On Sept. 10, conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking at Utah Valley University. Online reactions either mourned Kirk, condemned his legacy, or decried gun violence. The U.S. Senate passed a National Day of Remembrance for Kirk on Sept. 19 and awarded...

On Nov. 4, California voters will vote on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 50, a measure allowing the state to gerrymander: deliberately redrawing congressional district boundaries partisanly. Newsom is pushing back against conservative gerrymanders this year, abandoning the independent California Citizens...

In another attempt to stamp its ideological hegemony on America’s educational institutions, the Trump administration asked eleven elite research universities — including the University of Southern California (USC), Dartmouth College, and Brown University — to sign a “Compact for Academic Excellence...

Ghosts, skeletons, and witchcraft are all elements of a spooky Halloween, but the real horror lies elsewhere: the purity culture that criticizes women for expressing themselves through "overly sexual" costumes while men in similar outfits go unnoticed. These misogynistic critiques turn Halloween into...

California passed the Phone-Free Schools Act in September 2024, requiring schools to restrict phone usage during the school day by June 2026. Oxford Academy began enforcing this policy for the 2025-26 school year, prohibiting students from using their phones on campus outside of lunch and after school...

Following Congress’ Recessions Act of 2025, which cut approximately 1.1 billion dollars of funding for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting (CPB), the Senate’s newly outlined 2026 fiscal year appropriations budget includes no signs of future funding for the corporation. On Aug. 1, the CPB announced...

Social media’s latest fixation is the “performative man”: the guy with a Labubu keychain dangling from his baggy low-rise jeans, Clairo blasting through his wired earphones, feminist literature held upside down in one hand, and an iced matcha latte in the other. The meme satirizes men who project...

On July 4, President Trump signed his Big Beautiful Bill into law, granting immigration-border enforcement over $170 billion in funding for the next four years and increasing ICE’s annual budget threefold from $8.7 billion to over $27 billion. This makes ICE the highest funded law enforcement agency...

On March 8, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers detained Palestinian green card holder Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student, at his on-campus apartment lobby. The Trump administration accused Khalil, who led and participated in numerous pro-Palestinian activities on campus, of...

Summer break, a time for relaxation and rejuvenation, has lost its meaning. Long gone are the days of beach vacations and late night hangouts; now summer is marked by the constant plight of students scrambling to craft the “perfect resume” with internships, extracurriculars, and additional coursework....

On April 2, President Donald Trump introduced a new set of reciprocal tariffs — taxes on imported goods aimed at international trading partners — from a baseline of 10% to rates reaching 125% for countries with the largest trade deficit with the U.S., affecting foreign goods. The tariffs extend “America...

Last November, the Anaheim Union High School District (AUHSD) approved Measure K, a $496 million bond designed to improve quality of life and education on campuses. For Oxford, this funding represents an acute opportunity to address long-overdue facility needs that haven’t kept up with its growing...