We are no longer in the 1780s. That is clear. Yet for some reason, a significant portion of American political rhetoric still functions as if we were. Portions of the American political spectrum retain the understanding of the United States as a federalist entity. A popular interpretation of the Second ...
Earlier this week, a group of protesters rallied outside the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston. The protesters were not gathering, however, because of an offending exhibit or speaker, but rather to express their dislike for the esteemed French impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Among ...
On Thursday, the Senate took an important step toward ending America’s uniquely unreasonable system of mass incarceration. Republican and Democratic senators came together to put their support behind a bill that would make prison sentences more effective in a number of ways, including reducing mandatory ...
There will always be that one person that begins a conversation and lacks the social awareness of knowing when to end it. A friend of mine, Alexis, travelled this summer to Colombia. He endured a 10-hour flight in the company of a socially inept Colombian woman with a disproportionate fear of cold weather. ...
Few things in the world annoy me more than those Buzzfeed articles about being “a '90s kid.” Seeing some kid wax poetic about "Full House" (1987-1995) or "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" (1990-1996) despite being born years after those shows ended is just infuriating. And ...
Last Thursday, Americans faced a disturbingly familiar news report: there had been another shooting, this time at a college in Oregon. A white man, potentially driven by hatred, nihilism or a desire to see his name in lights, was able to acquire 13 guns legally, according to NBC. President Barack Obama ...
The Daily Arts section has a mission this semester: to grow its coverage of the Tufts arts scene. This may come as a surprise to some, since the mission seems so obvious; of course Tufts’ school paper would cover the plethora of artistic and cultural events going on across campus. Yet over the past ...
A quick Google search of the terms “government shutdown” and “other countries” returns an excess of articles from the past five years with pretty much the same title: “Why don’t other countries have government shutdowns?” To me, the question is absolutely ludicrous. You mean the government ...
What’s a worse use of the word “random”? A girl, upon realizing she has the same name as the barista, saying, “OMG that is so random,” or a TSA agent motioning to a brown guy and saying, “You’ve been randomly selected”?The question matters in light of the recent Ahmed clock incident ...
Donald Trump, whose campaign for the presidency has been alarmingly successful thus far, has been a field day for CNN. They’ve run on average more than two articles a day since his campaign announcement on June 16. They’ve given him three hours of airtime a week and have dedicated half of their ...
Just over two weeks ago, the Obama administration launched a system by which prospective college applicants and their families may view a scorecard for each college and university in the country. These scorecards are intended to make it easy for applicants to make informed judgments about the value ...
Ask me whether I find someone attractive, and I’ll try my best to revert to my first impression of said individual. I will do this because I know that once you’ve crossed the border of objective physical appraisal and thrown in the external variable of personality, apparent beauty changes completely.
My grandfather always said that change keeps us young. For most of us, an appreciation for change is not fully adopted, if ever, until life becomes pedestrian and stagnant, when habits replace milestones and few opportunities for real change are left.Change is scary. Change forcefully removes us from ...
The Republican Party is split. Ever since Barack Obama was elected president, the GOP has advocated for a policy against big government, particularly in the fight against Obamacare. Unfortunately, this fragmented them -- and thus the Tea Party was born. Tea Party leaders like Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz ...
Last week, the Daily published a special report on the ongoing investigations into the stabbing incident that took place at Tufts fraternity Delta Tau Delta (DTD) over the summer. On the morning of the attack, a blast e-mail was sent out by the Tufts Emergency Alert System telling the community to shelter ...
On Sept. 22, Pope Francis landed in the United States for his first official visit since assuming the papacy in March 2013 as the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Beginning his visit in Washington, D.C., he drew a crowd of 11,000 as he proceeded to the White House for a meeting with President ...
Many students, alumni and members of the campus sports community were happily shocked when the football team broke their seasons-long losing streak at their first home game last season. The football team's unexpected victory was not, however, the only much-talked about sports story last year. The success of the men’s soccer and women’s field hockey teams on the national Div. III level also received their fair share of on-campus attention.
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