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Politics may be personal, but political figures have a right to privacy | EDITORIAL

Editors October 31, 2022
One offering certain aspects of their life to the spotlight doesn’t posit the entirety of their personhood for public consumption or response.
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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.
Gabriella Aponte

2020 Breakdown: Dear Democrats, It’s Time to Play Hard Ball

Gabriella Aponte September 25, 2020
Though the Democrats are currently in a difficult position, blocking the Republicans from reneging on their own precedent is not impossible. Democrats should be able to win this battle and the long war if they are strategic and relentless in their approach.
Boston University sophomore Owen Woodcock in a climate protest in Washington, D.C., last month. COURTESY OF THE SUNRISE MOVEMENT

Boston hub of Sunrise Movement heads to D.C. to advocate for Green New Deal

Hannah Edelman December 11, 2018
Some nights, Owen Woodcock, a sophomore in Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences, can’t sleep.

EDITORIAL: Democrats should stick to their party’s values

Editors February 3, 2018

Around 40 million Americans tuned into Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night to hear what our leader had to say about the country at this stage in his presidency. Trump’s speech did...

Lessons from the Left: Republicans own the shutdown

Lessons from the Left: Republicans own the shutdown

Anna Stroinski January 25, 2018

Make no mistake: There is no #SchumerShutdown. Anyone who’s been conscious for the past week knows there was some kind of shutdown, but Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer definitely doesn’t own it....

STROINSKI: One Democrat’s dilemma

STROINSKI: One Democrat’s dilemma

Anna Stroinski March 2, 2017

I am a registered and ideological Democrat, and this has been the case for as long as I can remember. In 2008, I went inside the automated voting booth for the first time with my mom. She’d just secured...

JOHNSTON: Gorsuch’s nomination reflects politics of today

JOHNSTON: Gorsuch’s nomination reflects politics of today

Andrew Johnston February 7, 2017

Indeed, we can certainly say the Republicans had it coming. With Trumps recent nomination in Judge Neil Gorsuch, the Democrats have mobilized their efforts to take whatever extreme measures necessary to...

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