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George Annas, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Boston University School of Public Health SPH, ethics, public health ethics, Ebola virus, ZMAPP, ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, how to treat Ebola virus

Global Health

Battling Ebola: The Ethical Issues

August 13, 2014

Boston University BU, opinion editorial op ed, point of view pov, MH17 plane crash, Ukraine

Science & Technology

POV: Where Is Europe While Ukraine Burns?

July 24, 2014

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

Science & Technology

SMG Prof Confirmed for Department of Labor Position

July 8, 2014

Boston University BU, opinion column, point of view pov, planned parenthood health clinics, supreme court decision, buffer zone, womens rights

Politics

POV: Why Supreme Court’s “Buffer Zone” Decision Is Wrong

July 2, 2014

Andrew Bacevich, international relations expert, professor of international relations, Boston University

Faculty

Good-bye, Professor Bacevich

June 23, 2014

minimum wage, federal minimum wage, livable minimum wage

Business & Law

POV: Raise the Minimum Wage, but Don’t Expect Much

May 12, 2014

Lyndon B Johnson, LBJ, War on Poverty, 50th Anniversary of the War on Poverty, Economic Opportunity Act, EOA, poverty in the united states of america, homeless in the united states of america, homelessness in the united states of america

Politics

POV: LBJ’s War on Poverty 50 Years Later

April 29, 2014

Boston University BU, Marty Walsh, Boston mayor politics, point of view pov opinion editorial

Local

POV: Memo to Boston’s Mayor on How to Fight Inequality

April 23, 2014

Boston University BU, United States US demogratic senator Elizabeth Warren, education loan reform, academic research funding

University News

Elizabeth Warren Calls for More Federal Research Money

April 16, 2014

Boston University BU, College of Arts and Sciences CAS, author Political scientist Thomas Berger, War, Guilt, and World Politics after World War II

Science & Technology

When Nations Should, and Shouldn’t, Apologize

April 4, 2014

A Revolutionary Moment: Women’s Liberation in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s, Boston University women's onference

Science & Technology

Reliving a Pivotal Decade in Women’s Liberation

March 27, 2014

former mayor Thomas Menino, funeral procession route, Boston, Commonwealth Ave, Fenway Park

Politics

Former Mayor Menino Diagnosed with Cancer

March 17, 2014

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Secretary of State John Kerry, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo ABE, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Fumio KISHIDA, and Minister of Defense tsunori ONODERA

Global

POV: Obama’s Asian Pivot in Peril?

March 11, 2014

Ukraine, Crimea, Crimean War, Russian Occupation

Politics

Whither Ukraine?

March 6, 2014

Boston Unversity BU, Point of View POV, opinion column, Arizona, Governor Janice Jan Brewer. proposition 102, discrimination, anti-gay, business discrimination

Law

POV: Religion Cannot Excuse Discrimination

March 4, 2014

Boston University BU, Andrew Bacevich, military spending decrease, smaller military defense budget

Politics

What Will a Leaner Military Mean?

March 3, 2014

Boston University BU, College of Arts and Sciences CAS, political science, professor Cathie Jo Martin, congressional gridlock negotiation

Science & Technology

Could More Backroom Deal-Making Save Congress?

February 26, 2014

Boston University BU, opinion column, Point of View POV, Ukraine Kiev protests, Sochi winter olympics, Valdimir Putin, political protests

Science & Technology

POV: Sochi, with a Side Trip to Kiev

February 25, 2014

Boston University BU, College of Arts and Sciences CAS, associate professor Claudia Olivetti, exonomics, business, women professional mothers influence daughters

Science & Technology

Like Mother, Like Daughter

February 24, 2014

faith based schools, rights, right to enforce faith based beliefs

LGBTQ+

POV: Why Catholic Schools Have the Right to Fire Married Gay Staff

February 5, 2014

POV: Why Catholic Schools Have the Right to Fire Married Gay Staff