On Sunday, Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond, two football players from Steubenville, Ohio, were convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl and sentenced to serve time in the state juvenile system -- Mays for at least two years and Richmond for at least one. Shockingly, in the...

In the 1400s, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, instantly revolutionizing the world of books, words, and literature. Since then, paper books have dominated for almost 600 years, enduring everything from economic hardship and world wars to rampant disease and political censorship. With the rise of the electronic age, however,...

The United States is riddled with numerous issues that threaten the livelihood and prosperity of its 300 million citizens. ObamaCare is being hotly contested, the war against terror has devolved into guerilla tactics and drone strikes, and climate change is a concern now more than ever. All of these issues...

Today, the United States pauses to commemorate the 11-year anniversary of one of the deadliest attacks on U.S. soil. With tragic memories of the over 3,000 innocent lives lost and a raging war on terror, September 11 has made an impact on our nation that has forever changed...

As a precursor, I have written this article using proper grammar -- not because I believe that it makes it any of my points more valid or more forceful, but because if it were written using poor grammar, no one would take it as seriously, as people would have preconceived...

We live in a world marked by its gradual shift toward equality. From absolute monarchs deriving their power through the divine right theory of kingship to the Declaration of Independence deriving its power through the consent of the governed, the history of our world is the story of this transition....

After being rescued from the Nazi concentration camps, the Holocaust survivors, along with the rest of the world, uttered a somber declaration: Never again. Symbolic and profound, these two words solidified a promise to future generations. Never again would the global community allow a dictator like Adolf Hitler to rise...

My school is a math and science powerhouse. We consistently win national math and science competitions, send handfuls of kids to MIT and CalTech, and, this year, we were even honored as the Intel Science School of Distinction for our scientific excellence. At the school-wide assembly celebrating this distinction, the...