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‘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.
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Georgia Canon and the Blue Wave
A writer reflects on his home state’s political climate leading up to the 2020 Senate Runoff Elections.
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Stay Tenacious
The report’s interpretation is not at odds with the Sotomayor speech, but doesn’t fully understand it, either.
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Taking Responsibility: Fossil Fuels, Divestment, and Environmental Racism
A member of Divest Princeton argues that enough is enough.
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Fuck Tha Police
The next song is very, very deep, but if I want to translate it, it’s fuck the police.” So Da Arabian Mc’s (DAM) introduced one of their final songs on Thursday.
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Burn, Denmark, Burn
When was the last time Denmark did something to piss you off? What about Hamlet’s homeland really grinds your gears? Personally, Sweyn Forkbeard’s invasion of England in the eleventh century pains me still, as if it happened yesterday.
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An Interview with Chris Hedges and Boris Franklin
Chris Hedges, Pultizer Prize-winner, teaches a creative writing class comprised half of Princeton students and half of inmates at a women’s prison nearby. He and Boris Franklin, a former student of his, spoke to me about the role of education in prisons, the standing of women, and the necessity of divestment from private prisons.
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A Case Against Legalization
The drug policies of the United States are horrifically backwards. They promote the incarceration of people guilty of soft drug possession, people who likely pose no threat to themselves or others. They cost countless billions of dollars each year as money is siphoned into enforcement, prisons, and drug “education.” They are even patently hypocritical, protecting…
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Salem Still Hunting Witches
SALEM, MA – The streets of the world’s Halloween capital were filled yet again with Wal-Mart-rayon clad witches in short robes and be-pentacled Wiccans alike this October 31st, hoping for a good time. Neither group really got the celebration it was expecting. Judging by the police presence in the town’s historic district, one would think…
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Frist’s Tentacles
“It’s really big. I mean, it’s like really, really big,” a prospective Princetonian exclaimed. “Like I think my high school could, like, fit into this building. What do they do with all this space?” she queried, twirling her bleached blond hair around a manicured finger. She flounced off to catch a departing Orange Key Tour.
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The Women of Mahra
These women—both remarkably free and subjugated—tell a story of a history in flux.