Image credit: Baxter Brew Thankfully, mental health has largely escaped the antiquated corner into which our parents’ generation pushed...

Posters set up outside Carnegie Hall. On October 23, a statement from Pomona College President Gabi Starr announced that ten students had...

Image via Calisphere. Copyright Honnold Mudd Library . As a freshman eagerly anticipating my arrival at CMC, I couldn’t wait for my...

Student protesters on October 7th. Lenny Fukshansky is a professor of mathematics at Claremont McKenna. A version of this article was...

Protesters blocking the entrance to Carnegie Hall. I attended October 7th’s pro-Palestine protests  as a reporter for the Independent ,...

Image via Flickr. Copyright The Review University of Delaware. The average CMC graduate owes the federal government $13,962 in student...

Image via Flickr. Copyright of Carpathiar . In a 2016 essay titled How My Friends and I Wrecked Pomona College ,  alumnus Harry Stein...

Photograph from 2y.kang. For years, standardized test scores were the primary metric used by admissions officers. Last year, more than 80...

Colorful flags waved outside the European Union (EU) headquarters in Brussels on June 23, 2022. Inside, 27 EU leaders, protected by a...

Hamas parades through Gaza. (Ashraf Amra) These past few weeks, pro-Palestinian groups on college campuses across the country have lauded...

A sculpture of Columbus beheaded in Boston's North End. (NBC Boston) The call for the removal of an American flag from the Pitzer College...

Image via Claremont Institute The Claremont Institute, a modest building in an Upland office park, is home to a cluster of influential...

Image via Washington Post Winston Churchill once said, “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” In Taiwan,...

Leftists don’t hate America. They hate America’s problems. They may conflate these problems with the country, but the two are not the...

The United States is engaged in a technological cold war with China because of our dependence on East Asian semiconductors....

Twitter suspended the satire site The Babylon Bee after it gave Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender Biden administration official, the title...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, LA County’s precautions have been among the strictest in the country. For example, the county recently...

Opinion by Wolfgang Hutton “We don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice. We don’t need any more black faces...

UCLA suspended Professor Gordon Klein last spring for refusing to give Black students free passes on the final exam to account for the...

As apprehension mounted amidst impending Claremont McKenna College (CMC) class presidential elections, aspiring student leaders scrambled...

China is destroying promised liberties in Hong Kong, committing genocide in Xinjiang, and oppressing more people than any other...

Finance has traditionally been a field reserved for the social elite. Generally, the image of an expensively dressed, middle-aged white...

President Joe Biden recently signed into law the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. The bill sends $1,400...

Since achieving statehood in 1850, California has retained its appeal to people across the country. As the most populous U.S. state,...

With the beginning of the second half of the academic year, the Pomona College community has endured another semester of online...

Disclaimer: This article is not an endorsement of any political party or candidate. This article simply makes observations based on...

“White Girl, take off your hoops!!!” students wrote on the free speech wall at Pitzer College in 2017. According to one of the students...

Lately, it has become very fashionable to be against stock buybacks. Critics argue that corporations repurchasing shares are killing the...

After nearly losing her seat during this year’s election, Representative Abigail Spanberger said that Democrats should never utter the...

The recent announcement of the Spring 2021 Academic Calendar has left many students feeling unheard, in despair, and worried for the...

Most of us have heard the adage, “your college years are the best years of your life.” For some, this statement is less true, especially...

With the upcoming election and the battle over Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s replacement growing more contentious by the day, we are in an era of...

Trump’s campaign has finally settled on a negative message. In Joe Biden’s America, cities will burn as radical leftists control his...

Far from the familiar flurry that comes upon us as we prepare for move-in, this August, our community is spread all over the world taking...

This summer, my stepdad saw an American flag dancing in the wind and assumed its owner was conservative. It is a common reaction by...

Earlier this week, the Claremont Consortium announced the creation of an interim sexual assault policy in accordance with the regulations...

By Margot Rosenblatt I’ve never seen “The Purge,” but it seems like an unpleasant movie. Although it’s fiction, I believe it holds some...

Earlier today, Pomona and Scripps Colleges became the Claremont Colleges’ first to announce conducting classes entirely remotely for the...

Dear Presidents Klawe and Chodosh, Harvey Mudd College (HMC) and Claremont McKenna College (CMC) share much in common. Most obviously,...

As reported by the Independent earlier today, the producers of “Love is Blind: Claremont,” an online dating show run and participated in...

The following opinion was sent to the Editors of the Claremont Independent by a Scripps College alumna who wishes to remain anonymous....

I still remember the morning I found out I’d been accepted into Pomona College. The virtual confetti raining down my laptop screen will...

The last few days have proven divisive in the Pomona College community. In fact, as a senior, I can’t remember a time where students were...

According to an email sent out to the student body around noon on April 13, the Pomona College Faculty Executive Committee is bringing...

The number of Americans infected by the coronavirus has surged dramatically since the first case in the U.S. was confirmed earlier this...

The Claremont Colleges are a place where events you couldn’t make up take place. For example, the recent “BlaQ Mixer” event at Pomona...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the conclusion of the Cold War, the United States has found itself trapped in a crisis of...

Earlier last month, President Trump signed the recently negotiated phase-one trade deal with China. During a ceremony at the White House,...

While rhetoric on college campuses often falls along lines of radical inclusivity, more and more events at the Claremont Colleges appear...

By Margot Rosenblatt A few weeks ago, on the raised section of the Hoch-Shanahan dining hall, a very wise Scripps upper-classman uttered...