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Category: Volume 40

Oops! All Purples! #1

30 January 2026
Naomi Speck
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This is the Hilltop Monitor’s debut OAP! puzzle by Naomi Speck. Comment your answers below, or share your agonies to get a hint. Just like…

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On I.C.E. Ignoring Critical Evidence

30 January 2026
Ethan Naber
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Content warning: This story addresses the killing of Alex Pretti. “The party told you,” wrote George Orwell at the end of 1984, “to reject the…

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Indiana University wins the CFB National Championship

30 January 2026
Matthew Parker
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The college football season concluded on Jan. 19, as the Indiana Hoosiers under second-year head coach Curt Cignetti won a 27-21 national championship game against…

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Mayflower? I Hardly Know Her! More Tips on Holiday Argument Etiquette for a Stress-Free Thanksgiving

27 November 2025
Naomi Speck
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Are you pumped to gorge yourself on both food and entertainment this upcoming National Native Day of Mourning even as hundreds of thousands of Americans…

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An Aurora on the Hill

17 November 2025
Matthew Parker
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The Troubling Rise of AI “Performers”

17 November 2025
Ethan Naber
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Through the past two years, artificial intelligence (AI) has threatened to replace every facet of humanity that it can. It has forced writers to change…

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Smallest Hill: Let’s Stop Allowing Child Labor in the Form of Child Actors

17 November 2025
Naomi Speck
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I’m watching Season Two of The Last of Us (there will be no spoilers in this piece!) over the summer with some friends, and we…

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AI Psychosis, Delusions, and the Digital Condition

17 November 2025
Rowen Murray
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According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, psychosis is defined as “a serious mental illness characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations…

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Ghostly Chatter

7 November 2025
Ethan Naber
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  • On I.C.E. Ignoring Critical EvidenceJan 30, 2026
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