Sam didn’t know why she wanted to talk. She had been finishing up the chocolate mousse cake for her son’s eighth birthday when Lily called her. It was a call on the wind, cryptic and strange, but like ...

North by Northwestern (NBN) is an independent, student-run publication. We strive to uphold the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion within the newsroom and through our reporting. At a time ...

As Evanston’s “fake springs” temporarily relieve the Northwestern community from below-freezing temperatures, a glimpse of warmer days on the horizon calls for a closet revamp – but with a sustainable ...

Follow Jorge Martinez as he covers a Supreme Court meeting in Washington, D.C., as a student reporter in the Medill on the Hill program. From an early morning commute to taking detailed notes, get a ...

How cruel is it, that I am only allowed to remember by memory? In the very booth, that takes memories and bundles them up into a package of 4. The captured ones I distinctly forget. Everything was in ...

At the end of January, Mob Entertainment released the long-awaited fourth chapter in the Poppy Playtime series. I get excited when new video games like Poppy Playtime: Chapter 4 drop because it means ...

Beyonce and Post Malone being nominated for country awards at the Grammys in February isn’t something I predicted. Sure, both are artists with skill in their respective home genres, but Cowboy Carter ...

I’m pretty sure every Medill student hears this at some point. Probably, multiple times. We get the pitch for Journalism Residency (JR) even before we get to campus: It’s an internship baked into the ...

All my life, I have always felt invisible. (No, girl. Don’t worry – this isn’t going in a sad, boo-hoo, poor-me direction.) I felt invisible in the sense that I was irrelevant – not part of the system ...

The Northwestern for Ukraine club painted the Rock on Feb. 24 to commemorate the three-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The 30-person group has done so every year since the invasion.