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2 weeks ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Gabe Hawkins
President Donald Trump’s second term has created a bleak portrait of what is to come. With rising inflation, tariff chaos and mass deportations unfolding across the country, the soul of our nation has been put to the test. Today, the Trump Administration announced it was barring Harvard University from enrolling international students. It seems that every day, some horrific story from Washington incites a nationwide frenzy. These are difficult, uncharted times where hope can feel fleeting.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Gabe Hawkins
Beyoncé took Soldier Field by storm after a three-hour weather delay during her Chicago stop on the Cowboy Carter Tour on Thursday. Braving a National Weather Service tornado watch and a torrential downpour, audience members sheltered inside the stadium for nearly three hours waiting for the international superstar to take the stage. Patrons with floor seats were not allowed to enter until well after 9 p.m., two hours after the show was set to start.
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3 weeks 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Gabe Hawkins
An entertainer for the ages, Lady Gaga has nothing left to prove. She could sell out stadiums and win another Oscar in a heartbeat. She could host Saturday Night Live and serve as the musical guest — as she did last weekend — while redefining fashion trends on red carpets across the globe. She could never again release a single and still remain among the most prominent artists of our time.
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Gabe Hawkins
Since last summer, incoming student Amaad Garrett has been an intern with Texas State Sen. Royce West. For the past year, West’s office has fought anti-diversity, equity and inclusion legislation. Garrett was admitted to Northwestern in the early round of QuestBridge, a program that partners with universities to recruit academically exceptional students from low-income backgrounds.
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Mar 9, 2025 | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Gabe Hawkins
Content warning: This story contains a description of drug abuse. The curtain opened and closed on alumni play “Lobster” this weekend in the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts, bringing a high school theatre rehearsal room to life. The core inspiration behind Northwestern alumni Kallan Dana’s (MFA ’23) “Lobster” was the Hotel Chelsea. Better known as the Chelsea Hotel, it is perhaps more storied than the individuals who have stayed inside it.
