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Foreign Affairs Feature: Putin’s approval ratings and the conservative anomaly

Foreign Affairs Feature: Putin’s approval ratings and the conservative anomaly

International Relations Review April 12, 2022
The popular saying “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” seems to be true for many well-known U.S. conservatives who have argued in favor of Putin throughout the war
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Welcome to the Greenhouse: Debunking “the climate has always been changing” argument

Fiona Broadie February 8, 2022
The climate has always been changing. They are dangerously wrong, of course, in saying that the concerning and rapid climate change we talk about today is not caused by humanity’s ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions
Kimberly Atkins, a journalist for WBUR and alumna of Boston University’s College of Communication, spoke at a virtual panel hosted by COM on Wednesday entitled “An Election Like No Other: Journalists Share Final Thoughts.” LAURYN ALLEN | DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Pandemic tosses new curveballs to journalists covering election

Caroline Bowden November 4, 2020
A panel of BU alumni and journalists offered insight into the historic nature of presidential election coverage in a virtual panel Saturday entitled “An Election Like No Other: Journalists Share Final Thoughts."
Boston University professors Shawn Lynch and Daniela Melo hosted “My Vote, My Voice: The Mechanics of U.S. and Other Elections” on Wednesday to discuss the Nov. 3 election and the impact of voting. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU political scientists say upcoming election will rely on youth turnout

Rachel Do October 26, 2020
Since 2016, just a fraction of the country has participated in general elections. With the 2020 presidential election right around the corner, BU professors discuss the importance of voting and how the system fails.
Young conservatives disillusioned with the current state of the Republican Party founded gen z gop as a refuge for Republican college students who want to vote President Donald Trump out of office. COURTESY OF GEN Z GOP

‘Politically homeless’ young conservatives seek to build Republican Party of the future

Angela Yang October 15, 2020
Conservative college students disillusioned with today’s partisan polarization are banding together to push for reform in the Republican Party and vote President Trump out of office.
EDITORIAL: The two-party system can evolve to make third parties more prominent actors

EDITORIAL: The two-party system can evolve to make third parties more prominent actors

Editors September 17, 2020
Due to the complexities of the two-party system, the Green Party — along with other third parties — don’t stand a real chance at winning a presidential election.
Rio’s Reel: Bill & Ted Unite the World

Rio’s Reel: Bill & Ted Unite the World

Rio Reardon September 10, 2020
Even as improvements in communication and transportation bring us, in some ways, closer together, the world seems in many other ways to be more divided than ever before. 
EDITORIAL: Inaccessibility of mail-in ballots expose America’s flawed voting system

EDITORIAL: Inaccessibility of mail-in ballots expose America’s flawed voting system

Editors September 3, 2020
A service many Americans continually rely on, the USPS is a government entity created to serve the country. It must deliver mail to every location in the country, and it was never intended to make profit.
Pressley begins her speech at Davis Square’s Diesel Cafe in late August, just weeks before her historic victory on Sept. 6. CHLOE GRINBERG/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Ayanna Pressley fights for college students, prepares for primary election

Vigunthaan Tharmarajah September 3, 2018
Change has come, gone away and come again in the realm of U.S. politics. But this moment in Democratic politics seems particularly potent: in state after state, the narrow, ironclad profile of who can run and who can win at the highest levels of politics has been irreversibly expanded.
DELLECHIAIE: In defense of myself, skepticism and non-dogmatic journalism

DELLECHIAIE: In defense of myself, skepticism and non-dogmatic journalism

Dan Dellechiaie September 26, 2017

I always find it nice when someone reads my work. My articles present a skeptic’s view on the world of politics. I don’t believe dogmatism creates a productive dialogue, but I will acknowledge that...

KAVANAGH: Rape culture is #NotOkay

KAVANAGH: Rape culture is #NotOkay

Kayla Kavanagh October 13, 2016

In response to the recent release of a video clip from 2005 in which Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump discussed women in a vulgar and derogatory manner, writer Kelly Oxford catalyzed a social...

JOHNSTON: Pneumonia sickens Clinton campaign

JOHNSTON: Pneumonia sickens Clinton campaign

Andrew Johnston September 16, 2016

Roughly a week after Hillary Clinton labeled half the supporters of the Republican camp as “deplorable,” her campaign coincidentally took a huge turn in the wrong direction, with Clinton’s health...

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