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By Henry De La Cruz
By Mehr Narang
Throughout history, few forces have carried as much quiet resilience, biological wonder, and social controversy as menstruation.

By Henry De La Cruz
By Blessing Chang
In the USA, everyone claims to value democracy and equal representation, but the fact is that we are losing that initial sense of democracy that was founded in our country. Today, a president can be elected without winning the popular vote; that is what the Electoral College allows to happen. This structure was set up in the 18th century as a settlement between choosing the president by Congress or by popular vote. In today’s America, the Electoral College does more bad than it does good. It misrepresents the value of single votes, it opens onto biased election results, and supports partisanship. The Electoral College should be abolished because it lets a candidate who lost the popular vote still win; it sets out unequal power to voters who are living in small states, and makes unreliability and unfairness in elections.

By Dana Svinly
Every night, she checks a clock that does not belong to her...
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