Youth Journalism Alliance
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Science Fairs: the Barometer of American STEM Culture
Recently, heated debates have sparked in the Republican Party over the H-1B visa program and whether it ultimately benefits America. Tech entrepreneurs Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk have argued that the program is necessary because American culture does not value intelligence enough, with Ramaswamy tweeting that “American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence.” But are…
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Humanitarianism: A Journey of Two Worlds
With the rise of tension in global geopolitics, the humanitarian crises and the relief efforts inevitably unveil under the media spotlights. What is the history of humanitarian aids? What is the present and future of the humanitarian system? YJA interviewed three UN OCHA leaders, Joyce Msuya (the assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs), Lisa Doughten (Director,…
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Paging the Surgeon General: An Insight on the Military, Medicine, and Youth Involvement
What does it take to lead military medicine across a country as vast as Canada? Decades of clinical expertise? The ability to make life-or-death decisions under pressure? Or maybe just the patience to navigate bureaucracy while keeping soldiers safe?
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Beneath the Waters, The Key to Predicting Earthquakes May Surface
Earthquakes are scary, and what makes them even scarier is that they’re unpredictable: we never know when the next “big one” will hit. Earthquakes and tsunamis have wreaked havoc on human civilization since the beginning of time, with the earliest recorded occurring in the 2000s BCE. And we’ve been trying to explain why they occur for nearly just as long.
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Winner of 6th New York Times Student Podcast Contest Episode 11: The Past, The Present, and The Forkture
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Are clichés the villains of our writing — or simply misunderstood? We love to hate clichés — but what if they were never the enemy? The researchers found the little known benefits of clichés
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In a tug-of-war between power and liberty, how did habeas corpus evolve from enforcing the king’s authority to freeing elephants?
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In that dramatic ancient ritual, with puffs of smoke as a signal in the age of the iPhone, we caught the first whiff of the many ironies that swirl around the modern papacy like incense in a cathedral. With all eyes on Rome, here are a few of the contradictions that rise with the smoke.
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Recently, heated debates have sparked in the Republican Party over the H-1B visa program and whether it ultimately benefits America. Tech entrepreneurs Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk have argued that the program is necessary because American culture does not value intelligence enough, with Ramaswamy tweeting that “American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence.” But are…
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