Last month, Maine Governor Janet Mills made national headlines for publicly clashing with President Donald Trump. In opposing restrictions against trans athletes in women’s sports, Mills attracted the ire of the vengeful new administration, and federal funding was cut to …
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Somerville, Mass. on Tuesday night. A Turkish national and Fulbright scholar, Öztürk had co-authored an op-ed for The Tufts Daily a year ago on the …
Before I start: While this piece is addressed to Jewish Zionists, I think it important that all people understand the perspective of Jewish anti-Zionists.
As a Jewish person who fights for Palestine, I say to all you Zionists, f*** right …
This Monday, I received a brief and somewhat surprising email from Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) announcing a plan to adopt a new, completely reworked constitution. It included several things I had concerns about, so I decided, for the first time …
On December 1, 2022, I received the news that I had been matched with Bowdoin on a full-ride scholarship through QuestBridge. As soon as I was let out of my last class of the day, I ran to my car, …
My peers were suspended for two weeks for publicly, kindly and passionately expressing their beliefs in a 24/7-publicly available space—a space that College security swiftly shut down.
The following YikYaks, which I view as genuine threats against students’ physical, emotional …
How accurate is the 2012 animated movie musical interpretation of “The Lorax”? For those who haven’t seen the film, the main character lives in a town where, absent any real plants, buying bottles of air from a company called O’Hare …
President Donald Trump’s second term has begun with a whirlwind of policies that have severe implications for the function and future of higher education. In January, Trump communicated a freeze on all federal loans and grants, which he rescinded days …
It is hard not to cringe when reading about last week’s Global Artificial Intelligence (AI) summit, with governments around the world—led by the U.S.—competing to offer the least AI oversight. Safety is not taking a backseat; it is unceremoniously stuffed …