Yale Daily News

In an episode of “The West Wing” recently rerun by NBC, Ainsley Hayes, a Republican lawyer, is hired by the fictional Democratic president, played by […]

February 21, 2001

Richard Atkinson has had enough of the SAT. And he’s doing something about it. As the president of the University of California system, Atkinson oversees […]

February 20, 2001

We want to forget Bill Clinton, really we do. But he simply refuses to go away. In one of his latest returns to public discourse, […]

February 19, 2001

Right after winter break, the leaks in the dike were almost imperceptible. I’d sit down at dinner and overhear someone wonder aloud about the pros […]

February 19, 2001

Last week, my introductory psychology class read a book called “Remembering Satan” by Lawrence Wright. I read it too. I mention that not just to […]

February 15, 2001

I was pretty excited on Friday. I finally got to see the Yale Corporation. True, it was from several feet away, and none of them […]

February 15, 2001

Distortion, evading the question and just plain stupidity are often very good ways out of a debate. If you are — or pretend to be […]

February 13, 2001

Politics is perception. Nowhere is this popular maxim truer than in the case of campaign finance reform. Overall, there is startlingly scant evidence to suggest […]

January 26, 2001

Throughout the fall campaign, the Democrats paid great lip service to the ideal of inclusion. Al Gore planned to create a big tent under which […]

January 19, 2001

On Monday, the Yale community was shocked or delighted to learn Yale will be offering the morning-after pill RU-486 to students and staff under its […]

January 12, 2001

Pop quiz: True or false: Yale College graduated as many blacks in 1969 as in 1996. True or false: Yale’s African American Studies program only […]

January 12, 2001