STAFF COLUMN
EDITORIAL: Students are stakeholders

The recent Yale College Council referendum has raised the quintessential question of who has the right to have a voice in deciding the direction of […]

PUANG: Movie adaptations are about transformation, not translation

The first book-to-movie adaptation I remember seeing is “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.” My then-best friend and I begged our parents to […]

DE GENNARO: Reclaiming the Founding Fathers

This past Monday was Presidents’ Day, commemorating the birthday of our first president and Founding Father George Washington. In recent years, the myth of the […]

NDUBISI & DE VERNOU: A Grand Strategy for Democracy — At Home and Abroad

In his recent State of the Union Address, President Biden touted his legislative victories, outlined his agenda for the newly divided Congress and painted an […]

DUNSON: What’s a spissue for?

When I first arrived on campus, I knew nothing about journalism. I had started writing op-eds only a few months prior, and I was generally […]

SAPRE: Concealing my STEMness

I rarely ever tell people what I’m majoring in. I much prefer to make them guess.  Most days, this strategy serves me well. The first […]

NAM: Faith in our stars

For someone who came into the world as a result of horoscope mapping and shaman consultations, I put very little stock in astrology. The Costar […]

SINGH: The “free” state of Florida

Ron DeSantis wants to run for president; if press reports are to be believed, he’ll announce his bid sometime this spring, after the Florida legislative […]

DOMINGUEZ: It’s not as “interesting” as you think

I have heard the word “interesting” being used as a way to describe how people think or feel about something in seminar discussions too often. […]

PUANG: The real problem with ‘American Dirt’

In 2020, “American Dirt” a novel about the experiences of an undocumented Mexican woman and her son moving to America to escape a drug cartel, […]

NDUBISI & SUH-TOMA: Where do we go from here?

After years of advocacy from student leaders and activists, calls for change from alumni and professors and a bombshell lawsuit that brought the nation’s attention to the issue of mental health discrimination on its […]