Soon after his inauguration, President Trump wasted no time in setting the tone for his second term in office, resuming many of the policies that defined his presidency in 2016. He passed executive orders...
Polytechnic School’s Statement on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), adopted 2020, reads: “Diversity of ideas, experiences, and identities within the school enriches the experience of everyone...
My love of books began before I could even read them.
My dad read to me when I was younger––when I was still finding my footing in the phonetics and sound, intrigued by stories but unable to piece...
Ashlyn Motley, Student contributor
• February 28, 2025
In the 2024 presidential election, Republican Donald Trump received 49.8% of the vote and Democrat Kamala Harris received 48.3%, with Independent Jill Stein receiving 2.13%. Under our American electoral...
Late starts and two-hour lunches: the best parts about Block Days. In previous years, Block Days started with a two-hour block at 9:00 a.m., followed by a two-hour lunch, and then another two-hour block,...
Allison Zhang, Assistant Opinion Editor
• January 31, 2025
On an average but windy Tuesday on January 7, 2025, two major wildfires broke out. These fires spread rapidly, one blazing through the Pacific Palisades and Malibu, and the other torching Altadena. Surrounding...
Bodies fill the Poly gym for the first time in three days––conversation, laughs and “how have you been?” jumbling in the air. Around the gym’s perimeter, white fold-out tables overflow with toiletries,...
Clive Burt, Assistant opinion editor
• January 31, 2025
At some point in Poly’s Middle School history curriculum, I learned that firefighting used to be a privatized sector in 18th-century America. My teacher tried to explain the injustice that stemmed from...
Miki Chan, Assistant opinion editor
• January 31, 2025
At the start of the new year, Angelenos found themselves beneath skies choked with smoke, as shrieking “devil winds” whipped across hillsides so arid they thirsted to burn. This time, the California...
Poor Thanksgiving. Wedged between cheesy Halloween ghoulishness and the sparkling commercialism of Christmas, Thanksgiving is treated by American citizens as a mere prelude to the holiday season or, even...
On Nov. 6, former President Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election by a sweeping amount against Vice President Kamala Harris, amassing 76 million votes to Harris’ 73 million. He will become...
As we approach the start of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term, the Poly community has expressed a range of reactions: some grieved, some celebrated and some simply shrugged off the results....
