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Irene Maddox
Mar 73 min read
What is going on with the flu season this year?
As the weather gets colder, it seems like students get sicker. Everyone seems to be under the weather or at a point of recovery, then...
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Owen Taylor
Oct 15, 20233 min read
The “hot labor summer” of 2023: what you need to know
What do writers, nurses, teachers, and a slew of other jobs have in common? They were all on strike for at least some of this past year...
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Rebekah Grace de Guzman
Oct 11, 20233 min read
The kiss: sexual abuse in women's soccer and beyond
On August 20th, after a month of trials and tribulations, Spain won its first ever FIFA Women’s World Cup against England 1-0. Jenni...
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Afreen Mann Majumdar
Sep 28, 20237 min read
AI and education
By now, if you haven't heard of AI or artificial intelligence, you've been living under a rock, or maybe just taking a good internet...
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Izak Menta
May 23, 20232 min read
What to know about the Willow project
Intro On March 13, 2023, the Biden administration approved an adjusted version of the controversial Willow Project. Spearheaded by...
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Genevieve Deetsch
Apr 13, 20232 min read
When it snows in California
It isn’t often when living in LA that you can drive thirty minutes north and find yourself in a winter wonderland, but this has been the...
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Sumiye Allen
Feb 23, 20232 min read
What nine atmospheric rivers mean for California
From December 27 to January 16, California encountered nine atmospheric rivers, culminating in almost a foot of rainfall (in other words, ov
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Shepherd Lee Williams
Jan 24, 20233 min read
The Club Q shooting and stochastic terrorism, the blood on right-wing media's hands.
Devastating news from Colorado Springs arrived one Sunday morning after a deadly shooting in LGBTQ nightclub, Club Q, resulted in the...
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Renee Modina
Dec 9, 20228 min read
Around the world of music tonality
Editor's Note: To understand the following article, a basic understanding of music theory is required. From dizis to didgeridoos, the...
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Eden Greene & Sofia Casias
Nov 18, 20224 min read
Shots fired: the inside scoop on the shooting at Yosemite park
Original reporting, from journalists who were there.
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Sullivan Valdez
Nov 18, 20226 min read
A primer on conservative dogwhistles
What is a Dog Whistle? Like the name implies, it’s a word, or phrase that is used to secretly signify something. Usually used to signify...
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Sullivan Valdez
Nov 7, 20222 min read
Parabéns Lula Da Silva
On October 30th, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the secondary election in Brazil by a worryingly close margin: less than a percent. During...
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Rex Hoskinson
Oct 24, 20222 min read
What we can learn from one of the world’s greenest countries
As wildfires and other natural disasters such as Hurricane Ian become more common and severe, an increasing number of people have been...
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Victor Pack
Sep 19, 20226 min read
A tribute to Queen Elizabeth II
An era has come to an end. On September 8, 2022, people around the world awoke to news of the critical condition of the United Kingdom’s...
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Sophia Dueñas
Aug 24, 20222 min read
Liz Cheney loses Wyoming Republican primary, ending reelection bid
Wyoming representative Liz Cheney lost the state’s Republican primary last Tuesday, defeated by Trump-endorsed candidate Harriet Hageman....
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Eden Greene
Apr 6, 20224 min read
Russian aggressions against Ukraine are nothing new
Four events from the last 300 years highlight instances of Russian aggression and Ukrainian resistance.
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Ranya Theba
Mar 8, 20224 min read
How different countries have handled the pandemic
Soon to be two years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, it's not hard to see how much has changed.
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Eden Greene
Feb 9, 20225 min read
Donald Trump's cult: The radical right
Picture a group of people devoted to one all-knowing, omnipotent leader, who has been chosen by God to lead them, who channels the word...
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Eden Greene
Jan 28, 20220 min read
The pandemic, 9/11, and our dreams
A collection of illustrations and stories about the impact of trauma on dreams.
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Victor Pack
Jan 17, 20225 min read
Thank you for being a friend, Betty White
On December 31, 2021, the hearts of millions were broken with the news of Betty White’s death. Betty died in her sleep of natural causes...
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Eden Greene
Nov 30, 20215 min read
Child marriage: a dark shadow on our golden state
“He told me that he would lose his life if he got in trouble for this,” says Dawn Tyree of the child molester she was forced to marry.
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Calyx Prohias
Sep 27, 20213 min read
Haitian migrants turned away from US entry
Over the past few weeks, Haitian migrants have arrived at the US border by the thousands. Lured by promises of easy travel into the...
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Sumiye Allen
Jun 10, 20213 min read
What you should know about the COVID vaccine for kids
On Monday, May 10, the FDA expanded their Emergency Use Authorization, or EUA, of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to include...
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Sullivan Valdez
Jun 10, 20212 min read
Alaskan air force intercepts Russian jets
Recently, Russian bombers have been spotted flying worryingly close to American airspace. While this isn’t the first time something like...
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Itzel Whyte-Aguayo
Jun 4, 20213 min read
The CDC unveils new mask guidelines for vaccinated Americans
On May 13th, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated their mask guidelines based on new studies on the vaccines. The...
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Calyx Prohias
Jun 4, 20213 min read
Biden infrastructure plan overview
In March of 2021, Joe Biden Released his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan. This piece of legislation consisted of a long list of...
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Ranya Theba
May 14, 20213 min read
Los Angeles' path to reopening
After a long and draining year of being quarantined, Los Angeles County is finally on the path to open up. With people everywhere...
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Eden Greene
May 7, 20212 min read
Dog food, track practice, and cheese: our community reopens
Our community has begun to reopen. Here’s how it’s going.
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Renee Modina
May 7, 20214 min read
Music and the mind
Since the very beginning of time, music has always surrounded us, enveloping us in its aura of emotions and mellifluous sound that twirl...
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Ranya Theba
Apr 18, 20212 min read
How climate change affected Texas
Mother Nature can be insane. Sometimes the unexpected happens and we don’t know why. As for the recent crazy climate in Texas, we might...
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Wyatt Zingus
Apr 8, 20215 min read
The true price of high school
In the United States, education through the 12th grade is free and compulsory. But is this actually the case? For me and most other...
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Calyx Prohias
Mar 12, 20217 min read
Colonial Determinism: Eurocentrism, MNCs, and WE Charity
In the 1990s, millions of Americans went about their lives believing that they were truly changing the world.
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Wyatt Zingus
Mar 9, 20213 min read
When can we live normally again?
When it was announed that school was to be canceled for two weeks last March, I, and many others thought, “Cool, no school.” I soon...
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Jasper Mann
Feb 28, 20214 min read
Covid-19, American prisons, and the San Quentin Outbreak
Covid-19 in prisons has been responsible for cases and deaths within.
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Amelia Kim
Feb 19, 20214 min read
#EndSARS, police brutality, and the policing system
If you are on social media you probably saw #EndSARS trending a couple of months ago and wondered what it was exactly. #EndSARS is a...
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Sumiye Allen
Feb 8, 20214 min read
What's going on with Trump's impeachment?
Although perhaps out of the spotlight, former President Trump’s impeachment is not quite over yet. To be precise, he has been impeached...
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Calyx Prohias
Feb 7, 20218 min read
Prospects of Nuclear War: MAD, China, and Al-Qaeda’s Nuclear Scientists
When one thinks about if a nuclear war could happen, it usually concerns some of the world's most prominent superpowers, like the United...
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Itzel Whyte-Aguayo
Feb 3, 20213 min read
Why are there so many missing Indigenous women?
The issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women, also known as MMIW, has been brought to light in recent years thanks to awareness...
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Ranya Theba
Jan 30, 20213 min read
The Return to Campus in 2021
Since the start of this spring semester, there’s been a slew of questions on the minds of many people: “When are we going to return to...
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Sullivan Valdez
Nov 30, 20204 min read
Water wars
The climate is changing. The land is dusty, empty and bare. Crops are failing and resources are becoming scarce, namely water. While here...
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Marli Petrini and Femi Henry-Chia
Nov 13, 20204 min read
COVID-19’s Impact on Asians in America
Xenophobia, the “dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries,” has been linked with massive outbreaks of diseases for...
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Sumiye Allen
Oct 22, 20205 min read
The Latest 2020 Disaster: How Can the Upcoming Election Go Wrong?
Elections have always had a history of problems. From discrimination to voter suppression to technical issues, elections have never been...
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Calyx Prohias
Oct 6, 20207 min read
What You Need to Know About the Kenosha Shooting
With the horrific assault of Jacob Blake by police officers saturating peoples’ minds, Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests have escalated...
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ERHS Journalism
Jun 10, 20203 min read
What Happened To Our Society?
by Sabrina Hernandez, 16 years old A note from the editors We would like to thank Sabrina Hernandez, who is not a member of our staff,...
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Dylan Kirk
May 31, 20202 min read
Neo-Survivalism
Since the beginning of quarantine, it seems like we’ve seen the worst in humanity, whether it be through the hoarding of necessary...
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Benicio Barbosa
May 28, 20203 min read
The Impact of Coronavirus
Coronavirus is seeing a larger impact on everyday life as time goes on and it sure seems like this virus is here for an extended stay...
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Miguel Navarro
May 26, 20203 min read
Survivors: From WWII to Coronavirus
What we are seeing in the news is quite shocking. We are living in a very catatonic, catastrophic calamity of a pandemic. COVID-19 is...
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Miguel Navarro
Mar 28, 20204 min read
Countries During Crisis: Mexico, India, Algeria
We are at war! It is a bold statement to make in these troubled times, but it is a statement that must be profoundly accepted by the...
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Mireille Karadanaian
Mar 14, 20204 min read
Overworking is Killing Around the World
In 2020, around 300 students will be graduating from Eagle Rock High School. They’ll be going off to college and entering the next...
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