Sign in Subscribe

Cole Graber-Mitchell '22

Cole is a second-year from Minneapolis, Minnesota --- the land of high voter turnout, cold winters, and nice people. When not writing depressing articles about everything we do wrong, he likes to sin

Seeing Double: Rethinking Housing Selection

Seeing Double: Rethinking Housing Selection

Like last spring, and the spring before that and all springs since time immemorial, it’s time for Amherst students to “choose” where we’ll have the pleasure of living for the next school year. As standard parts of the school year go, housing selection might be my least favorite.

Seeing Double: Solving Our Climate Crisis

Socialism as the Solution Cole Graber-Mitchell ’22 Columnist Right now, we have what we need to overcome the climate crisis. We have the the will: an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that climate change is both happening and dangerous, according to a 2018 study by Yale researchers. And we have

Seeing Double: Solving Our Climate Crisis

Socialism as the Solution Cole Graber-Mitchell ’22 Columnist Right now, we have what we need to overcome the climate crisis. We have the the will: an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that climate change is both happening and dangerous, according to a 2018 study by Yale researchers. And we have

Seeing Double: No Library for You, Billionaire

Seeing Double: No Library for You, Billionaire

About 45 miles away from Amherst and 187 years ago, the small New Hampshire town of Peterborough voted to establish the first tax-supported public library in the United States. The Peterborough Town Library, which is still operational today, uses tax money to buy books and make them available to all.

Seeing Double: No Library for You, Billionaire

Seeing Double: No Library for You, Billionaire

About 45 miles away from Amherst and 187 years ago, the small New Hampshire town of Peterborough voted to establish the first tax-supported public library in the United States. The Peterborough Town Library, which is still operational today, uses tax money to buy books and make them available to all.

Seeing Double: A Legitimate Political Party

The GOP: Increasingly Illegitimate Cole Graber-Mitchell ’22 When Harvard Professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt searched through history to distinguish failed democracies from those like the United States, they found a crucial factor that prevented backsliding: strong political norms. Their book, “How Democracies Die,” starts with the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans,

Seeing Double: A Legitimate Political Party

The GOP: Increasingly Illegitimate Cole Graber-Mitchell ’22 When Harvard Professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt searched through history to distinguish failed democracies from those like the United States, they found a crucial factor that prevented backsliding: strong political norms. Their book, “How Democracies Die,” starts with the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans,