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5 Reasons Why You Should Read the Federalist Papers

5 Reasons Why You Should Read the Federalist Papers

Mateusz Zielonka, Writer March 7, 2024

I was sitting in an American Public Policy class,watching a documentary about the Constitution. It featured Peter Sagal driving on a motorcycle with a copy of the Constitution. I thought back to the footage...

Series Review: Loki Season Two

Series Review: Loki Season Two

Andrew Holton February 16, 2024

After the events of season one, Loki (Tom Hiddleston) finds himself in another time dilemma. Now, his mission is to stabilize the timeline to protect the Time Variance Authority (TVA). Season two of Loki...

Phone Lockers. The Right Choice?

Phone Lockers. The Right Choice?

Mary Vande Hei, Writer February 1, 2024

This year, cell phone pockets have been reinvented into much a more extreme form, one that many high schoolers question on a daily basis. The implementation of cellphone lockers has been nearly unanimously...

OPINION - The Israel-Gaza War and Viewing People As Monoliths

OPINION – The Israel-Gaza War and Viewing People As Monoliths

Aidan Barney, Editor January 25, 2024

Over the past 3 months you’ve likely heard of the chaos that has been engulfing Israel and the Palestinian territory of Gaza, with rockets being levied by both the Israeli government as when as Hamas...

Movie Review: On the Count of Three

Movie Review: On the Count of Three

Andrew Holton, Writer January 20, 2024

The 2022 film On the Count of Three directed by Jerrod Carmichael sees Val (Jerrod Carmichael) and Kevin (Christopher Abbott) live out their last day of life in order to get closure after agreeing to a...

Bluey Review: A must watch for viewers of all ages.

Bluey Review: A “must watch” for viewers of all ages.

Ricky Shay, Writer December 19, 2023

Just another show with a blue dog?   While Bluey may seem like just another kids show, it has an amazing take on modern comedy and other popular topics in pop culture. Bluey is a charming series...

1989 Taylors Version Review

1989 Taylor’s Version Review

Lucy Koch, reporter December 15, 2023

Taylor Swift’s breakthrough into the music world in 2014 was marked by the release of 1989, the ultimate pop music album of my generation. The 13 track album -19 in the deluxe version- contained songs...

Letter to the Editor: Keep the Government Out of My Breakfast

Letter to the Editor: Keep the Government Out of My Breakfast

Kelda Roys December 5, 2023

RE: Keep the Government Out of My Breakfast, Oct. 30, 2023   (I unfortunately missed this when it was first published, but after hearing the great testimony from Tosa Compass student journalists...

Keep the Government Out of My Breakfast

Keep the Government Out of My Breakfast

Malik Boyd, Editor October 30, 2023

The writer of the bill discussed in this article (SB 567), Senator Kelda Roys, has replied in an letter to the editor. It can be read here. The author, along with his fellow editors at the Tosa Compass...

Supreme Court Impeachment: What it Would Look Like and Why It Would Matter - Opinion

Supreme Court Impeachment: What it Would Look Like and Why It Would Matter – Opinion

Aidan Barney, Editor October 25, 2023

On August 1st, the new Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasciewicz was sworn into office. It didn’t take long for our Republican lead legislature to start floating the idea of impeaching the...

British Library digitised image from The Bab Ballads (1898) by W.S. Gilbert

Students Need the Freedom of Press: The New Voices Bill

Malik Boyd, Editor October 23, 2023

Abe Fortas famously wrote in the case of Tinker v. Des Moines, “It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse...

House Speakership: Who’s Running and The Future

House Speakership: Who’s Running and The Future

Aidan Barney, Editor October 12, 2023

Last week on the third of October, Kevin McCarthy officially became the first person ever removed from the position of Speaker of the House. This occurred after Florida representative Matt Gaetz invoked...

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