Boston University

Politics

Boston University BU, point of view, opinion, American decline exceptionalism

Science & Technology

POV: What’s So Exceptional about America?

November 25, 2013

Boston University BU, point of view, opinion editorial, JFK, John F Kennedy, kennedy assassination 50 anniversary, gun control

Faculty

POV: 50 Years after Dallas, It’s Time for Gun Control

November 22, 2013

Robert A. Brown, Thomas M. Menino, Boston University Initiative on Cities IoC, Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future

In the City

Menino Lands at BU

November 13, 2013

Israeli West Bank Barrier, Palestine, Jerusalem, Israeli Palestinian conflict

History

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

November 12, 2013

Neta Crawford, United States military, collateral damage

Voices & Opinion

POV: US Military’s Plummeting Collateral Damage

November 11, 2013

Raj Mohanty, Professor of Physics, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences CAS, Avrum Spira, Boston University School of Medicine, James Collins, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, professor of biomedical engineering, College of Engineering, ENG

Politics

Science Coalition Report: Federal Funding Critical in Supporting New Technologies

October 30, 2013

Boston University BU, US Capitol Hill, Government Shutdown, research funding cuts

Research

Federal Shutdown Shuts Down Some BU Research

October 16, 2013

Boston University BU, opinion, Nuclear Armament, Neal Leavitt, College of General Studies CGS humanities lecturer

Politics

POV: Nuclear Armament Is a Lose/Lose

October 9, 2013

Boston University BU, Point of View POV opinion, opposition to Obamacare maddening, School of Management Stephen Davidson, Affordable Care Act

Health & Medicine

POV: Opposition to Obamacare Is Maddening

October 4, 2013

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), food stamps, federal benefit cuts

Public Policy

POV: Starving Out Food Stamps

September 24, 2013

legality of United States US domestic surveillance programs, PRISM, US domestic surveillance program, Edward Snowden, United States National Security Agency NSA, Joseph Wippl, Professor of International Relations, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences CAS

Science & Technology

POV: The Legality of the Government’s Surveillance Programs

September 18, 2013

Gizem Yarbil, Deputy News Editor, Aljazeera Turk, Syrian refugee crisis, Syrian refugee camps, Southern Turkey

Alumni

COM Alum Reports on Syrian Refugee Crisis

September 17, 2013

David Weil, Boston University School of Management, SMG, labor market policy, US Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division

Science & Technology

SMG Prof Nominated for Department of Labor Position

September 16, 2013

Boston University School of Medicine, BUSM, Boston University Medical Campus

BUSM

MED Grapples with Major Sequestration Cuts

September 16, 2013

Andrew Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country, US Army

Voices & Opinion

POV: How the Government Stole Our Military

September 10, 2013

Conflict in Syria, war in Syria, international involvement, chemical gas warfare

Voices & Opinion

POV: William Keylor on What History Says about Obama’s Syrian Dilemma

August 30, 2013

Boston University BU, School of Medicine MED, Philip A Wolf, Framingham Heart Study research budget cut

Medicine

Framingham Heart Study Carries on, Despite Budget Cuts

August 1, 2013

Supreme Court rulling, Defense of Marriage Act DOMA, California Proposition 8 Prop 8, gay marriage, civil rights

lgbt

Gay Marriage Decision Confers “Equal Citizenship,” BU Scholar Says

June 27, 2013

Arctic ice melt, Arctic thawing, Arctic fossil fuel resources, Arctic Council

Politics

Who Owns Santa’s Home?

June 20, 2013

Antigovernment protests in Taksim Square, Gezi Park, Instanbul, Turkey, June 2013, Occupy Gezi

Science & Technology

Mall Project Was “Last Straw” in Restive Turkey

June 11, 2013

Mall Project Was “Last Straw” in Restive Turkey