Yale Daily News

I don’t know when it hit me that I was leaving Yale, but there’s one moment I remember particularly well.

May 19, 2015

Big ponds are drying up all around us. Small ponds are burgeoning. We instead choose what particular small pond we want to plunge into.

September 25, 2013

If Wood stays, the residents of Ward 7 will be given that chance to reflect. If she drops out of the race, these residents will be deprived of any direct instrument to express themselves.

September 18, 2013

An 18-year-old drinking age — or 19-year-old, in order to avoid legal drinking by high school seniors — would complete the circuit in our “safety first” alcohol strategy.

September 11, 2013

Harnessing inertia, or “nudging,” can help us promote better policy outcomes.

September 4, 2013

If you can stomach complicity in G-Heav’s exploitation, go on and continue to buy from them. But if you feel like I feel — upset, betrayed or unable to look squarely into a G-Heav worker’s eyes knowing the abuse — then help stop it.

August 28, 2013

If there is one thing we can learn from this tragedy, it is that we can stop pretending we can do it all on our own.

April 17, 2013

Americans love equality of opportunity and are wary of equality of outcome — and for good reason. But there are some instances when equality of outcome is desirable. The same is true for housing.

April 3, 2013

I remain firm that understanding a candidate’s personality is worth risking a slight increase in subjectivity.

March 7, 2013

My proposal is this: bring back the P.E. requirement.

February 20, 2013

Try walking to Chipotle alone.

February 6, 2013