
In the know: Dutchess County gears up for larger COVID-19 outbreak
The Hudson Valley stayed alert as New York City confirmed the state’s first case of COVID-19 in early March. Then a Westchester County man, who commutes to his Manhattan law…
By Tiana Headley and Mack Liederman – 4 years ago
The Hudson Valley stayed alert as New York City confirmed the state’s first case of COVID-19 in early March. Then a Westchester County man, who commutes to his Manhattan law…
By Mack Liederman and Sara Lawler – 4 years ago
After days of anxiety and uncertainty in the greater Vassar community, President Elizabeth Bradley and members of Vassar’s senior administrative team have released a strategy for dealing with the COVID-19…
By Dean Kopitsky, Jonah Frere-Holmes and Mack Liederman – 4 years ago
The NBA does not harbor mediocrity. The All-Star game reminds us of that fact; soon, we’ll get to see basketball’s best share the same court. But what about some love…
By Mack Liederman – 4 years ago
In collegiate newsrooms around the country, tucked away in corridors of campus buildings, student journalists work tirelessly in time they don’t have. Textbooks lie scattered across tables, editors collaborate on…
By Mack Liederman – 4 years ago
Let me begin with a touch of honesty: I was late for this interview. An unnaturally early 10 a.m. breakfast at the Deece made for a leisurely, carb-filled meal drowned…
By Mack Liederman – 4 years ago
Midnight, Halloween, Thursday, Oct. 31. After a long day of classes, show rehearsals and the accumulated sleep depravity that typically accompanies just-another-week at Vassar, Zamir Birnbach ’20 had settled into…
By Aena Khan and Mack Liederman – 4 years ago
A master’s in law from King’s College, London, at age 23. An internship in the Obama White House, along with a gig at the United Nations. A degree from the…
By Jessica Moss and Mack Liederman – 4 years ago
Scattered across the grass on the Chapel Lawn, Vassar students gathered for exchanges in cross-legged semicircles, listening to live performances at the makeshift stage nearby and painting signs bearing slogans…
By Mack Liederman – 4 years ago
One hundred and fifty three years. A lot has changed in the last 153 years. Nations have risen and fallen, wars have broken out and subsided, civil rights have been…
By Mack Liederman, Jessica Moss and Frankie Knuckles – 4 years ago
In a new Netflix miniseries titled “When They See Us,” actress Felicity Huffman plays Linda Fairstein, former chief of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Sex Crimes Unit. The series dramatizes the…