Anonymous Student Flags have become more common in the last several years. There’s a flag for everything – every sexuality, every ideology or political party, even most clubs or groups have a flag. However, across the USA, many school districts have begun banning specific flags. These flags mainly include the Black Lives Matter (BLM) and…
Category: Politics
Backsliding: A Commentary on LGBTQIA+ Rights in the USA
Samuel Jendrysik, Junior We as a species like to think that we’ve evolved over the last 70 or so years, and in many ways we have. Computers fit in our pockets instead of filling up warehouses. Cars are faster and much safer. Medicine is much better. That said, we haven’t come nearly as far as…
What Makes an Adult?
Rowan Jensen, Junior – Special to Headlight What is the real definition of adult? At what age should it be legal to drink? To vote? To be drafted to go to war? American society sees an adult as someone who is 18 years of age. This is far too young because we, as humans, are…
The Princess Agenda
Benji Boyd, Sophomore ASSISTANT EDITOR When I was little, I loved Disney movies. I loved the songs, the lighthearted stories, and the beautiful outfits the princesses wore. My parents took me to a tea house in Wenham, where actors dressed up as Disney princesses would read books to lots of little kids and answer questions…
The Filibuster
Katie Jenkins, Senior SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR Over the past 50 years, senators have been making use of the filibuster law increasingly more. A filibuster occurs when a minority group in the Senate blocks a bill with only forty one votes to the majority 60, utilizing the right to unlimited debate to tire out their dissenters….
Partisan Gerrymandering
Talia Schwartz, Senior Partisan gerrymandering is a significant contemporary issue in Congress because it allows politicians to redraw state districts that favor their specific party. While this issue is bad for democracy, the Supreme Court has not intervened in decades because the courts say that partisan redistricting is a political question and therefore not one…
Thoughts on the State of the Union
Zoe Gast, Senior This past Wednesday was president Biden’s second State of the Union speech and his first since the midterms, where control of the house was awarded to the Republican majority. Although this historical speech was listened to intently by families around the country, the atmosphere on the floor differed. Over Biden’s 73-minute speech,…
Update on Tensions between U.S. and China
Talia Schwartz, Senior Recently, in response to a Chinese billionaire buying 130,000 acres of land in Texas with the goal of building a wind farm, the state of Texas passed a ban on infrastructure projects that could have potential ties to China. Furthermore, to widen the ban on infrastructure connected to China, a Republican state…
Georgia Runoff Elections
Talia Schwartz, Senior A lawsuit filed by Georgia Senator Raphael G. Warnock, who actively defended his position against Republican candidate Herschel Walker, resulted in an additional voting day for Georgia’s citizens. Incumbent Warnock fought for this extra voting day with the goal of attracting more voters than usual, mainly because Saturday voting gave people “greater…
Georgia Midterm Elections
Zoe Gast, Senior Many midterm elections on November 8th were won with very slight margins. Surprising democrat victories in Nevada and Arizona won with only 48.9 and 51.4 percent of the vote, respectively. Georgia, another recent swing state, had similar results with Warnock and Walker within one percent of each other. The difference, neither broke…