Opinion

“The new center will be situated on the current location of Merrill and McGuire,” reads an Oct. 30 email sent by President Biddy Martin to the college community. To many, this line of the email probably wasn’t noteworthy. However, it filled me with distress. We have known that the

There are 573 federally recognized tribes in the United States, all with their unique customs and traditions, and military service has been a consistent tradition among them. How is it that Native Americans, who serve more per capita than any other racial group, receive little recognition for their sacrifices at

A typical Sunday night for many college students looks like a grind. A lot of us can be found in cafes, furiously typing out essays, working through a problem set or furrowing our eyebrows at a confusing reading. But for me, Sunday nights look a little different. On Sunday nights,

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-

Dear faculty of Amherst, Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. With constant encouragement from my professors to pursue even the most complicated of questions, I am writing with a proposal regarding the engagement of potentially traumatic material in courses. Traumatic material comes up often in courses,