Ever since the Brexit referendum that ended with a small leave victory, the British public and media have been talking about the monumental decision: Brexit, Brexit, Brexit. There are so many moving parts to talk about: the opinions of different parties and politicians, the disagreements in the Tory ...
In "Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few" (2015) Robert Reich writes that the concept of a “‘free market’ separate and distinct from government has functioned as a useful cover for those who do not want the market mechanism fully exposed ... the mythology is useful precisely ...
Recently, I read an article in the Tufts Observer that recommended the economics department teach theories other than capitalism in order to prepare students to confront the racism, sexism and inequality in our society. The article cites capitalism as the cause of these problems and argues that the ...
More than 720 first-years voted in the most recent Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate election, greater than the number of first-year voters in 2015 and 2014, the two most recent years where this data is readily available. Increasing voter turnout is especially important given the low rates of participation ...
In response to a recent call to move “beyond capitalism” in the economics department at Tufts, I think it is important to remind ourselves that any academic department’s mission is to teach students to apply the tenets of its field to complex problems and their future careers, not to obsess over ...
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, ...
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