The Yale Politic

04/02/2025

ISSUE II | Suren Clark, Between Hope and Authoritarianism: Venezuela’s Perilous Position | “Maduro has all but driven the opposition out of the political sphere. While Machado holds online rallies from undisclosed locations, González left for Spain soon after the election.” // Read Suren Clark’s article on the unraveling of Venezuelan Democracy.

04/02/2025

ISSUE II | Logan Day-Richter, The Clock Is Ticking on the Supreme Court’s Credibility Crisis | “If the Court’s power lies in its ability to persuade, unexplained rulings are essentially meaningless, giving the public and other branches of government little reason to care about them.” // Read Logan Day-Richter’s op-ed on the impacts of the Supreme Court’s fractured rulings and shadow docket.

03/02/2025

ISSUE II | Eliza Daunt, Hells on Earth: Forgotten Stories from the Middle East’s Front Lines | “When you cover front lines, you see death, wounded people, and wounded children. We try to deal with everything we see, but a land of children behind barbed wires who don’t have the freedom to move or leave, that gets to you.” // Read Eliza Daunt’s interview with Roba El Husseini, a war journalist who often operates on front lines in the Middle East. – available now.

03/02/2025

ISSUE II | Abyssinia Haile, On the Sidelines of Democracy: Yale’s International Students Reflect on Election Day | “The inundation of today’s young people with social media has accelerated this process, with the result that members of different generations today can struggle to understand each other.” // Read Abyssinia Haile’s article on international navigating the impact of U.S. elections.

03/02/2025

ISSUE II | Theo Sotoodehnia, An Interview with Nick Jacobson (Yale College ‘23), a 2024 Candidate for the Pennsylvania State House | “The way I think about politics is taking a look around at where we are as a community, whatever size that is, and trying to identify a couple of things that we think we can get done that would make a difference for people.” // Read Theo Sotoodehnia’s interview with Nick Jacobson, the 2024 Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania’s 85th State House District.

03/02/2025

ISSUE II | Conor Webb, Ignore At Your Own Risk: Can “Red Flag” Laws Shift America’s Gun Violence Prevention Debate? | “I was working in the Bronx and a lot of children who were minorities were experiencing gun violence every day. I started to think about gun violence prevention policies—are they equitable? Are they helping the children most impacted by gun violence?” // Read Conor Webb’s article on the impacts of “red flag” laws.

03/02/2025

ISSUE II | Emi Glass, The Delivery Revolution: The Rise of Home Births in the U.S. | “When I decided to have a home birth, I knew that I wasn’t going to have people in my space telling me that I can’t when I know that I could. I was left to just labor in my own house, alone, as exactly how I needed. [My] labor was pretty intense, but it still was nothing compared to what I experienced at the hospital,” Jordan said. // Read Emi Glass’s article on natural birth and maternal autonomy – available now.

03/02/2025

03/02/2025

ISSUE II | Jaeha Jang, The Political Pulse: Why Polling Persists in American Politics | “Polls are not perfect, but they’re almost always better than your gut instinct,” Singh said. // Read Jaeha Jang’s article on the state of polling after the 2024 election.

03/02/2025

ISSUE II | Margot Kohn, Militant Hope or Utter Despair? | “In part, I believe politics is so exhausting because it deals precisely with what is not in front of us, and what may never be. Politics exist in the conceptual sphere—when we vote, we don’t often vote for policies—we vote for different conceptions of the future.” // Read Margot Kohn’s op-ed on political exhaustion and understanding the 2024 election.

03/02/2025

ISSUE II | Ben Szovati Coulter, The Silent Backslide: Independent Media’s Fight for Survival in Orbán’s Hungary | “Only the people can initiate this change,” he said, “If the Hungarian people throw their hands on the table and say, that’s enough, we want an independent media…then maybe the free press could come back to Hungary.” // Read Ben Szovati Coulter’s article on the state of journalism and the press in Hungary – available now.

02/02/2025

ISSUE II | Owen Tilman, Yes, Anxious Teens, Fill the Void. Just Not With Revolutionary politics | “We would be mistaken, however, in reading poor intentions or bad faith on the part of young, ignorant teens, because that falsely assumes their priority is actual political change. Rather, many teens are too busy scrambling for social validation, for assurance that they are on the right side of history.” // Read Owen Tilman’s op-ed on the meaning behind teenage online activism.

02/02/2025

ISSUE II | Sheena Bakare, The Democrats’ Defeat: America’s Rejection of the Liberal Elite | “What divides Americans today goes beyond gender, race, or geography. America is growingly united against the tide of Democratic elitism and modern liberalism.” // Read Sheena Bakare’s op-ed on what the 2024 Election Results reveal

02/02/2025

ISSUE II | Larissa Garcez, “Green” Mines: Lithium Mining and Destruction in Brazil’s Jequitinhonha Valley | “Mining began in the Jequitinhonha Valley in search of gold, in search of diamonds, and today it is advancing in search of lithium to supply batteries for electric cars that will certainly not be used in the Jequitinhonha Valley, for a future that is certainly not the future of the people of the Jequitinhonha Valley.” // Read Larissa Garcez’s article on the impact of lithium mining in Brazil amid the push for green energy.

02/02/2025

ISSUE II | Kiran Yeh, Abort or Engage: The Landscape of Abortion Dialogue at Yale | “Not everyone on this campus is pro-choice—sometimes that alone surprises students.” // Read Kiran Yeh’s article on different ways to approach the conversation regarding abortion on Yale’s
campus.

31/01/2025

ISSUE II | Hanna Klingbeil Canale, Democracy in Distress: How Mexico’s Judiciary Lost Its
Independence | “In reality, the judicial reform doesn’t even guarantee guilty until proven
innocent, instead pushing the system toward a chilling presumption of unchallenged guilt.” // Read Hanna Klingbeil Canale’s article on how judicial reform in Mexico threatens democratic
institutions

31/01/2025

ISSUE II | Aubrie Williams, Unfair Use: The Struggle for Ownership in the Age of AI | “If the
models can regurgitate, regardless, then…they’re infringement machines, and you can’t get past
that.” // Read Aubrie Williams’s article on the intellectual property rights battle between creators
and AI companies – available now.

31/01/2025

ISSUE II | Patton Hahn, The New Jane Crow: the Hidden Incarceration of Women in America |
“‘Nobody’s thinking about women in terms of incarceration,
’ Perry diagnoses. This oversight
leaves women in prison vulnerable to neglect, abuse, and criminalization, all while remaining
invisible to a system designed primarily for men.
” // Read Patton Hahn’s article on Read Patton
Hahn’s article on the systemic neglect and vulnerabilities of incarcerated women in the U.S.