Category: Current Events

The 2016 Election According to Some People in Your Precept

Jen is president of Princeton Young Democrats and Woody Woo Major, ’18. She interned for an assistant to the assistant of a staffer in Elizabeth Warren’s Massachusetts office, is “with her,” metaphorically and literally; she wears a locket with Hilary’s face in it at all times.

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Make Princeton Great Again

Election season comes to Nassau Street.

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Parched

Social responsibility and conditions of scarcity.

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What’s Up, (Hu)man?

On Princeton University’s new guidelines for gender-inclusive language.

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Boxed In

As U.S. immigration policy changes rapidly, is it fair that undocumented workers face the law without representation? Three years ago, countless stacks of cardboard boxes filled the basement closet of a tall, narrow building at Broad and Market in Trenton. … Read More

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Nixon’s Ghost

What separates Trump from his predecessors is his willingness, and the willingness of his supporters, to give up any pretense of subtly or slyness. Trump’s campaign, despite what the headlines say, is not unprecedented in this way. It has simply set at center stage the racial politics that Republicans have long trafficked in but preferred to dress in finer rhetorical disguises.

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Work Life Balance

The Yale administration’s insistence on a student income contribution is reinforcing inequality along race and classlines.” So proclaims a new campaign launched at Yale, organized by the group Students Unite Now (SUN), aiming to eliminate the student income contribution for undergrads … Read More

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Stay Tenacious

The report’s interpretation is not at odds with the Sotomayor speech, but doesn’t fully understand it, either.

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Rebuilding

After the flood, a reflection on a healing state.

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Lost in the Oligarchy

While for some students, the middle of junior year marks the beginning (or a continuation) of a cushy and well-heeled existence, for others it is the moment when downward mobility becomes a reality.

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Choices in the Cupboard of Our Past

“The study of the Islamic world is no longer an exoticism and it is no longer a luxury.”

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November 13

That’s the first day. You just stay indoors and hope the terrorists don’t make house calls.

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