The Gatepost Editorial: A comprehensive response to racism
Hate crimes around the country are on the rise, and the FSU campus is no exception. Racist graffiti was found in Horace Mann since the fall of 2017. Black women – the targets of the […]
Gatepost Editorial
Don’t play with people’s lives
The United States just shouldered through the longest government shutdown in history and another one is looming on the horizon. During the 35 days of the shutdown, 800,000 people were furloughed and many others lost […]
Climate change isn’t a hoax
Two fires raged through California in November, causing massive structural damage and resulting in 85 deaths with 11 people still missing as of print time, according to the Press Herald. The fires destroyed over 14,000 […]
Asylum seekers should be welcome here
On Nov. 25, a peaceful march of migrants at the U.S./Mexico border devolved into violence. American border patrol agents began firing cans of tear gas into a crowd of nearly 500 migrants, including young children, […]
Change our voting laws
The midterm elections were fraught with division, rampant misinformation, and blatant lies. Perhaps even more troubling, the elections highlighted a more insidious problem – widespread voter suppression. According to a Rolling Stone article, some 340,000 […]
Be the wave
While the midterm elections may not have turned the tides in your favor, bringing about the blue or red wave the Democrats and Republicans were promising, they represented something just as important – American citizens […]
Take anti-Semitism seriously
Eleven people were murdered at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27. This tragedy marks the 294th mass shooting in the United States in 2018 alone, according to the Gun Violence Archive. […]
Where’s the outrage?
On Oct. 2, The New York Times released a report detailing President Donald Trump’s alleged involvement in a widespread tax evasion scam involving the massive fortune of his parents, Fred and Anne Trump. According to […]
Not a time for silence
On Oct. 6, Justice Brett Kavanaugh was appointed to the Supreme Court following a hearing and an incomplete FBI investigation into claims of sexual assault made by Christine Blasey Ford and two other women. People […]
Out of sight, out of mind
Since the 2016 election, and long before then, the news spotlight has been swinging wildly from one issue to the next, capturing national – and even global – attention for a few weeks before the […]