Last Monday, April 15, the world watched helplessly as Notre-Dame, Paris’s beloved 800-year-old Gothic cathedral, burned. The devastating fire, which firefighters fought for twelve hours, resulted in the loss of the church’s 300-foot spire, portions of its medieval roof, and a countless number of its relics. The church’s stone exteriorRead More

This year’s spring musical, Rent, marks a dramatic change for Choate’s theater program. The former Broadway musical, written in 1996 by Jonathan Larson, follows the lives of eight New Yorkers as they face the growing AIDS crisis. The show, often called a “rock opera,” diverges from past Choate productions inRead More

This year, prospective students coming to campus for revisit days are in for a treat. As is tradition, the Choate Symphony Orchestra is performing a bright, upbeat piece for families — one that they’ve been perfecting all year. These performances, which have occured on all three revisit days, are sureRead More

For the first time, Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau has found his name and “scandal” in the same sentence. A month ago, former Canada Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould accused the prime minister of pressuring her to drop prosecution against SNC-Lavalin, a prominent engineering firm. The company, based in Trudeau’s homeRead More

Students were rendered speechless as six of their classmates delivered speeches at school meeting this past Tuesday. Named after former Choate dean and public speaking and drama teacher E. Stanley Pratt and former head of the Choate History Department H. Jeremy Packard ’55, the Pratt-Packard Declamation Contest is a decades-longRead More

I haven’t had a representative in the House of Representatives since January 3, and there’s nothing I can do about it. Allow me to explain the situation: the results of this past election have been disputed for months in North Carolina’s ninth congressional district, with the “winning” candidate, Republican pastorRead More

I haven’t had a representative in the House of Representatives since January 3, and there’s nothing I can do about it. Allow me to explain the situation: the results of this past election have been disputed for months in North Carolina’s ninth congressional district, with the “winning” candidate, Republican pastorRead More

Beto O’Rourke An unsuccessful bid for the Senate rarely results in a nation-wide wave of support, much less status as a front runner for upcoming presidential elections. Yet El Paso democrat Beto O’Rourke has managed to create an impressive political narrative that inspired millions of Texans to vote in hisRead More

Last week, speculation began to circle that billionaire and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg was considering running for president in the 2020 election. At first look, this seemed to be nothing new; in several of the past presidential elections, similar gossip has spread about Bloomberg’s possible candidacy, andRead More