Alexa Stanger
Staff Reporter
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Building Branches: A Spotlight on New Haven Public Education During COVID-19

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Building Branches E2: Feeding the Elm City

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Building Branches E1: Community and Care in COVID-19

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Comfort During COVID Ep. 4: Sincerely, Yale Writers

We’re now a couple of months into quarantine and the new pace of socially distanced living might feel routine. With more time on our hands […]

Barbara Pearce: Protecting Connecticut’s most vulnerable from an invisible enemy

At the Connecticut Hospice, which offers end-of-life care in a beautiful waterfront location in Branford, Pearce is steering operations in a new direction.

The Biggest Joke of All: What If… Quarantine Was Cancelled?

“Happy April Fools kids! This year has been the biggest joke of all.” I received this text at 12:05 a.m. on Wednesday. The sender had […]

The Sound of the 2020s

If the advent of 2020 was roaring, I must have missed it. On New Year’s Eve 2019, I was in my bed, defeated by the […]

What to Do with your Lukewarm Harvard Friends

It’s that time of year — after months of radio silence you suddenly get a text. It’s your friend from Harvard. Unidentified H: Heyyy, so […]

Normal People

“Normal People” is a love story that’s almost painful in its wry honesty. People say never judge a book by its cover, but the simple […]

Escaping Our World

We walked into the club — the brightly-lit Saybrook Underbrook Room — with dance music pounding and metallic costumes dotted here and there. Audience members […]

STANGER: Some advice about advice

I stopped calling my parents in the middle of sophomore year. Not because I was angry or withdrawn but because I knew that every conversation […]