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Trump tariffs: tariff war or fair trade?

Sid Singh, Finance Director | March 11, 2025

If you look up the term ‘tariffs’ on Google Trends, a website which shows when and how many times a term has been searched up on Google, you will see there has been a recent spike in Google searches...

Keep On Cruising

Keep On Cruising

Jenny Liang, Managing Editor of Operations | March 10, 2025

You sit at your desk and stare at the notebook in front of you while glaring at your laptop screen. With a sharpened pencil in hand, you spend hours and hours working until the corner of your computer...

Mental Health in the Media

Jenny Liang, Managing Editor of Operations | March 6, 2025

Editor’s Note: The following column contains references to self-harm.  Your favorite television show is dramatized. Shocker! It includes flying dragons, intelligent zombies, and little girls named...

2025’s One True Oscar Ballot

Brayden Caldwell, Opinions Editor | March 1, 2025

On Sunday, March 2nd, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will once again broadcast the Oscars, and, like every other year, the Academy is once again embroiled in controversy. There have been...

The Perfect Prom Dress

The Perfect Prom Dress

Allyson Duan, Business Manager | February 7, 2025

Prom is one of the most anticipated and unforgettable events of high school, the last dance for seniors. An exciting—yet sometimes stressful— part of prom is finding the perfect dress. From costs to...

Goal setting culture

Goal setting culture

Statesman Staff | February 7, 2025

As the final week of the year approaches, many people start preparing for New Year's Eve by making plans with friends and deciding what they’ll wear when the clock strikes midnight. Others prefer to...

Obsession of Olympiads

Obsession of Olympiads

Timothy Bui, Editor-in-Chief | February 3, 2025

Opening a link from the Math Team sponsor, I scrolled down the 20-page Honor Roll list for the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) 8, a list containing hundreds of names of middle school students...

The Legitimacy of High School Research

The Legitimacy of High School Research

Timothy Bui, Editor-in-Chief | January 27, 2025

Four years ago, overhearing your sister musing about a distinguished student who participated in research and got admitted to numerous colleges, you marvel at the idea of research, regarding it as a highly...

Official art for "Squid Game 2"

Squid Game Season 2 Review

Allyson Duan, Business Manager | January 27, 2025

From breaking records to capturing global attention, season 1 of the Netflix original series Squid Game captivated audiences worldwide with its intense and unique storyline. Reaching 68 million views in...

Technology Teaching Teachers

Technology Teaching Teachers

Netra Wuppalapati, Features Editor | January 4, 2025

Looking at your teacher’s guided notes sheets, you see an awfully familiar font and style of writing that isn’t your teacher’s normal font choice. You think long and hard about where you have seen...

Technology and Art

Technology and Art

Devika Pillai, Photo and Design Editor | December 22, 2024

Once, during a photo contest when only AI-generated photos were allowed to be submitted, a man named Miles Astray submitted his photo of a flamingo with seemingly no head and claimed it as AI-generated...

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