The Official Newspaper of Marblehead High School
It seems strange to think that the 2010s are over. In some ways, it is odder to think that the beginning of 2019 was a year ago. Some of the events of the final year of the decade seem like they happened ages ago. This is probably due in part to the fact that there…
As we all know, Qasem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. led airstrike on January 3, 2020. As a response to this, within minutes, World War III was trending on Twitter. An outcry of fear inspired by dread of the draft was heard across all social media. On TikTok, a trend began where girls started…
When the year comes to a close, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network sector of the United Nations publishes a report on the world’s happiest countries titled, The World Happiness Report. They base rankings on GDP per capita, government-based support, life expectancy, personal freedoms, and government corruption. This year, the UN declared Finland the happiest country…
Over the past few months, a series of intense bushfires have been destroying homes and land across Australia. Bushfires have always existed in Australia, and citizens have found ways to manage them, but due to high temperatures and ferocious winds this year, they cannot be contained. Just as in California, the fires did not just…
Soon after midnight on December 16th, the House Judiciary Committee released a 650-page report detailing the charges that accuse President Trump of betraying the United States. He is specifically accused of “abusing his high office to enlist a foreign power in corrupting democratic elections.” This refers to his alleged quid pro quo with the President…
President Donald Trump’s recent tweet about teenage climate change activist, Greta Thunberg, has sparked a lot of criticism and outrage, but it’s not the first time an adult in a position of power has targeted a minor in the media. The sixteen-year-old, who is a passionate and powerful environmentalist, was declared Time’s Person of the…
Last Friday, a naval base in Pensacola, Florida was ravaged by an active shooter, leaving four dead. The 21-year-old shooter, Second Lieutenant Mohammed Alshamrani of the Royal Saudi Air Force, was receiving training in the United States. This is a common practice–currently, there are more than 5,000 international students from 153 countries receiving military training…
The subject of the Hong Kong protests has been everywhere in the news recently. It seems that almost no one understands why they are happening. In order to understand the reasons behind the trouble, the history of the problem should be examined. In 1997, Hong Kong stopped being a British colony and was placed under…
Since July of this year, we’ve been bombarded with news articles concerning President Trump and Ukraine (more specifically, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky). This controversy has prompted Democrats to call for impeachment. However, the details on what really happened are still blurry, and we still aren’t quite sure what went on behind the scenes. In August,…
It has been almost exactly one month since the 18th anniversary of 9/11. Since then, the world has gone on. The Trump-Ukraine scandal persists, citizens of Hong Kong continue to protest, the Bahamas slowly pick themselves up from Hurricane Dorian, and the college application season goes by far too quickly. We’ve moved on. But when…