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As a general rule, Yale puts little stock in external rankings. But every now and again, when there’s especially good news, it’s hard not to boast just a little. And so we report that Timothy Snyder...
Speaker John Bercow announcing his decision yesterday on the British government’s motion to approve the withdrawal agreement.
Last Thursday, after a week-long marathon of virtually non-stop negotiation prompted by the three-hour meeting of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at Wirral on...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announcing agreement yesterday.
Yesterday morning, after a week-long negotiating marathon and only a few hours before the meeting of the European Council, the EU and the UK agreed on a withdrawal agreement that contains a modified...
Douglas Rae, Richard Ely Professor of Management Emeritus at Yale
Douglas Rae, Richard Ely Professor of Management Emeritus at Yale, will give a series of three lectures this month on “Capitalism: Knowledge Drives Wealth” for the Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World...
Phyllis Mugadza ’21 B.S.
Phyllis Mugadza ’21 B.S. says she wasn’t entirely familiar with the U.S. college experience when attending high school in Zimbabwe, but when she learned about the Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS)...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar discussing the backstop at Wirral last Thursday.
For more than a week after the UK gave the EU a 44-page draft legal text of a new Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, it appeared highly unlikely they would be able to agree on a modified...
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The following article written by Marci Shore, an associate professor of history at Yale, appeared in the October 12 issue of Foreign Policy. Professor Shore is the author of “The Taste of Ashes: The...
Yale Professors Tina Lu and Shawkat Toorawa (center) lead students in a new first year Yale seminar called “Six Pretty Good Books.” The course is designed to introduce students to “exceptional” books that have had long cultural lives. The students are encouraged to consider what makes ancient texts “pretty good,” that is, great. (Photo credit: Lauren Song)
Twenty first-year students sit around a crowded dining room table in Pauli Murray College, mulling over “A Song on How My Thatched Roof Was Ruined by the Autumn Wind,” a work by the prominent 8th...
The following article written by Giovanna Truong appeared in the Oct. 7, 2019 issue of the Yale Daily News: In a darkened Luce Hall, frames showing vibrant animation — like soaring drone shots —...
Marcia C. Inhorn, CMES Chair and William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, addresses conference attendees.
From September 27-29 Marcia C. Inhorn, CMES Chair and William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, hosted the international conference-workshop “(Un)Settling Middle...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking at the Conservative party conference yesterday.
With the Brexit clock continuing to tick, second by second, toward midnight on Oct. 31, and time running out as well for submission by the UK of a proposal regarding the Irish backstop that could be...
The first of a group of Rohingya refugees settled in Grand Rapids, Mich., in August.  Todd Heisler/The New York Times
The following opinion piece written by Marius Kothor,  a Ph.D. student in history and a graduate afilliate with the Council on African Studies, appeared in the October 2 issue of The New York Times....