A Shutdown For Our Times
Staff Writer John Milas ’28 dissects the latest government shutdown as more than a budgetary standoff — framing it instead as a mirror of America’s collective precarity.
Opinion
Editorial: The Impact of Revoking Adobe Services on Student Initiatives
The Editorial Board criticizes the college’s sudden removal of Adobe Creative Cloud from student accounts, exposing how the decision undermines creativity, independent journalism, and student agency.
NSPM-7: Redefining Extremism
Assistant Opinion Editor Caroline Flinn ’28 examines the implications of NSPM-7, showing how its broad definition of “extremism” could criminalize ordinary dissent and civic engagement — and warns that when questioning becomes a national security risk, democracy is in peril.
You’re Not Reading The Amherst Student. That’s How Polarization Spreads
Contributing Writer Lucas Silva ’28 investigates the collapse of local journalism and asks what it would take for students and citizens alike to reclaim a stake in the information that shapes democracy.
Amherst’s Open Curriculum: Who Really Gets to be Well-Rounded?
Managing Features Editor Mira Wilde ’28 considers Amherst’s open curriculum, revealing how its promise of academic freedom is unevenly experienced, and questions whether the college truly supports the initiative and interdisciplinary exploration it claims to value.
Editorial: Fall Festival and Amherst Tradition
The Editorial Board reflects on Amherst’s uneasy relationship with tradition and asks what it would take for Amherst students to reclaim connection on their own terms: to build new traditions that are inclusive, joyful, and genuinely ours.
Race Science, Taught at Amherst
Columnist Willow Delp ’26 uncovers a disturbing chapter of Amherst’s past, confronting how deeply racism was embedded in the college’s academic history and arguing that reckoning with these truths is essential to any genuine commitment to anti-racism today.