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Trump cannot erase the trans community

Isaac Kofsky, Viewpoint Editor February 28, 2025

On the very first day of President Donald Trump’s second term, the White House issued an executive order, "Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal...

Art in a time of crisis

Rahim Hamid, Contributing Writer February 28, 2025

We live in interesting times. Here we are at the precipice of multiple global conflicts in pretty much every major region of the world, as all the worst parts of the cyberpunk dystopia come true. We live...

Why FERPA is dangerous for Carleton admissions

February 21, 2025

In the mid-2010s, Ivy League students discovered in waves that an under-discussed law gave them the right to view their own admissions documents. Thousands of students who had been accepted into the most...

Deconstructing Carleton’s demolition methods: when sustainability meets the bulldozer

Nathan Hawkins, Contributing Writer February 21, 2025

Recently, Carleton was awarded the Climate Luminary Honor for Decarbonization from a leading nonprofit centered on advancing sustainability in higher education. Such a recognition is well-deserved given...

Death to the Jones Act

Bax Meyer, Editor-in-Chief February 21, 2025

What if I told you that there was a single policy that increased the cost of groceries and energy, increased your carbon footprint and propped up an industry that behaved like a cartel, all with the explicit...

The “Riviera of the Middle East”: How Trump’s new plan will affect Gaza

Ella Parke, Viewpoint Editor February 21, 2025

Two weeks ago, President Trump announced that he intends to take over Gaza. Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu shared warm smiles as they discussed dislocating two million Palestinians with no regard for...

Tackling Trump’s tariff trouble

Luke Heschel, Columnist February 14, 2025

Less than a month into Donald Trump’s second presidential term, we’ve seen a deluge of extreme, coercive tariffs and economic threats to bolster Trump’s anti-immigration, anti-drug goals. Although...

A review of SUMO’s pick “The Wild Robot”

Maya Mitckess, Staff Writer February 14, 2025

After hearing the hype surrounding “The Wild Robot” with phrases like “This generation’s Iron Giant” and “Connecting all ages like ‘Inside Out 2’ did this past summer,” I was excited...

So…what has Trump done well?

Madeleine Goldberger, Social Media Manager February 14, 2025

Since mid-Jan., we have sat back and watched the man that the majority of Americans who voted to elect reclaim his position of power as the President of the United States. He has made waves across the...

From the archives: a Valentine’s Day survival guide

Kate Higgins and Max Felderman February 14, 2025

Note from the Editor: This article was originally published on Feb. 16, 2014. The Carletonian is 138 years old, with over 3,500 issues published since its inception. To reflect and learn from the newspaper’s...

Reflections on three books, winter and London

Defne Arat, Contributing Writer February 7, 2025

It is an eternal complaint of all bookworms that there isn’t enough time to read during school terms. It is slightly incorrect, yet very understandable that while we are so worried about doing the unfinishable...

In oligarchy we trust: how the political right has taken over social media

Madeleine Goldberger, Social Media Manager February 7, 2025

President Donald Trump prides himself on being the voice and savior of working-class American people. He ran a campaign centered around helping these citizens with one of his core policies emphasizing...

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