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Choosing danger
Why do some people willingly work in conflict zones, when they have so many other options?
The poet as politician
Rex Lee Jim ’86 believes Navajo pride and self-determination begin with language
Plato’s pop culture problem, and ours
Might Tony Soprano and Nurse Jackie be viewed in the same way as Odysseus and Oedipus?
Where town meets gown
What does the University owe to the community?
Brave new world
At the Center for Information Technology Policy, dismembered voting machines are just the beginning
'What are you?'
For multiracial students, declaring an identity can be complicated
The wisdom of crowds
Iain Couzin studies the rules that make schooling fish, swarming locusts, and marching ants do what they do
The great debate
How Princetonians have helped to shape the national discussion of race
Uncivil society
Jim Leach ’64 leads an effort to restore respectful discourse to our national life, but it’s tough going
Into Haiti’s heart
Richard Morse ’79 finds his roots
Postracial Princeton?
As Princeton’s student body has changed, so has the role of race on campus
When art historians went to war
Alumni were key in efforts to save Europe’s art treasures
Homecoming
Terri Sewell ’86 traveled from Alabama to Princeton and back again — and made history along the way
Yearning for recognition
Are Asian-Americans Princeton’s forgotten minority?
Word freaks
Constrained writing (and other puzzles) for unconstrained freshmen
The Year the Seniors Skipped the P-rade
Forty years ago, members of the Class of 1970 had other events on their minds
Mrs. Obama goes to Washington
From Chicago to Princeton to Pennsylvania Avenue, the interests that define Michelle Robinson Obama ’85 haven’t changed