All content by Steven Wang

Opinion: Budget cuts on social programs will starve Americans
Republicans’ proposed budget cuts for social programs like Medicaid, SNAP and other food programs are going to have devastating effects on millions of Americans.
Steven Wang, Staff Writer
• March 13, 2025

Opinion: The urgency of NYC’s water scarcity
For the first time in over two decades, New York City is facing its first drought warning, with dangerously low reservoir levels fueling wildfires. The city, and its people, should be attempting to minimize the damages.
Steven Wang, Staff Writer
• March 10, 2025

Opinion: How the NYPD evades accountability for misconduct
Legislatures need to address the department’s internal corruption of dodging disciplinary consequences for police misconduct.
Steven Wang, Staff Writer
• March 6, 2025

Opinion: NYU gentrifies as New Yorkers suffer
NYU’s geographical dominance impacts both affordable housing and the progression of gentrification in lower Manhattan.
Steven Wang, Staff Writer
• February 24, 2025

Opinion: Subway safety is a manufactured crisis
New York City is spending millions on subway policing and surveillance, but these measures do more to ease public anxiety than actually reduce crime.
Steven Wang, Staff Writer
• February 12, 2025

Opinion: NYU should give students the day off for Lunar New Year
Given the large Asian student population at NYU, the university should formally recognize Lunar New Year as an academic holiday.
Steven Wang, Staff Writer
• January 29, 2025

Opinion: New York’s legal system leaves the undocumented unrepresented
Thousands of unaccompanied immigrants in the United States, including New York, face deportation proceedings without legal representation.
Steven Wang, Staff Writer
• January 28, 2025

How you can help NYC’s homeless crisis
Homelessness in New York City has reached an unprecedented scale. However, there is a way for us to support those without shelter for just one night.
Steven Wang, Staff Writer
• January 24, 2025

Opinion: Congestion pricing is the cure to NYC’s traffic crisis
For the second year in a row, New York City has been named the world’s most congested urban area, harming citizens every day. It’s time to change that with congestion pricing.
Steven Wang, Staff Writer
• December 12, 2024

Opinion: No longer behind bars, but not truly free
Without support systems in place, many formerly incarcerated individuals in New York risk falling into a cycle of poverty and criminalization.
Steven Wang, Staff Writer
• December 3, 2024

Opinion: Let New Yorkers be free to pee
The shortage of public restrooms is a significant hardship and a profound indignity that unhoused New Yorkers endure every day.
Steven Wang, Staff Writer
• November 18, 2024

Opinion: Punishing fare evasion isn’t fair
New York City’s violent, punitive approach to fare evasion ignores the root causes, creating more harm than good.
Steven Wang, Staff Writer
• October 29, 2024

Opinion: NYU has a double major dilemma
The university should open double major options outside of the College of Arts and Science so students can explore the interdisciplinary opportunities that NYU boasts about.
Steven Wang, Staff Writer
• October 23, 2024

Opinion: NYU needs to get its students moving — for free
If the university truly believes that “the city is our campus,” it's time they help students actually afford to explore it.
Steven Wang, Staff Writer
• October 16, 2024

Lekhya Kantheti, Deputy News Editor • March 14, 2025

Dylan Henschen, Contributing Writer • March 14, 2025

Levi Langley, Deputy Sports Editor • March 14, 2025

Kaleo Zhu, Contributing Writer • March 14, 2025

Isabella Bickenbach, Staff Writer • March 14, 2025