Spring 2024

This has been a challenging year on many college and university campuses. The devastating events in Israel and Gaza have generated strong and varied reactions among students, faculty, staff, and…

Readers write back: Carls in the Wild; Remembering Bob Will; On Being Organic Beings

With trust in the media and government at all-time lows, how are journalists covering a historic election? Jonathan Capehart ’07, Danielle Kurtzleben ’05, and others weigh in.

In introducing this issue’s politics special section, we consider a question raised by Benjamin Franklin 237 years ago: is the sun rising or setting on American democracy?

There’s a bogeyman hovering over the election: the threat of erroneous information about the issues, candidates, and electoral processes involved. Here’s how to protect yourself.

For the 2024 election issue, the Voice commissioned four alumni artists to reinvent the get-out-the-vote poster in light of the November U.S. election. Click each poster to learn more about…

“My vote is to protect the value of all life, the betterment of our care, and respect for one another and our home planet.”

“We’ve always been here, and maybe we weren’t included in the original symbolism of the flag but we can always add that on our own.”

“They are my way of trying to find the good and the promising inside a tornado. And that is how I am looking at this election and our future.”

“Everyone has power; it’s just a matter of who’s allowed to keep it or whose power isn’t constantly challenged.”