WASHINGTON - Sens. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) held a Wednesday press conference on Capitol Hill alongside Mohsen Mahdawi, GS ’25, SIPA ’27, to introduce the Land of the Free Act—a bill calling for the repeal of a contentious provision of a 1950s immigration law.

After the city’s leading hospital systems rejected the demands of the New York State Nurses Association, a union representing over 20,000 nurses in the city, during contract negotiations, the nurses went on strike Monday.

In the summer of 1967, Mahmood Mamdani had a plan.

Second-year astrophysics Ph.D. candidate Lori Porter hasn’t been home to Kentucky in five years. She studies galaxy evolution at Columbia’s Center for Computational Astrophysics and, as she puts it, spends her days “trying to unravel the secrets of the universe.” The work isn’t easy, and her research has consumed her life.

The first time I met Macy Hanzlik-Barend, she was politely fending off a business owner who had trekked from Brooklyn and appeared unannounced at the WKCR office to ask if the station would run an advertisement for him.