Gabe Hawkins

4 days ago | dailynorthwestern.com | Gabe Hawkins

Pope Francis’ death marked the end of an era. Or perhaps the era was just beginning. The pope’s sympathy for gay marriage — a blueprint I hope incoming Pope Leo XIV will carry forward — is one of many distinguishing factors that enshrined Pope Francis as a champion of equality.

2 weeks ago | dailynorthwestern.com | Gabe Hawkins

As our government descends into oligarchy and the constitutional rights of our citizens are sold down the river, I often question the career path I chose. How can I enter a profession where having strong opinions is detrimental to my work? One of the defining elements of journalism is a reporter’s objectivity. In the Medill School of Journalism’s first-year sequence, journalistic objectivity is drilled into our skulls from day one.

3 weeks ago | dailynorthwestern.com | Gabe Hawkins

Last week, Harvard University filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration after it froze over $2 billion in federal funding. Harvard also announced that it would not capitulate to the administration’s invasive demands, which included ending affirmative action in hiring, reforming admissions policies to screen for international students “hostile to American values” and closing all DEI offices and programming.

1 month ago | dailynorthwestern.com | Gabe Hawkins

On April 3, The Daily Northwestern published an op-ed written by Kevin Waldman titled, “Why the NU faculty quietly celebrating the end of DEI should not have to hide.” Waldman criticized what he described as the “loudest voices in academia,” who are supposedly in “full-blown panic mode” over the Trump Administration’s encroaching policies in higher education, including threats to dismantle DEI and the loss of federal funding.

1 month ago | dailynorthwestern.com | Gabe Hawkins

On the way to a friends’ house last December, I hitched a ride with our mutual friend and her mom. With Donald Trump’s White House takeover looming, the conversation swiftly turned political. I confessed that I was deeply concerned about Elon Musk’s potential role in the federal government. His plan to roll out the Department of Government Efficiency, a task force created to dismantle government bureaucracy and slash federal spending, had been announced just one month prior.