“ Why is it that from mid-October till Christmas day every TV commercial and YouTube ad is for a Holiday sale or a new red and green (with white sparkles!) product? Aren’t Christmas and all those other holidays supposed to be about community and love and stuff? When did they become so intensely present centered? One thing for sure is that it’s not an accident. It’s Capitalism. “ -Nic Songster, 9th grade

"It was 2013, and that time of year again; the sun setting early, lights in every window, red and green adorned everything in sight. In my house, a disgruntled Christmas tree stood in the living room, strung with IKEA lights. Except my tree had soul, jazz, and reggae records jammed between the branches, and a grubby menorah whose candleholders were full of multicolored dried wax sat in the window, forlorn. This was my holiday, and it’s always been like that; a contradiction." -- Viv Mansbach, 9th grade

"In this article, there are picture and board books that are centered around holidays including Kwanzaa, Christmas, and Hanukkah. Enjoy!"--Maia Cavagnolo 6th grade

"One out of three tiktok users is 14 or younger. What happens when that audience is constantly exposed to plastic surgery content?"--Vivien Mansbach, 9th grade

"School shootings continue to be a PAttern in america, what's it like to walk  school hallways knowing how likely it is you could be the next victim?" -- Lola Christ, 9th Grade

"As Stranger Things 4 has reached global fame, so have its actors, including 80’s and 90’s phenomenon Winona Ryder. " -- Alex Stullman, 7th Grade

"Did you know that all of Harry Potter’s spells are in Latin? Or that the sea in House on the Cerulean Sea is a real place? Did you know that the book Howl's Moving Castle came out in 1986, but the movie came out in 2005?" -- Hayley schoeneman and Maia Cavagnolo

“OSA and its leadership team have recently made the decision to move the gender neutral bathroom off of the third floor and onto the second. Despite the admin’s reasoning for doing so, students still have many strong feelings towards the matter.” -- Bella Schainker

“A social media thread has reignited the dialogue about straight women in queer venues, and who really belongs in designated LGBTQ spaces.”--Vivien Mansbach, 9th Grade

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"Chess is arguably the most complex and skillful game ever to be played. It’s been around for a millennium, played by people all over the world of all backgrounds. It’s been played by rulers, by kings and queens, by multitudes of famous people from all over the world of all time periods (such as Napoleon, Albert Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin, among others), and finally, the average person. It’s currently as popular as ever, with chess professionals playing in tournaments with large prize funds organized by organizations dedicated solely to doing just this, not to mention a more recent controversy between Hans Niemen and Magnus Carlsen making headlines. This article goes through all the moves of possibly the most famous chess game of all time, the Immortal Game, and explains them in a way that is hopefully understandable even to someone who doesn’t play chess." -- Isaiah Kahn, 7th grade