KHEDER | Canvas Outage Reveals the Fragile Truth of Digital Infrastructure

SELL | Why Does Everything Look Like a Mid-Market Hotel Now?

Opinion Columnist Wyatt Sell critiques the brutalist and otherwise lifeless architecture on campus.

Students for Justice in Palestine at Cornell | We’re Back (Sort of)

Seven months after the arrest of 17 protesters for walking out of a panel featuring Israeli and American officials accused of war crimes, Cornell’s Students for Justice in Palestine recounts their suspension, legal struggle and reinstatement as part of a broader fight against the university’s repression of pro-Palestine activism and complicity in genocide.

CLIFFORD | Let’s Go to the Mall — What Mall?

Opinion Columnist Elise Clifford ’29 wanders from the aisles of Target to the ghosts of 1980s mall culture, tracing how America’s worship of convenience has transformed shared spaces of teenage freedom into algorithmic isolation and last-mile consumerism that delivers both comfort and loneliness to our doorstep.

VINK | ICE Kidnappings and the Power of Kings

Opinion Columnist Adriana Vink ’27 bears witness to the kidnappings carried out under the guise of immigration enforcement at 26 Federal Plaza, tracing how ICE, the courts and Cornell alike sustain a system of sanctioned abduction and calls on readers to become ungovernable in the face of it.

JASO | One Campus, Two Swindlers

Senior Opinion Columnist Francis X. Jaso ’28 writes that America, much like Cornell, has entered a distinctly Chinese moment in its life, where instead of seeking strength from within, it looks outward for models of power and order, drifting toward the same centralization and state-minded

GLASGOW | Ukraine War: Both Sides Explained

ZHOU | Late Night’s Last Night

Opinion Columnist Rayen Zhou ’29 argues that the government’s censorship of late-night television may be alarming, but it only hastened a decline already set in motion by Gen Z’s turn toward social media and more responsive, participatory forms of political commentary.

HAN | RE: On Rhetoric and Responsibility

Associate Editor Eric Han replies to Sam Friedman's '26 criticism of his column. The dispute regards one columnist's comparison of Israel with Nazi Germany.

AREVALO | Promote Division. Protect Your Columnists.

Now that the Sun has joined an amicus brief in support of Stanford Daily, senior Opinion Columnist Hannia Arevalo speaks on the paradoxical nature of President Kotlikoff’s institutional neutrality and commitment to academic freedom. They express the need to protect current opinion columnists in light of the recent developments.

GLASGOW | No Mamdani for Me

STITH | The Grip Only Tightens On Academic Freedom

Senior Yihun Stith returns to Stand Up, Fight Back with a News Analysis on Cornell’s suspension of Professor Eric Cheyfitz. He argues that the administration’s reliance on “civil rights” language masks a deeper crackdown on pro-Palestinian scholarship and academic freedom.

HAN | Equivalence from Analogy — My Defense of Professor Kassam

Associate Editor Eric Han '26 offers a defense of Opinion Columnist Professor Karim-Aly Kassam from the charge of "equating" Israel with Nazi Germany.

CARUSO | Italian American Heritage is Important. Columbus is Not.

Paul Caruso debunks the Trump administration's claims of the importance of Columbus Day for Italian American representation.

KASSAM | Thousand & One Eyes for An Eye

Professor Karim-Aly Kassam reflects, "We stand at the precipice of a ceasefire. What can we do in solidarity with both Palestinians and Israelis?"

HARNEY | Objection!

Law student Liam Harney addresses America’s current political crisis and potential steps forward in the introduction of his column, "Objection!"

STITH | Stand Up, Fight Back

Yihun Stith '26 introduces "Stand Up, Fight Back," his column on campus politics, with a snapshot of his life before and during Cornell.