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A woman sat across from me, describing the life she left behind in a few careful sentences. I recognized something in her story from the one my family has been telling me over the course of my life. This recognition is the reason I am fascinated by immigration.
I am a member of the first Hopkins class for which the completion of the Foundational Ability (FA) credits has been mandatory for students in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (KSAS). Throughout my time here, I have heard many compelling arguments — some of which have appeared in The News-Letter before — against the restrictive liberal arts requirements, especially drawing on the history of Hopkins as a specialized research institution. These arguments are compelling, though slightly incomplete. Most of the prior pleas for the system’s repeal have come from STEM students forced to take humanities courses. This is natural, as certain humanities departments — like International Studies, my own major — have pre-existing requirements that already demand students take courses that span the current FAs. Despite this, the influx of STEM majors into humanities classes, degrading the quality of discussion-based humanities courses, has made the FAs just as harmful to non-STEM majors within KSAS.
The Hopkins Student Disability Services (SDS) aims to guide “accessibility and inclusion for students with disabilities.” The News-Letter has previously covered limitations in the services provided through SDS, especially for students with mental disabilities, but a recent article revealed that students with physical disabilities are not provided with adequate accommodations at Hopkins.
Washington D.C’s streetcar service, aptly named the DC Streetcar, officially shut down on Tuesday, March 31st. Starting service in 2016, the sole line ran along H Street in the capital’s northeastern quadrant, from Union Station to Oklahoma Avenue.
In my first two years of undergraduate studies, I have been assigned Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue four times and been subjected to lectures explaining foundational realist thought too many times to count. Though some texts and theories are central to understanding my fields of International Studies and History, students paying approximately $90,000 a year should have the opportunity to avoid repetition in their courses of study in order to maximize the benefits of their educational investment. The solution is publishing syllabi.
As medical students, we often witness the devastating effects of a broken health care system on our patients. Recently, one of us was caring for a young patient on Medicaid in the hospital who had been suffering from debilitating pain for over a year. For months, she struggled to identify in-network providers, bouncing from waitlist to waitlist for various specialists, growing increasingly frustrated by her inability to get appropriate care. When she was often referred to a new doctor or ordered a new diagnostic test, her Medicaid managed care organization (MCO) would inform her that the doctor was out-of-network or that the test was not covered, delaying her diagnosis and prolonging her suffering. She was ultimately diagnosed with cancer and required surgery for treatment. While she was thankfully able to receive this life-saving care, the impediments from her Medicaid MCO prolonged her pain, incurred significant health care costs and could have allowed her cancer to spread, necessitating extensive treatment and risking possible death.
Even though the midterm elections are still more than six months away, many candidates have been campaigning for several months already. This long, dragged-out election season is in large part due to a peculiarity in our system — the primary election.
It’s that time of the year once again. The Student Government Association (SGA) elections are set for March 30 and 31, where numerous candidates are running for executive, legislative and programming positions.
Once a week, I go on a date.
As innocent bystanders in the rapidly changing hellscape of the English language, semicolons have received far too much disrespect. It breaks our hearts.
The U.S. has, since the start of the new year, conducted military strikes and operations in both Venezuela and Iran, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This marks a surprising militant turn in U.S. foreign policy in recent decades, which is now focusing on military rather than diplomatic operations to topple foreign leaders. This, however, presents a larger issue regarding the role and image of the United States across the world and for other pro-Western democratization movements’ survival.
In response to “Why I don’t write about being Vietnamese” published Oct. 27, 2025:
From my little desk in the corner of the Housing Office in Wolman 103, I’ve gotten to witness the freshman and sophomore classes grow into the comfort of calling their dorms “home.” Groups of strangers on move-in day leave as best friends on move-out.
On Jan. 29, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry penned a guest essay for The New York Times titled “Trump's Greenland Envoy: We Need ‘Total, Unfettered Access.’” Mr. Landry occupies an unconventional perch for a busy sitting governor. He moonlights as the U.S. Special Envoy to Greenland, tasked by President Donald Trump to “lead the charge” to acquire the world’s largest island. In his essay, Mr. Landry makes the case that the U.S. must expand its military presence in Greenland.
Lately, it feels strange to walk into class as if everything is normal. To sit in lecture halls, laugh with friends and plan for the future while so much is happening beyond campus walls. The world doesn’t pause just because we’re students, and yet sometimes it feels like we’re expected to let it.
A fierce nationwide redistricting battle has unfolded ahead of the midterm elections this year, sparked by the Texas state legislature’s adoption of an aggressively gerrymandered congressional map aimed at flipping Democratic-held seats. Across the country, around a dozen state legislatures have initiated efforts to redraw districts to favor their parties. Thus far, California, Texas, Missouri and North Carolina have successfully enacted new maps aimed at partisan advantage, while Maryland, Virginia and Florida continue to push new maps through their legislatures.
Currently, Iran is facing a political and humanitarian disaster. But most headlines only scratch the surface of the country’s state. As an Iranian American, I write here with a deep love for both the country and its people. In January 2026, Iran witnessed one of the deadliest crackdowns on the protests and nationwide descent of its modern history. What began as frustration over worsening living conditions and economic concerns has grown into mass demonstrations for freedom and democratic change. Even as security forces escalate violence against peaceful demonstrators, the people refuse to stop.
I’ve struggled to make sense of the news lately. The systemic, administration-led violence against immigrants has resulted in thousands of families torn apart, funneled into dehumanizing detention centers, all in the name of “law and order.” President Trump made his promises of mass deportations abundantly clear during his electoral campaign, but never could I have imagined the extent of his administration’s cruelty in carrying out his agenda.
I hate everything about them.
Thanksgiving can be a tone-deaf holiday. As the year draws to a close, things don't seem to be going well for a lot of us. Whether our concerns are as grave as the political milieu of our country, as mundane yet end-of-the-world-inducing as finals or even as simple as adjusting to daylight savings time, there is just about always something picking at the deep space in our brains. And then — as if to counterbalance all this — comes a holiday that offers us the emotional equivalent of a no-good therapist: just eat and be grateful. Although Thanksgiving is sometimes seen as a superficial holiday preaching forced positivity, it is still an opportunity to appreciate small things and shape the holiday in ways that are unique to each of us.