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Sam didn’t know why she wanted to talk. She had been finishing up the chocolate mousse cake for her son’s eighth birthday when Lily called her. It was a call on the wind, cryptic and strange, but like ...

Beyonce and Post Malone being nominated for country awards at the Grammys in February isn’t something I predicted. Sure, both are artists with skill in their respective home genres, but Cowboy Carter ...

As Evanston’s “fake springs” temporarily relieve the Northwestern community from below-freezing temperatures, a glimpse of warmer days on the horizon calls for a closet revamp – but with a sustainable ...

Follow Jorge Martinez as he covers a Supreme Court meeting in Washington, D.C., as a student reporter in the Medill on the Hill program. From an early morning commute to taking detailed notes, get a ...

I’m pretty sure every Medill student hears this at some point. Probably, multiple times. We get the pitch for Journalism Residency (JR) even before we get to campus: It’s an internship baked into the ...

How cruel is it, that I am only allowed to remember by memory? In the very booth, that takes memories and bundles them up into a package of 4. The captured ones I distinctly forget. Everything was in ...

The Northwestern for Ukraine club painted the Rock on Feb. 24 to commemorate the three-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The 30-person group has done so every year since the invasion.

All my life, I have always felt invisible. (No, girl. Don’t worry – this isn’t going in a sad, boo-hoo, poor-me direction.) I felt invisible in the sense that I was irrelevant – not part of the system ...

The psychology of seat picking. This is actually a science. It’s an experimental field, but definitely a real one. You probably already practice this intricate yet subtle science. Whether it’s the ...