Kimberley Strassel is a member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial board, and has written the Potomac Watch Column there since 2007. She’s a graduate from Princeton University, and started her work at the Wall Street Journal in 1999. How did you shift into journalism? When I was at Princeton, I got an after-school job...
Hillsdale College once had one of the best natural history museums of any college in the country. But two fires and almost 100 years of neglect, punctuated with theft, left the remnants of the Daniel M. Fisk Museum of Natural History’s former glory scattered across campus in boxes and drawers. After 13 years of work,...
This summer, I bought a cup of Dormans coffee from Nairobi’s Westgate Mall. And now, the coffee shop is littered with shrapnel, bullet casings, and abandoned shopping carts. The mall is located minutes from the nonprofit I worked at this summer and the house I lived in when I was 15. To get to the...
Two weeks ago, The Collegian reported on a Camden, Mich., couple facing life in prison after being charged with six felonies each, including the delivery of more than 1,000 grams of a controlled substance and maintaining a drug house. Douglas Dean Cardwell was vomiting repeatedly when officers from the Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Office and the...
“I had so much joy. I was physically drained and emotionally ecstatic,” Kevin Walton said. “And then I looked at the television. I went from joy to devastation.” Forty-seven minutes after the Hillsdale resident completed the Boston Marathon, two explosions went off near the finish line. At least three people were killed, and more than...