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Depop made sustainable shopping consumerist

By Annika Pillai | September 18

Depop was once imagined as the future of sustainable fashion. When it was founded in 2011, the resale platform offered itself as an antidote to fast fashion: a community marketplace where clothes that were already in circulation could be given a second life. Its design looked more like Instagram than eBay, and that was the point. Shopping on Depop felt less like scrolling through dusty thrift store racks in a Goodwill or Savers and more like browsing someone’s curated Pinterest board. For a generation raised primarily on social media, it offered a way to shop that felt authentic, personal and, most importantly, socially conscious.

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‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ traces families and the limits of intimacy

By Noah Goldstein | September 16

Jim Jarmusch has built a prolific career on observing the smallest details. “It’s a lot more exhausting to be looking at Cate Blanchett’s eyelid or Tom Waits’ gestures than to have 15 zombies come out of a grave,” the beat-poet-turned-director remarked at a press conference after his film “Father Mother Sister Brother” unexpectedly won the Golden Lion, the highest prize at the Venice International Film Festival.

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Can food be apolitical?

By Annika Pillai | September 12

“Let them eat cake.”Historians doubt Marie Antoinette ever uttered those famous words. In the original French phrase — “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche” — “la brioche” doesn’t translate directly to “cake” as we know it today, but rather to brioche, a rich, eggy bread. Still, the meaning remains the same: When told that peasants had no bread, the queen supposedly suggested they eat a more luxurious kind. Whether she actually said it matters less than the sentiment it expresses — a willful blindness to inequality while indulging in luxury.

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Water from Your Eyes’ ‘It’s a Beautiful Place’ is a warm, stereophonic embrace from newer indie pop outfit

By Ethan Essner | September 4

If you’re looking for the indie genre to be the shapeshifting jewel it was in the ’90s, look no further than the creatives emerging in the 2020s. These past decades functioned as a period of resurgence and re-amplification of some of the most prominent acts of the past. Nirvana and other noise rock groups (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam) piloted punchy guitar tones and lyrically scatterbrained ideas, resulting in abstractions as opposed to the previous, more obvious concept albums. This style seems to be back in fashion with more stitching to the bright, colorful tapestry of what was so widely sought after in the ’90s.

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Amanda Knox: The cost of reclaiming your narrative

By Annika Pillai | September 4

When Monica Lewinsky reintroduced herself to the public nearly two decades after the public reveal of her affair with former President Bill Clinton, she did so on her own terms. In essays and a TED Talk, she positioned herself not as the tabloid caricature of the ‘90s, but as an early casualty of online shaming. She called herself “patient zero,” staking a claim to her narrative.

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‘Together’ bends body horror into romance

By Spring LaRose | September 2

When love rears its head, it’s not always a pretty sight. “Together” embraces this truth and stretches it to its most grotesque limit. Michael Shanks’ new film is not only a supernatural body horror, but also a comedy and a relationship drama. The fusion of genres is literalized in the fusion of flesh — a process that is terrifying, ugly, funny and erotic all at once.

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Does sex still sell?

By Annika Pillai | September 2

In 1980, 15-year-old Brooke Shields appeared in a series of print and television ads for Calvin Klein. In one particularly memorable commercial, she delivered the brand’s provocative line: “You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing.” The ad sparked widespread outrage — largely because of Shields’ age—with numerous networks refusing to air it.

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Nate Hall looks back on his Daily journey from copy editor to managing editor

By Jeremy Stern | May 16

When graduating senior Nate Hall stepped onto Tufts campus, he had no prior experience in journalism — his high school did not have a paper, and he did not expect to join the Daily. Instead, he was all in on doing theater. However, as per the course of many clubs at Tufts, Hall’s friend, rising senior and Daily staff writer, Sam Dieringer, first introduced him to the Daily’s charm at DailyCon in the spring of 2022. 

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Matthew Winkler on Mahler, music writing, the heart of sound

By Alexander Minagar | May 16

In a wood-paneled practice room on the lower level of Granoff Music Center, graduating senior Matthew Winkler sat down to talk about his love of classical music, his years writing for the Daily and how composer Gustav Mahler changed his life. “I can’t think of the exact time I first heard Mahler,” Winkler said. “I started the trumpet in sixth grade … but I think when I first actually fell in love with the music … [was when] I got a YouTube recommendation for [Mahler’s Symphony] No. 5. … That opening trumpet just kept building, and the depth of emotion overwhelmed me. It was so stormy and dramatic, but also had these profound moments of beauty in the middle of it.”

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Erin Zhu and the evolution of an artist

By Spring LaRose | May 15

“To be a fly on the wall, basically, is the dream,” graduating senior Erin Zhu said, smiling. In the background, there was the quiet hum of students in the Mayer Campus Center. Zhu, an experienced college journalist, was finally on the other side of the interview.

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Henry Chandonnet took ‘big swings’ at the Daily

By Maya Godard | May 14

Since its founding in 1980, the Daily has traditionally produced short-form news and culture stories.But graduatingsenior Henry Chandonnet pioneered a new format for the Daily, making way for long-form reporting and striking visuals with The Tufts Daily Magazine.

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Merry Jiao takes life in stride

By Liam Chalfonte | May 13

Jiao, a former managing editor, former executive copy editor and current columnist for the Daily, has had to make a huge change when it comes to her career path. An international relations major, she came into this semester with a concrete plan of taking the Foreign Service Officer Test and applying for federal jobs. These plans were dashed when, due to the current Trump administration, federal hiring was frozen, and a week before she planned to take it, the test was canceled indefinitely.

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Odessa Gaines shares her 127-article-long journey with the Daily

By Ishaan Rajiv Rajabali | May 12

“I remember people being like, ‘Do you like to write? Come to DailyCon!’ And I signed up,” graduating senior Odessa Gaines recalled in her Daily origin story. A staple of the Arts and Pop Culture section (and its spring 2025 executive editor), Gaines’ journey with the newspaper began at the student organization fair during her first year, where her existential need to write encouraged her to join and try something new.

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