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As a teenager growing up in Austria, Veronika Denner heard that the pain she felt “every single second of every single day” was simply something she had to endure. Denner graduated from Yale in December 2023 and is an endometriosis…
Interviews with Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Matczak, and Tuleya were conducted in Polish; their remarks have been translated. Sunday, October 15, 2023 marked a twist of fate for Poland’s democracy. Citizens flooded voting stations to participate in the national parliamentary elections. Voter turnout…
Since the early 2000s, buttressed by the weight of its technological advancement and marshaled by burgeoning ideological schisms, India has forged an increasingly complex net of strategic relations. Accordingly, the landscape of Indian international affairs, divided between India, America, and…
In January 2024, Florida International University (FIU) arrived at the final step of a long partnership. The school terminated several of its successful partnerships with Chinese universities, including a Spanish language program, engineering programs, and a dual-degree hospitality program. FIU’s…
On a brisk November evening in New Haven, the bus was on time. On a CT Transit bus, a young man clad in a fast food uniform was asleep. A middle-aged mother gripped tightly onto a stroller where her daughter…
*Note: The student “Joseph” is referred to by a pseudonym to protect his privacy as a minor. In the fall of 2021, Garden Grove’s Sunnyside Elementary reopened its doors, returning to in-person learning after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down Southern…
In the beginning of the 19th century, New Orleans was one of the United States’ wealthiest and largest cities. Its port shipped the produce of the American interior to worldwide markets, and wealthy merchants walked the streets in the latest…
In a recent video released by March of Dimes, a pregnant mother named Claudia declares that she will likely give birth in a car. The nearest hospital is a thirty minute-drive from her home. Claudia recalls giving birth to her…
