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A voter looks at “I voted” stickers at the Brookline polling station. Policy stance and Latino identity  were the most influential factors to sway Latino voters in the 2024 Presidential Election. KATE KOTLYAR/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Latino students, Bostonians reveal reasons behind their votes

Eli Pekelny November 8, 2024
Latino voters had a significant influence on the results of the 2024 presidential election on Tuesday, highlighting the complex impact of identity politics on voter decisions and turnout.
PJ and Megan Lutz canvas for President Biden outside a polling center at the Bicentennial Elementary School in Nashua, New Hampshire on Tuesday. Biden supporters launched the successful write-in campaign as a result of the President's name not appearing on the New Hampshire Democratic primary ballot. CLARE ONG/ DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

For canvassers, New Hampshire primary bears deeper connection with democracy

Siena Griffin January 24, 2024
Canvassers from across the country headed to New Hampshire for this year’s first-in-the-nation primary to make a stand for their chosen candidates on Tuesday.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the convicted bomber of the 2013 Boston Marathon. The Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision to reinstate the death penalty for Tsarnaev after nearly nine years of debate by federal prosecutors. COURTESY OF FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Supreme Court reinstates death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber

Seamus Webster March 17, 2022
The Supreme Court reinstates the death penalty for 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Modern Toolbox: Crypto is a silent protest

Jaeyoung Choi April 14, 2021
Crypto is a global movement to decentralize our finances and take back our economic power.
Demonstrators marched from Nubian Square to Copley Square Wednesday evening to protest President Donald Trump potentially contesting the results of the presidential election. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Protesters demand all votes are counted, advocate for progressive policies

Daniel Kool November 5, 2020
Hundreds marched from Nubian Square to the steps of the Boston Public Library Wednesday night, rallying behind an array of progressive causes and protesting a false declaration of victory by President Donald Trump as the election remained too close to call.
Vanessa Bartlett/DFP STAFF

2020 Breakdown: It didn’t have to be this close

Gabriella Aponte November 5, 2020
If Biden’s campaign devoted even a quarter of the time it spent talking about restoring the soul of our nation to the policies and strategies they plan to implement, this race would have been a landslide for Biden.
Jun Li/DFP STAFF

Canceled: True progressives cannot be friends with conservatives

Bini Ollivier-Yamin November 3, 2020
If we are able to exorcise Trump from office, your conservative friends will still be conservative, and that’s still gross. Stop being friends with gross people, or at the very least, stop bragging about your email exchanges with them on Twitter.
Blaming the Messenger (Episode 4): Bush, Obama, and Keeping Policies a Secret

Blaming the Messenger (Episode 4): Bush, Obama, and Keeping Policies a Secret

Jackson Machesky October 20, 2020

On this episode of Blaming the Messenger, The Daily Free Press discusses two presidents who, ideologically, could not have been more different: George W. Bush and Barack Obama. However, both presidents...

Abbigale Shi

Mind Your Business: Vote for Biden, but remember that we are settling

Abbigale Shi October 2, 2020
Those of us who are voting for Biden, no matter what, should remember that we are still settling by doing so.
Gabriella Aponte

2020 Breakdown: Is the president of the United States truly above the law?

Gabriella Aponte September 17, 2020
How many times have you turned on the television in the last four years to yet another news story about President Donald Trump possibly breaking this or that law?
Mass. Sen. Ed Markey in the WGBH’s Brighton studio after the first U.S. Senate primary debate against Mass. Rep. Joe Kennedy in Brighton Tuesday. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Markey and Kennedy spar in first primary debate for U.S. Senate

Matthew Sensabaugh February 19, 2020
Incumbent Sen. Ed Markey faced off against Rep. Joe Kennedy III in their first televised primary debate Tuesday evening in the race for the U.S. Senate. Both candidates are competing for the Massachusetts seat.
PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

EDITORIAL: Preserving DACA gives undocumented immigrants futures

Editors April 26, 2018

A federal judge ruled Tuesday in favor of protecting undocumented youth from deportation — a ruling pushing back against the Trump administration’s efforts to discontinue the Deferred Action for Childhood...

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