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Politics

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz speaks to the media as she arrives at the temporary government center setup at the Roberto Clemente stadium in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria on September 30, 2017 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Alumni

Dispute with Trump Puts San Juan Mayor, a BU Alum, in Spotlight

October 1, 2017

Top of the United States Constitution document showing the words "We the People"

University News

The Five Oddest Clauses in the US Constitution

September 26, 2017

Robert E. Lee confederate civil war monument in Charlottesville, VA

Politics

POV: The Controversy over Confederate Civil War Monuments

September 25, 2017

Supreme Court Hall

Politics

BU to Supreme Court: Kill Trump Travel Ban

September 19, 2017

Students

BU Leaders Oppose Trump Shutdown of DACA

September 5, 2017

Johnson, Morrison, Ryan, and Rosenbloom in group photo

Law

911 Call on the Opioid Crisis

July 28, 2017

Supreme Court building

Global

Supreme Court Travel Ban Review Shouldn’t Affect Students, Staff

June 27, 2017

hospital beds

Healthcare

POV: Senate Republicans’ Health Care Reform Bill Will Hurt Millions

June 27, 2017

Hot sun burns behind electricity power lines

Climate Change

The High Cost of Summer Energy Price Spikes

June 16, 2017

Donald Trump makes and announcement in the White House Rose Garden that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accord

Earth

The Fallout from Trump’s Paris Accord Withdrawal

June 7, 2017

Captiol Building

Research

Congress Resists Research Cuts

June 6, 2017

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Business & Law

POV: Now Is Not the Time to Cut Funding for Public Broadcasting

May 17, 2017

Joseph Wippl, a Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and College of Arts & Sciences professor of the practice of international relations

Global

Election Meddling, by Russia and by US, Is an Old Game

May 3, 2017

Wall Street bull statue

Economy

POV: Trump’s Gutting Financial Regulation Misses Big Problem

May 2, 2017

Miguel Fraga, first secretary of the Cuban Embassy

Science & Technology

Time to Lift the Embargo, Cuban Diplomat Tells Pardee Audience

May 1, 2017

Terrorism expert Jessica Stern, research professor at Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies

Science & Technology

Why Terrorists Kill

April 24, 2017

coal

Science & Technology

POV: Uniting against Executive Order on the Clean Power Plan

April 5, 2017

Poster for COM Media Literacy Initiative

Business & Law

Can You Tell Real News from Fake News, Propaganda, Lies?

April 5, 2017

Attorneys for the ACLU, Omar Jadwat(L) and Justin Cox(R) listen as Becca Heller(C) from IRAP, the International Refugee Assistance Project,delivers remarks to the media outside US District Court, Southern District of Maryland, March 15, 2017, in Greenbelt, Maryland, where a judge heard their challenges to US President Trump's Executive Order travel ban

Global

BU Supports Second Lawsuit against Trump Travel Ban

April 3, 2017

President Trump discusses the Federal budget in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. OMB director Mick Mulvaney sits to the President's right and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin sits to his left.

Funding

BU Faculty Looks Warily at Trump’s Proposed Budget

March 21, 2017

BU Faculty Looks Warily at Trump’s Proposed Budget