Elizabeth Alexander knows better than most what it’s like to make art for an unusually public and historic event: The poet and Yale professor wrote the celebratory poem for President Obama’s first inauguration, delivering it before a vast audience at the...
Yale historian Beverly Gage will be an eyewitness to history when she provides live coverage of President Obama’s second inauguration for “PBS NewsHour” on Monday, Jan. 21.Beverly GageGage has often provided commentary on the evening program, and she is...
North Korea, which just conducted its third nuclear test, is using its weapons program to deter the United States by holding its allies “hostage,” according to Paul Bracken, who teaches management and political science at Yale.The spread of the atom bomb...
Roman Catholics around the world learned yesterday (March 13) that they had a new pope. Among them was Teresa Berger, professor of liturgical studies at Yale Divinity School and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, who has a keen interest in Vatican...