Why Swat?
The American news cycle is, frankly, boring me. There is nothing interesting to editorialize, in part because the presidential election
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Author: Sydney Covitz
Omar’s Critics Do More Harm Than Good
Congressional Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is currently facing large pushback for her recent Twitter posts, which many claim to be
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On the Palestinian Question
The question with which Israel consistently grapples is: what should we do with the land between the river and the
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Condemning Israeli Security’s Decision to Detain and Deport Susan Abulhawa
On September 18, Palestinian-American author Susan Abulhawa came to speak in my Peace and Conflicts Studies class titled “The Israeli-Palestinian
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The Necessity for an Infusion of Environmental Justice
Earlier this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a report warning the world that if we don’t
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Swarthmore Should Pay Students More
On Aug. 9th, Swarthmore College Dean of Admissions Jim Bock, sent out an email to the student body informing us
Read moreThe problems with human rights journalism
Human rights journalism is a field that has encountered and continues to confront numerous obstacles and setbacks. Firstly, journalists do
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Why does my math class have so few girls?
Why does my math class have so few girls? Why did the engineering department here have only one female professor
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Defining who gets to talk
It is impossible to place monetary value on the ability to talk. Many of us at Swat have experienced the
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How inclusion drives innovation
If Swarthmore’s computer science core curriculum has taught me anything — other than some Python, C, and C++ —it is
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