Opinion

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Op-Ed: Tufts Democrats endorse on Massachusetts ballot questions

The Tufts Democrats met to discuss the three ballot questions for Massachusetts last week.  The first deals with patient limits for nurses, the second with campaign finance and the third with transgender rights. The following are our endorsements:Question 1: YesBallot question 1 limits the number of ...

Red Star: What socialists want

A specter is haunting America: the specter of socialism. All of the rulers of America have entered a holy alliance to exorcise this specter: Trump and his fascists, Chuck Schumer and the neoliberals, billionaire ideologues and FBI hacks.In the 2.5 years since Bernie Sanders’ candidacy reintroduced ...

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Op-Ed: Tufts' treatment of Facilities workers

Editor's note: During the author’s time on Tufts’ grounds crew in summer 2018, he interviewed members of his immediate team tasked with maintaining the lower campus, as well as ground workers across the campus. This opinion piece includes quotes from sources who wished to remain anonymous for ...

Anita's Angle: Trouble for big tech

This earnings season, investors in public technology companies had to curb their excitement for the first time in a long while. Revenue growth is cooling down at Amazon, Google and Snapchat. Twitter is losing active users. Facebook is releasing its earnings report this week, and many analysts expect the ...

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Pretty Lawns and Gardens: Medford's proposed bag ban does not go far enough

An Oct. 17 Daily article reported that Medford will likely be joining neighboring municipalities in implementing a partial plastic bag ban, affecting “thin film” plastic bags, by the end of the year. I’m always excited when a state or municipality takes the initiative to protect our environment, ...

Letter to the Editor: A response to 'Breaking the culture of sleep deprivation'

To the editor,We in Tisch Library are committed to providing a welcoming, inclusive environment for the Tufts community. We appreciate and share your concerns about student health and wellness addressed in your Oct. 23 editorial on “the culture of sleep deprivation.” Balancing work and life can ...

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The Anti-Bostonian: The case against Jayson Tatum ... right now

Just stop. Jayson Tatum is not better than Ben Simmons. Stop the homerism and hold onto this thought. Every October, basketball fans emerge from their hibernation like the first tinges of dew lightly coating the morning grass on Tufts’ Residential Quad. They traipse through the dew and find themselves ...

Takeaways: Catalonia a year after

It has been a little over a year since the Catalan referendum on independence passed and a week short of a year since Catalonia’s elected leaders signed a declaration of independence to break away from Spain. As expected, no country recognized the declaration. It was always clear that Catalonia ...

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Red Star: They are just fascists now

Content warning: This column discusses violence.The Metropolitan Republican Club in New York invited Gavin McInnes to give a speech at their headquarters where he praised and reenacted the murder of a Japanese socialist. The Proud Boys, an alt-right gang, assaulted protesters outside. The cops stood ...

Editorial: Breaking the culture of sleep deprivation

Many universities boast 24-hour libraries and dining halls. Harvard’s undergraduate Lamont Library is open 24 hours a day; MIT offers three libraries with 24-hour access. This might sound appealing for students who want access to a library during all hours of the day. Students could work late into ...

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Anita's Angle: Where is the competition?

Competition is the driving force behind capitalism, the engine that fuels innovation and provides incentive for growth. Adam Smith’s famous concept of the “invisible hand” is supposed to lead to effective allocation of resources through competition and ultimately result in the best outcome for ...

Editorial: Current course registration system does not promote academic success

Tufts students continue to trudge through midterm season. The days are getting colder and darker, and we may not even realize what’s quickly approaching next week: the advising period for spring course registration. Likely the last thing we are thinking about amidst this hectic time is: “What classes ...

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Pretty Lawns and Gardens: Breaking down the UN climate report

Last week, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a shocking report on the impacts of global warming to 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels — a diplomatically and scientifically relevant benchmark for global warming identified in the 2016 Paris Agreement. ...