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KRASNIQI: Close at hand

When the pandemic began, Youth Continuum’s shelter — the Young Adult Crisis Housing Program — had to cut capacity by half. Even with fewer clients, the […]

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SAPRE: Lessons from nostalgia

On the bottom deck of my grandmum’s teak coffee table, beneath stacks of cloth bags and heaps of used paper, lies a photo album from […]

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FURTEK: Honor our commitment with fair contracts

It was the spring semester of 1988 at Yale. My classmates and I returned to campus unsure if we’d have dining halls to feed us; […]

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SHIRNEKHI: The price we pay

Yesterday evening, students, alumni and concerned allies shared our stories about mental illness and mental health care. Students Unite Now delivered 585 signatures to the […]

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VICTOR: Reflections

Daunte Wright. Pulled over for an air freshener. The same age as me.  Each time a new name makes the headlines, it sets off a […]

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FALCONE: David A. Thomas for Yale

This piece was written as a group statement by the current YAA Board of Governors volunteer alumni members of the AFNC. Each year, a group […]

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YENILMEZ: Those moments of contemplation

It was past midnight. We were sitting on a bench outside of Old Campus, looking at the stars.  “There aren’t even stars,” one of us […]

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BITTON: Plato is infrastructure

“The government should be a referee, not an active player.” These words, uttered by the neoliberal economist Milton Friedman, would have baffled our pre-modern ancestors. […]

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LEE: The lonely college

In 2018, a survey of over 20,000 individuals found that almost half of Americans reported feeling lonely — 46 percent reported feeling alone, 47 percent […]

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ONGURU: Selling out

On the morning of March 11, 2021, Elsa Majimbo, rising Kenyan comedian and pop culture star, tweeted that Kenya Airways left her luggage behind and […]

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NAM: Laughter and the misogyny it hides

His drunk breath fogs the bare inches of air between us. He slurs out vague, sexually connoted invitations over and over again as the girl […]