The death penalty is a costly, outdated, and unnecessary means of punishment that must be eliminated. While capital punishment may be a longstanding consequence in many countries, modern America has no reason to continue the practice of putting criminals to death.            Morality, of course, is a major issue of theRead More

It’s 11 p.m., the internet is down, and my night has just started. I have to plan out the next nine hours of my life carefully and precisely. I need six hours of sleep to function on the following day, and I also need half an hour to get readyRead More

When I was younger, people asked me about what superpower I wanted to have. Often times, my answer would be mind-reading — I was always curious about what was going on inside others’ minds. So when the opportunity came freshman spring to choose an elective, I joined psychology, the subjectRead More

  At the core of any Choate education lies homework — and while we’ve all had our objections to it at one point or another, it is always going to be a large part of every class that we take. It is the subject of countless complaints; from it beingRead More

  On December 22, after Congress failed to pass a spending package granting President Donald Trump P’00 the $5.7 billion he demanded for border security, the U.S. government partially shut down. Nearly a month later, the government finds itself facing the longest shutdown in U.S. history.            President Trump insists thatRead More

Beto O’Rourke An unsuccessful bid for the Senate rarely results in a nation-wide wave of support, much less status as a front runner for upcoming presidential elections. Yet El Paso democrat Beto O’Rourke has managed to create an impressive political narrative that inspired millions of Texans to vote in hisRead More

On Saturday, October 27, when the first coverage of the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh was being broadcasted, my parents and I were paying close attention. The massacre, later identified by news outlets as the deadliest attack on Jewish individuals in America, took place in Pittsburgh’sRead More

Since John F. Kennedy ’35 created affirmative action, a government initiative to educate and employ marginalized groups in the United States, race and background have become important factors in college admissions. In 2014, a group known as Students for Fair Admissions sued Harvard University, accusing the institution of discriminating againstRead More

After four terms as Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel has announced that she is not seeking re-election in 2021, when she plans to withdraw from politics completely. In her 13 years as chancellor, Merkel managed to overcome many ideological barriers while pushing Germany toward greater success.         Merkel was raised underRead More