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Babygirl

Review: ‘Babygirl’

Charis Adkins, Opinion Editor January 14, 2025

Rating: 1.69/10 Spoilers ahead for “Babygirl”. I will acknowledge that I’m not the target audience for this movie. I don’t watch romance movies, I don’t read romance books and I’m generally...

Manifesting the Dream

Manifesting the Dream

Corynn Young, Graphic Designer January 10, 2025

Guest Star on Mark Welsh's New Podcast

Guest Star on Mark Welsh’s New Podcast

Zoe Rich, Graphic Designer January 10, 2025

Opinion: Totally plausible 2025 predictions

Opinion: Totally plausible 2025 predictions

Charis Adkins, Opinion Editor January 10, 2025

Welcome to 2025, Ags! It’s been a long time coming. A year, some might say. Every new year, people who have no business doing so tend to go on record predicting what’s to come. Usually, these guesses...

Opinion: Dream guests for Welsh’s new podcast

Opinion: Dream guests for Welsh’s new podcast

Joshua Abraham, Opinion Writer January 10, 2025

On Jan. 22, President Mark A. Welsh III will premier his much-anticipated podcast, “At Ease.” Giving a peek into the various activities and personalities at Texas A&M, he and chief of staff Susan...

Rural Oakwood, Texas's water tower on November 27, 2024. (Jessica Roppolo/The Battalion)

Opinion: In support of rural America

Joshua Abraham, Opinion Writer December 9, 2024

City life has always enticed me. I’m drawn to beautiful, ancient and modern architecture, and walkable urban cities are the best way to live. I’m enthralled by the social life in metropolitan areas...

As we’re gearing up for the holiday season, opinion writer Joshua Abraham wants to remind you that we shouldn’t be divided to celebrate. We must put our political differences aside and be joyous together. (Graphic by Zoe Rich)

Opinion: The most wonderful time of the year?

Joshua Abraham, Opinion Writer November 27, 2024

It's the most wonderful time of the year! I love the holiday season with a passion. As soon as Halloween ends, the cobwebs and spiders get exchanged for incandescent lights and a Christmas tree. I can...

Just as roses have thorns, we have things in our lives that disallow us from being loved. Opinion writer Joshua Abraham shows you how our thorns can be used for good and how we can become the rose we are meant to be. (Graphic by Luniqua Louis)

Opinion: The one who picks your thorns gets your rose

Joshua Abraham, Opinion Writer November 27, 2024

Roses are beautiful. They bloom to showcase their vibrant red color. But under the petals, along the stem of the rose lie thorns for anyone attempting to touch it.  A rose is meant to be looked at....

Review: 'Anora'

Review: ‘Anora’

Joshua Abraham, Opinion Writer November 27, 2024

Rating: 10/10 Spoilers ahead. If you told me a year ago that a movie about a stripper fighting to marry a Russian oligarch’s son might be the movie of the year, I would’ve laughed in your face.  Fortunately,...

Think looking at life with a romantic, rose-tinted lens will make you happy? Opinion writer Isabella Garcia says romanticization makes life a performance, creates harmful perspectives and promotes self-centeredness. (Graphic by Corynn Young)

Opinion: Delulu is not the solulu

Isabella Garcia, Assistant Opinion Editor November 25, 2024

To romanticize is to idealize; to think something is better — more exciting, interesting or meaningful — than it actually is.  We’ve become so exhausted with productivity being the center of...

Aggies wait in line during ticket pull for the Notre Dame football game at the Kyle Field Plaza on Monday, Aug. 26, 2024.

Opinion: Portrait of a tradition on fire

Joshua Abraham, Opinion Writer November 22, 2024

The irony. The absolute irony.  At the same time as the 25th anniversary and memorial service of the 1999 Bonfire tragedy, ambulances were called, people got into physical altercations and students...

Love it or hate it, goth people are better than you. Opinion writer Joshua Abraham explains what we can learn from them about expressing our true selves. (Graphic by Chi-Chi Zhang)

Opinion: Be like the goths

Joshua Abraham, Opinion Writer November 14, 2024

There’s two sides of the spectrum when it comes to the perception of goth people in our society; On one side, you have people at the mall who’ll look at them judgmentally, and on the other, you have...

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