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16May Kiran Bagga '25 Winston Sun '25No Comments

Make America Exotic: Joe Maldonado’s Plans for 2024 

For the upcoming 2024 presidential election, Joe Maldonado [Exotic] wishes to “Make America Exotic.” Maldonado rose to fame from the hit show Tiger King, which garnered tens of millions of viewers in the first week alone. Following this were revelations that ended with his jail sentence for a murder-for-hire plot against Carole Baskin along with […]

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4May Ishaan Paladugu '25No Comments

One Year of War

The war in Ukraine has now been going on for a year, marking an important turning point in the continuing struggle between Ukraine and separatists with support from Russia. Despite efforts to end the dispute, which started in 2014, there hasn’t been much success in doing so. A ceasefire agreement was struck in July 2020 […]

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1May Roma Reddy ' 25No Comments

Biden Administration’s Student Loan Debt Plan

President Joe Biden has created a plan, currently under review by the Supreme Court, to address the student loan debt crisis. His plan involves relieving $20,000 in student loans for federal aid borrowers, which is expected to cost $400 billion. This crucial decision could impact millions of adults in the U.S. who still suffer under […]

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16Apr Utsav Mittal '25 Larry Zhan138 Comments

New year, same issues: Lunar New Year shootings

The Lunar New Year is a time to celebrate, renew, and welcome the new year for many families. However, tragedy struck amidst celebrations in the communities of Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay in California. On Jan. 22 inside a dance studio in Monterey Park, eleven people were shot and killed while celebrating the Lunar […]

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23Feb Saloni Bhatia '24No Comments

PA State Governor Transition

On January 3, Democrats and Republicans came together to select Representative Mark Rozzi as the new Pennsylvania State House speaker.  There has recently been a fight for control in the Pennsylvania State House because both parties declared themselves as the majority. Democrats technically won more State House seats in Pennsylvania; unfortunately, one of the representatives […]

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13Feb Ishaan Paladugu '25 Roy Zhao '25No Comments

2022 Recap

Future historians will come to regard 2022 as a major turning point in world history, and the beginning of a new era. A war breaking out in Europe, major developments in women’s rights, and the the dawn of an environmental crisis are just some of the events that constitute this eventful year. Ukraine On Feb. […]

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12Feb Jessica Wang Neha Jonnalagadda '25 Alan Liu '24No Comments

Belfry prepares for Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale 

The Belfry team is working hard to prepare this year’s Shakespeare play, A Winter’s Tale After blowing the GA community away with their production of Urinetown in November of last year, the Belfry crew is kicking off the new year by working on Shakespeare’s intriguing play, A Winter’s Tale.  Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, […]

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11Feb theeditionga Katherine Song '25No Comments

GA community closes first semester with annual Holiday Program

On Dec. 19 2022, Germantown Academy hosted its annual, school-wide Holiday Program for the first time since 2019. GA’s CSO hosts a Holiday Program every year before winter break. Students and faculty donate gifts that benefit local charities for the holiday season. The Holiday Program is a special event because it’s one of the few […]

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16Jan Grace Taylor '24No Comments

Meteorite Discovery Might Reveal the Origin of Earth’s Water

With approximately 71% of the Earth’s surface covered by the essential molecule, many have wondered how water first arrived on the previously barren planet. However, the recent discovery of a peculiar meteorite may finally hold the answer to this age-old question.  The 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite landed in front of a family home in the English […]

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14Jan Shae Sawyer- St. Clair '24No Comments

Trump Presidential Campaign + Facebook

On Tuesday, November 12, 2022, former President, Donald Trump, announced his campaign for president of the United States at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida. He hopes for “America to make a comeback.”  This announcement comes amid investigations surrounding the insurrection of January 6, 2021 and his handling of classified documents after his time […]

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