February 12, 2021 at 1:54 pm Comments are Disabled
I downloaded TikTok for the same reasons everyone else did: I thought it would be funny, and I was bored. But, just like everyone else, I found myself using the app much more than I had intended to. I admit that these hours were not completely wasted. Through TikTok, IRead More
January 22, 2021 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
On Wednesday, January 6, the Capitol, the United States, and democracy as a whole were attacked. Thousands of supporters of former President Donald Trump P’00 marched towards Capitol Hill, smashing windows, climbing barricades, and pilfering furniture in an attempt to delegitimize one of the most celebrated democratic processes in U.S.Read More
January 22, 2021 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
Over the past four years, I have come to see the United States of America as a postcard picture of Mount Rushmore. A feat to create, yes, but also a desecration of a Lakota Sioux landmark, the Six Grandfathers Mountain — a tribute to some of the greatest and mostRead More
January 22, 2021 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
This summer, as I drove past a row of houses proudly displaying the American flag, I pondered when the symbol of America became so distorted. Has it always been this way? No; when I was younger, I loved celebrating the Fourth of July and dressing up for America Day duringRead More
January 22, 2021 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
On January 5, Republicans anxiously watched their television screens as votes poured in across the state of Georgia. With former President Donald Trump P’00 losing the U.S. presidential election on November 3, the GOP set its sights on the Georgia runoff elections, determined to retain a Republican majority in theRead More
January 22, 2021 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
Former President Donald Trump P’00 is currently banned from Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms in light of his encouragement of the riots at Capitol Hill on January 6. In a further attempt to muffle Trump’s harmful, violence-inciting rhetoric, Google and Apple have removed Parler, a popular Twitter-alternative usedRead More
January 22, 2021 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
Throughout his four years in office, former President Donald Trump P’00 dismantled hundreds of environmental policies, exacerbating the world’s raging climate crisis. The weeks before President Joe Biden’s inauguration have been no different. The Trump administration finalized over 47 pieces of legislation known as “midnight regulations” — policies implemented immediatelyRead More
December 18, 2020 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
To the office staff at my elementary school, Thank you. I don’t know whether the class rosters were generated randomly or if you all hand-picked them yourself, but on the day you placed Olivia and me into the same kindergarten class, you introduced me to my best friend. Well, IRead More
December 18, 2020 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
On December 19, 2019, as the year came to a close, the 113th Masthead of The Choate News published a special issue celebrating the 2010s by surveying the major events the School had seen over the past decade. In the year since then, it seems as if the School, andRead More