The Met Gala is a pretty big deal. In 2020, the event raised over $15 million for the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each year, people across the world tune in to see what the world’s...

Over the weekend, I came home to a rough scene. It was time to feed crickets to my pet leopard gecko of 17 years. As he came crawling out of his synthetic rock cave, I noticed something was very wrong:...

It’s not a stretch to say the final weeks of the Trump administration some eight months ago were a chaotic mess of conspiracy theories and a petty display of uncooperativeness. However, much of the real...

Dear Senator Manchin, You befuddle me. You anger me. You, at times, are the greatest example of what I despise most about the Senate. However, at the same time, I respect you. I am grateful that you...

This week, the hotly anticipated new crime film, “The Many Saints of Newark", hit theaters after having been delayed for over a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The movie is finally getting its chance...

After three Zoom semesters, the Wake Forest experience is now almost completely in person. With this shift, there have been many changes to our social, emotional and academic attitudes. While I am thankful...

You can see it as you walk through the quad: droopy eyelids and ever-widening yawns; massive coffees and bottomless energy drinks; overflowing backpacks and too-full notebooks. You don’t need to expressly...

Over Labor Day weekend, I drove out to Colorado from Kansas City. On the way there, I took the usual route across the state of Kansas and then headed over to Pikes Peak — I had never been there before...

If the past five years have taught the American people anything, it is that politics and elections are messy. They are divisive, frustrating, and often don’t elicit results the public finds satisfying....

Over the past few months, the eyes of the world have been watching Afghanistan following the United States’ withdrawal of troops out of the country. As has been well-reported, the Taliban quickly organized...

This week, as I was completing classwork, I found myself staring at a poster hanging up on my wall. The poster is of the character Omar Little from "The Wire". It features the quotation, “You come at...

President Joe Biden’s time in office is equivalent to a rotting apple. Last semester, as I enjoyed the semi-healthy aura of the new administration, I played both sides — or rather, agreed and disagreed...