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October 2, 2009
The News has been suffering from a distinct lack of discussion of the candidates for the Democratic nomination for Ward 1 alderman. Every day, I […]
April 17, 2009
A digest of recent top stories from CNN and MSNBC: Jupiter’s Great Red Spot might be disappearing, having shrunken by 15 percent in the past […]
April 3, 2009
Lots of Yalies tuned in to watch President Obama address Congress this Tuesday, but I was more interested in what happened afterward. Louisiana Gov. Bobby […]
February 27, 2009
If you happen to be reading this article over a piece of dining hall tilapia, then hold up: You may be about to sink your […]
January 29, 2009
This is what a medieval joust looks like today: Two students, armed with the vague sensation that they are acquaintances, approach one another from opposite […]
January 16, 2009
In a tableau that was mirrored on countless college campuses, in city streets and suburbs across the country, hundreds of Yalies converged on Old Campus […]
November 7, 2008
In his novel “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture,” Douglas Coupland coins the term “ultra short-term nostalgia,” defined as the modern feeling of “homesickness […]
October 24, 2008
Even in the face of skyrocketing oil prices, some American policy-makers stubbornly refuse to abandon bans on domestic drilling. Rather than tap into the nation’s […]
October 9, 2008
It is the year 2005. An everyman — let us call him “Jim”— buys a house for $400,000. The house is actually worth $200,000, but […]
September 26, 2008
There’s nothing complicated about gender politics in America, at least as far as its two main political parties are concerned. Everyone knows that Democrats are […]
September 11, 2008