L’Editor: Matthew Whitaker: tall tales of toilets and time travel

By Ken Johnson Matthew Whitaker is the acting U.S. attorney general. He is a criminal, equal parts boner-pill hawker and H. H. Holmes. His antics are entertaining and stupid, but fundamentally Midwest horrible, like Chick-fil-A pumping legions of children to obesity. He is the personification of the land of all-American…

L’Editor: Climate Change: Endgame

By Ken Johnson I want to point out something that might not be obvious: Climate change is going to screw up the world — irreparably. There are three, not four, horsemen of the apocalypse: climate change, immigration, and nationalism. These harbingers of the end times are compounding each other, building…

L’Editor: The U.S. Supreme Court is jammed with villains

By Ken Johnson The Supreme Court is supposed to be the Super Friends: wise, fair, and moral. That’s the impression my American Government class left with me. The executive branch might be brutal. The legislative branch might be corrupt. But not the judicial branch, not the Supreme Court, they weather…

Throwaway to gourmet; dealing with America’s food waste

By: Kai Vieira da Rosa Americans love food. Food culture has become integrated into the American psyche. Aside from eating food, we write about it, we travel for it, and we accessorize our love for it on our clothes and hats. Now it seems eating has changed from a primal…

In light of controversy student journalism remains critical

By Kai Vieira da Rosa On the final issue of winter quarter, the Horizon pulled their last paper from school circulation. The articles pulled were not meant to be malicious or misleading in any way, but sometimes mistakes are made. Here at the horizon, every mistake is a new learning…

Seeking truth of the Sikh

By Alex Moreno Are you sure you know the differences between a Sikh and Muslim individual and their ideologies? At the Horizon we found ourselves debating and assuming varying ideas about the Sikh religion and its members. “Nearly 60 percent of Americans admit knowing nothing at all about Sikhs,” NPR’s…