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Ignore At Your Own Risk: Can “Red Flag” Laws Shift America’s Gun Violence Prevention Debate?
Perpetrators of gun violence often signal their intent to do so before it happens. “That leakage—and all those instances of someone saying ‘I’m going to kill myself,’ or ‘I’m going to kill people at a school or church or synagogue’…
The Political Pulse: Why Polling Persists in American Politics
When Jack Dozier ’27 was working with the Democratic Coordinated Campaign in Virginia this summer, he spent much of his lunch break looking at polls. He had plenty to look at—the presidential debate between Biden and Trump had taken place…
OPINION: The Democrats’ Defeat: America’s Rejection of the Liberal Elite
On the morning of November 6, liberals woke up to a nightmare. A great red sweep took the nation. An election so close experts predicted its results would only be known in following days resulted in the landslide victory for…
The New Jane Crow: The Hidden Incarceration of Women in America
“The strongest pain reliever, if you’re getting anything while you’re incarcerated, is extra strength Tylenol. [The prison] had essentially been giving [my mom] Extra Strength Tylenol for years for what ended up being stage four metastatic colon cancer,” said Gabrielle…
Unfair Use: The Struggle for Ownership in the Age of AI
If not for several calls for interview requests from various news outlets, artist Erin Hanson might have never known that her career’s work was being trained and recreated on the AI platform Stable Diffusion. Hanson, a prominent modern artist known…
The Delivery Revolution: The Rise of Home Births in the U.S.
“I wish somebody would have explained to me that there were different options before this happened to me. Sometimes that can save somebody from experiencing that same trauma.” Samantha Jordan, a doula and birth photographer based in Northeastern Ohio, wishes…
OPINION: The Clock Is Ticking on the Supreme Court’s Credibility Crisis
Benjamin Franklin described the structure of the then-new American government as “a republic, if you can keep it.” That is to say, the very notion of American democratic governance is fragile and could collapse if imperiled. The current Supreme Court…
Udder Alternatives: A Milk Moo-vment
A handwritten chalkboard listing daily offerings and local favorites hangs next to the display counter at Scratch Baking, a small bakery in Milford, Connecticut. Lines often flow out the door as new faces and regulars stop by for their morning…