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Rethinking Mental Health in Politics

As President Donald Trump’s administration becomes increasingly entangled with lawsuits, his mental health has become a popular topic of conversation among his opponents. George Conway, the husband of Trump’s former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, describes Trump as having narcissistic personality disorder. John Kelly, former white house chief of

Seeing Double: Amherst’s $2.4 Billion Question

Seeing Double: Amherst’s $2.4 Billion Question

While Amherst students have spent the last few years studying, learning and debating which mascot should go on the mugs at AJ Hastings, the college’s endowment has been quietly exploding. In 1998, Amherst’s endowment stood at $528 million. In the following decade, the college doubled this hardly insubstantial

Bridging the Town-Gown Gap

Here at Amherst, we take the notion of community pretty seriously. With a student body of fewer than 2,000 students, there’s a certain pressure to appear tightly knit to the outside world. The spaces in which we live, study, eat and hang out are engineered to optimize interaction

Goodness versus Kindness

We often use the words “good” and “kind” interchangeably to qualify a person based on their actions. Someone who smiles, asks us how our day was and seems genuinely interested in talking with us is deemed a “good person.” Basically, we give anyone who isn’t an asshole this mantle.

The Mocha Chronicles: An Introduction

The Mocha Chronicles: An Introduction

Cartoonist Laura Carty ’20 introduces the first of her cartoons in the Mocha Chronicles, a new series.

Seeing Double: The Case for Open Borders

Seeing Double: The Case for Open Borders

According to Pew Research Center, 62 percent of Americans have said that immigrants strengthen our country. Yet, around 11 million undocumented immigrants face constant fear of deportation, immigration court backlogs number over one million and refugee resettlement in the United States has plummeted. Some immigration applications have been sitting in

A Whirlwind Adventure

During my first week at Amherst, I ran into two editors of The Amherst Student pinning up a poster in the foyer of Appleton Hall. I had been on my high school newspaper for the past three years and knew that I wanted to work for a publication in college,