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Voices & Opinion

Voices & Opinion

POV: Why I Left the Bird: NPR, Twitter, and Disinformation

April 19, 2023

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Student Voices

Terriers Offer Advice to Boston’s New “Nightlife Czar”

April 19, 2023

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Shoutout

If You Could Tell the New MBTA Chief, “Fix This!” What Would It Be?

April 14, 2023

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Voices & Opinion

POV: Pesticides and Produce—Ignore the “Dirty Dozen” List of Fruits and Vegetables

April 10, 2023

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SCHOOL SHOOTING

Once Again, Our Nation Is Forced to Talk to Children about Guns, Deaths

March 28, 2023

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Student Life

Terriers in Charge: Brianna Bourne (CAS’24)

March 24, 2023

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Voices & Opinion

What Did You Miss Most in the Weird Winter? Snow Days, Warm Foods, Complaining, Fires, Winter Runs, and More

March 17, 2023

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Business & Finance

Why Are Banks Failing and Does That Herald Another Financial Crisis?

March 13, 2023

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Voices & Opinion

POV: Revising Roald Dahl’s Classic Children’s Books Is a “Dangerous Portent of Future Censorship”

March 10, 2023

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Voices & Opinion

POV: Yes, Filling Out the Race Box on Forms Is Tiresome, but Here’s Why It Matters

March 7, 2023

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Public Health

POV: Massachusetts Can Finally Measure the Health of Primary Care

March 3, 2023

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Listen Now

Today I Learned: The Smell of Formaldehyde Makes You Hungry

February 28, 2023

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Voices & Opinion

POV: Lincoln Struggled with Depression. What We Can Learn from It Today

February 27, 2023

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Black History Month

What “Black Resistance” Means to Me

February 15, 2023

FILE - Emergency teams search for people in the rubble of a destroyed building in Adana, southern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. The Turkish government has for years tempted fate by not enforcing modern construction codes at the same time it was allowing — and in some cases, encouraging — a real estate boom in earthquake-prone areas, according to experts in geology and engineering who repeatedly issued warnings. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Voices & Opinion

POV: The Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria and the Challenge of Disasters

February 10, 2023

Photo: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an older tan man with grey hair and mustache, tours the site of destroyed buildings during his visit to the city of Kahramanmaras in southeast Turkey, two days after the severe earthquake that hit the region. Rescuers and people can be seen behind him standing and working through large piles of rubble and debris.

Voices & Opinion

POV: Erdoğan’s Response to Earthquake Leaves Turkish People Feeling Abandoned—Again

February 9, 2023

FILE - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses the crowd before publicly signing HB7, "individual freedom," also dubbed the "Stop Woke" bill during a news conference at Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School in Hialeah Gardens, Fla., on Friday, April 22, 2022. As Republicans and Democrats fight for control of Congress this fall, a growing collection of conservative political action groups is targeting its efforts closer to home: at local school boards. DeSantis endorsed a slate of school board candidates, putting his weight behind conservatives who share his opposition to lessons on sexuality and what he deems critical race theory. (Daniel A. Varela/Miami Herald via AP, File)

Politics

POV: Florida Rejects AP African American Studies Course—Who Pays the Price?

February 7, 2023

Photo: A girl from Anapra, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, touches hands with a person on the United States through the border fence, during a prayer with priests and bishops from both countries to ask for the migrants and people of the area, on February 26, 2019. Silhouetted by the sun, a young girl sits on the shoulders of an adult as she reaches towards a shadow hand reaching through a fence.

Voices & Opinion

POV: Forced Displacement of Migrants Is Cruel and Inhumane—the United States Must Do Better

February 1, 2023

Photo: People attending a vigil outside Monterey Park City Hall, blocks from the Star Ballroom Dance Studio on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, in Monterey Park, Calif. A group of Asian women are seen mourning and crying at a vigil. At front, one Asian woman covers her face as she cries, as two masked women comfort her on either side.

Voices & Opinion

POV: Again and Again. Mass Shootings Continue Unabated in the United States

January 26, 2023

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Voices & Opinion

POV: With ChatGPT’s Arrival, Should Educators Be Mourning the End of the College Essay?

January 20, 2023

POV: With ChatGPT’s Arrival, Should Educators Be Mourning the End of the College Essay?