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GRAPHIC: GABRIELLA GUZZARDO '23

Student loan forgiveness

Patrick Adams September 8, 2022

Temporary aid to a growing crisis America does not have a student loan problem, it has a student loan crisis. Since 2007, student loan debt has increased 144% to around 1.7 trillion dollars. As the...

GRAPHIC: TOM SWEENEY ’22/ THE HAWK

Our solemn march from Afghanistan

Connor Mignano September 8, 2021

On Aug. 30, 2021, the U.S.’s longest war finally came to an end. In his speech the next day, President Biden declared that he would be the last president “to send another generation of America’s...

WYSK: Juneteenth

WYSK: Juneteenth

Tayler Washington June 19, 2021

What is Juneteenth? (June + nineteenth) Juneteenth, which stands for June Nineteenth, is a commemoration of an announcement made on June 19, 1865, by Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger informing enslaved...

Biden strays from old guard

Biden strays from old guard

Max Giuliana April 13, 2021

President's early agenda more liberal than expected When U.S. President Joe Biden became the Democratic nominee for the 2020 election, the party was conveying a message that they were aiming for a return...

Biden’s Executive Orders

Biden’s Executive Orders

Max Giuliana February 3, 2021

What the recession tells us about economic fragility Within hours of his swearing in, U.S. President Joe Biden got to work introducing his vision for the U.S. With several strokes of a pen, the president...

GRAPHIC: CASEY WOOD '23/THE HAWK

Timeline of the 2020 Presidential Election

Carly Calhoun November 23, 2020

Election officials have determined that presidential nominee Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris are the president-elect and vice president-elect of the U.S. They won 75,629,199 of the popular vote and 290...

Can a Biden administration restore unity?

Can a Biden administration restore unity?

Connor Mignano November 17, 2020

President-elect's ultimate challenge will be closing the divide On Nov. 7, President-elect Joe Biden gave a victory speech in Wilmington, Delaware that outlined his vision for America. He spoke to the...

Biden-Harris supporters walk down Broad Street from City Hall to the Pennsylvania Convention Center, where Biden-Harris and Trump-Pence supporters have been protesting since election night.

Election 2020

Mitchell Shields November 11, 2020

On Nov. 7, as soon as the news broke that the Associated Press called Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the next president and vice-president, Philadelphians poured into the streets in response. Philadelphians...

ILLUSTRATION: CASE WOOD '23/THE HAWK

Election Column: Candidates make final appeals to voters

Maggie Brennen October 27, 2020

After hearing that microphones would be muted and U.S. President Donald Trump’s advisors told him to “tone it down,” Americans might have expected the final presidential debate to be far less chaotic...

Presidential Candidate Platforms

Presidential Candidate Platforms

Aidan McGahey October 20, 2020

According to a recent poll from Tufts University, young people hold the following issues as the most important heading into the 2020 election. Here’s where Republican U.S. President Donald Trump and...

ILLUSTRATION: CASE WOOD '23/THE HAWK

Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis and a whirlwind debate

Maggie Brennen October 6, 2020

With the first 2020 presidential debate on Sept. 29, last week was anticipated to be a significant point in the election. What was not anticipated was U.S. President Donald Trump contracting COVID-19,...

2020 election updates: a contested election

Patrick Adams September 29, 2020

Since last week, U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly declined to promise a peaceful transfer of power following a potential defeat in November. On Sept. 24, President Trump said in a White House press...

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