Maksimas Milta is a master’s student in the European and Russian Studies Program in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He originally hails from Lithuania. At Yale, he studies the role of higher education in combating despotism and protecting…
Liz Fitzgerald had been waiting for this. It was March 10th, 2022, and she suddenly found herself speaking before the family that had upended her life and robbed her of two children. Fitzgerald has lost two sons to opioid addiction….
The argument posited by some Republicans that all gerrymandering is bad — and particularly when it is done by Democrats who claim to oppose it — has transformed the debate over redistricting. No longer just a fight over which neighborhoods are broken up by a new map, the fight over gerrymandering has become another chapter in the war between Democrats and Republicans over the need for reforms to America’s democracy.
Growing up in a small town in South Texas, aggressive abortion restrictions come as no surprise to Emerald Belmarez.
Emerald was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley, the most impoverished region in the state — and the least safe for reproductive rights. Only one abortion clinic serves a population of 1.3 million Texans.
