While you would be hard-pressed to find anyone on campus unfamiliar with the candidates in the presidential election, competitive national Senate races are not filled with as many household names.…
On Sept. 18, liberal America lost one of its greatest icons when Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed after a long fight against pancreatic cancer. From…
The “Vassar Bubble” has always been a common turn of phrase, but the term has never been more literal than in Fall 2020. While historically it just described Vassar’s echo…
Residents of the West Coast peer outside their windows to see a sky of flames: an apocalyptic red-orange haze covering the states of California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Already the…
“I am Chinese. I am proud. I pledge allegiance to the Communist party.” Their dormitories are barred with iron. They glimpse the sky from a tiny window that is placed…
I click the link. The Zoom window opens, showing me a preview of my camera image. I adjust my hair, slip my clunky headphones over my ears, and enter the…
The Trump administration’s plan to defund the military news organization Stars and Stripes should be a wake-up call to the armed forces of the United States. While the decision has…
In 2006, Alexander Litvinenko spoke his last words just before he succumbed to Polonium-210 poison: “I think, therefore, that this may be the time to say one or two things…
This January, I wrote an article about the massive protests that erupted while I was studying abroad in Valparaíso, Chile last fall. I had never witnessed social unrest on such…
Across the country, school boards and administrations are holding Zoom meetings to discuss how to safely phase children back into the classrooms. The main concern of parents and teachers alike…
