Updated: Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 9:27pm
For Yale, 2008 was a year marked by the approval of new residential colleges, the election of Barack Obama and an art project purportedly documenting months of self-induced miscarriages. To look back, the News hereby presents our most-read stories of the...
About 27 months ago, photojournalist Scout Tufankjian ’00 sat in a dark room, begrudgingly waiting for a senator from Illinois. Unbeknownst to her at the time, that night would impact the next two years of her life. Now, just a few months before Barack Obama is inaugurated as president of the United States, Tufankjian will share the images she took on the campaign...
HARTFORD – Sen. Joseph Lieberman ’64 LAW ’67 on Wednesday tried to close the book on a difficult chapter in his political career – namely, his support of Republican Sen. John McCain’s presidential candidacy. Speaking to a roomful of reporters in downtown Hartford, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee turned self-proclaimed Independent Democrat spoke highly...
HARTFORD – Sen. Joseph Lieberman '64 LAW '67 on Wednesday tried to close the book on a difficult chapter in his political career – namely, his support of Republican Sen. John McCain's presidential candidacy. Speaking to a roomful of reporters in downtown Hartford, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee turned self-proclaimed Independent Democrat spoke highly of...
Congress, you may remember from A.P. U.S. History, has power of the purse. Though “power of the purse” may sound like the lamest superpower ever, it’s actually a real-life power. And it’s about as cool as any superpower, since, unlike heat-vision, it actually exists. But our non-super representatives do a pretty bad job at wielding it. There are three specific...
Senate Democrats voted Tuesday morning to keep Sen. Joe Lieberman ’64 LAW ’67 in his post as chairman of the powerful Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. The decision is the latest step Democrats are taking to put the contentious election season behind them. The former Democratic vice-presidential candidate turned self-proclaimed Independent Democrat...
At the YDN Magazine, we have a great deal of sympathy for all you political junkies out there who just don’t know what to do with yourselves now that the 21-month festival of Electoral College Analysis is over. That’s why we searched high and low through the depths of the YDN building to find a long lost relic: the YDN Political Crystal Ball. Behold: the Politics of...
So … I’m not like a political czar or anything, but I’m totes excited about the new President Barry. I know that Barry, our Lord and Saviour, will be totally fierce or whatever, making sure that the House formerly known as White stays in “Us Weekly” and other tabloids. I know that Everybody Hates America right now and that our money is as good as toilet paper...
MEET NICK BARTON '08 Member of the Internet sketch comedy group “Friends of the Family” Hometown: LA. Favorite kind of soup: Cream of mushroom, but the chunky kind — make sure you say “chunky.” Favorite drink name: Nipple. I’ve heard of “slippery nipple,” but I bet just plain “nipple” would be good. Halloween costume: A guy whose senior prom date...
President George W. Bush ’68 may have left an unimpressive foreign policy record, but President-elect Barack Obama is poised to restore the legacy of the John F. Kennedy years, Kennedy’s former speechwriter and adviser said Wednesday. Theodore “Ted” Sorensen discussed topics ranging from present-day politics to the Kennedy administration’s handling of the Cuban...
PHOENIX — One woman stood out at a rally for supporters of Sen. John McCain here last night. She wore a dress made of plastic McCain yard signs, kept together with duct tape — and nothing else. The woman said she was from Arizona, adding, as she entered the party, that it was the “same state as our next president.” The woman’s name was Linda Miracle, and while...
PHOENIX — On North Central Avenue here in Arizona’s capital, there is still a large blue billboard advertising John McCain’s 2004 Senate re-election campaign. Just across the street from that sign Tuesday morning was a throng of ninth graders who had taken the day off from their local charter school. They held signs of their own, albeit much smaller and made with...
