Category: News
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Chaos in Syria: The Prevailing Kurdish-Turkish Conflict
By Max Gorbaty ‘22, News Writer A map conveys where various forces are positioned along Turkey’s border with northeastern Syria (Bbc.com) Upon the withdrawal of the majority of US armed forces from Syria in early October, Turkey pushed a new offensive against Kurdish troops along the Turkey-Syria border. This event is only the most recent…
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Andrew Yang: How #YangGang is Using Unconventional Politics to Create Change in the United States
By Ben Chaddha ‘21, News Editor With the 2020 presidential election on the horizon, Democratic candidates’ campaigns are in full swing. While many Americans use political experience as a metric to make their decision, there is one candidate without any political experience who has gained a considerable following. This candidate is the entrepreneur, Asian American,…
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Sage Dining Services
By Ben Chaddha ’21 and Trisha Bala ’22, News Editors For 25 years, the Browers have served Newark Academy every day for lunch. The cafeteria itself is a family business. They’ve been accommodating for events and allergies. Everyday, NA community members are greeted with smiling faces from the staff in the lunchroom, and many…
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CNN and Fox: How a Few Words Can Impact a Person’s Opinion
By Ava Cole ‘22, Staff Writer Nearly 60 percent of Americans stop reading the news after they’ve read the headlines. As a result, many form opinions on complex and multifaceted issues with a single phrase. In the modern day, our sources of news are often from the internet or from the T.V. However, the two…
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The Boeing 737 Max: How Will Boeing Regain Trust?
By Vikram Bala ‘20, News Editor On March 10th, 2019, Ethiopian Airlines (ICAO: ETH) flight 302 crashed near the town of Bishoftu just 6 minutes after takeoff. In total, 157 people were killed in the crash of the Boeing 737 Max 8 variant. Although isolated incidents do occur from time to time, air disasters are…
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Amazon in the News Today
By Kayla Cohen ‘21, Staff Writer Amazon, the online superstore used daily by people of all ages, is now the most valuable public company in the world, even ahead of Apple. But the company is in the headlines for problems involving employees, companies on the site, and its founder, Jeff Bezos. Here is everything you…
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CES 2019: Four Things You May Have in the Future
By Vikram Bala ‘20, News Editor We often see growth in technology as the production of new iPhones, or maybe even laptops with higher thread count (faster) CPU’s. However, in order to truly see the advances and new marvels of the technological world there is only one solution. CES (formerly known as the Consumer Electronics…
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Implications and Effects of the Longest Government Shutdown in U.S. History
By Ben Chaddha ‘21, Staff Writer At 35 days in length, the third government shutdown under the Trump Administration was the longest in American history. The shutdown began at midnight on December 22, 2018 when a little less than a quarter of government funding ran out, and ended on the 25th of January, 2019. Since…
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News from Space!
By Simon Gorbaty ‘19, News Editor Ultima Thule Fly-By 2019 began with one of the most daring scientific feats attempted by astrophysicists and engineers. On January 1st, the New Horizons Space Probe, best known for visiting Pluto in the summer of 2015, captured images of the Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule. The observed bowling-pin like…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Does she represent the future of this country? What does the NA Community think?
By Sophia Chen ‘20, News Writer On the night that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman to be sworn into the House of Representatives, footage of her dancing from college suddenly appeared on the internet. The “Breakfast Club” inspired dance video was created by Boston University students in 2010 when she was an undergraduate there.…