Say you were born into privilege, born into a well-educated and financially stable family. Say you chose to attend a private high school. How do you reconcile your upbringing with your fight for ...

Much as the end of summer might signal a closing of a door, it also opens another for many students each year: the beginning of their time in college. At Macalester, there has been a great deal of ...

Of the 41 tenure-track professors hired at Macalester since September 2019, all but three were women or people of color. According to the 2019 faculty salary audit report, there are no peer-to-peer ...

As a student with an invisible physical disability, I am no stranger to the ever-present ableism that exists within society. I am used to dealing with intrusive questions about injuries, inaccessible ...

More than eight years after Macalester students first launched an organized fossil fuel divestment campaign, the Macalester Board of Trustees has decided to end all college investments in publicly ...

Sitting in the AMC theater, Icee in hand, I had no idea I would be watching one of my new favorite movies. I went into “Poor Things” with very little context, only knowing that Emma Stone essentially ...

As the Israeli public begins its ninth week of massive protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s concentration of power, the far-right government is murdering Palestinians in the cities of ...

Brian D. Lozenski is an associate professor of urban and multicultural education in the educational studies department. His research explores the intersections of critical participatory action ...

Mac students were especially songful in 2024; the listening average increased from 46,670 minutes when The Mac Weekly did this survey in 2023, even though that year’s average included a monster ...

Edward Duffield Neill, the founder and first president of Macalester College, was a white supremacist and eager participant in the settler-colonization of Minnesota. Neill moved to St. Paul in 1849 as ...

In accordance with tradition, we sat down with The Mac Weekly’s graduating seniors, both those still on staff and those who parted prematurely, to hear about their time working for the paper and their ...

This is the second article of a two-part series on American cycling’s past, present and future. A new generation of young American riders have begun to make waves over the last few years. Sepp Kuss, ...