During his 2020 election campaign, President Joe Biden promised to build a cabinet representative of America’s racial plurality. Upholding the promise, Biden’s administration deviated  greatly from past administrations, appointing women and ethnic minorities to positions that have long been held almost exclusively by white men. The Biden cabinet is nowRead More

In August of 1920, Congress ratified the 19th amendment, delivering voting rights to American women. This year’s Women’s History Month, celebrated in March, honors these accomplishments, more than a century later. Yet, for all the progress feminists have made around the world in the last century, recent years have beenRead More

Graphic by Yujin Kim/The Choate News  On January 6, 2021, a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in one of the most visceral and tragic examples of the recent rise in domestic extremism. In the last year, there has been an increasing number of white supremacist groups and increased violenceRead More

Graphic courtesy of Choate Rosemary Hall It’s springtime at Choate, and that means warm weather, new classes, and, of course, long-awaited Signature Program decisions. Choate’s eight Signature Programs — including the John F. Kennedy Program in Government and Public Service, the Science Research Program, the Environmental Immersion Program, and AdvancedRead More

Photo courtesy of Emma Hermacinski Ever watched “Friends” and envied the close-knit living setup of the show’s six main characters? It’s hard to imagine that kind of housing situation existing in real life, much less on the Choate campus. But, tucked away behind St. John Chapel is Lowndes, a cozyRead More

Image Courtesy of Victoria Jiang Using a combination of abstract patterns and intricate details, Victoria Jiang ’22, an Arts Concentration student in Visual Arts, reflected on self-image and contemporary issues in her art collection, “The Different Components of My Identity.”  Since she was young, Jiang has always found painting toRead More

Graphic by Yujin Kim/The Choate News They stab the earth,  Those cold, metal-souled sticks of iron,  Which hold up our vineyards  And towers but penetrate the ground,  Knife-wound after bullet-wound.  The weeds are signs of despair  And desperation,  Crawling out from shadows and dirt and  Tumbling over each other in anRead More

Photo courtesy of Choate Flickr As of March 1, Choate entered into a league with four other Connecticut prep schools — Hotchkiss, Loomis, Westminster, and Taft — to start the spring season. The past year has been a public health nightmare for sports around the world. Last fall, Connecticut publicRead More