by Sohum Pal In the spring of my senior year of high school, I received an invitation to join the Directed Studies program for my freshman year at Yale. I declined immediately—not because I thought I couldn’t complete the workload or maintain a healthy social life, but because I see the program as a violent…
Mexico’s Moral Dance with Gay Rights
by Arturo Pineda *also published in The Politic* In May on the National Day of the Fight against Homophobia, the Mexican President, Peña Nieto of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), announced via Twitter he had signed an initiative to amend the Mexican Constitution to recognize same-sex marriage across the country, and grant adoption rights to…
Donald Trump’s Cabinet of Horrors
by Azaria King Donald Trump has been busy… and so have his supporters. Since his electoral win on November 8th, the spike in hate crimes has risen substantially, neo-Nazi’s have become bolder and have held an actual conference.Trump has shown that he will truly be the person he was during his campaign should he hold…
Indigenous Beats: Indigenous Voices in the 2016 Election
by Katie McCleary image from Native Vote Indigenous candidates broke records in the 2016 election. Eight Indigenous candidates ran for congress and over ninety ran for state legislatures- more than ever before. Though many Indigenous peoples may have lost interest in the national election after a white haired candidate who could talk to birds dropped…
Letter from FFY to the Yale Corporation
To the Yale Corporation, In September 2016, the Yale Corporation announced its intention to improve transparency through a series of forthcoming reforms. These efforts are long overdue. The broader Yale community has lacked meaningful involvement in many recent decisions that affect us all. As a result, our disagreements with the Corporation on a host of…