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Platon is one of the world’s most celebrated photographers, renowned for his portraits of world leaders such as Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Muammar al-Qaddafi, and Bill Clinton, as well as iconic cultural figures including Muhammad Ali, Edward Snowden,…
Kyeonghee Eo, an assistant professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University, checked X on the morning of December 3rd, 2024. It was a week before her long-awaited trip to visit family in South Korea. What she saw…
Nick Jacobson YC ‘23 was the Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania’s 85th State House District in this year’s general election. While at Yale, Nick was one of The Politic’s Managing Editors. He lives outside of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Nick spoke to The…
On an election day that saw one of the most divisive and high-stakes contests for the presidency, an electric mood of political excitement suffused campus. Student groups such as Yale Votes led hundreds of students to City Hall to vote,…
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’…
“We cannot talk about development without talking about conflict and violence,” Brazilian environmental activist and Decolonial Centre coordinator Gabriela Sarmet told The Politic. “Behind every development comes a trail of destruction.” Over the last five centuries, mining has left environmental…
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…
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…
