Children’s Sports Games get too Competitive

Sports games across the world come with the spirit of competition; everyone wants to see their team win, and there’s a sense of pride behind it. Professional sports have massive stadium-wide crowds cheering for teams; college sports have entire campuses cheering for their teams. It only makes sense that parents who are passionate about sports […]

What Will Happen after Trump Leaves Office?

It’s common knowledge that Donald Trump had one of the most memorable political campaigns in the past decade. It’s caused one of the biggest modern cases of blind loyalty this country has ever seen with the Make America Great Again movement. This idea that America was better in the past and if we just reverted […]

Trenton Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Delay AI Data Center Approvals in New Jersey

This week Assemblywoman Annette Quijano introduced a bill in Trenton, New Jersey, that would delay the approvals, construction, expansion, subsidies, and tax incentives for oversized AI data centers. The bill would create a 12-person commission to study the potential impact of AI data centers on New Jersey, reporting its findings within two years that could […]

Diet Food Programs are Too Expensive

Everyone wants to live healthy lives, but a healthy lifestyle requires a healthy diet. Eating healthy requires meal preparation and knowing how many calories, among other nutrients, you’re taking in with every meal to balance your nutrients; most importantly, it requires the money, knowledge, and dedication to coordinate all of this. Easier said than done, […]

Anger from the Right: Charlie Kirk as a Political Figurehead

On September 10th, 2025, as most people know, Christian nationalist debater Charlie Kirk was assassinated at his own political debate session in front of hundreds of people, with footage of his death spreading like wildfire on the news and across the internet. That day the political landscape felt akin to a wildfire with tons of […]

The Culture behind Sports Betting

People have bet on the outcomes of sports for a long time, first getting standardized pay in 1867 with the Pari-Mutuel System. People would put money on a certain player getting a goal or a horse winning a race, and then depending on their track record, the payout would be higher if they had a […]

Why Did We Reduce the FDA’s Budget?

Over 2025 and 2026 the FDA has lost millions of dollars in their budget and thousands of employees in a move to cut costs thanks to Robert F. Kennedy and the Trump Administration. Thanks to these budget cuts there are now significantly fewer people checking the quality of the food we eat every day, resulting […]

The Absence of Visuals and Sound

Books have been portraying stories for thousands of years, and in the last century we’ve been able to communicate stories with visuals and sounds with the rise of video technology. We have movies, television shows, comics, manga, video games, and many other ways to portray stories in modern day, but regular old text-only books remain […]

9/11 Attacks Caused a lot of Islamophobia that Still Persists Today

25 years ago the 9/11 terrorist attacks shook the world and took the lives of 2977 people. As we all know, these attacks were carried out by Osama bin Laden, a Muslim al-Qaeda extremist, and with this public knowledge, Western views on Muslims changed for the worse overnight. To a lot of people, they’ve never […]

There Shouldn’t be a Social Stigma Against People who Wear Wigs

For centuries there’s always some kind of beauty standard that everyone wants to reach and everyone else admires. People chase this their whole lives, living in fear of the natural process of aging beyond a so-called prime. People put on makeup to hide blemishes, fast to fit within their perfect weight range, use hair spray […]

Cheering Culture at Sports Games

Whenever you go to a stadium, whether that be a soccer game, American football, basketball, baseball, or any sport that has a bunch of spectators sitting next to each other, you’ll always find people cheering loudly for their team whenever something interesting happens, like a cool pass or shot, and especially when a goal lands. […]

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