The allure of stardom is hard to resist, and since the birth of the public persona, celebrity life has captured public interest. We eagerly follow their projects, speculate about their romances, pick sides in their feuds and, all too often, tune in for their lowest moments.
The...
When it comes to political conversations, I’ve always sat on the fence. But everything changed this summer on my Dialogue of Civilizations, “Challenges to the Nation State: Spain.”
During this Dialogue, my classmates and I traveled from the country’s capital,...
We’re just a few weeks into the fall 2025 semester, and as Northeastern welcomes a new class of students eager to experience college life, the topic of conversation revolves around a single statistic: the school’s record-low acceptance rate.
Although this number dominates...
Walking through Northeastern's club fair Sep. 2, I watched hundreds of students sign up for political organizations with the same enthusiasm they showed for getting free ice cream and petting Cooper. One thing struck me: Most of these politically focused student groups spend...
It’s 2 a.m., and I’ve scrolled through 8,000 TikToks, liked a couple dozen Instagram posts and replied to all of my Snapchats. My dorm is quiet, except for the faint noise of my roommate’s YouTube video playing. We have both spent hours online and connected to hundreds...
The killing of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University Sept. 10 represents more than the tragic loss of a young father and political activist. It marks a dangerous inflection point in American democracy where bullets replace ballots as instruments of political change.
Kirk,...
Two young girls sit in front of the camera, microphones clipped to the fronts of their shirts. Wearing a full face of makeup and gold jewelry, the girls laugh and take turns repeating “Mama that burn,” a reference to a viral TikTok video.
The girls in the video are 15-year-old...
According to some estimates, twenty-two million families are expected to lose some or all of their food assistance under the recently passed "One Big Beautiful Bill Act." While these families aren’t being directly denied, they're being buried — under paperwork, deadlines...
In the “Sex and the City” episode “They Shoot Single People, Don’t They?” Carrie is mortified when a magazine cover brands her “Single and Fabulous?” The conversation pivots to aging, with Miranda asking, “What ever happened to aging gracefully?” and Carrie...
When I decided to stay in Boston for Summer 1 and 2 courses, I thought my summer would be filled with some sort of magic. With warmer weather and what I thought would be a more relaxed schedule — considering the absence of club meetings, only two classes and an emptier campus...
As the clock struck 9 p.m. July 13, hundreds of Bostonians packed into bars from Loco Taqueria & Oyster Bar in Southie to Game On in Fenway — not to watch a sports game or concert, but the season finale of the iconic dating show “Love Island USA.”
Even weeks after...
When it comes to an artist’s image, spectacle is often rewarded with publicity. Every visual choice carries impact, but lately, the line between provocation and insensitivity seems blurred beyond recognition. Recent missteps by public figures have prompted us to consider when...
