Author’s Note: In the media, and indeed general political discourse today, everyone seems to think there is only one correct opinion which coincidentally is practically always the one they hold themselves. So in this series...

Starting my junior year of college has felt odd. After being home for the summer, returning for the third time feels like I’m sitting comfortably but leaning uneasily forward. Like I could bolt immediately out...

Welcome, beloved readers, to a brand new exciting year of Hoot Recommends! We’re back for another year of crazy recommendations that you should definitely try out. First up, who doesn’t love a midnight snack? People...

Brandeis is already treating AI fluency and real projects as part of career preparation. The university’s Global Career Accelerator gives students project-based experience in fields that include data analytics and AI, and its Project Onramp...

If you’ve paid attention to the midterm congressional campaigns this election cycle, you’ve probably heard a lot of talk about Hasan Piker: Republicans highlighting his most controversial statements, moderate Democrats criticizing him, progressives hoping to...

Well, Hoot readers, this is goodbye (at least for now). Congratulations to all of the graduating seniors who are reading this. We hope you have enjoyed your time at Brandeis overall, and what we have...

Presumably, most people at Brandeis have had a meal plan at some point during their time here. Whatever meal plan you ended up choosing, it inevitably included some amount of “points.” Even the cheapest plan...

With several days of warm weather in the past week, many of us here at Brandeis took some time out to enjoy the great outdoors; frolicking on the lawns, walking through the flowers, and having...

Background:             This column, On the Other Hand, began at The Hoot last semester as a successor to the Devil’s Advocate, written by the authors for The Justice from 2023-2024. The goals of both columns were...

A young, progressive, relatively unknown member of the state legislature runs for U.S. Senate, attempting to flip a seat held by a Republican. He wins the Democratic primary with 53% of the vote, including delivering...

If you haven’t heard or told a 9/11 joke, I am going to assume you died on or before Sept. 10, 2001. 9/11 jokes have become deeply rooted in youth culture and especially comedy. This...

Hello again Hoot readers! Hopefully, you enjoyed the brief period of actually good weather that we just experienced. Now that the weather sucks again, though, we’re all back inside watching movies, so we felt like...

On Feb. 28, the U.S. and Israel launched a massive air campaign against the state of Iran. The next day, President Trump announced that one of the airstrikes had killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,...

Hello again, our most valuable Hoot readers. For the past several weeks, our country’s greatest athletes competed in the Winter Olympics in Milan. Despite none of us being anywhere close to athletic enough to even...

Last week, President Donald Trump released an A.I.-generated video of himself playing hockey for Team USA and punching members of the Canadian team. Three weeks ago, he shared an A.I.-generated video depicting former President Barack...

4chan is an image board created in October 2003. It has been linked to multiple mass shootings, including the Christchurch mosque shootings, which killed 51 people. The site functions as an anonymous space with a...

 On Monday, Feb. 16, late-night television host Stephen Colbert planned to interview Texas senate candidate James Talarico. However, he was told by his network’s lawyers that he was not allowed. The reason was because of...

I’ve always prided myself on being able to keep up with the latest Internet trends, but since early 2025, I’ve been seeing one that has utterly bewildered me. By now, you’ve probably seen it on...

It is not much of a stretch to say that marijuana is the most popular it has ever been in the United States. Though cannabis remains federally illegal, the Department of Justice began the process...

Background: During the final days of 2025, the Iranian currency, the rial, collapsed amid severe international sanctions, plunging the country’s economy into uncharted territory. Iranians responded by protesting en masse across all 31 provinces, with...