OPINION: Your guide to the off-year 2025 elections

Disappointed by the 2024 election results and wondering what’s next? Akshay Seetharam HM ’27 breaks down the key off-year races in 2025, from state Supreme Court battles in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — where ideological control is up for grabs — to New York’s mayoral free-for-all. With courts at risk of shifting conservative and governorships on the line, these elections are an early test of the post-Trump landscape.

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‘The politics of food and climate change’: Bringing agriculture into the climate conversation

At the Athenaeum on Sept. 16, Helena Bottemiller Evich CM ’09, editor-in-chief of Food Fix, delivered a lecture titled “The Politics of Food and Climate Change.” Evich stated that agriculture is crucial to the climate conversation but is underrepresented in U.S. climate policy. She attributed this to strong opposition from farmers and the meat industry.

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