What Apollo 11 really teaches us
People sometimes forget how influential the Apollo program really was.
Neil Armstrong’s one small step was a watershed moment in American history, the fulfillment of a seven-year-old pledge from a departed president. Everybody remembers that,...
With the recent influx of news covering the NBA’s will-they or won’t-they sign free agents, one thing is apparent when it comes to the New York Knicks: James Lawrence Dolan has been one of the worst owners in the...
It has been a year since the immigrant detention camps at the U.S.-Mexico border hit the news, sparked by the inhumane family separation policy, and the idea of locking up children, with or without their parents, became normalized. Though...
It’s no secret that red light cameras are about revenue far more than they are about road safety. The fines associated with red light tickets seem to go up every year, prompting endless complaints that fall on deaf ears...
“Until a baby comes out of a man’s body, an opinion on abortion shouldn’t come out of his mouth.”
Unfortunately, there is not enough space in this paper to even scratch the surface of the absolute absurdities going on in...
Another shooting in Colorado last week brings up emotions of anger and sadness at the thought that this has happened yet again, with no changes to the laws.
Students should be worrying about things like obtaining good grades, having a...
It’s not often we get five letters-to-the-editor about the same topic with the same point of view. That’s what happened this past week when we received that many letters asking residents to encourage their legislators to support the Climate...
A mere six months ago, Shabbat services were being held at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood. It started out like any other Saturday morning for the group of worshipers, heading to synagogue to pray.
But...
What goes up must come down. Colorful helium-filled balloons that are set free into the sky at weddings, memorials, other celebrations or simply as a photo op eventually do make their way back to earth—as lifeless sacs of deflated...
