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  • Throwback Thursday: Buckley's beginnings

    A biography of William F. Buckley Jr. ’50 by Sam Tanenhaus ’78MA was published earlier this month, a few months before what would have... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 26 2025 05:13am

  • Throwback Thursday: winds of change

    Our October 1964 issue reported a political shift among Yale students: a "significant majority" of the incoming Class of 1968 considered themselves... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 9 2024 08:39pm

  • We, the people

    Today is Constitution Day, the 237th anniversary of the signing of the US Constitution by the delegates who crafted it. On Sunday, the Beinecke... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 17 2024 06:07am

  • Throwback Thursday: Ford's foundation

    Fifty years ago tonight, Richard Nixon announced that he would resign as president of the United States. At noon the next day, Gerald R. Ford... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 7 2024 08:00pm

  • Occupied

    After a large pro-Palestine rally on the Green yesterday, members of the group Occupy Yale lined the perimeter of Cross Campus with tents to create... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 29 2024 09:15am

  • Protest in the street

    Protesters calling for Yale to divest from military weapons manufacturers blocked the intersection of Grove and College Streets from about 8 a.m. to... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 23 2024 04:57am

  • Sign up

    Last Friday at lunchtime, we found Lily Ates ’25 and Ben Crnovrsanin ’25 braving the cold on Cross Campus on behalf of Yale Votes, a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 1 2023 09:34am

  • Throwback Thursday: a good idea at the time

    Fifty years ago this month, we published an essay by Yale psychology professor Irving Janis about "groupthink,” a compulsion by... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 19 2023 08:00am

  • The other kind of midterms

    The New Haven Free Public Library was one of three places where on-campus students voted yesterday. Meanwhile, two Yale alumni were reelected as... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 9 2022 08:04am

  • Throwback Thursday: duck and cover

    Sixty years ago this week, America was embroiled in the Cuban Missile Crisis. As this clip from the Yale Daily News suggests, the events... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 27 2022 08:00am

  • It's a party in the YLS

    Orientation for first-year law students began yesterday, and the Law School made a gateway of balloons to welcome them. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 16 2022 08:00am

  • These truths

    On view at the Beinecke Library through July 17: the library's copy of the rare Dunlap broadside, the first printing of the Declaration of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 30 2022 08:00am

  • Family affair

    Yale’s 321st commencement today looked a lot closer to normal than in the previous two years. Among the ten honorary degrees was a posthumous... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 23 2022 01:20pm

  • Throwback Thursday: riveted

    What captured the attention of these Yale men on our cover nearly 60 years ago? A note inside the issue explains that it was a talk by Senator Barry... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 6 2022 09:24am

  • Throwback Thursday: building a movement

    Thirty-five years ago this spring, student activists built a shanty town on Beinecke Plaza as a protest against Yale’s investments in South... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 6 2021 09:39am

  • Hail to the chiefs

    Happy Presidents Day! In 1962, John F. Kennedy became the 11th US president to receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Yale. In all, 14... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 15 2021 08:38am

  • Throwback Thursday: elected Elis

    We’ve been tracking Yale alums in elected office for a long time. This spread featuring alumni governors and members of Congress was published... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 5 2020 08:00am

  • Today's the day

    Guess what day it is? Americans, for information on how to vote today, go to vote.org. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 3 2020 07:57am

  • Throwback Thursday: Eli vs. Eli

    Back in our May/June 2004 issue, we memorialized that year's presidential election—which featured two Yale College grads and fellow Skull and... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 16 2020 08:50am