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Evan Wang

Executive Opinion Editor

Evan Wang is the executive editor for the opinion section of Daily. Evan is a junior majoring in History and Biology and can be reached at evanwang664121@tufts.edu.

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The Death of Education: The death of vocational education

By Evan Wang | April 16

I’m sure for a wide variety of students my age, our high school experience was dominated by a never-ending focus on preparing for college applications. The endless SAT tests, AP credits and college counseling all tell us there is only one real path forward after high school: college or university. But there has always been other choices. One of these choices, which has increasingly disappeared from the public eye, is vocational education.

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Red states, blue states

By Evan Wang | March 12

For the past nearly four decades, Texas has been a solidly red state. Texas has voted Republican in every presidential election since 1980, and there are many states just like it. For many years, a bright blue Texas on election night seemed forever out of reach for Democratic strategists. The result is a familiar national strategy where a few so-called swing states suck up all of the resources and publicity while much of the rest of the country is left abandoned by national Democrats. But, every so often, a race emerges that challenges this logic.

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The Death of Education: Lunch should not put students into debt

By Evan Wang | March 10

At noon in schools all across the United States, a familiar scene unfolds. First graders through seniors in high school line up in cafeterias, grab a tray and receive a square of pizza meant to fuel them for the rest of the day. For many students, this is a part of their everyday routine. For others, it carries a quiet burden: lunch debt.

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The sin of greed

By Evan Wang | March 6

As of 2026, online sports betting is legal within 32 states in the United States, online casinos are legal in eight states and so-called prediction markets like Kalshi are available in all 50 states. With this new online gambling craze comes enormous economic losses. In 2023, Americans wagered a staggering $121 billion, with 94% of those wagers occurring online. What was once a heavily state-regulated industry confined to the deserts of Las Vegas is now becoming the fastest-growing public health catastrophe of the 21st century.

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The Death of Education: No child should go to school hungry

By Evan Wang | February 27

In June 2025, Texas Governor Greg Abbott vetoed a $60 million measure that would have allowed his state to participate in a federal summer lunch program for low-income children. The Summer EBT program would have given families $120 per student to pay for lunches during the summer of 2027, which would have been able to feed an estimated 3.75 million children across Texas.

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You should join Opinion!

By Evan Wang, Sorsha Khitikian and Monica Reilly | February 26

We want YOU to join the Opinion section of the Daily. We recognize that writing can be intimidating, especially at a publication like the Daily. So, before we explain all of the reasons why you should join, we first want to tell you how we started writing.

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The Death of Education: Follow Mississippi

By Evan Wang | February 12

As the spring semester picks up, it’s important to remind ourselves that the average National Assessment of Education Progress scores in math, reading, science, civics and U.S. history for students in the United States are now back to what they were in the 1990s. This decline in student performance has been occurring since 2013; it has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the post-pandemic inability to curtail chronic absenteeism. Presently, 74% of tested countries outperform U.S. students in science, and a staggering 86% outperform them in reading.

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Let us not take inspiration from comrade Mamdani

By Evan Wang | October 10

As the New York City mayoral race enters its final stretch, it is looking increasingly likely that, without anything drastic happening, Zohran Mamdani will be crowned the eventual winner — and a lot of progressives are excited. Mamdani, relatively new to the political scene, is expected to shake up the Democratic scene with his youthful support base and socialist policies. While this might win him the election in overwhelmingly leftist NYC, it should not serve as a blueprint for Democrats across the nation as they try to win back Congress this midterm season. 

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Wake up, America

By Evan Wang | September 16

Just this past week, conservative organizer and internet personality Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University while holding a political event. No matter your political leanings or personal beliefs, we should all agree that the assassination of a political figure of this magnitude is and should always be utterly unacceptable in these United States of America.

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