Report from Capitol Hill

Report from Capitol Hill
He’s a scrappy, brash—and sometimes abrasive—first-term congressman from Northside Chicago’s rough-and-tumble 5th District. She’s a soft-spoken, courteous—and extraordinarily knowledgeable—five-term congresswoman from the mostly affluent Hudson Valley suburbs of New York City. They’re Rahm Emanuel ’81 and Sue Kelly MA ’85: the freshman Democrat and the veteran Republican... | full story

A Career in Defending Democracy
Anyone wondering about the marketability of a Sarah Lawrence degree would do well to look at Clifford D. May ’73. The jobs on his resume include foreign correspondent for The New York Times, director of communications for the Republican National Committee and president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), a nonprofit organization he helped found after September 11... | full story

Sarah Lawrence, Manhattan Style
Being asked to talk about Islam is like being asked, in the summer of 1942, to give a talk about German high culture,” religion faculty member Cameron Afzal told 20 alumnae/i gathered in an apartment overlooking Central Park, on the eve of war in Iraq... | full story