These days it has become increasingly clear that comedy is a lot like alcohol. No, I don't mean that both are ways nervous men talk to women, or that both are significantly worse when you're in college, or any other silly one-liner. Rather I hope to argue that in the abstract, transgressive ...
Following the 2016 election, the Associated Press (AP) employed a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage to analyze the outcomes of all U.S. House races as well as the outcomes of approximately 4,700 state-level House and Assembly seats. The method was designed to detect cases in which ...
Since Trump has become president, he has bombarded the American people with tweet after tweet, threatening everything from an end to health care access to nuclear war. Through all this, we have seen the rise and fall of Sean Spicer and our very own Anthony Scaramucci. We have seen the public humiliation ...
This time of year features many elections, from an unexpectedly competitive New Zealand election to a German election that saw Merkel triumph again. The two I want to focus on are controversial referenda taking the question of independence to people who are being told by central governments that they ...
Last fall, The Tufts Daily introduced a support fund to help increase Tufts students’ accessibility to journalism in light of financial barriers that may otherwise prevent them from being as involved as they would like. The fund was expanded last spring to include a $500 stipend for people who regularly ...
I came to Tufts a proud Democrat and confident progressive. As a result of liberal identity politics, I will leave in May without a clear political identity. This is why the Democratic Party cannot win elections and someone like Stephen Miller can end up a senior White House official.Progressive icons ...
Last week, the Student Life Review Committee released its finalized report on the status of Greek life after seven months of investigation and discussion. This long-awaited report is an extensive and thorough examination of student life and social spaces. At 25 pages in length, the report outlines ...
During Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, various reports of airline price hikes emerged,including a report of a ticket from Miami to New York ballooning upwards of nearly 1000 percent its typical cost. For those who remained in the storm’s wake, as stores closed and employees fled or took shelter, ...
Nothing is more exciting than watching, laughing and screaming at over-the-top horror movie scenes, from Samara crawling out of a well in "The Ring" (2002) to twins appearing ominously in "The Shining" (1980). But one thing may be even better (and more satisfying): forcing helpless friends to watch ...
Today marks a milestone in every semester for The Tufts Daily — the start of daily production. From now on, you’ll be able to start every weekday by picking up a copy of the Daily. And with the first week of daily production now underway, so comes the first week of Daily columns. It is my pleasure ...
There are currently multiple companies that have created computer programs capable of replacing a team of lawyers and paralegals with a computer program and a few lawyers.There are firms that are testing programs capable of doing project management jobs in many contexts. You have probably unwittingly ...
To the editor,We write to respond to former Latino Center Director Ruben Salinas Stern’s letter published on Sept. 7 raising concerns with the transparency and requirements of the recent Latino Center Director Search process. We have attempted to contact the author to correct his misunderstanding ...
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