Sex and the suburbs columnist Rebecca Birnbach covers icks. "Some are much easier to overlook while others will leave you with an everlasting visceral feeling of repulsion."
Whether the reinstatement of TikTok with President Trump's name attached constitutes propaganda is a rhetorical question. Trump formerly crusaded against the app and then, not 24 hours after its disappearance,...
On the evening of Sunday, Feb. 9, I, along with 133.5 million viewers, tuned in to watch Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show. While I was excited to see the 22-time Grammy-winning artist perform...
News media the last few weeks has been dominated by the avalanche of actions the Trump administration has taken in its first four weeks of office, which have attacked nearly every institution in American...
Riannon Last, Opinions Managing Editor
| February 14, 2025
A common sentiment held throughout the College’s student community is that Valentine's Day is a capitalistic holiday with no real value or worth. Many who are single feel that it is a holiday to make...
TW: discussions of violence and sexual assault
Less than twenty minutes down the road from Wellesley College’s campus sits MCI-Framingham, the oldest operating women’s prison in the United States....
Wellesley’s public notoriety can in part be attributed to its students’ dedication to advocacy. Historically, protests and petitions have often attempted to signal the student body’s dissatisfaction...
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Hours after being inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump scurried into Washington, D.C.’s Capital One Arena to sign a flurry of executive orders before a crowd of rabid...
What is the future of democracy?
In January, at memorial services for President Jimmy Carter, most people asked me about the state of democracy on our campus. When they learned I was born and raised...
In the mid-19th century, naturalist poet Henry David Thoreau thoroughly lamented the expansion of the railroad. Thoreau was concerned not only by how the railway was changing but also the changes to the...
Bates dining hall felt different: laptops (frequent guests of the dining table) disappeared, and frustration simmered beneath the surface. The answer did not appear until my roommate complained about the...
