Reading Comprehension - General Knowledge
“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
2019-2020
“Spate of New Research Supports Wearing Masks to Control Coronavirus Spread” by Ben Guarino, Chelsea Janes and Ariana Eunjung Cha for the Washington Post
“Trump and the Military: A Mutual Embrace Might Dissolve on America’s Streets” by David E. Sanger and Helene Cooper for the New York Times
“U.S. Cities Fear More Destruction as Protesters Rage Against Police Brutality” by Brendan O’Brien for Reuters.com
“How Pandemics Change Society” TheWeek.com
“The Coronavirus Infodemic” TheWeek.com
“Georgia Man’s Death Raises Echoes of US Racial Terror Legacy” by Aaron Mortenson and Ross Bynum for the Associated Press
“When Will Sports Come Back?” TheWeek.com
“CDC Director Warns Second Wave of Coronavirus Is Likely to Be Even More Devastating” by Lena Sun for the Washington Post
“Is the Virus on My Clothes? My Shoes? My Hair? My Newspaper?” by Tara Parker-Pope for the New York Times
“South Korea’s Coronavirus Success” TheWeek.com
“The Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine” TheWeek.com
“How Long Will Schools Need to Stay Closed? A Pandemic Expert Weighs In” by Tim Dickinson for Rolling Stone
“The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming” Wired.com
“The Dos and Don’ts of ‘Social Distancing’” by Kaitlyn Tiffany for The Atlantic
“Coronavirus Myths, Debunked: A Cattle Vaccine, Bioweapons and a $3,000 Test” by Grace Hauck for USA Today
“What Would Happen If U.S.Schools Close Because of Coronavirus?” by Hayley Miller and Arthur Delaney for HuffingtonPost.com
“You Might Just Be Addicted: Smartphone Use Physically Affects Your Brain, Study Says” by Coral Murphy for USA Today
“Immune Cell that Kills Most Cancers Discovered by Accident by British Scientists” by Sarah Knapton for The Telegraph
“The Common Exercise Mistakes You Are Probably Making Right Now” by Dr. Melina Jampolis for CNN
“Senate Rejects Witnesses in Trump Impeachment Trial” WallStreetJournal.com
“What Is the Coronavirus and How Worried Should We Be?” TheGuardian.com
“Battle Over Impeachment Witnesses Escalates” Politico.com
“Taking the Beef Out of Burgers” TheWeek.com
“Trump and Rouhani Trade Warnings after Killing of Top General” by Radina Gigova for CNN.com
“The Struggle for Hong Kong” TheWeek.com
“Drop the SAT and ACT as a Requirement for Admission, Top UC Officials Say” by Teresa Watanabe for the Los Angeles Times
“The Threat of Killer Asteroids” TheWeek.com
“Revenge: Will You Feel Better?” by Karyn Hall for Psychology Today
“Supreme Court Case of Trump vs. ‘Dreamers’ May Come Down to Chief Justice Roberts” by David Savage for the Los Angeles Times
“The Flu Vaccine: Everything You Need to Know” TheWeek.com
“California Becomes First State in the Country to Push Back School Start Times” by Taryn Luna for the Los Angeles Times
“High Schools to TikTok: We’re Catching Feelings” by Taylor Lorenz for NewYorkTimes.com
“US Cities are losing 36 million trees a year. Here’s why it matters and what you can do to stop it.” by Amy Chillag for CNN.com
“How California Bill Will Impact College Sports, and What Comes Next” by Tom Schad for USAToday.com
“Democrats Set Rapid Timetable for Trump Impeachment Probe” by Siobhan Hughes and Andrew Duehren for The Wall Street Journal
“The Quiet Disappearance of Birds in North America” by Ed Young for The Atlantic
“Video Games and Violence, Explained” TheWeek.com
“Why We Shouldn’t Shield Children from Darkness” by Matt de la Pena for Time.com
“The Destruction of the Amazon, Explained” TheWeek.com
“A California high school found students’ cellphones too distracting, so they’re locking the devices up” by Safia Samee Ali for NBCNews.com
“The Graying of America” TheWeek.com
2018-2019
“With Political Power at Stake, Supreme Court Is Set to Rule on Gerrymandering and The Census” by David G. Savage for the Los Angeles Times
“Everything You Need to Know About Black Holes” TheWeek.com
“Scientists Spy on Superbugs to See How They Outsmart Our Antibiotics” by Emily Baumgaertner for the Los Angeles Times
“It’s not just soda: Drinking too much fruit juice (or any sugary drink) linked to premature death risk” by Susan Scutti for CNN.com
“Let 16-Year-Olds Vote for L.A. School Board” by Michael McDonald for the Los Angeles Times
“How Exercise Affects Our Memory” by Gretchen Reynolds for the New York Times
“Measles Outbreak Infects 695, Highest Number Since 2000” by Donald J. McNeil, Jr., for the New York Times
“Sri Lanka Bombings: Police Warned that Churches Were Targets” New York Times
“Scott Kelly Spent a Year in Orbit. His Body Is Not Quite the Same.” by Carl Zimmer for the New York Times
“The Recycling Crisis” TheWeek.com
“Georgia Senate Passes Anti-abortion ‘Heartbeat’ Bill” by Maya T. Prabhu for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Can Human Mortality Be Hacked?” TheWeek.com
“College Admissions Scandal Is News, but Not New” by Mitch Albom for the Detroit Free Press
“The Anti-Vaxxers’ Impact” TheWeek.com
“Trump Says He Still Trusts Kim, but Needed to ‘Walk Away’ from a Bad Nuclear Deal” by Shashank Bengali, Eli Stoklos and Victoria Kim for the Los Angeles Times
“Do Not Disturb: How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain” by Kevin Roose for the New York Times
“Halting HIV by 2030 Is a Challenge. Here’s Why It’s Especially Tough in the South” by Jenny Jarvie for the Los Angeles Times
“A History of the Southern Border” TheWeek.com
“Let Children Get Bored Again” by Pamela Paul for the New York Times
“I’ve Talked with Teenage Boys about Sexual Assault for 20 Years. This Is What They Still Don’t Know” by Laurie Halse Anderson for Time.com
“Listening Is an Overlooked Leadership Tool” by Melissa Daimler for the Harvard Business Review
“An Epidemic of Loneliness” TheWeek.com
“Trump and Democrats Meet Again on Shutdown but Remain Far Apart on His Border Wall Demand” by Eli Stokols and Jennifer Haberkorn for the Los Angeles Times
“The Most Important Question of Your Life” MarkManson.net (Note: This is the last AoW for 2018. The next AoW will be posted January 6, 2019.)
“(Scientific) Happiness Hacks” excerpted from an article by Alison Mango for Health.com
“Former President George H.W. Bush Dies at 94” excerpted from APNews.com
“When Will Self-Driving Cars Take Over?” TheWeek.com
“The Fear We All Live With” by Jeva Lange for TheWeek.com
“These 5 Healthy Habits Could Help You Live a Decade Longer, Study Suggests” by Jacqueline Howard for CNN.com
“The Private Prison Industry, Explained” TheWeek.com
“Social Media’s Impact on Students’ Mental Health Comes Into Focus” by Kira Barrett for NEAToday.org
“Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040” by Carol Davenport for the New York Times
“There Are Three Types of Failure, but Only One You Should Actually Feel Bad About” by Leah Fessler for QZ.com
“Trump Orders Limited FBI Investigation to Supplement Kavanaugh Background Check” NPR.org
“Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford Reaches Tentative Deal to Testify before Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday” by Sarah D. Wire for LATimes.com
“Afghanistan: The Endless War” TheWeek.com
"Avoid the Back-to-School Plague of Flu and Cold" by Jen Christensen for CNN.com
"'Where Is the Collusion?' Answers to All Your Questions about the Russia Investigation" by Chris Megerian for the Los Angeles Times
"Republicans Stick with Trump Despite Major Legal Trouble for Ex-Top Aides" by Kelsey Snell and Barbara Sprunt for NPR.org
"Our Plastic Oceans" TheWeek.com
2017-2018
"The Crisis at Veterans Affairs" TheWeek.com
"The Death Rate from Cancer Is Falling for American Men, Women and Children of All Backgrounds" by Mary Kaplan for the Los Angeles Times
"The Rise of the Ticks" TheWeek.com
"An Open Letter About Female Coaches" by Pau Gosol, NBA player for the San Antonio Spurs, for The Players Tribune
"Researchers Explore the Fascinating Biomechanics and Neuroscience of Bats" by Stephen Schmidt for PRI.org
"Bryan Stevenson calls lynchings domestic terrorism. Here's what he hopes to address with a memorial honoring black people who were killed." by Kurtis Lee for the Los Angeles Times
"Trump Says 'Long Way' to Go on North Korea Crisis" by Doina Chiacu and Heekyong Yang for Reuters.com
"What Do the US, UK and French Airstrikes Mean for Syria's War?" by Nick Paton Walsh for CNN.com
"Warning: Vaping Teens Becoming a New Generation of Nicotine Addicts" USAToday.com
"Having Your Smartphone Nearby Takes a Toll on Your Thinking" by Kristen Duke, Adrian Ward, Avelet Gneezt and Maarten Bos for the Harvard Business Review
"Facebook's Zuckerberg Says Sorry to US, UK with Newspaper Ads; Polls Show Trust in Site Is Sinking" Reuters
"America's Homelessness Crisis" TheWeek.com
"Here's How to Prevent the Next School Shooting, Experts Say" by Anya Kamenetz for NPR.org
"Seven Reasons We Are Facing a Global Water Crisis" by Leah Schleifer for World Resources Institute, WRI.org
"As Gun Debate Roils On, Teachers in This Texas School Are Already Armed" by Molly Hennessy-Fiske for the Los Angeles Times
"No, there haven't been 18 school shootings in 2018. That number is flat wrong." by John Woodrow Cox and Steven Rich for The Washington Post
"What Too Much Alcohol Can Do to Your Health" by Sandee LaMotte for CNN.com
"Why Don't Teens Read for Pleasure Like They Used To?" by Jennifer Ludden for Mind/Shift, KQED.org
"Chinese Scientists Successfully Clone 2 Monkeys, Could Lead to Human Applications" by Ben Hirschler for Reuters
"Former NFLers Call for End to Tackle Football for Kids" by Nadia Kounang for CNN.com
"The National Debt, Explained" TheWeek.com
"Why 2017 Was the Best Year in Human History" by Nicholas Kristof for the New York Times
"Are Real or Artificial Christmas Trees Better for the Environment?" by Jessica Roy for the Los Angeles Times
"Movies Theaters Fight Streaming by Assaulting the Senses" by Claire Atkinson for NBCNews.com
"Trump's Immigrant Dragnet" TheWeek.com
"Black Men Sentenced to More Time for Committing the Exact Same Crime as a White Person, Study Finds" by Christopher Ingraham for The Washington Post
No AoW for the week of November 20, 2017, due to the Thanksgiving holiday
"Top 20 Pros and Cons Associated with Self-Driving Cars" AutoInsuranceCenter.com
"Mark Zuckerberg's Big Blind Spot and the Conflict within Facebook" by Aarti Shahani for NPR.org
"How to Help Someone with an Opioid Addiction" Chicago Sun Times
"Climate Change Is Complex. Here Are Some Answers to Your Questions" by Justin Gillis for the New York Times
"You Have Almost Certainly Been Hacked" TheWeek.com
Two Opinion Pieces on the Gun Control Debate from TheWeek.com
"What Every American Needs to Know about Puerto Rico's Hurricane Disaster" by Brian Resnick and Eliza Barclay for Vox.com
Two Articles Explaining the NFL Player Protests During the National Anthem from CNN.com and FoxNews.com
"Sitting Too Long Can Kill You, Even If You Exercise" by Susan Scutti for CNN.com
"5 Reasons Why People Share Fake Photos During Natural Disasters" by A.J. Willingham for CNN.com
"Trump Prepares to End DACA" by Priscilla Alvarez (an excerpt) for The Atlantic
"Sacrificing Sleep? This Is What It Will Do to Your Health" by Sandee Lamott for CNN.com
"The Great Solar Eclipse of 2017" TheWeek.com
2016-2017
"Amazon.com Is a 21st Century Deal with the Devil" by Amy Koss for the Los Angeles Times
"Immunotheraphy Drug Opens a New Era of Precision Medicine for Cancer" by Melissa Healy for LATimes.com
"The Plastic Plague: Can Our Oceans Be Saved from Environmental Ruin?" by Kieron Marks for CNN.com
Two Articles About Sleep from CNN.com
"15 Critical Facts Everyone Should Know About Summer Learning Loss" OnlineCollege.org
"Lamb Fetuses Can Now Grow in Artificial Wombs. Will Humans Be Next?" by Jessica Roy for the Los Angeles Times
"What Happens to Your Brain When You Give Up Sugar?" CNN.com
"The EPA's Changing Mission, Explained" TheWeek.com
"US Military Strikes on Syria: What We Know So Far" TheGuardian.com
"How Much Exercise Do I Really Need?" by Dr. Jordan Metzi for CNN.com
"The Growing Nuclear Threat from North Korea" TheWeek.com
"New Guideline Will Allow First-Year Doctors to Work 24-Hour Shifts" by Gina Kolata and Jan Hoffman for NYTimes.com
"3 Myths that Shape the Transgender Bathroom Debate" by Emanuella Grinberg and Dani Stewart for CNN.com
"5 New Brain Disorders that Were Born Out of the Digital Age" by Tammy Kennon for TheWeek.com
Two Articles About Health and Life Expectancy from Time.com
"TV's Callous Neglect of Working-Class America" by Noel Murray for TheWeek.com
"Talking to Our Devices" TheWeek.com
"Berkeley Protests of Yiannopoulos Caused $100,000 in Damage" by Madison Park and Kyung Lah for CNN.com
"U.S. Judge Bars Deportations Under Trump Travel Ban" by Alicia A. Caldwell for the Associated Press
Two Opposing Editorials about President Trump's Inaugural Address by James Poulos and Ryan Cooper, respectively, for TheWeek.com
"The Filth They Breathe in China" by Michael Auslin for TheWeek.com
"Excerpt of Michelle Obama's Final Speech" WhiteHouse.gov
"Conquer Fear of Public Speaking through Emotional Intelligence" by Gleb Tsipursky for HuffingtonPost.com
"Could Humans Actually Live on Mars?" by Laurie Vazquez for TheWeek.com
"Fidel Castro, Cuba's Communist Leader, Dies at Age 90" Associated Press, adapted by Newsela staff
"The Rise of Legal Marijuana in America" TheWeek.com
No AoW this week—Happy Thanksgiving!
"Beyoncé's Lemonade as an A+ Essay" by Guy Dixon for The Globe and Mail
"Instead of Detention, These Students Get Meditation" by Deborah Bloom for CNN.com
"Inside America's Hacking Epidemic" TheWeek.com
"From Aleppo, Tales of Hardship and Bloodshed. 'Civilization Is Gone.'" by Molly Hennessy-Fiske for LATimes.com
"How Do We Respond to Threats after Our Endorsement? This Is How" by Mi-Ai Parrish for The Arizona Republic
"US Officially Accuses Russia of Hacking DNC and Interfering with Election" by Spencer Ackerman and Sam Thielman for The Guardian.com
"World's First Baby Born from New Procedure Using DNA of Three People" by Ian Sample for TheGuardian.com
"A Single Migration from Africa Populated the World, Studies Find" by Carl Zimmer for NYTimes.com
"After Asteroid Hit, A Giant Cloud of Smoke Led to Dinosaurs' Demise, Study Says" by Megan Daley for the Los Angeles Times
"Simple Rules for Healthy Eating" by Aaron E. Carroll for The New York Times
"In the 'Land of the Free,' Are You Free to Sit Out the National Anthem?" by Jaweed Kaleem for the Los Angeles Times
"Deported Mothers Make New Lives in Tijuana" by Tatiana Sanchez for The San Diego Union-Tribune
"Should We Abandon Louisiana?" by Zack Kopplin for Slate.com
"Nerd Alert: Reading Is Good for Your Health" by Jen Christensen for CNN.com, or "Phone Charger Sales Are Surging Because of Pokémon Go" Time.com
2015-2016
"Fewer U.S. Teens Are Giving Birth, CDC Finds" by Carina Storrs for CNN.com (Note: This is the final AoW for the 2015-2016 school year.)
"Cell Phone Radiation Increases Cancers in Rats, but Should We Worry?" by Carina Storrs for CNN.com
"How to Rig Elections, the Legal Way" TheWeek.com
"Half of Teens Think They're Addicted to Their Smartphones" by Kelly Wallace for CNN (corrected)
"How America Is Beating ISIS in Iraq and Syria" TheWeek.com
Two Articles about Harriet Tubman Replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 Bill from the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times
"Chaos in Cleveland" TheWeek.com
"The Problem with Polls" TheWeek.com
"Should Parents Be Allowed to Choose the Sex of Their Baby?" by Juan Andrade for CNN.com
"The Psychology and Neuroscience of Terrorism" by Sandee LaMotte for CNN.com, or "The New SAT Is A) A Big Change B) Still Important C) Controversial D) All of the Above" CNN.com
"After SeaWorld: A 'Blackfish Effect' on Circuses and Zoos?" by Kelly Wallace for CNN.com
"The Zika Epidemic, Explained" TheWeek.com
"Is Nuclear Armageddon More Likely than Ever?" TheWeek.com
"Justice Antonin Scalia's Death Shifts Balance of High Court, Creates Major Election Issue" by David G. Savage for the Los Angeles Times
"Addicted to Lotteries" The Week
"How Tap Water Became Toxic in Flint, Michigan" by Sara Ganim and Linh Tran for CNN
"New Harvard Report Proposes Major Changes to College Admissions" by Scott Stump for Today.com
"Editing the Human Race" TheWeek.com
"New U.S. Dietary Guidelines Limit Sugar, Rethink Cholesterol" by Jen Christensen for CNN.com
"8 Fascinating Things We Learned About the Mind in 2015" by Carolyn Gregoir for HuffingtonPost.com
The Transcript of President Obama's Address to the Nation on Terrorism from the Office of the Press Secretary, WhiteHouse.gov
"A Crucial Climate Summit" The Week
"Terror in Paris: What We Know So Far" CNN, or "College Students Confront Subtler Forms of Bias: Slights and Snubs" by Teresa Watanabe and Jason Song for the Los Angeles Times
Two Articles About Banning the Use of the Nickname "Redskins" from Time.com
"Hot Dogs, Bacon and Other Processed Meats Increase Risk of Cancer, Scientists Say" by Melissa Healy for the Los Angeles Times
"The $750 Pill" TheWeek.com
"New Human Ancestor Elicits Awe—And Many Questions" by Jamie Shreeve for National Geographic
"The Iran Deal: A Brief Guide" The Week
"College Kids Have Too Much Privacy" by Michele Willins for the Los Angeles Times (corrected)
Two articles about the link between brain disease and playing football from CNN.com
"The Next Civil Rights Frontier Is Digital" by Juan Andrade for DallasNews.com
"Low Turnout Weakens Power of Latino Vote" by Kate Linthcium for the Los Angeles Times
"America's Killing Contagion" TheWeek.com
"10 Benefits of Reading: Why You Should Read Every Day" by Lana Winter-Hebert for LifeHack.org
"The Economic Guide to Picking a College Major" by Ben Casselman for FiveThirtyEight.com (an excerpt)
"Soccer's Corrupt Soul" The Week
