Kelsey ('26) is a writer for the News section and has been with The Anchor since Fall of 2024. As a history major, Kelsey plans to earn her PhD after graduating Hope and join the academic world as a university professor. When she isn't in class, writing, or working as a manager at a local retail shop, she enjoys traveling, photography, ceramics, reading, thrifting, and engaging in social and political activism.
This past October, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) confirmed the fact that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), also known as North Korea, sent approximately 10,000 of their troops to Russia for training, likely to enter the war against Ukraine on the side of Russia within the coming weeks. The Pentagon confirmed that…
In 2023 alone, the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom found that there had been 1,247 attempts to censor books and other resources in libraries across America, which was a 65 percent increase from 2022. A total of 4,240 books were targeted, many of which contain LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC stories and experiences. From July…
The Islamic Resistance Movement, more commonly known internationally as HAMAS, is a Palestinian nationalist Sunni-Islamist political organization that was officially designated as a terrorist group by the United States in 1997. HAMAS has had control over the Israeli occupied part of Palestine known as the Gaza-Strip since 2007. On October 7, 2023, HAMAS and several…
At 11:59 p.m. on August 30, 2021, the last United States Military planes left the Kabul airport in Kabul Afghanistan, marking the end of the twenty years of military occupation and political strife known as the ‘War on Terror.’ Thirteen U.S. servicemen were killed in the haphazard operation in which U.S. military personnel, U.S. citizens,…