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Mexico’s democracy, after years of resilience and progress, is tumbling toward an authoritarian abyss. As of September 15th, 2024, the judicial branch—formerly made up of judges appointed by the government—will now be elected by the populace. The public, however, will…
Donald Trump won the election. The Republicans won the House and the Senate. Six of the nine Supreme Court Justices are conservative. America, it seems, will be reconstructed in the image of the far-Right. Quite decisively, the Democrats lost. There…
If there’s a quippy statistic that sums up young people, it’s the following: The average high schooler today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the 1950s. Dr. Robert Leahy of the American Institute for…
“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…
Roba El Husseini has spent the past decade with Agence France Presse (AFP) reporting from some of the world’s most challenging conflict zones, covering crises in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and beyond. Her reporting relays powerful stories of military operations, human…
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…
In the spring of her sophomore year, Hyerim Bianca Nam ‘24 encountered a tabling event on Yale’s Cross Campus. The students at the table invited passersby to engage in conversations about abortion ethics and fetal personhood. Images of sonograms and…
“I used to believe the media is above power, but it has become clear to me that this is not the case,” said Dominik Varga. Varga, whose name was changed to ensure his personal safety, is a veteran radio host…
