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EDITORIAL: We should be wary of digital cities

Editors September 16, 2021
The digital city is rapidly approaching, but it may introduce more problems than it solves.
STROINSKI: Personal privacy and bipartisan principles of freedom

STROINSKI: Personal privacy and bipartisan principles of freedom

Anna Stroinski March 30, 2017

The principle of privacy, though foundational in the development of early American political thought, takes an unfortunate backseat today. It’s not so much an issue as it is an afterthought; physical...

BERMAN: CNN’s evolution as news source

BERMAN: CNN’s evolution as news source

Max Berman February 12, 2017

Two years ago, I began watching and reading the news regularly. My morning routine during my junior and senior years of high school was simple — wake up, make a couple Eggo waffles and coffee, sit down...

“JACKED,” a graffiti art show presented by David Taylor (DS7) and Charles Win (Shread15) took place on Nov. 7 at Warehouse XI. PHOTO COURTESY OLIVIA NADEL

Graffiti makes cultural comeback at Somerville art show

Allegra Peelor November 12, 2015

One morning in April 2013, David Taylor, known as DS7, stopped by The Chelsea, a gallery that was hosting a solo show of his, to find nine of his paintings missing. Five of the paintings, which had been...

Boston University Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore hosted a conversation Monday about censorship as part of Mugar Memorial Library's Free Speech Installation. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY BRIAN SONG/DFP FILE PHOTO

Censorship talk considers cases for keeping quiet, causing commotion

Conner Reed April 8, 2015

Libraries are essentially massive symbols of free speech: entire multi-level buildings filled with ideas, many of them contradictory and messy and even violent, available for free public consumption....

David Carr talks about the future of media at panel at Boston University Oct. 20. PHOTO BY SARAH FISHER/DFP FILE PHOTO

David Carr, BU professor, New York Times columnist, dies at 58

Mina Corpuz February 13, 2015

David Carr, a columnist at The New York Times who covered business, culture and government in his Media Equation column and a professor in Boston University’s College of Communication, died Thursday...

Panelists at the Rosenberg and Snowden Panel Discussion examined the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Edward Snowden’s role in the National Security Agency and the role of espionage in today’s society at the Metcalf Ballroom Tuesday. PHOTO BY NICKI GITTER/DAILY FREE PRESS CONTRIBUTOR

Panel explores Rosenberg, Snowden, espionage in America

Amanda Kaufman October 8, 2014

Experts and Boston University professors convened Thursday at BU’s George Sherman Union Metcalf Ballroom to speak with a crowd of hundreds about espionage in the United States and to showcase a collection...

EDIT: Fighting back

Daily Free Press Admin February 13, 2014

“The Day We Fight Back” is an online campaign that launched day in pursuit of ending mass government surveillance by the National Security Agency on the Internet. This campaign was created not only...

The Fifth Estate questions ethics, justice and Julian Assange

Daily Free Press Admin October 23, 2013

In recent times, there has been a surge of films illustrating the history of a person or event barely a few years in the past. The Social Network gave the history of Facebook even while the site continues...

EDIT: These International Blurred Lines

Daily Free Press Admin September 25, 2013

Say the word “espionage” to a group of college students. What do they think of? James Bond? Austin Powers? The U.S. government? Whistleblower Edward Snowden has revamped the true meaning of the word...

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