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Why NYCAL Needs Reform

Why NYCAL Needs Reform

By Omorinmola Akinwande, Writer January 25, 2024

The UNIS Sports program is undoubtedly associated with winning. In the 2023 New York City Athletic League (NYCAL) fall season, both the boys’ varsity and junior varsity soccer teams won the NYCAL championship....

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Lines of Flight: Death and Deforestation in Brazil

By Carlos Tavares, Writer March 13, 2022

A series of unexpected events and activity in other institutions has prevented me from writing as much as I would like to. In my last article, “The Anthropocene and Posthumanism” (published in the...

Lines of Flight: The Anthropocene and Posthumanism

Lines of Flight: The Anthropocene and Posthumanism

By Carlos Tavares, Writer October 3, 2021

“Lines of flight” is a term coined by the philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to trace the pathways of desire and to describe the totality of ideas that can spring out of the unconscious:...

Closing the Gap in American Political Polarization

Closing the Gap in American Political Polarization

By Tatiana Barberi, Visuals Editor June 18, 2021

“Existential fear appears to be at the heart of what drives polarization.” –Kirk Schneider, Ph.D. Columbia University Over the last 20 years, political polarization and partisan antipathy have...

The Rise of Political Polarization and Partisanship in the U.S.

The Rise of Political Polarization and Partisanship in the U.S.

By Andrei Khazatsky, Writer June 7, 2021

Nowadays it seems as though politics in the United States are more polarized than ever. To many, the Democrats have moved further to the left, and the Republicans further to the right, with both Congress...

A Pessimists View on IB and Exams

A Pessimist’s View on IB and Exams

By Carlos Tavares, Writer June 7, 2021

A Brief Note to the Administration, Counselors, Teachers, Parents … This article is based on conversations and interactions I have had with fellow IB students. It would be wrong to say that certain...

Why we Must Remember Tiananmen for Those who Can’t

Why we Must Remember Tiananmen for Those who Can’t

By Anonymous June 4, 2021

This year marks the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, which took place on June 4th, 1989. Untold numbers of university students from all across China were brutally murdered in a night...

“I am not a virus,” a mixed-media artwork by Sophie Hafter.

I am Here for You: Understanding AAPI Violence

By Sophie Hafter, Contributing writer April 28, 2021

As a young female Asian-American, this past year, I have been horrified at the violent attacks on Asian communities globally and violence against women that have come to the surface. I was adopted from...

He Said, She Said, They Said: Why Proper Pronoun Protocol Matters

He Said, She Said, They Said: Why Proper Pronoun Protocol Matters

By Felipe Tavares, Writer February 25, 2021

Pronouns are a basic part of any language and have existed for as long as verbal communication has. So why is it that in 2020, after millenia of use, they are still a topic of conversation, with Merriam...

How Well Connected Are We to the UN?

How Well Connected Are We to the UN?

By Felipe Tavares, staff writer June 22, 2020

When the United Nations headquarters were established in New York in 1945, new employees from all over the world faced a personal problem: what to do with their children. The children often didn’t speak...

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