Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer On the 2nd of June of this year, with much at stake and the eyes of the globe on them, eight radically different Israeli parties would form a coalition to oust long standing Likud Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu While many were overjoyed to see a bipartisan effort to remove the increasingly autocratic […]
Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer Since the first Covid-19 vaccines were manufactured early this year, national governments worldwide have been scrambling to obtain the different resources necessary to vaccinate their citizens and stabilize their economies. Quickly realizing the international market’s need for a novel coronavirus vaccine, different corporations such as Pfizer and Moderna would rapidly manufacture the […]
Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer A staple of the Miami festival and rap scene, Rolling Loud would recently announce their first in-person concert in Miami since the novel coronavirus pandemic broke out over a year ago in February of 2020. The three-day hip-hop festival is programmed to run from July 23rd to the 25th with a lineup […]
Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer This past Earth Day, President Joe Biden hosted the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate and just before that organized two-day talks between representatives of the United States and the People’s Republic of China. The goals of these talks were of increased mutual cooperation regarding the global issue of climate change. As the […]
Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer Since the January elections, the 117th U.S. Senate has been divided 50-50 with an even split between the Republican and Democratic senators. The tie breaking vote to pass legislation in the Senate has been that of Vice President Kamala Harris, who would cast her vote for the first time to help pass […]
Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer This article is a part of PantherNow’s opinion section “Pandemic and Me” series Pretty soon we will all complete a full year in quarantine. It was around this time last March that the previous sitting president Donald Trump declared the coronavirus outbreak a national emergency. Many national institutions and workplaces, including universities […]
Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer Picture this. You are scrolling through your social media, not looking for anything in particular, and the majority of advertisements on your screen feature women in their twenty-somethings. This might not stand out to you and honestly, your brain has probably become accustomed to primarily seeing women in their late teens or […]
Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer The politicization first seen a few months ago in the race to manufacture the Covid-19 vaccine has now evolved into the politicization of the global vaccination campaign, as the United States, China, Russia and other countries attempt to extend their spheres of influence via the sale of their vaccines. In many ways, […]
Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer If you were to walk into a grocery store today in the United States and buy bananas, chances are that those bananas have an oval blue sticker with the Chiquita logo plastered on it. Most consumers, even the most environmentally and socially conscious, might find it at a surface level impossible to […]
Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer From the middle of 2019 up till now, people all over the world have risen up to protest abuses of power by the heads of state and the legislative bodies of their countries. This abuse of power usually manifests itself as police violence and brutality against citizens who are fighting for their […]
Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer On November 7th, after five days of intense vote counting and ricocheting nerves, most major national news outlets, including the Associated Press, called the presidential election for Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden. Yet even with the announcement, the presidential race is still far from over as tensions fly high. Close proximities with […]
Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer When most people think of medicine, the first image to pop up in their mind is that of doctors in neatly pressed white coats and sterile, cold hospital hallways. There is always an incoming emergency and an exact diagnosis for the case. This stereotypification of western medical practices is most exemplified with […]
