A New Haven activist, Yale doctor, and Yale lawyer won Americans the right to oral contraceptives as apart of a liberating—and eugenic—movement. Today, patients and doctors still confront the tension between autonomy and coercion.
Since 2019, forty-four pedestrians and cyclists have been killed on New Haven streets. Six years later, activists say nothing has changed.
Campus arrests last spring fractured long-standing protections Yale has historically extended to student protestors.
For decades, Margaret Holloway performed Shakespeare on the corner of York Street in exchange for money. Behind the mythos of "The Shakespeare Lady" was a budding actress failed by a series of places and people—including at the Yale School of Drama.
Last year, the Biden administration launched a national refugee sponsorship program modeled after a resettlement agency’s in New Haven—how will...
Diana Gilman-Ford doesn’t like to fly. She hasn’t been on a plane since the late nineteen-nineties, and even then, she...
Yale promises to meet the full financial need of each student. So why are some left scrambling to front the...
The Yale Prison Education Initiative brings prestige and power into nearby prisons—but not without a cost.
Darrell Atkinson’s hands trembled as he carved at the metal bar, sharpening it till it was a kind of knife....
Peer-led policing alternative COMPASS has seen a successful rollout in the past five months. But can an organization bankrolled by the City and run by Yale achieve radical aims?