Opinion

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

I remember the first time I ever heard the name“Donald Trump.” I was in eighth grade and it was October 2015. I came home from school to hear my mom talking about this guy who was running for president and saying all these crazy things. Neither of us knew,

This Thursday, Nov. 12, marks the five-year anniversary of Amherst Uprising [https://www.amherst.edu/library/find/researchguides/amherstuprising]. The movement, which was initially planned as a one-hour solidarity protest [https://amherststudent.amherst.edu/article/2015/11/13/students-protest-racial-discrimination-sit.html] with students at the University of Missouri, Yale and other

Last Saturday, Nov. 7, media outlets declared former Vice President Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election, all but ending the race. Yet, even before the presidential race was called, another, equally significant one had begun: the race to write the history of the election. In many ways,

This Wednesday is going to feel different. Regardless of the outcome of the election — and we may not know for days to come — the presidency does not solely solve the nation’s problems and never has. There is still much work to be done, and the urgency of that work

For some time now, I have been following Pete Souza, the former chief official White House photographer for President Barack Obama, on Instagram. Souza’s photography captures the fleeting moments of Obama’s presidential life, as a leader and decision-maker, but also as a dad, a husband and an empathizer