Chicago is gearing up for the upcoming municipal elections, with various candidates vying for seats across the city. We'll focus on some candidates endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America. The...
The most important thing I’ll do in my graduate school career happened during the fall of my first year: I got involved in my university’s student worker union. I first heard about...
Don’t read this if you’re hungry, because we’re talking holiday desserts. I’ve made Christmas cookies and babka before, but this holiday baking season I wanted to try something...
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have passed, but the time for making holiday wish lists has just begun. It’s Northwestern President Michael Schill’s first year at NU, so we thought...
This Thanksgiving, my cousin and I found our 18 and 19-year-old selves sitting, for the umpteenth year in a row, at the kids' table. Last I checked, 18 is the legal age of adulthood...
Just a few days ago, Lily Cohen authored an op-ed entitled, "I am more proud of my Jewish identity than anyone can ever hate me for it." Cohen and all Jewish students deserve spaces...
Word on the street is, George R.R. Martin, one of Northwestern’s most renowned alumni, is back at Northwestern and he’s feeling generous enough to donate a creative writing professor...
I wholeheartedly support Lily Cohen’s celebration of her Jewish identity in her op-ed published last week and would love to take her up on the offer of a Shabbat dinner. Her experience...
It seems society has finally reached its breaking point with rapper Kanye West. It should’ve happened sooner. West has recently come under fire for making several antisemitic comments...
If you listen closely to the final track on Beyoncé’s critically acclaimed house album, “Renaissance,” you may recognize a familiar techno synth melody. On “SUMMER RENAISSANCE,”...
We engage in peer support all the time, often out of necessity — as a fugitive act. Peer support can be life-saving and life-preserving, a disruption to the death-making institutions...
There is no place where I feel more at home than Shabbat services at Hillel, surrounded by other Jewish students praying proudly and passionately. During the past three years, that...
Content warning: this story contains mentions of anti-Black violence. Early Tuesday morning, Kirshnik Ball, known as Takeoff of the Atlanta rap trio Migos, was shot and killed. His...
Getting off the plane to Paris this fall, I found an airport café and ordered in French. Ten minutes before, with my phone tilted so no one could see my screen, I Google Translated...
Week eight is just around the corner, though it seems like this year just started, like, five days ago — but that's just our opinion. In the past seven weeks, we’ve published 18...
Evanston voters will have the opportunity on Election Day to revolutionize the city’s electoral system and create a more representative, engaged and civil democracy. On the ballot...
