Political pundits say it every four years, but this time they're right the stakes of this November's presidential election could not be higher. The next president will oversee our country's strategy in the fight against ISIS, confront stubbornly high economic inequality and leave an indelible ...
Smack my orbitals and call me a cation, because this atom just got a lot more positive. My electric charge changed this past week, upon realizing that I can only improve my happiness by distancing myself from you.And so far, I made the right decision.I’m talking to you, my (former) friend. I don’t ...
About two years ago, as some elephants on campus might remember, an Indian American student had fervently expressed her anxiety over a “color run” organized by a Tufts fraternity; it was, for her, a blatant cultural appropriation of the festival Holi, and she argued that Hindu students should have ...
Over the weekend Melissa Harris-Perry, professor, author and former MSNBC host of "Melissa Harris-Perry," wrote an email to her staff which was posted on Medium. In it, she explained her decision to not host any programming for her show over the weekend, effectively finishing a four-week ...
On the morning of Feb. 13, the United States was shocked with the news of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death. Immediately following the news, a barrage of reactions concerning President Obama’s potential appointment of Justice Scalia’s successor began pouring from both political parties. ...
Following the recent passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Senate Republicans have made the decision to preemptively reject any presidential nomination of a replacement justice, a choice that crosses a legal and moral line. In an election cycle that has already been more vulgar than any ...
Raise your hand if you had Donald Trump and John Kasich lasting longer than Jeb Bush in this campaign. Nobody? Didn’t think so. Jeb Bush was by no means a shoo-in to win his nomination, but the manner in which he lost was shocking. Political science departments across the country will start including ...
With a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that is just a fraction of that of the United States and sandwiched between the rising powers of China and India, Myanmar is not on the minds of many Americans or many Tufts students for that matter. But the 2015 November elections in the country could be the most ...
As Tufts faculty members, we write in support of the official celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day, in substitution for the university’s celebration of Columbus Day.Changing the name of this holiday is a chance for our campus to acknowledge and challenge the legacies of genocide and slavery ...
Rebecca: I often write about my mom, mostly because I regard her as a sage. When giving advice, I always fall back on her musings. However, today’s introduction is about my mom’s interaction with Mac DeMarco. My brother is a huge Mac DeMarco fan, and after finding out that Mac was summering on our ...
One of New York City’s largest restaurant moguls has announced that, over the coming year, he will move away from tipping at all 13 of his restaurants, representing a seismic shift in the way we think about paying for our food.Danny Meyer is the owner and force behind Union Square Hospitality Group ...
Most of us here at Tufts University would agree that climate change represents a massive threat to humanity. Its impacts constitute enormous perils: crop failures, stronger storms, a precipitous decline in biodiversity, etc. Understanding this, Tufts professes to care about mitigating global warming, ...
The mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. late last year was cause for national mourning and a rekindled fear of homegrown terrorism. Recently, it has also served to actualize the once-abstract debate about cyber security versus privacy that has been burgeoning in the courtroom for over a decade. ...
There are certain tidbits of advice that we hear repeated from a variety of different people we encounter. As soon as I reached college age, there was one recommendation that I heard so frequently that it became a truth rather than a suggestion, and I was determined to listen.After the university I ...
The Tufts Daily recently broke the news that minor programs in cognitive and brain sciences (CBS) and linguistics, which are housed under the philosophy department, have been paused for an undetermined amount of time. According to the decision, students who declared the minor before Dec. 15, 2015 are permitted to continue their studies. New enrollment has been halted, however.
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