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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…
“I wish somebody would have explained to me that there were different options before this happened to me. Sometimes that can save somebody from experiencing that same trauma.” Samantha Jordan, a doula and birth photographer based in Northeastern Ohio, wishes…
Benjamin Franklin described the structure of the then-new American government as “a republic, if you can keep it.” That is to say, the very notion of American democratic governance is fragile and could collapse if imperiled. The current Supreme Court…
