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With faces weathered by sun and sea and eyes crinkled from years battling salt water, the individuals sitting in the council room wear their lifetimes on their flannel sleeves. Idle hands, etched with scars and calluses, tell the story of…
When The Beatles flew from Liverpool, England to New York City in 1964, they had no idea they would become some of the most important men in music history. Sporting shiny black boots, perfectly starched suits, and identical mop-top hairstyles,…
Zaina Arafat is an LGBTQ Palestinian-American writer. She is the author of the novel You Exist Too Much, which won a 2021 Lambda Literary Award and was named Roxane Gay’s favorite book of 2020. Told in vignettes that flash between…
Laura Williams attended one of the largest conferences of Black undergraduates in the country. Here’s what young Black voters think about the 2024 election. President Joe Biden is hemorrhaging support from young Black voters. An April 2024 poll found that…
When public officials no longer cater to a base and relinquish their partisan appeal, they have the potential to offer valuable insight into the true needs of their party. That was exactly the case when former Speaker of the House,…
“I should have died two times already,” said Nataliia Shuliakova with a somber smile. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has unimaginably changed her life. When the war broke out in early 2022, Shuliakova and her family temporarily relocated to Moldova….
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…
