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A Farewell to the Worst/Best Year of an Unexpected Editorship

I accepted this job during a sweaty summer in 2019 when I was interning for a magazine in New York. Something about this incessant, unresolved question of whether to take the offer or not clicked into place one day, and I carefully typed out sentences into the text bubble on

A Letter to the Administration: When Will We Divest?

Dear President Martin and Board of Trustees, It is past time to divest from fossil fuels and the prison-industrial complex. We write to you on the eve of Amherst’s bicentennial, in a year that has brought continued police violence, a global pandemic, unprecedented wildfires, and the most hurricanes ever

As Pandemic Poses New Strains on Low-Income Families, Campus Life Provides Students a Sense of Stability

Amherst College prides itself on offering some of the most generous financial aid packages in the country, matriculating a socioeconomically diverse student body and offering programs, offices and spaces to support and foster community among low-income students. Leveling the socioeconomic playing field, however, has become a far more arduous task

Seeing Double: What a Bummer is Summer

At a certain point in each semester, my days become brighter and lighter. I find that I suddenly have an extraordinary amount of time on my hands — time to watch Netflix, do my long-neglected hobbies, and maybe even get around to taking care of myself. Yes, I’m talking about

Thoughts on Theses: Vivian Cordon

Vivian Cordon ’21 is a double major in economics and law, jurisprudence and social thought (LJST), for which she is writing a thesis with Senior Lecturer in LJST David Delaney. Her thesis is about sanctuary cities and how Americans find identity within their cities and nation. Q: Can you describe

A November Masters Like None Other

A November Masters Like None Other

It’s November, and we are watching golf in Augusta, Ga. What is the world we live in? The Masters, perhaps the world’s most prestigious golf tournament, happened this fall after Covid-19 bumped it from its usual April start. But due to the recent stress that this 2020 induced,

What Has Media Coverage Missed in the Conflict Between Armenia and Azerbaijan?

Western media coverage of the Nagorno-Karabakh War has often portrayed Azerbaijan in a negative light, relying on Western fears of Islamic terrorism and distrust of Turkey to paint a black-and-white image of the conflict, with Azerbaijan in the wrong and Armenia in the right. As an Azerbaijani myself, I find