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Cole Graber-Mitchell '22

Cole is a second-year from Minneapolis, Minnesota --- the land of high voter turnout, cold winters, and nice people. When not writing depressing articles about everything we do wrong, he likes to sin

Seeing Double: The New Normal

My parents got divorced when I was in fourth grade. Often, people say that they remember events like these clearly, but all I have is a fuzzy memory of sitting down in the living room and being told that yes, they were getting divorced, and yes, they would split custody

Seeing Double: A Tale of Two Crises

In the five months since Chinese doctors first reported a new pneumonia-like illness — now known as COVID-19 — nearly the entire world [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51737226] has taken drastic measures to slow its spread. Countries are closing their borders to foreign travel, screening travelers and limiting domestic movement. By

Seeing Double: Tipping, est. 1865

Believe it or not, tipping is an imported culture: it didn’t exist in the United States until after the Civil War when wealthy Americans brought the practice home after visiting England. By the turn of the 20th century, tipping was a normal practice nationwide — but that didn’t stop

Seeing Double: Rethinking Housing Selection

Seeing Double: Rethinking Housing Selection

Like last spring, and the spring before that and all springs since time immemorial, it’s time for Amherst students to “choose” where we’ll have the pleasure of living for the next school year. As standard parts of the school year go, housing selection might be my least favorite.

Seeing Double: Solving Our Climate Crisis

Socialism as the Solution Cole Graber-Mitchell ’22Columnist Right now, we have what we need to overcome the climate crisis. We have the the will: an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that climate change is both happening and dangerous, according to a 2018 study by Yale researchers. And we have the

Seeing Double: No Library for You, Billionaire

Seeing Double: No Library for You, Billionaire

About 45 miles away from Amherst and 187 years ago, the small New Hampshire town of Peterborough voted to establish the first tax-supported public library in the United States. The Peterborough Town Library, which is still operational today, uses tax money to buy books and make them available to all.

Seeing Double: A Legitimate Political Party

The GOP: Increasingly IllegitimateCole Graber-Mitchell ’22 When Harvard Professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt searched through history to distinguish failed democracies from those like the United States, they found a crucial factor that prevented backsliding: strong political norms. Their book, “How Democracies Die,” starts with the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans, the