As we prepare to enter into a new year of the Covid-19 pandemic, what seems like never-ending economic turmoil trails right behind us. Over the past two years, Turkey has been swept by a devastating currency crisis, which has surged inflation to its highest rates in almost two decades. AsRead More

Photo courtesy of Brookings Institution One of the most pressing issues facing Capitol Hill is the fate of the filibuster. Broadly, the filibuster is a rule implemented in the U.S. Senate that allows for unlimited debate  ­— a tactic used to delay voting on a specific matter by requiring atRead More

Graphic by Yujin Kim/The Choate News Pitman prefects use a “punishment jar” to motivate recalcitrant third formers — myself included — to comply with dorm regulations. During nightly prefect inspections, failure to clean your room or to check-in via Reach means reaching into a small cup with little paper slipsRead More

Graphic by Yujin Kim/The Choate News One day, Stephen Lara was driving down the road of Reno, Nevada when he was pulled over by a police officer who asked to search his car. Lara, preferring to keep his money in cash instead of holding it in a bank, had hisRead More

Graphic by Yujin Kim/The Choate News While Covid-19 related deaths dominated headlines in 2020, fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is taking more lives than ever before, yet has received much less coverage.  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2021, more people aged 18-45 in the UnitedRead More

Established almost six years ago under the Obama Administration, the Clean Power Plan (CPP) was arguably the administration’s boldest move against anthropogenic climate change. The plan sets guidelines for each state to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s power plants by installing more efficient coal-burning systems and making anRead More

Photo courtesy of Al Jazeera Chile, one of the world’s largest suppliers of natural resources, has been faced with public opposition due to its contribution to pollution and climate change. In response, the nation has appointed 155 Chileans to rewrite its Constitution to address the “climate and ecological emergency” causedRead More

Photo courtesy of CNN In the far west corner of China lies the territory of Xinjiang, which is three times the size of France and covers a vast expanse of deserts, mountains, and grasslands. This territory, home to more than one million Uighur Muslims, has been the center of numerousRead More

Graphic by Yujin Kim ’23 Covid-19 is not the only pandemic that Latin America is facing. Latin America’s nutrition crisis has grown increasingly worse over the past year, and unfortunately, Covid has not helped the situation. In just the past year, the number of people without access to adequate foodRead More