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The Intangibles: The historic and transcendent experience of watching Victor Wembanyama
By Jonah Cowan | November 7Victor “Wemby” Wembanyama is changing the way I view basketball.
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Astana: The city that is not Almaty
By Max Turnacioglu | November 7Besides its claim to the title of second coldest capital city in the world, Astana, Kazakhstan is renowned for its architecture — in fact, mentions of the city are always accompanied by reference to its futuristic architectural style. After 17 hours of pacing, playing cards, intermittent sleep on a stiff fold-down bed and watching the low hills of the Kazakh Steppe race by the train window, I was prepared to be unimpressed by the city of Astana. Yet, even bleary-eyed and weakly shuffling after our tour guide, the sleek, fantastical skyline of Astana throttled me into amazement.
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High Fidelity: Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue, 50 years on
By Kasra Salehi | November 6Almost exactly 50 years ago, Bob Dylan embarked on the first leg of his now-famous Rolling Thunder Revue tour. What commenced was perhaps the most thrilling live collection of songs Dylan would ever produce. The autumn leg of this tour, spanning the northeastern United States and Canada, became forever immortalized through the live album released in 2002, which featured 22 performances from the first leg of the tour. The album serves as a testament to Dylan’s decades-long commitment to reinventing himself and his material and stands alone as a pinnacle of both Dylan’s career and rock music at large.
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Forgotten Fronts: The world has failed el-Fasher
By Alexander Degterev | November 5A new Srebrenica massacre is now upon the world, and much like the U.N.’s inaction then, the international community’s continued apathy will now allow for yet another mass slaughter in Sudan.
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Munching with Max: Second chances
By Max Druckman | November 5We all make mistakes. Whether it be hitting your 5-year-old brother in the face with a pitch or smashing your side-view mirror into your friend’s mailbox, sometimes, we just mess up. (Don’t ask me where I came up with those examples.)
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The Full Court Press: Baseball is screwed
By Noah Goldstein | November 4Baseball is a truly evil sport. I have chosen to open my column with this sentence for many reasons, which I will try to sum up here in terms of my horrific experience with the 2025 MLB season.
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Love To Hate: Antonio Brown
By Brian Becker | November 3Antonio Brown. That guy? Oh, yeah, how’s he doing? The man who became a social media trend in 2021 for angrily throwing his jersey into the stands at MetLife Stadium in a game between the New York Jets and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and who is now under a bevy of legal trouble, has a reputation as one of the most controversial, yet talked about players in the NFL — for all the wrong reasons.
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Through Indigenous Eyes: Native authenticity
By Sorsha Khitikian | October 31On every road trip, there’s a point where you get a bit bored. The scenery outside looks identical for hundreds of miles. The playlist you’ve made? You’ve already listened to it twice. You’ve spent so much time with the people you’re driving with that there’s nothing left to talk about. ...
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Elephant Yoga? A Jumbo Guide to Boston’s Yoga Spots: Is goat and puppy yoga fur real yoga?
By Fiona Hinrichsen | October 31Yoga, as defined by Merriam-Webster, is “a system of physical postures, breathing techniques, and sometimes meditation derived from Yoga but often practiced independently especially in Western cultures to promote physical and emotional well-being.”
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Moments ‘til Madness: The key clashes of opening week
By Owen Short | October 29The first day of the NCAA hoops season is less than a week away. We’ve already had our first taste of basketball, with a plethora of great NBA games kicking off the league’s opening week. Not only that, but the college preseason exhibition games have been highly competitive this year. This is almost entirely thanks to the rule change implemented in January, which allows these matchups to be streamed and officially scored for the first time.
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The Bigger Picture: Choose boldly, choose whenever you can
By Linda Huang | October 29Humans are born to think that we are capable of developing a sense of basic autonomy and agency — the abilities to govern ourselves, free from external control or influence, and to make choices for ourselves to achieve an intended goal. From an early age, we learn that our frontal lobe will develop as we age, allowing us to eventually make independent decisions for ourselves and live life as we want.
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An everyday art tour: A living collection
By Sophie Herron | October 29The Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University spans 281 acres with a collection of more than 16,000 plants. Rodney Eason, director of horticulture and landscape at the arboretum, can recognize these plants by sight and tell their stories by heart.
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Munching with Max: Learning to strike out
By Max Druckman | October 27Those of you who know me will understand that the 50% of my brain not occupied by food is concentrated on baseball (I know, scientists have already asked to study it). Most of the time, this arrangement isn’t productive — thinking about Trader Joe’s Buffalo Chicken Dip doesn’t help me when staring down a 3–2 count. Other times though, my dual thought processes can be fruitful.
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Almaty: The city of night buses
By Max Turnacioglu | October 24The bitter memory of a homophobic stand-up routine continued to curdle in my mouth as I looked out into the street beside me. A few cars idled at the light, but the night was otherwise silent. Trolley Bus No. 8 was nowhere to be found. In a night already punctuated by poor jokes, this may have been the worst: my phone lay dead in my pocket — willingly discarded in the name of challenge — and my only guide home was a Soviet-era Russian–English dictionary, with pages 28, 31 and 79 dog-eared as an ingenious reminder of which buses I needed to take.
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Worth Going Broke?: On your parents’ dime
By Eloise Bernstein | October 23Even the best dining halls at Tufts can only do so much, and, after over a month of the same options every day, I’m desperate for something new. (Sorry, Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center!) Even Hodgdon Food-on-the-Run, my beloved, can get tiring after having salads or Chipotle-style bowls for almost every meal during the week. As much as I want to get the most out of my meal swipes, there is no way I’m setting foot in a dining hall this weekend while my parents are in town.
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The Intangibles: LaVar Ball and a parent’s ambition
By Jonah Cowan | October 23LaVar Ball deserves credit for painstakingly molding his three sons, Lonzo, LiAngelo and LaMelo, into elite basketball players and celebrities from their earliest years. The three brothers became a sensation in 2016 at Chino Hills High School, and now two of them are established NBA players. The middle child is a rapper. But what happens when the manufacturing of children into elite athletes fails?
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High Fidelity: Clipse returns home triumphant on ‘Let God Sort Em Out’ tour
By Kasra Salehi | October 23Pusha T and Malice are on top of the world, and they know it.
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Dissertation Diaries: Machlan Sawden
By Demarie Hao | October 22Welcome to the sixth installment of “Dissertation Diaries.” We will be highlighting Machlan Sawden, a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Shruti Sharma Lab at the Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
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Yours Truly, T: The art of waking up with a smile
By T | October 22I eased the door open, letting a sliver of golden morning light slip into the dim room. My two friends were fast asleep on the bed, cocooned in a jumble of plush blankets. From beneath a subway cloud of white sheets, a few strands of my best friend E’s blonde hair peeked out.
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Road to the World Cup: Mexico modernizes, Infantino plays politics
By Antonia Toro | October 21Mexico is not simply relying on its history as a two-time World Cup host (1970 and 1986); it is actively working to modernize its security infrastructure. Mexico City, which will host the tournament’s inaugural game at the Estadio Azteca, recently selected the firm Amper to lead a technological modernization of its centers of Command and Control (C5) specifically in preparation for the World Cup. This update, involving new infrastructure and the latest version of the GEMYC-D system, aims to enhance public safety and optimize operations across the metropolis.
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