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What We Lose to Lithium

How a lithium mine in Nevada is compromising Indigenous autonomy, and the danger of letting it go on.

by Alex Norbrook on October 12, 2023

Why Am I Still a Statistic?

“While I believe in the pipe dream that colleges should give each student, no matter how sparkly, the same care and attention, my more grounded argument is this: Why does worthiness stop being ‘holistic’ after students of color have been accepted to college?”

by Sierra Stern on September 29, 2023

“Fronteriza”

“Some families even hold their hands up to the chicken wire to touch each other’s fingertips.”

by Luz Victoria Simón Jasso on November 14, 2021November 14, 2021

Being Fed Up Is A Privilege

“…he could never have seen the Haitian man as a human being with a history, dreams and aspirations. He had been trained to see him simply as the object of his violence.”

by Gil Joseph on October 31, 2021October 30, 2021

Reading Up on Palestine

A Nass writer looks to two books as scholarly introductions to the occupation.

by Peter Taylor on October 31, 2021October 30, 2021

The Life and Times of Anthony Veasna So

A look at the late writer and his posthumous debut story collection.

by Peter Taylor on September 26, 2021October 4, 2021

Jeff Bezos Launches Us to 1892

A Nass writer meditates on staggering levels of income inequality amidst excesses of wealth.

by Sam Bisno on August 1, 2021July 31, 2021

‘Different Tools for Enduring’: An interview with Tracy K. Smith

A Nass writer sits down with the United States Poet Laureate and Princeton Professor to discuss Blackness, the pandemic, and poetry.

by Sabrina Kim on March 28, 2021March 28, 2021

Georgia Canon and the Blue Wave

A writer reflects on his home state’s political climate leading up to the 2020 Senate Runoff Elections.

by Andrew Zacks on January 5, 2021February 14, 2021

The End of Moria?

Looking back on migration-crisis reporting in Greece as a college student.

by Harrison Blackman ‘17 on October 25, 2020October 25, 2020

College Town

The unexpected return of hundreds of students to Princeton for a remote semester.

by Tess Solomon on October 25, 2020October 25, 2020

“I Find Writing Very Painful”: An Interview with Nathan J. Robinson

A Nass writer sits down with Nathan J. Robinson, Editor of ‘Current Affairs’.

by Peter Taylor on August 4, 2020


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