Articles by Michael Castaneda

  This week marks the one year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown. Everything just stopped.     Classes went remote. The streets grew empty. It was weird […]

  News of the vaccine rollout has been mostly positive as of late. Yes, people are struggling to get an appointment, but that is a supply […]

   On Feb. 9, 2021, the trial of former President Donald Trump began. The current political party of Donald Trump has continued to argue that the […]

   If you grew up playing video games, even passively, GameStop was a place you knew and possibly have a soft spot for. I remember […]

 Does history repeat itself? The Spanish flu (H1N1) of 1918 had three waves. The first wave was in March 1918, but the infection rate dropped […]

  Last week, the Dow Jones industrial average broke 30,000 points for the first time in history.  We here at the Brooklyn College Vanguard, took […]

   I Am Greta dropped on Hulu on Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. It is directed by Swedish director Nathan Grossman about Swedish climate activist Greta […]

  “Shut up…I’ll give you more chocolate if you shut up.” The reader is explicitly told to not ask questions. If you can just go with […]

I have always voted two blocks away from my apartment without trouble. However, this year was the first time that New York State has allowed […]

   “Disaster demanded a new dawn. Only new thinking can lead to a new dawn. We knew that,” wrote Zadie Smith in her latest work, […]