Dear Readers,
This issue of The New Journal finds you in the aftermath. In the wake of tragedy, people are confronted with a choice: to pick up the pieces, or to build anew.
In our cover story, Tina Li ’27 follows a group of cyclists, galvanized by the deaths of their friends to fight for safer streets. Meanwhile, Christina Lee ’26 visits the last alternative school in New Haven as it mourns the loss of two students. Paola Santos ’25 checks in on the Anti-Corruption Foundation, operating leaderless and in exile, a year after the death of its founder, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Elsewhere, our writers wrestle with whether a city can learn from its past. A victim of police violence looks at the jagged road to police reform. Successive failed developments in Westville haunt the city’s efforts toward affordable housing. And while Yale claims to uphold free expression, its new policies sever protest from campus space.
We write to you from a new year already wracked by devastation. In January, wildfires swept through cherished neighborhoods in Los Angeles. In a matter of weeks, President Trump’s slew of executive orders have destabilized fixtures of American democracy.
We hope these stories can help us to hold what has survived, and find the resilience to go forward.
Managing Board
Maggie, Chloe, Aanika, Sam
