In response to the 2024 presidential election, several commentators have argued that Kamala Harris’ defeat was inevitable. Zack Beauchamp of Vox argued that it was not a coincidence every incumbent government...
Starting in fall 2025, Oberlin is granting all incoming admitted students from the Midwest an automatic $25,000 per year scholarship. The Midwest Merit Scholarship aims to recognize talented first-year...
Ida Rosenstein
Sarafidis firmly states that she is “repulsed by the accusation that the decision to not vote for president because of the genocide in Gaza is privileged.” While I similarly find Harris’...
This past weekend, like many others, I indulged in some seasonal festivities to welcome the new month. But by the end of the night, I found myself in a familiar situation — taking care of friends who...
To the Editors:
The stupor many Americans are feeling provides the crucial, clarifying starting point: we’ve all been fumbling around in the dark, not seeing our country for what it really is. Something...
The United States’ complicity in the Gaza genocide over the past 13 months has been unconscionable. The situation is likely about to get significantly worse.
With Donald Trump returning to the White...
On Tuesday, Nov. 5, a record-breaking 78-degree Fahrenheit day in northeast Ohio, the American people elected Donald Trump as the next president with an overwhelming majority. Trump has established himself...
There comes a time in every girl’s life when the full weight of the patriarchy hits them all at once, whether when hearing the phrase “boys will be boys” in class one day, or even in their own homes...
To the Editors:
There are two trends in collegiate academia that I believe are counterproductive.
1. The particularization of subject matter in a given subject. No longer do survey courses have an important...
I spent the night on the phone with my sister because she couldn’t fall asleep. She kept asking me, “What do we do? Is it over?” Tossing and turning, she’d hang up only to call back with new worries...
I like the act of voting in person on Election Day — going into the voting booth, knowing that my vote has been counted, and leaving with a sticker. Last November, I voted in my first election and was...
“You vote once in four years and that’s your political responsibility? That’s the height of bourgeois propaganda, making the people politically irresponsible. Thinking their responsibility is limited...
