By Munir Atalla On Tuesday, January 24, President Obama took the podium to deliver his final State of the Union address before the upcoming election. The president used his prime-time spot in front of America as a veritable kick-off for his re-election campaign, highlighting his accomplishments and outlining how he plans to keep America marching [...]
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Avoiding an American Autumn: State of the Union 2012
on Saturday, February 11th, 2012Four Elephants in a Circus: What you need to know about the GOP Race
Eliza Mills and Molly Rubin on Monday, February 6th, 2012Mitt Romney Socially: Mitt Romney was just kidding when he promised LGBTQ Massachusetts Republicans that he would “provide more effective leadership” than Senator Edward Kennedy. He would like you all to know that he has never, ever been supportive of marriage equality, even if it may have seemed that way in the past. If you’re [...]
Iran: International Emotions Running High
on Monday, February 6th, 2012By Kyle Carnes In 2012, the United States Army will remove all combat troops from Iraq and transition major combat divisions out of Afghanistan. A major 10-year US military presence in the Middle East will be coming to an end. With it, however, comes the rise of some lingering questions about the security and stability [...]
The End of an Era
on Sunday, December 4th, 2011On November 15, 2011, every member of the Tufts student body, as well as all of our parents, received an email from the Tufts administration that reiterated the decision by President Emeritus Larry Bacow to ban the infamous Naked Quad Run. The email was an explicit warning—students were reminded of the consequences of participating in [...]
Watch Out World
by Molly Rubin on Sunday, November 20th, 2011Sometimes in college it’s hard to figure out who you are, where you’re going or what you want to do with yourself when the time comes to graduate into the real world. We get it. It’s hard. But for this week’s issue, here is a little inspiration to jumpstart your thoughts and ideas. These [...]
A Newspaper for the Future
By Anna Burgess on Monday, November 7th, 2011Journalism is dead. This is a phrase uttered by many in recent years–one that news corporations around the country have been valiantly trying to prove wrong. A phrase that calls to mind the struggle of journalism professors, courses, and schools learning to adapt to a new age of information technology. And now, a phrase that [...]
Somerville: The Little City That Can
by Natalie Selzer on Tuesday, November 1st, 2011An astounding 80 percent of the US population is now urban. That means more people than ever before are driving, walking, living, eating, consuming, polluting, and working in American cities. As more and more people move to metro areas, existing city fabrics will need to adapt in order to accommodate more people, greater public demand, [...]
Hope in the Face of Terror
by Kumar Ramanathan on Sunday, October 23rd, 2011Norway is an exceedingly quiet place. During the few weeks I spent there this summer, I found its peacefulness and pervasive solitude remarkable. People I met constantly spoke of the insularity of their fellow Norwegians. While it is as volatile politically as the next multi-party democracy, relative calm extends even to political discourse. The Norwegians [...]
Why Occupy
by Jack Thomas on Sunday, October 23rd, 2011More and more frequently now, friends and acquaintances of mine will ask me what the Occupy Movement is—what it’s about, what its goals are, how long I think it will last, and why I’m a part of it. After three weeks of dedicating almost every waking moment to thinking about, participating in, and working for [...]
Private Eyes, They’re Watching You.
on Sunday, October 23rd, 2011Last semester, when Tufts junior Ben Weitzman logged onto to Facebook chat to message a friend, he was surprised to see a long-forgotten conversation from the previous school year appear on the screen. “I realized that they were storing every single thing I’ve ever said in chat,” the computer science major said. “This was unnerving [...]