As a young kid, I dreamed of going to Columbia University. Ivy League prestige, in the middle of Manhattan — it seemed perfect. The only problem then? $61,671. That is the tuition required to attend Columbia. For just one year. Even with some financial...

Long, impersonal, repetitive, stressful: there are few things less popular, especially among young people, than standardized testing. Specifically, when students reach their junior year, it’s not just yearly state testing that they have to worry about...

After a few weeks away, Liberty and Justice for All is back, and it couldn’t be at a better time. This past week, Ketanji Brown Jackson, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (in other words, the United States’...

What is intersectionality? For some, this term carries negative political connotations. It has been branded by some people as a “radical leftist idea” of some sort, and conservative commentators have gone as far as to call it “the new caste system”...

The goal of “Liberty and Justice for All” is to create thoughtful dialogue around important issues in our society. With that goal in mind, the column will occasionally host guest writers, who will be able to provide different perspectives on issues...

“Liberty and Justice for All” is a column about issues of equality. Or is it about issues of equity? Are they different? Does it matter? I think it does. It matters because the words we use matter, and that’s never more true than when we are...

“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” In other words, a person’s sex cannot be used as a reason to discriminate against them in the United States. Right? Unfortunately,...

If someone asks you to refer to them with “they/them/theirs” pronouns, it is your basic duty as a human to respect and follow their request. The same applies to “he/him/his,” “she/her/hers,” neopronouns used by some non-binary people such...

About two years ago, I wrote one of the most popular articles in Eastside Online history. At the time, I was a journalistic novice, having just published my first print story a few weeks prior. When I published an opinion piece titled “The United States...