by Astrid Newton | Oct 2, 2026 | Boston University
Beginning most overtly in 2025, with the Trump administration’s punitive freezing of Harvard University’s federal grants, the American education system has been a continuous target of federal downsizing. The weaponization of federal grant freezes and rollback of...
by Emma Munroe | Mar 29, 2026 | Suffolk University
While the country shifts their focus to the newly erupting war in the Middle East they begin to turn their backs on the war happening on US soil. This war may not involve heavy weaponry and mass casualties but it is crippling an essential institution for a functioning...
by Kasey Olympiev | Feb 13, 2025 | Boston University
In an effort to explain what some often feel is the unexplainable, political scientists have been devising metrics to analyze those voters who cast their ballots for authoritarian candidates, to varying degrees of success. Among said metrics typically used are age,...
by Madison Power | Nov 22, 2022 | Suffolk University
Everyone is taught about Christopher Columbus in elementary school, “In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” Teachers taught students that he was the first to discover America, and a national holiday was established to celebrate his...
by Francesca Lupi | Feb 25, 2022 | University of Chicago
This month, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega brought five private universities under state control in an effort to censor college students, whom he perceives to be one of the greatest threats to his rule. Academics and opposition activists fear that this will...
