Yale Daily News

This is my final column for the News.

April 18, 2016

For the last four years, I’ve watched as tireless student activists made progress every year on financial aid. But as I barrel towards graduation, I’m forced to think of where the movement goes from here.

April 4, 2016

The days of laughing off Trump are over, and with the xenophobic billionaire now barreling toward a string of wins on Super Tuesday, it’s time to start thinking seriously about how to take him down.

February 29, 2016

I never knew Marina Keegan ’12, but like so many students, I know her story. A promising young journalist and writer, she saw her life tragically cut short in a car crash just days after her graduation.

February 15, 2016

I constantly find myself threading the needle between two worlds: one thoroughly liberal and protected by the thick film of the Yale bubble, and the other in my hometown within the Deep South, where Donald Trump and his shamelessly divisive rhetoric reign supreme.

February 1, 2016

Today in a town hall, the Yale administration will reveal the final numbers for next year’s student effort expectations — marking the next chapter in […]

December 7, 2015

For the second time this semester, I tuned into a national televised Democratic primary debate with throngs of Yale for Bernie and Yale for Hillary […]

November 16, 2015

Sarah Eidelson is both a Democrat and a friend.

October 30, 2015

But this year, I did something different: I gave up. I quit. And I’ve never been happier.

October 12, 2015

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” So said Horace Mann, a reformer who believed in the power of education to level the playing field for American students. But at Yale, as a direct result of our financial aid policies, the great equalization stops at summer’s door.

September 29, 2015

For students still trying to figure out how best to make an impact after graduation, I offer one suggestion: Consider going South.

September 14, 2015