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The Student Newspaper of Groton School

The Circle Voice

Revisiting Trump's Letter in the Wake of Midterm Elections

Revisiting Trump’s Letter in the Wake of Midterm Elections

Powers Trigg ’20, Assistant Sports Editor November 10, 2018

Groton has always had a history of public service.  There is perhaps no greater emblem of that tradition than the letters and portraits from the last nineteen presidents of the United States that line...

The Right to Be “Part of the Resistance”

Tyler Weisberg ’22 October 19, 2018

In early September, the New York Times published an anonymous op-ed essay from a senior official of The Trump Administration. It disclosed the dilemmas the President was facing, and how the author believed...

SAT-Optional Admissions Will Fail the Test

SAT-Optional Admissions Will Fail the Test

Andrew Porter ’20, Assistant Opinions Editor September 13, 2018

Last July, the University of Chicago announced that it would be enacting the UChicago Empower Initiative, a test-optional admissions policy mainly intended to serve underserved applicants. This change...

Where Groton Failed in the #NeverAgain Movement

Katie Reveno ’20 May 30, 2018

When Annabelle Mata, a close friend and former teammate of mine, walked into school the morning of February 14th, 2018, she didn’t expect anything other than a normal day of classes. She didn’t expect...

When the FCC Got Its Way, We Lost More Than Net Neutrality

Jack Wilderding ’19 January 19, 2018

What is the Internet? It is a tool for discovery. It is a tool for creators. It stimulates and facilitates modern human progress. The Internet is not only wonderful, but also a necessity in this day and...

Kim Jong Three, Two, Un: A Nuclear Countdown?

Kim Jong Three, Two, Un: A Nuclear Countdown?

Rajit Khanna ’19, Reporter May 11, 2017

In another of a series of miscues regarding the Trump administration’s North Korea foreign policy, Trump claimed that he was sending an “armada” to the Korean Peninsula. North Korean officials probably...

Venezuela, socialist dream turned nightmare? Not so fast

Leo McMahon ’19, Reporter May 11, 2017

Despite what is commonly believed in the United States, Venezuela’s economic and political crises are not the fault of socialism, but the result of incompetent state capitalism and the sabotage of the...

A little less terrible: the fallacy of Obamacare-worship

A little less terrible: the fallacy of Obamacare-worship

Leo McMahon ’19, Reporter April 19, 2017

“Ryancare” (or “Trumpcare,” depending on whom you ask) may have failed to pass the House, thereby saving twenty-eight million Americans from losing their health insurance and between 270,000 and...

Sean Spicer, America’s cinnamon gum-chewing one-man Ministry of Truth.

Sugar, spice, and nothing nice: Sean Spicer, the propagandist

Brooks Anderson ‘20 February 23, 2017

Since the advent of the position in 1932 under the Roosevelt administration, the White House press secretary has been the primary spokesperson for the executive branch of the government, according to the...

Religious symbol, disguise, or tool for oppressing women?  The burqa, the world’s most controversial garment.

Burqa(n) or Burqa(nt)? Groton’s Muslims share their views

Fran Saldivar ’19 January 26, 2017

On January 10, the production and sale of burqas—clothing worn in public by some Islamic women—was banned in all of Morocco for security reasons. A burqa is a full-body garment that covers the neck...

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