OPINION
DODD |
DODD: Elites, know thy ignorance

Trump’s performance surprised pundits this election: 47 percent of the country voted for him, even with a pandemic and recession. This unprecedented support has led […]

December 3, 2020

STEUER INGALL & BERTRÁN RAMÍREZ | GUEST COLUMNISTS
BERTRÁN RAMÍREZ & STEUER INGALL: Looking back at the Harvard-Yale game protest

When we stormed the field at halftime during last year’s Yale-Harvard game, we had little way of predicting what would happen, or the extent to […]

December 3, 2020

WOODSIDE | CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
WOODSIDE: Update the first year dinner

COVID-19 is forcing us to rethink many traditions. Holiday gatherings are being curtailed; work is increasingly being done remotely; “going to class” now means logging […]

December 3, 2020

IFTIKHAR | STAFF COLUMNIST
IFTIKHAR: The pandemic was a portal

When the walking began in Delhi, Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy drove to Ghazipur on the border between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. The walking […]

December 3, 2020

DAVIS | GUEST COLUMNIST
DAVIS: Bulldogs, be well (with caution)

2020 has put physical and mental health at the forefront of an international conversation. The results of the 2020 presidential election are settling in, accompanied […]

December 2, 2020

PILLAI | GUEST COLUMNIST
PILLAI: Yale’s long wait for an ombudsperson

Yale University continues to be the only Ivy league university without a university-wide ombudsperson: a neutral, impartial and confidential authority that one can approach for […]

December 2, 2020

ROGERS, BONET & ALMELING | GUEST COLUMNISTS
ROGERS, BONET & ALMELING: Yale needs pandemic plan for working parents

Recent peer-reviewed research documents the dire situation facing working parents, mothers in particular, during the pandemic. American women have long worked a “second shift” — […]

December 1, 2020

RAVIN | GUEST COLUMNIST
RAVIN: Demon drugs

The fatal drug overdose rate in the United States has more than tripled in the past 20 years. In 1999, the death rate from drug […]

November 30, 2020

ROBERTS | GUEST COLUMNIST
ROBERTS: The Native vote and what to do next

Native peoples in the United States voted across the nation in this election on every level, from presidential to local, on both sides of the […]

November 29, 2020

FREEMAN | GUEST COLUMNIST
FREEMAN: Native art representation

Since I was a child my mother assembled my dresses, intricately detailed with colorful ribbon, cloth diamond-shaped accents, billowing sleeves and a few ruffles at […]

November 29, 2020

GREYEYES | GUEST COLUMNIST
GREYEYES: Indigeneity in the past, present and future

When I was younger, I used to wonder if there was an alternate universe where I spoke Cree.  I used to wonder what it would […]

November 29, 2020