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In the Sacklers’ Backyard: The Future of Connecticut’s Opioid Epidemic Response
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….
Yale Hybridize Now: Advocating for the Immunocompromised at Yale
At the start of the 2021-2022 school year, Katie Trumpener’s colleagues in the Yale English Department were preparing to welcome students back to the classroom after more than a year on Zoom. But Trumpener, an immunocompromised professor, would be staying…
Pointing to Nothing: The Promise and Failure of New Haven’s Civilian Review Board
After Emma Jones’ son Malik was murdered by police in 1997, she spent the next 23 years working to create a Civilian Review Board for police accountability. But now that one exists, she thinks it’s time for New Haven to go back to the drawing board.
A Crisis of Delays: Navigating Yale’s Overrun Mental Health Services
When James Hutchinson ’24 called Yale’s Acute Care Emergency Line and told the operator that he was considering suicide, he was told to expect a counselor assignment in a month. For now, however, he was advised to “go for a walk.” Hutchinson, who requested a pseudonym to remain anonymous, was assured that his counselor assignment process would be expedited, given the urgency of his situation. By the time Hutchinson spoke to The Politic in January, it had been over two months since Hutchinson first called the Acute Care Emergency Line. At the end of February, he still did not have a counselor.
The End of Ideas: Liberation, Liberal Arts and The Closure of Yale-NUS
On August 25, 2021, Luke Davies YNUS ’23 got an email from the Yale-NUS administration. There would be a town hall the next day at 9 a.m. Classes were canceled. “Imagine they’re going to tell us the school is closing,” he joked to a friend.
The State of State Prosecution in CT
During the next gubernatorial primary, we can make criminal justice a sticking point by stressing the Governor’s power to shape the criminal justice landscape.
Waiting for a Haven: Homelessness in Yale’s Backyard
Inside Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen’s Drop-In and Resource Center, Alvin* was sitting at a small, tucked-away table in front of a booth where a young woman was cheerily handing out coffee. He had laid out a black and gray camouflage…
A Campus Heritage: Voices of Latinx Faculty at Yale
Over two weeks, I interviewed several Latinx faculty and staff at Yale about their experiences. I was curious to find out what obstacles they had encountered and overcome, and sought to learn how their identity influenced their careers, if at all.