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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

OP-ED: The Mapping Project being awful notwithstanding, Zionism is still a colonial project

Guest Writer March 15, 2023
Yonaton Manor was correct that the Mapping Project is antisemitic. But as the criticisms of the project linked above indicate, this is not specifically because of the Mapping Project’s anti-Zionism. Rather, it is because the project blames Jewish community institutions for a range of social ills including general US imperialism, militarized policing and gentrification. 
Haley Alvarez-Lauto | Graphic Artist

The Cost of Conflict | Bad Business

Nathan Metcalf October 31, 2022
Most major conflicts of the modern age have indeed been fought for the pursuit or protection of profit, not by PMC’s, but by governments. 
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Divine Politik: There are no winners in war

Caroline McCord January 30, 2022
I find it monstrous that fickle, greedy fights between world leaders, hardly different from playground scuffles, continuously result in families being torn apart and the death of innocents.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Let’s Talk About: The withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan parallels history of Soviet intervention in the country

Mayela Machribie Lumban Gaol October 12, 2021
Considering the recent events in Afghanistan, it’s important to address and discuss these events in relation to parallels in history.
Sophia Flissler/DFP STAFF

Gaming the System: Don’t let video games become the next military recruiting tactic

Nick Speranza April 22, 2021
The money and playerbase of esports are now being used to power the U.S. war machine.
Seema Thakkar/DFP STAFF

Gaming the System: The treatment of esports players indicts an epidemic of Asian hate

Nick Speranza April 15, 2021
The pain of anti-Asian hate is felt sorely in esports, but the fight against it must take place elsewhere, too.
Andre Salkin

Skate On The Paradigm: Cultivating responsible US internationalism

Andre Salkin October 15, 2020
In a rising world order in which China is expanding control through diplomacy and economic initiatives, the old American style of forced imperialist violence is doomed to fail.
EDITORIAL: McCafé in historic Chinese building cheapens rich history

EDITORIAL: McCafé in historic Chinese building cheapens rich history

Editors November 20, 2015

Chinese residents are furious after a McCafé franchise opened inside a historic 84-year-old villa located in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. The building briefly housed Chiang Ching-kuo, former Taiwanese...

Sean Penn is Jim Terrier in “The Gunman”, which opened Friday. PHOTO COURTESY OF JOE ALBLAS/OPEN ROAD FILMS

REVIEW: Butch “Gunman” can’t be sensitive type, too

Caroline Aaron March 20, 2015

Of the approximately 20 film critics who attended the screening for Pierre Morel’s “The Gunman,” only one was a woman. This serves as an excellent suggestion of the film’s target (excuse the...

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