Following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee penned a letter calling Israel “entirely responsible” for the attack. It was followed by swift and intense backlash. The student signers were “doxxed,” and Jewish alumni demanded a list of the students in order to avoid inadvertently hiring one of them. […]
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Those of us locked into the political world like to say there are “no days off” when it comes to working on and thinking about elections. But for those who are not at the mercy of the 24-hour news cycle, let me set the stage for you: We are mere months away from the start
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If your name is Kevin McCarthy, your 2023 began with utter humiliation. McCarthy endured a brutal 15 rounds of votes to attain the title of speaker of the House — the longest battle for the speakership since 1859. This was the product of a small faction of extremist Republican House members of the Freedom Caucus
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CRISPR-Cas, without a doubt, is a buzzword in the modern scientific community. It holds immense potential, above all else, to implement change within medicine and by extension people, policy, and the world. However current the potential of CRISPR-Cas may seem, the discovery of the CRISPR-Cas system dates back almost 40 years. The focus now applied
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What do vampires, werewolves, and mummies all have in common? They are classic monsters, but only one of the three truly exists. Mummification has been used to preserve bodies for thousands of years. But mummies are more than old monsters, and science has shown that mummies offer a plethora of information to the academic community.
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On a college campus populated by a fully vaccinated and COVID-cautious student body, having a coughing fit in the middle of a lecture feels like a crime against humanity. Such a fit is often followed by whispers of “it’s not COVID, I promise! I was just tested!” and attempts to reassure surrounding students that they
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