On September 10, 2015, Williams College announced its intentions to address climate change through a number of targets, including carbon neutrality by 2020 and investment in sustainable companies, projects...
I like to think that there is nothing as awkward as an “it’s complicated” situation. I say that, but I continually find myself in such situations, so at this point, I would like to assert myself...
Imagine a world where a Death Panel has just decided that it’s too expensive to keep your grandmother alive. A world where the federal government has secretly implanted a microchip underneath your skin...
What's the solution for American Healthcare?The American healthcare system is a mess. While it produces good results – no one disputes that the quality of care that can be received in America is unparalleled...
I’m really into astrology. I actually swear by it. It’s to the extent where my best friend and I check each other’s horoscopes daily to see how one another’s day will go without even having to...
This past week Pope Francis took to Capitol Hill, where he addressed Congress and the American public at large. While the speech touched upon a plethora of issues, much of it centered on ideals of compassionate...
Pope Francis visited the United States last week in a historic two-week trip. The Pope spent time with the poor, the disabled, immigrants, prisoners and the victims of Church sex abuse scandals. Pope Francis’...
The three and half hour schlep through the bucolic mountainside and winding two-lane highways of the Chenango Valley remains the perfect backdrop to vivid memories of my collegiate experience. During...
In mid-September, Volkswagen admitted to cheating emissions tests on 11 million of its diesel cars. Models such as the Volkswagen Passat, Jetta, Golf and Beetle, and cousin cars like the Audi A3 were fit...
Let’s talk about the creepy pharmaceutical CEO, Martin Shkreli who raised the price of Daraprim, an oral medication used to treat toxoplasmosis and protozoal infections, by 5,000 percent. Originally...
Sarah Anderson, Assistant Commentary Editor
• October 1, 2015
Read this carefully: This is an argument for why the defunding of Planned Parenthood would be devastating for hundreds of thousands of women and children. This is not an argument for or against the practice...
On the subject of transitions, nothing seems more relevant to my life at the moment than the transition to a semester abroad and back. I spent this past spring on a non-Colgate program in Rome, and it...
