“I met so many mums who just feel like they are watching their children starve and die. There’s nothing that they can do to help, and they feel forgotten,” said Meghan Greenhalgh, Director of International Programs at the International Medical Corps, who recently visited Sudan to report on the war.
All credit to Carlos Barrera, photojournalist from El Faro In a small town in central El Salvador, thirty minutes from the capital, a young deportee says he can finally leave his motorcycle outside without fear—something unthinkable just a few years…
In 424 colleges across 47 states—including over half of the Ivy Leagues—Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives have been revised, reduced, and called into question over the past two years. From the renaming of affinity spaces to the removal of resources and faculty entirely, these changes largely result from the anti-DEI pressure of the Trump administration, not official legislation. Although Yale continues to evade Trump’s crosshairs, especially compared to peer institutions like Columbia or Harvard, the deteriorating national landscape leaves student leaders concerned for the futures of the affinity spaces and cultural centers that they hold dear.
On August 15, 2025, hundreds filled the broad walkways of Yasukuni Shrine for the annual commemoration of the official end of World War II. The line moved slowly—but the conversations did not.
Visiting the site for academic research, Ryne Hisada ’27, a Japanese-American student at Yale University, expected a quiet, somber atmosphere in respect for the deceased.
Instead, he found himself surrounded by raised voices. Visitors weren’t whispering about politics, but arguing about it in full volume.
It was 1:15 p.m. when Professor Sisay Ade, identified by a pseudonym, received a call from Mbale Regional Hospital that his sister, Kofi, also a pseudonym, 58, had gone into cardiac arrest. With a history of end-stage renal failure and diabetes, Kofi had checked into the Msaba Wing that morning to undergo routine dialysis treatment. Thirty minutes later, her heart abruptly ceased to function.
On May 22, 2025, President Maurie McInnis called on every student, faculty, and alumni to help Yale’s administration secure their institution’s future. In light of the upcoming House of Representatives vote on President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, President McInnis explicitly stated that Yalies must do everything in their power to oppose this bill, since it “presents a greater threat to Yale than any other bill in memory.”
