While I was in graduate school in New England the university’s official newspaper published a column that stated, “The only thing [baseball coach, Dusty] Baker has a Ph.D. in is something that starts with an N and rhymes with Tigger.” I felt that my classmates and the graduate school, writ…

After I graduated from college I became a teacher. It wasn’t long before I realized how little I could help kids in this world they did not create. I stole textbooks from the school district warehouse because the powers that be had just adopted a new curriculum and had yet…

The worst thing you can do as a parent is complain. The judgement is swift and severe. …

Polling of head-to-head matchups today show both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders beating Donald Trump by the widest margins. But since Michael Dukakis did not beat George HW Bush by 17 points, and Mitt Romney lost the swing states polling said he’d win, and it took seven months to write…

Beginning in November of 2002, then-President George W. Bush and then-Attorney General John Ashcroft began a “Special Registration” program (also known as “Domestic Call-in Registration”) as part of the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS). Despite objections from the ACLU and others; despite documented civil rights violations and the detention/deportation…

The preponderance of articles written regarding Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test while not flattering to her are serving to spotlight Native American voices in “mainstream” spaces. This is a good thing. Historians have added great value to the conversation by pointing out that white supremacists have used claims of Native American…

When Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in March of 2016, Lee Drutman wrote, “In picking a Supreme Court nominee, President Obama faced a strategic political choice: Should he nominate a strong progressive, a nominee of color, and/or a woman to mobilize the Democratic base in advance…

I resign as Vice President of the Dartmouth Association of Latinx Alumni. I resign from the Board of the Dartmouth Club of Los Angeles. I resign from the Board of my Class. I will no longer donate any money or time to Dartmouth College. I will not interview candidates for…

All across the nation families are flush with emotions. Parents, sisters, brothers, grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins are preparing for loved ones to cross a stage in a cap and gown. Normally a graduation ceremony is a liberating moment. Not so at Dartmouth College. Undocumented students, and those who belong…