As a graduating double-degree student, I’ve had five years to observe the communications and interactions between Oberlin College and non-College residents of the City of Oberlin. In conversation with...
On Nov. 5, Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral election. In New Russia Township, Cynthia Drozdowski-Breda was also elected trustee following a wave of backlash against the...
Remember those anti-smoking commercials that used to air on MTV — the ones where an old woman would speak at you with an unsettling croak, or a teenager would have to peel off and give a chunk of her...
I have always found personality tests fascinating. In sixth grade, I discovered the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which assigns you one of 16 personality types expressed as a four letter code. According...
On Dec. 2, during a cabinet meeting, Donald Trump spewed racist rhetoric calling Somali Americans and Ilhan Omar “garbage.” Members of his cabinet cheered and applauded, with Secretary of War Pete...
One of the first Opinions pieces I ever read in The Oberlin Review was Avery Russell’s “Privilege Must Be Acknowledged Within Gender, Sexuality, Feminist Studies Classes,” The Oberlin Review, Nov....
On Friday, Dec. 5, news broke that Warner Bros., one of the most successful movie studios in the world, is being sold to Netflix for $82.7 billion. It would be the largest sale of a movie studio in history....
Chloe Ko, Arts & Culture Editor
• December 5, 2025
After watching countless 2000s movies about girls who hate their mothers, a pattern I’ve noticed is that the girl often threatens to put her mother into a nursing home. Honestly, it’s called for most...
Sudan is facing one of the worst humanitarian and displacement crises in the world while also being one of the wealthiest African countries in terms of gold reserves. Sit with that for a moment.
For...
On the night of his historic mayoral victory, Zohran Kwame Mamdani stepped onstage to begin his speech with — joy of all joys — a quote from American socialist Eugene V. Debs. His audience, composed...
The filibuster is probably the funniest strategy in American congressional procedure. Consider how ridiculous the basic premise of a filibuster is. You can hold up the functioning of the government simply...
