them for breakfast nearly every morning. There are dozens of wonderful and delicious ways to consume eggs, as my favorite YouTube cooking video, Bon Appetit’s “Every Way to Cook an Egg…

  • No Child Should Go Hungry: The Case for Free School Meals

    The human suffering caused by poverty and food insecurity is a reflection of a society whose government and policies have failed its most vulnerable members. Lisa Clark, a third grade teacher at Stalker Elementary School in Idaho, says that in her class of 20 students, six rely on the Idaho Foodbank for consistent access to…

  • Halušky Recipe with a Brief Introduction

    This halušky recipe comes from one of my grandmother’s cookbooks and is the perfect meal for a college student who has an awkward amount of time to make dinner — boxed pasta would be a little too quick, but chicken parm is definitely not happening. The first time I made this at school, I accidentally…

  • Why Do Farmers Continue Voting Red?

    Fields filled with wheat that will never be consumed; livestock dying as the sun beats down on them. The effects of climate change can be seen across the agricultural sector. Between droughts, extreme heat, wildfires, and poor air quality, farmers across the United States have dealt with the impacts of our warming world. Given the…

  • Why are Some Americans STILL not Vaccinated?

    By Tyler Quigley   art by Jinny Park Given that, as of September 16th, 2021, 64.1% of Americans have received at least one dose of the covid-19 vaccine and that 54.7% are fully vaccinated, many people, including myself, are pondering one specific question: why is that number not higher? There are some obvious answers to…
  • SCOTUS Taking Another Look at Abortion

    By Justin Rockaway   image provided by Flickr under the Creative Commons License The recent signing of TX SB8, or the "Texas Heartbeat Act", has garnered national media attention after the split-decision denial of the Supreme Court to grant an injunction that would block the enforcement of the controversial abortion bill. In essence, the act…
  • Why Democrats Must Act on Infrastructure

    By Josh DeLuca   image provided by Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons License In the never-ending chess match that is our current political environment, political actors have two modes: the pursuit of power and the exercise of power. While being in power is the ultimate goal, in many senses, the pursuit of power is…