aow archive
Below are links to the Article of the Week files for the past five school years.
2024-2025
“Supreme Court Denies Student’s Right to Wear ‘Only Two Genders’ T-shirt at School” by David G. Savage for the New York Times
“Russia Intensifies Attacks on Ukraine as U.S. Steps Back” by Marc Santora for the New York Times
“Supreme Court Could Block Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order but Limit Nationwide Injunctions” by Mark Sherman and Lindsay Whitehurst for the Associated Press
“The Danger for India and Pakistan Has Not Gone Away” by Mujib Mashal for the New York Times
“The Five Most Common Regrets of the Dying—and What We Ca Learn from Them” by Bronnie Ware for Stylist.co.uk
“Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet” by Carl Zimmer for the New York Times
“You Have No Idea How Gross Your Water Bottle Is. Here’s How to Clean It.” by Kayla Blanton for OutsideOnline.com
“Scientists Say They Have Resurrected the Dire Wolf” by Katie Hunt for CNN.com
“Earth 1, Asteroids 0: The Next Generation of Planetary Defense Takes Shape at JPL” by Corinne Purtill for the Los Angeles Times
“To Make Someone Happy, Ask for Help” by Arthur C. Brooks for The Atlantic
“AI Could Take Your Next Drive-Through Order. Taco Bell Parent Yum Brands and Nvidia’s Partnership Explained” by Queenie Wong for the Los Angeles Times
“Microplastics Are Everywhere. Here’s How to Avoid Eating Them.” by Katie Okamoto for the New York Times
“Be Grateful for What You Have. It May Help You Live Longer” by Maria Cheng and Jonel Aleccia for the Los Angeles Times
“What Is Trump’s ‘Gold Card’ Route to Citizenship and How Might It Work?” by Solcyré Burga for CNN.com
“Why Can’t We Remember Our Lives as Babies or Toddlers?” by Donna Lu for The Guardian
“The Most Unhealthy Menu Items at America’s Fast-Food Chains” PlushCare.com
“Sorry, Your Paper Coffee Cup Is a Toxic Nightmare” by Sabrina Weiss for Wired.com
“Trump Puts Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, Spurring Trade Wars as North American Allies Respond” by Josh Boak, Zeke Miller and Rob Gillies for the Associated Press
“Egg Prices Are High. They Will Likely Go Higher.” by Julie Creswell for the New York Times
“Five Years After It Appeared, Things We Know and Still Don’t Know about COVID” PBS.org
“Surgeon General Call for Cancer Warnings on Alcohol” by Rony Caryn Rabin for the New York Times
“10 Questions to Ask Yourself at the Start of a New Year” by Angela Haupt for Time.com
“A 17-Year-Old Designed a Motor That Could Potentially Transform the Electric Car Industry” by Margaret Osborne for SmithsonianMag.com
“What We Get Wrong about Time” by Claudia Hammond for BBC.com
“Australia Passes World-First Law Banning Children Under 16 from Social Media” by Rod McGuirk for the Associated Press
“Researchers Say Life Expectancy Nearing Its Limit” by Mike Stobbe for Phys.org
“6 Things You Should Do for Your Brain Health Every Day, According to Neurologists” by Angela Haupt for Time.com
“What to Know about Fluoride in Water Following RFK Jr.’s Health Claims” by Sara Moniuszko for CBSNews.com
“Edison High School Students Raise Privacy Concerns about Restroom Guidelines” by Alexcia Negrete for OCRegister.com
“Efforts by Russia, Iran and China to Sway US Voters May Escalate, New Microsoft Report Says” by Ali Swenson for APNews.com
“Chocolate Is on Its Way Out. Why Halloween Is About Gummy Candy Now.” by Jaclyn Peiser for the Washington Post
“TikTok Executives Know about App’s Effect on Teens, Lawsuit Documents Allege” by Bobby Allyn for NPR.org
“Congress Is Trying to Force Carmakers to Keep AM Radio” by Matthew Jordan for TheConversation.com
“3 Reasons Degree-Free Jobs Are on the Rise—and How to Land One” by Mark C. Perna for Forbes.com
“U.K. to Fund ‘Small-Scale’ Outdoor Geoengineering Tests” by Christopher Flavelle and David Gelles for the New York Times
“Stop Making Cents” by Caity Weaver for the New York Times
“Youth Football Safety Debate Is Rekindled by the Same-Day Deaths of 2 Young Players” by John Raby and Safiyah Riddle for the Associated Press
“Why California Is Considering Banning Food Dyes in Schools” by Alice Callahan for the New York Times
“California Gov. Gavin Newsom Nudges School Districts to Restrict Student Cellphone Use” The Associated Press
“Are GMOs Safe? Breaking Down the Science of Science-ified Foods” by Jamie Ducharme for Time.com
2023-2024
“Guilty: Trump Becomes First Former President to Be Convicted of Felony Crimes” by Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, Eric Tucker, Michelle L. Price and Jill Colvin for the Associated Press
“Five Things to Know about Memorial Day, including Its Evolution and Controversies” by Ben Finley for the Associated Press
“If You Think You Can’t Focus for Long, You’re Right” by Sandee LaMotte for CNN.com
“Deep-Sea Mining: Can It Help Solve Our Climate Problems?” by Harriet Marsden for The Week UK
“If Schools Won’t Ban Kids’ Cellphones, Some Lawmakers Say They Will” by Elaine S. Povich for OklahomaVoice.com
“Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers with AI” Wired.com
“What the Supreme Court Case on Tent Encampments Could Mean for Homeless People” by Rachel M. Cohen for Vox.com
“Most Work Is New Work, Long-Term Study of U.S. Census Data Shows” by Peter Dizikes for the MIT News
“The April 8 Solar Eclipse Will Bring Weird Sights, Sounds and Feelings” by Robert Lea for Space.com
“NAACP Calls on Black Student-Athletes to Boycott Florida Public Colleges over Anti-DEI Policy” by Daniel Arkin for NBCNews.com
“Rising Cocoa Prices May Cause a Chocolate Shortage” by Elias Nash for TheDailyMeal.com
“Dartmouth Men’s Basketball Team Votes to Unionize” by Jimmy Golan for APNews.com
“Daylight Saving 2024: When and Why Do The Clocks Change?” by Jireh Deng for the Los Angeles Times
“Chatbots Sometimes Make Things Up. Is AI’s Hallucination Problem Fixable?” by Matt O’Brien for APNews.com
“The Ecosystem Inside You” TheWeek.com
“Jury Finds Jennifer Crumbley, the Michigan School Shooter’s Mother, Guilty of Manslaughter” by Ed White and Corey Williams for APNews.com
“Why Scientists Are Starting to Worry about the Moon Shrinking” by Kasha Patel for the Washington Post
“Can Trump Be on the Ballot?” by Mark Sherman for the Associated Press
“Stress Drains Your Body’s Battery. Here’s How You Can Recharge It” by Elissa Epel for the Los Angeles Times
“Even a Little Alcohol Can Harm Your Health” by Dana G. Smith for the New York Times
“U.S. and British Militaries Launch Massive Retaliatory Strike Against Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen” by Lolita C. Baldour for the Associated Press
“Feeling Caucus Confusion? Your Guide to How Iowa Works” by Robert Yoon for APNews.com
“We Carry DNA from Extinct Cousins Like Neanderthals. Science Is Now Revealing Their Genetic Legacy” APNews.com
“At My School, the Closing of the Teenage Mind Is Almost Complete” by Zach Gottlieb for the Los Angeles Times
“The Very First Thing Hackers Do as Criminals” by Kurt Knutsson for FoxNews.com
“Tires Are Saving Us—and Killing Us, too” by Tim Stevens for TheVerge.com
“How to Live in Less Fear” by Nicole Pajer for Shondaland.com
“The Surge in Child Labor” TheWeek.com
“Everything I Thought I Knew About Nasal Congestion is Wrong” by Sarah Zhang for The Atlantic
“Opposites Don’t Attract: Couples More Likely to Be Similar than Different, Study Shows” by Ian Sample for TheGuardian.com
“How Many Transgender and Intersex People Live in the US?” by Rebecca Boone and Jeff McMillan for APNews.com
“Israel-Hamas War: The Gaza Strip and Its History, Explained” by Timothy Bella for The Washington Post
“NASA Collected a Sample from an Asteroid for the First Time—Here’s Why It Matters” by Georgina Torget for TheVerge.com
“Surgeons Perform Second Pig Heart Transplant, Trying to Save a Dying Man” by Lauren Neergaard for APNews.com
“A Black Student Was Suspended for His Hairstyle. The School Says It Wasn’t Discrimination” by Cheyanne Mumphrey and Juan Lazono for the Associated Press
“The ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Our Water” TheWeek.com
“‘Wiretaps on Wheels’: How Your Car Is Collecting and Selling Your Personal Data” by Frank Bajak for the Los Angeles Times
“Students Can’t Get Off Their Phones. Schools Have Had Enough.” by Donna St. George for the Washington Post
“Montana Judge Hands Young Plaintiffs Significant Victory in Landmark Climate Trial” by Ella Nilsen for CNN.com
“Fulton County Grand Jury Indicts Trump, Giuliani, Other Associates in 2020 Election Investigation” by Sarah D. Wire for the Los Angeles Times
“Chatbots Sometimes Make Things Up. Is AI’s Hallucination Problem Fixable?” by Matt O’Brien for APNews.com
2022-2023
“Trump Indicted on 37 Charges including Espionage Act Violations in Classified Records Case” by Sarah D. Wire for the Los Angeles Times
“A ‘Game Changer’ for Weight Loss” TheWeek.com
“Why the Marathon to Raise the Debt Ceiling Is Not Over” by Kevin Liptak for CNN.com
“Montana Becomes First State to Ban TikTok” by Amy Beth Hansen for the Los Angeles Times
“Drinking Water from the Sea” TheWeek.com
“The Truth About Alcohol” TheWeek.com
“Turning Bodies into Soil” TheWeek.com
“A US TikTok Ban is Gaining Support in Congress. Why Some Say That Would Hurt Free Speech.” by Ella Lee for USA Today
“The Difference Between Open-Minded and Close-Minded People” FarnamStreetBlog.com
“7 Questions from the Texas Ruling on Abortion Pills” Politico.com
“What Trump’s Indictment Means for His Political Future—and His Party’s” by Noah Bierman for the Los Angeles Times
“California Bill Would Require All Public High Schools to Hand Out Free Condoms” by Vanessa Arredando for the Los Angeles Times
“Highways Are Getting Deadlier, with Fatalities Up 22%. Our Smartphone Addiction Is a Big Reason Why” by Russ Mitchell for the Los Angeles Times
“Lab-Grown Meat Made from Animals without Killing Them—Is This the Future of Ethical Eating?” by Oliver Milman for TheGuardian.com
“How Schools Are Trying to Protect Students from Shootings” TheWeek.com
“Scientists Finally Know Why People Get More Colds and Flu in Winter” by Sandee LaMott for CNN.com
“The Fentanyl Scourge” TheWeek.com
“Why Scientists Are Worried about Bird Flu” TheWeek.com
“China Balloon: Many Questions about Suspected Spy in the Sky” by Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp for the Associated Press
“The Fair Tax Act, Explained” by Joel Mathis for TheWeek.com
“What to Know About the Debt Ceiling Deadline” by Stephen Neukam for TheHill.com
“More Classified Documents Found at Biden’s Wilmington Home, White House Says” by Tyler Pager, Carol Leonnig and Devlin Barrett for the Washington Post
“‘Bots’ Can Write Good Essays, But That Doesn’t Make Writing Obsolete” by Natalie Wexler for Forbes.com
“Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough in California Seen as Milestone toward Clean Energy Future” by Corinne Purtill for the Los Angeles Times
“Stressed During the Holidays? There’s an Exercise for That.” by Danielle Friedman for the New York Times
“The Wasted Potential of Garbage Dumps” by Neel Dhanesha for Vox.com
“Does the Moon Mean Mars Is Next?” by Roger Handberg for TheSpaceReview.com
“World Population Hits 8 Billion, Creating Many Challenges” by Dan Ikpoyi and Chinedu Isadu for the Associated Press
“The FDA Announces a New Definition of What’s ‘Healthy’” by Laura Reiley for the Washington Post
“The Asylum Seekers” TheWeek.com
“How Book Bans Are Affecting Schools and Libraries” by Theara Coleman for TheWeek.com
“Cities Keep Enforcing Curfews for Teens, Despite Evidence They Don’t Stop Crime” by Josiah Bates for Time.com
“Bam! NASA Spacecraft Crashes into Asteroid in Defense Test” by Marcia Dunn for the Associated Press
“Hurricane Ian Is No Anomaly. The Climate Crisis Is Making Storms More Powerful.” by Michael E. Mann and Susan Joy Hassol for TheGuardian.com
“US Public Schools Get a D+ for Poor Conditions, and Experts Say Problems Are Getting Worse” by Christina Zdanowicz and Holly Yan for CNN.com
“The New Normal of ‘Weather Whiplash’” TheWeek.com
“A Comeback for Nuclear Power” TheWeek.com
“Plastics Everywhere” TheWeek.com
“Trump Search: What May Come Next in Inquiry with Legal Peril” by Erik Tucker for the Associated Press (AP)
“The Rise of Monkeypox” TheWeek.com
2021-2022
“Addicted to Distraction” by Tony Schwartz for the New York Times
“The History of Memorial Day” History.com
“Astronomers Snap First-Ever Image of Supermassive Black Hole Sagittarius A*” by Jennifer Chu for MIT News
“Where Abortion Could Be Banned Without Roe v. Wade” by Allison McCann and Taylor Johnston for the New York Times
“Augmented Reality Is What’s in Store for Commerce” by Laura Forman for The Wall Street Journal
“As Dollar Stores Proliferate Food Deserts, Some Communities Push Back” by Wesley Brown for CivilEats.com
“The Death of the Gas Station” by Rebecca Heilweil for Vox.com
“What Is Genocide and Has the Legal Threshold Been Crossed in Ukraine?” by Nadine El-Bawah for ABCNews.com
“The Risks of Cyberwar” The Week
“Nearly One-Third of U.S. Workers Make Less than $15 an Hour” by Leslie Albrect for MarketWatch.com
“Who Is a ‘War Criminal,’ Legally Speaking?” by Colleen Long, Mike Corder, and Eric Tucker for the Associated Press
“How High Could Gas Prices Go? More Pain at the Pump Likely Coming” by Don Lee for the Los Angeles Times
“What Is NATO and Why Hasn’t It Imposed a No-Fly Zone in Ukraine?” by Luke McGee for CNN.com
“What Does Putin Want in Ukraine? The Conflict Explained” by Eliza Mackintosh for CNN.com
“The Health Benefits of a Random Act of Kindness” by Sandee LaMotte for CNN.com
“12 Truths I Learned from Life and Writing” by Anne Lamott
“Teachers Are Leaving and Few People Want to Join the Field. Experts Are Sounding the Alarm.” by Christina Maxouris and Christina Zdanowicz for CNN.com
“The U.S. and Russia Prepare to Confront Each Other at the U.N. over Ukraine” by Rick Gladstone for the New York Times
“Chaos on the Roads” TheWeek.com
“Supreme Court Blocks Biden’s Workplace Vaccine Rules, Allows Requirement for Health-care Workers” by Robert Barnes for WashingtonPost.com
“What It Really Takes to Keep Schools Open during the Omicron Surge” by Anya Kamenetz for NPR.org
“The Failure to Vaccinate Africa” TheWeek.com
“Where Did the Custom of a Christmas Tree Originate?” Encyclopedia Britannica
“The Pursuit of Longer Life” TheWeek.com
“Can Omicron Overtake the Delta Variant? Here’s What It Will Take” by Rong-Gong Lin, Luke Money and Melissa Healy for the Los Angeles Times
“NASA Is Practicing Asteroid Deflection. You Know, Just in Case.” by Marina Koren for TheAtlantic.com
“Drug Overdose Deaths Top 100,000 Annually for the First Time, Driven by Fentanyl, CDC Data Show” by Deidre McPhillips for CNN.com
“The Covid-19 Numbers Seem Stuck. That Doesn’t Bode Well for Winter, Experts Say” by Maggie Fox for CNN.com
“Peering at the Edge of the Universe” TheWeek.com
“World Leaders Head to Scotland for Global Climate Talks. Here’s What You Need to Know” by Anna M. Phillips for the Los Angeles Times
“How You’ll Know When Covid-19 Has Gone from ‘Pandemic’ to ‘Endemic’” by Sigal Samuel for Vox.com
“Moody’s Warns of ‘Dark Clouds Ahead’ for the Global Supply Chain as 77% of the World’s Largest Ports Face Backlogs” by Grace Kay for BusinessInsider.com
“'Code Red’: UN Scientists Warn of Worsening Global Warming” by Seth Borenstein for APNews.com
“A Transformed Workplace” TheWeek.com
“Census: US Sees Unprecedented Multiracial Growth, Decline in the White Population for First Time in History” by Donavan Slack for USAToday.com
“How Much Water Do You Actually Need?” by Christie Aschwanden for NYTimes.com
“Sweeping New Vaccine Mandates for 100 Million Americans” by Zeke Miller for APNews.com
“Texas Passes Law Banning Abortion After Six Weeks” BBCnew.com
“If You Think Kids Are Eating Mostly Junk Food, A New Study Finds You’re Right” by Xcaret Nunez for NPR.com
“Taliban Take Over Afghanistan: What We Know and What’s Next” by Joseph Krauss for APNews.com
2020-2021
“How the Pandemic Ends” TheWeek.com
“Black Wall Street Was Shattered 100 Years Ago. How the Tulsa Race Massacre Was Covered Up and Unearthed” by Yun Li for CNBC.com
“Boycotting the 2022 Olympics” TheWeek.com
“CDC Releases Highly Anticipated Guidance for People Fully Vaccinated Against Covid-19.” by Jen Christensen for CNN.com
“The Complicated Calculus of Mask-Wearing” by Dr. Sanjay Gupta for CNN.com
“Supreme Court to Decide if Students Have Right to Post Vulgar Comments about Teachers” by David G. Savage for the Los Angeles Times
“Is Herd Immunity to COVID-19 Possible? Experts Increasingly Say No.” by Elizabeth Weise for USA Today
“Kings of Leon Will Be the First Band to Release an Album as an NFT” by Samantha Hissong for RollingStone.com
“NASA Is Preparing to Fly the Ingenuity Helicopter on Mars, in an Otherworldly ‘Wright Brothers Moment’” by Christian Davenport for The Washington Post
“Pfizer Say Its COVID-19 Vaccine Protects Younger Teens” by Lauran Neergaard and Matthew Perrone for APNews.com
“America’s Falling Fertility Rate” TheWeek.com
“Protests Across U.S. Call for End to Anti-Asian Violence” by Cameron McWhirter, Allison Pohle and Alex Janin for The Wall Street Journal
“CDC Releases Highly Anticipated Guidance for People Fully Vaccinated Against Covid-19” by Jen Christensen for CNN.com
“Target Is Tracking You and Changing Prices Based on Your Location” by Casey Bond for HuffingtonPost.com
“The Boom in ‘Green’ Energy” TheWeek.com
“People Who Have Had Covid Should Get Single Vaccine Dose, Studies Suggest” by Apoorva Mandavilli for NewYorkTimes.com
“Senate Acquits Trump in Attack on Capitol” by Jennifer Haberkorn and Evan Halper for LATimes.com
“Poetry + Football: It’s Not as Strange as It Sounds” by Brandon Griggs for CNN.com
“Coronavirus Vaccine Guide: Everything You Need to Know So Far” by Jeva Lange for TheWeek.com
“Divisions Harden in Senate as It Prepares to Receive Impeachment Article” by Catie Edmonson for the New York Times
“Statehouses, U.S. Capitol Brace for Potentially Violent Week” by David E. Lieb and Adam Geller for APNew.com
“House Prepares for Trump Impeachment, Could Add Charges on Georgia Allegations” by Andrew Restuccia and Brent Kendall for The Wall Street Journal
“The Vaccine Velvet Rope” by Jeva Lange for TheWeek.com
“Supreme Court Rejects Texas’s Push to Overturn Biden Victory” by John Kruzel for TheHill.com
“When Can I Get a Coronavirus Vaccine” by Maggie Fox for CNN.com
“With Two Vaccines on the Horizon, Here’s What You Need to Know” by Thomas Curwen for the Los Angeles Times
“The Times Called Officials in Every State: No Evidence of Voter Fraud” by Nick Corasanti, Reid J. Epstein and Jim Rutenberg for the New York Times
“How Did Biden Do It? Wide Coalition Powered Win” by Josh Boak and Hannah Fingerhut for the Associated Press
“More than 90 Million People Have Already Voted. Here’s How that Compares with Past Elections.” by Grace Hauck for USA Today
“The Electoral College Can Pick a President Who Got Fewer Votes. Here’s Why and How.” by Josh Peter for USA Today
“Why the Coronavirus Is Killing More Men than Women” by Ben Guarino for the Washington Post
“The Black Wealth Gap” TheWeek.com
“Trump Hospitalized with Covid-19. Here’s What Happens Next” by Natasha Khan, James Hookway and Alex Leary for the Wall Street Journal
“What Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court Nomination Means for the 2020 Election” by Dierdre Walsh for NPR.com
“Trump Could Name His Supreme Court Pick in Days—and Says It Will Be a Woman” by Janet Hook, Jennifer Haberkorn and Jie Jenny Zou for the Los Angeles Times
“How the World’s Deadliest Mass Extinction Actually Helped the Rise of Dinosaurs” by Riley Black for NationalGeographic.com
“Climate Change Has Arrived” TheWeek.com
“A Mania for Mars” TheWeek.com
“Nearly 70,000 Lives Could Be Saved in the Next 3 Months If More Americans Wore Masks, Researchers Say” by Christina Maxouris and Alaa Elassar for CNN.com
“What We Know About Schoolkids and Coronavirus” TheWeek.com