When I was looking at which colleges to apply to in high school, an important feature I looked for was either a lack of a language requirement or the ability to test out of language courses. I chose Carleton,...

In an era of tech-obsessed career paths and a growing skepticism toward social sciences, I can imagine students today might hesitate to major in Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN). Hopefully this isn’t...

Two weeks ago, I stood among 34,000 demonstrators at a rally in Denver. Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hosted the protest aimed at “fight[ing] oligarchy” (according to the speakers’...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) image models are trained on incomprehensibly vast amounts of training data that is often scraped from the web without any differentiation, resulting in what is essentially...

The act of studying the Middle East is more critical than it ever has been. As Middle East Studies programs across the U.S. are increasingly in danger, with top universities such as Columbia and Harvard...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...