El Estoque

Zoom school replaces in-person learning during pandemic

Tanish Mendki, Michelle Chen, Sophia Chen, Justine Ha, Krish Dev, Suraj Gangaram, Matthew Yoshimoto, and Devin Gupta • September 19, 2020

Examining various perspectives about instruction through a screen

Travis Scott: the unique sound of “Highest in the Room”

Anish Vasudevan • October 10, 2019

Rapper Travis Scott improves from previous work with new single “Highest in the Room”

Man in the mirror: kids are losing their childhoods too quickly

Nathan Stevens • May 30, 2017

t all starts with a phone. We see kids around us texting, snapchatting and posting on Instagram, all with their phones, so we want one too. Then one day we look up from our new phones and everyone around...

After the storm: the current state of California’s drought

Krishna Sunder • January 17, 2017

Additional reporting by Nate Stevens rown is the new green.” At least that’s what Governor Jerry Brown used as his campaign slogan in 2014, referring to his new platform of anti-drought policies....

‘Tis the Season

Krishna Sunder • December 15, 2016

A piece of me: coming out as gay

Nathan Stevens • December 7, 2016

or as long as I can remember, I’ve felt different. It wasn’t until seventh or eighth grade that I realized why. It took me years to finally accept it, to stop living in denial. But now, I’m ready...

Going glossy and going back

Cynthia Mao • May 29, 2012

We went glossy earlier this year because of a lucky find — a startup printing company approached us with a radical new business model that gave us free glossy pages. It was risky. There was always...