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Haley Alvarez-Lauto / DFP Staff

Editorial: When will it end?

Editors June 8, 2022
The American people are left at the mercy of an uncaring government that prioritizes National Rifle Association donations over human life. The debate for gun control has little to do with freedom and much to do with morality. Each time we plead, each time we protest, but in truth, there’s only so many times you can ask for help before you realize it’s never coming. 
Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

American Protest: Stop blaming progressives for your issues, Democrats

Meredith Varner November 19, 2020
Creating a government full of average citizens who understand their constituents on a deeper level is the key to fixing this country.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Journalists especially must exercise duty to vote

Editors November 3, 2020
We are the protectors of democracy, and in turn, the founding document of our democracy works to protect us. In this way, journalism and democracy are intertwined, so it would only be responsible for journalists to participate fully in it.
Luca Becker

I Call Foul Play: Political leaders are sabotaging democracy with barriers to voting

Luca Becker October 29, 2020
While the people and governments of the United States champion the democratic value of voting, voter suppression has plagued this nation since its founding.
Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: BU should encourage voting by allowing optional classes on Nov. 3

Editors October 22, 2020
Boston University can do its part in promoting democratic participation by setting a precedent for colleges and local governments that acknowledges we all deserve a guaranteed day to have our voices heard.
Netflix released “The Haunting of Bly Manor” on Friday as a follow-up to the 2018 series “The Haunting of Hill House.” ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

REVIEW: ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ delivers quality spookiness

Molly Farrar October 15, 2020

October movie releases are of the spooky, scary variety, and “The Haunting of Bly Manor” stuck to the tradition when it debuted on Netflix Friday as a continuation of “The Haunting of Hill House.” “Hill...

Vanessa Bartlett/DFP STAFF

2020 Breakdown: Could a second wave of pandemic aid finally be on the way?

Gabriella Aponte October 13, 2020
Through all of the human suffering and economic destruction caused by the coronavirus pandemic, both sides of the aisle have managed to sit idly by as they watch the country burn.
EDITORIAL: Partisan polarization means politicians in power can do anything without consequence

EDITORIAL: Partisan polarization means politicians in power can do anything without consequence

Editors September 30, 2020
Political sentiment has evolved into a party-over-country mentality, and has resulted in a dog fight to keep certain parties in power.
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. 
Meredith Varner

American Protest: America, you failed during this pandemic.

Meredith Varner September 3, 2020
Within the past few months, the uglier side of America was brought out with the hatred, fear and ignorance that the current President and his supporters spew. Yet one of the most disheartening things to watch is the selfishness with which Americans have acted.
Bini Ollivier-Yamin

Canceled: “In These Uncertain, Unpredictable, Insufferable, Times”

Bini Ollivier-Yamin May 19, 2020
These deaths are not unexplainable or uncertain. They are the product of structures that have been in place long before this virus ever existed.
PHOTO BY MIKE DESOCIO/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

RYAN: Constitution Con?

Sara Ryan April 9, 2015

Imagine a convention center filled with … three-cornered hats. And powdered wigs. Imagine British soldiers in vibrant red coats and little paperboys handing out copies of the Federalist Papers. Featured...

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