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a student celebrates after successfully registering to vote

Politics

How Do I Register to Vote in the 2018 Midterm Elections?

October 3, 2018

Lecture panel listen to questions from a Boston University School of Public Health Class about United States Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Science & Technology

SPH Sexual Violence Class Becomes Forum on Kavanaugh Hearings

October 3, 2018

Composite image showing actor Chris Evans speaking in Washington D.C., black and white portrait of Isaac Asimov, and rapper Kanye West performing on Saturday Night Live wearing a red Donald Trump Make America Great Again hat.

Politics

Kanye West, Chris Evans, and Isaac Asimov

October 2, 2018

Television journalist Jacqueline Policastro

Alumni

Making News

October 2, 2018

American politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2018 Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives from New York's 14th Congressional District, speaks to a crowd at Boston University on October 2, 2018.

Politics

Rising Democratic Star Ocasio-Cortez Urges Students to Become Activists

October 2, 2018

The cracked sidewalk outside of the entrance to the playground behind the Trotter School in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston

Immigration

US Mayors: Blacks, Trans, Muslim, and Immigrants Face Discrimination

September 17, 2018

city of boston skyline

Awards

Learning How Cities Work

September 14, 2018

The Eloy Detention Center in Arizona

Immigration

BU Works to Reunite Immigrant Families

September 11, 2018

Mayor Martin Walsh speaks with summer interns

University News

I Spent My Summer Working at Boston City Hall

August 31, 2018

Political scientists Maxwell Palmer (from left), David Glick, and Katherine Levine Einstein say big-city mayors shun higher office because of its hard-edged partisanship. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Social Sciences

Why Some Politicians Shun Promotions

August 1, 2018

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Judge Brett Kavanaugh his Supreme Court nominee

Voices & Opinion

POV: Brett Kavanaugh, Conservative or Constitutionalist?

July 11, 2018

Protesters gather outside the Supreme Court House.

Politics

LAW Prof: SCOTUS Travel Ban Decision Reflects a “Dark Era”

June 29, 2018

Progressive Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez celebrartes with supporters at a victory party in the Bronx after upsetting incumbent Democratic Representative Joseph Crowly on June 26, 2018 in New York City. Ocasio-Cortez upset Rep. Joseph Crowley in New York’s 14th Congressional District.

Politics

BU Alumna Wins Upset Congressional Primary in New York City

June 27, 2018

Trump signing an executive order to stop the separation of families

Politics

What Does Trump’s Immigration Order Mean?

June 22, 2018

A Mexican woman holds a doll next to children at the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry, in the US-Mexico border in Chihuahua state, Mexico on June 20, 2018

Voices & Opinion

POV: Harm of Border Separations Will Haunt US Future

June 21, 2018

Gina Ortiz Jones, candidate for the Texas 23rd district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives

ROTC

A Different Kind of Texas Candidate

June 18, 2018

A Planned Parenthood supporter holds a sign that says "Don't take away my birth control" at a rally in New York City.

Politics

POV: New Title X Birth Control Rule Bad for the Nation’s Health

June 11, 2018

John Kerry

Politics

Fixing Climate Change Is Good Business, Whatever President Trump Says

June 11, 2018

Science & Technology

SCOTUS Gay Marriage Decision Rests on Antireligious Rhetoric

June 6, 2018

Robert F Kennedy holds two fingers up in a victory sign as he talks to campaign workers at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, prior to his assassination.

Politics

POV: Remembering RFK, 50 Years Later

June 5, 2018

POV: Remembering RFK, 50 Years Later