Rachel Calnek-Sugin

Trump has nominated three Yale alumni to serve in his Administration. Who were they on campus?

On Capitol Hill, three Yale alumni are preparing for new jobs. Pending confirmations by the Senate, Steven Mnuchin ’85, Ben Carson ’73, and Wilbur Ross ’59 will take their place in President Donald Trump’s cabinet in the coming weeks. Yale alums have long inhabited the upper echelons of the U.S. government, but Trump’s Ivy League picks run counter to his populist campaign and rejection of intellectual elitism. These two Wall Street bankers and the neurosurgeon were neither Yale Political Union firebrands like John Kerry nor. . . Read more