The 2020 election proved to be the most nail-biting and consequential election of our lifetimes for many reasons: Record-high early voting and extremely close races with a raging pandemic as the backdrop. Voters cast a record-breaking 158,000,000 ballots...

A devastating pandemic was definitely not part of most people's plans for this year. It definitely wasn't part of mine as a graduating high school senior. Instead of hugging my friends in graduation photos, we had to social distance. Instead of being...

For anyone wondering why The Trial of the Chicago 7 so successfully portrays a story from 1968 and makes it so relevant to the current state of the country, it’s not just because of excellent screenwriting and outstanding performances. It’s also because...

Politics isn’t my thing, so I’d like to say that right off the bat. It’s a topic of conversation I’ve stayed away from for most of my life, but this country needs a reliable leader who's competent, communicates efficiently and is ethical — at...

The numbers show that El Paso has one of the highest rates of new COVID-19 infections in the country and that makes me feel so disappointed and angry, but it doesn't surprise me at all. My mom got COVID-19 after a coworker of hers went to work knowing...

Editor's note: The two high school teachers mentioned in this article are only referred to by parts of their names at their request. Doing so also protects them from any action by school administration. Since the very beginning of our academic careers,...

The recent death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg shook the nation to its core and despite the turbulent politics around the time of her death, the achievements of the second woman to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)...

Vivir en la frontera de Ciudad Juárez y El Paso nos da la oportunidad de (literalmente) ver dos países al mismo tiempo; conocer y comparar sus culturas, su gente, sus costumbres y sus tradiciones. Sin embargo, también se vuelve sencillo percibir...

I never thought that I would one day be leading a newsroom as editor-in-chief during a global public health crisis. Yet here I am – pandemic and all. Not to mention that the national economy is still in shambles and that this past summer was a...

While leadership in the United States remains divided on the solutions to the current COVID-19 pandemic, with states and cities all using different tactics to combat the coronavirus, it is important to not base decisions on what is convenient...