Below are links to Article of the Week PDFs since 2015.
2018 – 2019
- “Teenagers Who Vandalized Black Schoolhouse Are Ordered to Read Books” by Christine Hauser for the New York Times
- “Why You Should Study Shakespeare” by Lori Gray for UC Berkeley Extension: Voices Blog
- “When Kids Realize Their Whole Life Is Already Online” by Taylor Lorenz for the Atlantic
- “‘Epic fail’ won’t change Nike, but it could change college sports” by Marlene Towns for the Hill
- “The Rise of Dystopian Fiction: From Soviet Dissidents to ’70s Paranoia to Murakami” by Yvonne Shiau for Electric Lit on Medium
- “Airbus Beluga XL spreads its wings at long last” by Maureen O’Hare for CNN
- Student choice of topic about the school shooting at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, 2018.
- “Iconic Sweethearts won’t be available this Valentine’s Day” by Brandon Champion for mLive
- Super Bowl LIII
- “Microsoft’s Super Bowl ad is all about the Xbox Adaptive controller” by Tom Warren for The Verge
- Student choice of topic
- “Whitmer: Flint needs bottled water until pipes replaced” by Jonathan Oosting for the Detroit News.
- “Burger King mocks Trump over misspelled tweet: ‘We’re all out of “hamberders”‘” by Aris Folley for The Hill
- TIME Person of the Year
- “Who Will Be TIME’s Person of the Year for 2018? See the Shortlist” by Suyin Haynes for TIME
- “‘Time’ Person Of The Year For 2018: Journalists Fighting ‘War on Truth'” by Bill Chappell for NPR
- “All The Top Streaming Artists On Spotify In 2018 Are Men” by Courtney E. Smith for Refinery29
- Holiday Classics Sparking Controversies
- “‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,’ Charlie Brown and other holiday classics sparking controversy” by Madeline Farber for Fox News
- “Some people are upset about ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'” by Michael Brice-Saddler for The Washington Post
- “7 Ways to Balance Reading Multiple Books at Once” by Team Epic Reads for Epic Reads
- General Motors to Close Plants and Cut Jobs
- “G.M. to Idle Plants and Cut Thousands of Jobs as Sales Slow” by Neal E. Boudette and Ian Austen for The New York Times
- “GM to kill Chevrolet Volt, Cruze, Impala as Americans ditch passenger cars” by Nathan Bomey for USA Today
- Caravan News Coverage
- “Newt Gingrich: Stop the caravan and build the wall to keep deadly drugs out and save lives” by Newt Gingrich for Fox News
- “Bandaged feet, bleeding hands, violent coughs: The caravan takes its toll” by Michael E. Miller for The Washington Post
- “It’s ‘time change’ time. Did you remember to fall back?” by Doug Criss and Susannah Cullinane for CNN
- Halloween trick or treating age limits
- “Should there be an age-limit for Halloween trick-or-treating?” by Tanda Gmiter for mLive
- “These States Have Put Legal Age Limits on Trick or Treaters” by Chris Morris for Fortune
- “Researchers create new font designed to boost your memory” by Taylor Telford for The Washington Post
- UN Climate Change Panel
- “UN Panel Warns Drastic Action Needed to Stave Off Climate Change” by Timothy Puko for The Wall Street Journal
- “UN climate change panel says ‘unprecedented’ action needed to prevent temperature rise” by Tom DiChristopher for CNBC
- “Michigan high schools debate adding video games as new varsity sport” by Hugh Bernreuter for mLive
- Banned Books Week
- “Banning Books Silences Stories” by Millie Davis for NCTE
- “Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2017” by ALA
- “Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2012” by ALA
- “Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2007” by ALA
- Colin Kaepernick is Nike’s spokesman for 30th anniversary advertisement
- Why the social media boycott over Colin Kaepernick is a win for Nike by Alex Abad-Santos for Vox
- Nike reignited the Kaepernick controversy in naming him the face of “Just Do It” by Jane Coaston for Vox + Nike’s Colin Kaepernick gamble is already paying off by David Goldman for CNN
- “U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question” by Kevin Sieff for The Washington Post
- Detroit schools shutting off drinking water because of lead, copper by Lori Higgins for Detroit Free Press
- White Sox’s Michael Kopech: Offensive tweets ‘not who I am now’ by ESPN
2017 – 2018
- “Why Puerto Rico is Not a US State” by Christina Thornell for Vox + “Puerto Rico’s blackout, the largest in American history, explained” by Umair Irfan for Vox
- “Daylight saving time begins Sunday: 7 things you should know about ‘springing forward‘” by Brian Resnick for Vox
- “USS Lexington discovered by billionaire Paul Allen’s crew 76 years after WWII sinking” by Frank Miles for Fox News
- “How ‘Fortnite’ Defied Convention and Became a Hit” by Sarah E. Needleman for the Wall Street Journal
- “Why Is Russia at the Olympics” by Victor Mather for the New York Times + “What Ban? Patriotic Fervor Grips Russia’s Celebration House in South Korea” by Tariq Panja for the New York Times
- ** “The Early Bird Gets the Bad Grade” by Nancy Kalish for the New York Times + “Should School Stay early” by elenam112 for TeenInk + “High schools with late start times help teens but bus schedules and after-school can conflict” by the Associated Press via Fox News
- “Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases” by Alex Hern for the Guardian + “Strava suggests military users ‘opt out’ of heatmap as row deepens” by Alex Hern for the Guardian
- “Former NFLers call for end to tackle football for kids” by Nadia Kounang for CNN
- “7 young adults went undercover as high-school students and found that life as a teenager today is nothing like they remember” by Mark Abadi for Business Insider
- “Wiring blamed in failed Pontiac Silverdome implusion” by JC Reindl and Allie Gross for the Detroit Free Press
**Adapted from C3WP
2016 – 2017
2015 – 2016
- “Deadpool Destroys Box Office Records with $135-million Haul” by Lindsey Bahr for the Associated Press
- “Is future bleak for Super Bowl?” by Amy Bass for CNN