Opinion

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America is dying: Language is key

The healthcare debate frequently takes the forefront of partisan politics, but there are many reasons why language like “Obamacare” and “Trumpcare” is problematic. Associating presidential administrations with entire healthcare systems creates bias and misinformation. According to a report by ...

Op-Ed: Transparency, Part 2: The Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees has wide-ranging powers, from deciding the new buildings that will pop up on campus, to establishing new academic programs, to selecting our university’s president.Yet, we don’t know much about them and rarely hear directly from them. The student body’s only points of contact ...

Peripheries: Kashmir, an ongoing crisis

Last month, the deadliest suicide bombing in decades struck Indian-occupied Kashmir. Then, India crossed the Line of Control to conduct a retaliatory airstrike in Pakistan. This escalation of tensions between the two countries has been unprecedented in the past three decades. However, while this geopolitical ...

Op-Ed: Transparency and the student voice

Tufts prides itself on its students’ activism, self-advocacy for their liberal world view and desire to make the world a better place. Unfortunately, the university also stifles our ability to do great activist and advocacy work to make Tufts a better place. By keeping budgetary, staff and academic ...

Editorial: Students should join workers in action for a fair contract

Last spring, Tufts Dining workers voted to unionize with nearly 90 percent of ballots in favor of joining UNITE HERE Local 26. Negotiations for a contract started in August, but the school has not agreed to many of the terms set forth by the workers. Employees and activists have found that the university ...

Repeal and Replace: Landlording

Dear Fellow Students,Last week, I wrote about the importance of transparency in university decision-making. Our community faces an unprecedented housing crisis, and as with any other multifaceted issue, opacity serves only to obstruct mutualistic solutions. Tufts Housing League, Tufts Community Union ...

Op-Ed: Defining refugees in a changing climate

Contrary to what the current American government may be saying, the climate is, in fact, changing. Any scientist or academic of any repute would tell you as much.A changing climate brings higher incidences of extreme weather events. Just look at Houston, Texas, which has had three 'once-in-500-years' ...

Cartoon: The Harsh Reality

Letter from the Managing Board: Looking back on Daily Week

To our readers,In case you didn’t notice, the Tufts Daily has been talking a lot about itself this week. While keeping up with our usual content, we have added Tufts Daily-focused content to our paper and social media feeds in order to share more about the work we do and give our readers an inside ...

Editorial: Senate did the right thing

On Sunday, Feb. 24, Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate passed a resolution in favor of academic freedom and due process for Professor Thomas Abowd in his contract renewal. The resolution was written by students from Professor Abowd’s fall 2018 Colonizing Palestine class, alongside other activists, ...

Peripheries: Demanding justice under capitalism

The cover story of The Economist last week stated that millennial socialism, “like the socialism of old, [suffers] from a faith in the incorruptibility of collective action and an unwarranted suspicion of individual vim,” concluding that liberals should oppose socialism. However, this criticism ...

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America is dying: Two birds, one stone

Imagine this: America reducing poverty and increasing positive health outcomes at the same time. Federally organized conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs might be the answer we have all been awaiting. According to the World Health Organization, “Conditional cash transfer programs give money to ...

Op-Ed: Debunking economic myths of migration

Mark Baum, a character in Adam McKay's "The Big Short" (2015) who was based on the famous investor Steven Eisman, infamously said, “In a few years, people are going to be doing what they always do when the economy tanks. They will be blaming immigrants and poor people.” Many western ...

Spaceship Earth: From farm to house — industrial hemp

With the planet warming, global conflict in the near future is unavoidable as resource scarcity, loss of land and extreme weather events push people to act in rational but violent ways. To limit the severity of these conflicts, we must begin making radical changes to the way we do almost everything.One ...

Cartoon: Workers vs. Consumers

The rising hidden costs of an education at Tufts

This year, the total cost of attendance at Tufts was estimated to be $73,500. Tufts University students, student organizations and administrators have spent a large amount of time recently discussing the important issue of tuition and fee hikes; however, there has been very little conversation about ...

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