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The Peacemaker: An Interview with Lincoln Chafee, 2016 Presidential Candidate
The Politic spoke to Governor Chafee about the Democratic field, domestic and foreign policy, plus his past life as a maker of horseshoes.
Inaction Bests Executive Action on Immigration
Immigration is an area where ideology and political power plays overshadow real pragmatic discussion of what needs to happen. – Yale’s Professor Alicia Schmidt-Camacho, the Director of Undergraduate Studies for Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. As the number of undocumented immigrants…
Choosing the Community
“Here in America, we don’t guarantee equal outcomes… but we do expect that everybody gets an equal shot,” President Obama said when introducing America’s College Promise, a program to guarantee two years of free education for qualified students. He announced…
A Slice of the Good Life
The Dilley detention center promises Central American asylum-seekers humanitarian housing—but some may be receiving abuse
Funding the Future
The land of the free, the home of the brave, and a country where education is not a luxury. Last month, during the State of the Union, President Obama announced that any student who is willing to attend school at…
Incivility? Examining the Controversy Behind Civil Forfeiture
An underground marijuana operation. A former high school teacher. An unsuspecting wife. The scene resembles something from Breaking Bad, but for Kathleen von Hofe, the situation became a reality when the Branford, Connecticut police department raided her home in 2001….
How to Build Your Own Political Dynasty: An Instruction Manual
So, you want political power? You can picture your name on elementary schools and highways; you dream of a crowd chanting your name under raining red, white, and blue confetti. In America this means you have to run a top-notch,…
A Silent Surge: The New NHPD Strategy That No One’s Talking About
In December 2014, Yale students, Yale faculty, and New Haven activists marched across the city to the beat of drums. Since Michael Brown was shot on a Ferguson, MO, street last August, groups such as the Black Student Alliance at…