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Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

Congress better listen to March For Our Lives | Not to Get Political But

Lauren Albano January 24, 2024
March For Our Lives at UNC-Chapel Hill wrote an op-ed addressing gun violence that was published by student newspapers nationwide. Congress better read it and respond accordingly.
Haley Alvarez-Lauto | Graphic Artist

An analysis of Brooks and Capehart | The Intersection

Katie Harmon November 15, 2022
Brooks and Capehart work together in a very harmonious way that gives viewers a wonderful bipartisan view of what happens in Washington. 
Haley Alvarez-Lauto | Senior Graphic Artist

More Republicans in Congress would’ve crippled our economy | Money Matters

Jaeyoung Choi November 14, 2022
Republicans need to stop propagating the lie that they are better for the economy than Democrats. 
Haley Alvarez-Lauto | Graphic Artist

The state of the Republican Party | BU College Republicans

Braden Jones November 9, 2022
No matter the results of the midterm election, one thing is for certain — it’s time for the Republican Party to dump Trump.
Haley Alvarez-Lauto | Graphic Artist

The FreeP says YES to the ballot questions | EDITORIAL

Editors November 8, 2022
The Daily Free Press Editorial Board has chosen to endorse the following answers to each of the four questions on the ballot for the midterm elections. 
Modern Musings: The midterm results have much to teach us about democracy

Modern Musings: The midterm results have much to teach us about democracy

Ausma Palmer November 14, 2018

Last week’s midterm elections were groundbreaking in many ways. By voting to elect an unprecedented number of women and members of the LGBTQ community, flip the House of Representatives back to blue...

Meredith Varner

American Protest: Voting is made difficult in America by Republicans

Meredith Varner November 8, 2018

If these midterm elections have proven anything to me, it is that voting in the United States is not as easy and democratic as one would presume they are in a country built on freedom to elect representative...

EDITORIAL: College students: put political anxiety to use going into midterms

EDITORIAL: College students: put political anxiety to use going into midterms

Editors October 24, 2018

Voting isn’t as easy as it’s often made out to be. A volunteer registering voters on a college campus might make coloring in a few bubbles on a ballot sound simpler than it really is when students...

Meredith Varner

American Protest: Midterm elections are our chance

Meredith Varner October 1, 2018

The midterm elections for this year are quickly approaching, and with Republican control of the Senate, House and presidency, voting for your representatives has never been more important. Many Americans...

Thousands attend Women’s March in Cambridge

Haley Lerner January 22, 2018

  Thousands of women and men gathered for the Women’s March at the Cambridge Common in support of women’s rights Saturday afternoon. The march was a reiteration of the Women’s March held...

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RYAN: Age Isn’t Just a Number

Sara Ryan November 12, 2014

It’s been a week since the midterm elections, which none of you voted in, by the way. According to the Pew Research Center, only 13 percent of all voters were under the age of 30. Thanks for taking my...

EDIT: A Conservative in the Commonwealth

EDIT: A Conservative in the Commonwealth

Editors November 5, 2014

Now that the Associated Press has named Republican Charlie Baker the 72nd Governor of Massachusetts, the Commonwealth is about to get a facelift. Whatever Baker chooses to do with his new title, there...

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