Boston University

Politics

Boston University BU, professor of international relations Husain Haqqani, former Ambassador of Pakistan to Sri Lanka, author Magnificant Delusions

Politics

BU’s Haqqani Probes Rocky US-Pakistan Alliance

February 3, 2014

Boston University BU, student opinion YouSpeak, winter Olympic games Sochi Russia, Gay Rights Protests

Politics

YouSpeak: Are You Planning to Watch the Winter Olympics?

February 3, 2014

Boston University BU, alumni journalist Thomas B. Edsall, political reporter Washington Post, New York Times opinion columnist

Politics

Reflecting on a 40-Plus-Year Career Covering Politics

January 29, 2014

Qais Akbar Omar, A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story book, Afghanistan, Taliban

Arts & Culture

Carpet Seller, Storyteller

January 16, 2014

Dan McGrail, Sam Miller, Fabian Chang, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP, Boston University School of Medicine, MED, SNAP Challenge

Health & Medicine

SNAP Judgment

January 14, 2014

United Nations, UN, Arms Trade Treaty, international arms trade, international conventional weapons trade

Voices & Opinion

POV: To Stop Bad Guys, Ratify the UN Arms Trade Treaty

January 14, 2014

Boston University BU, President Robert A. Brown, proposed boycott Israeli academic institutions, Palestinian conflict, American Studies Association ASA

Robert Brown

Brown Rejects Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions

December 23, 2013

gun law reform protest, anniversary of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Newtown Connecticut, David Schonfeld, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, at Drexel University College of Medicine, National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement

Public Safety

POV: After Sandy Hook’s Wake-Up Call, Did We Hit the Snooze Button?

December 13, 2013

Boston University BU, Iranian nuclear weapons missile deal, Islamic Republic of Iran nuclear program, POV opinion, College of Arts and Sciences CAS, professor of international relations former US ambassador to Lesotho professor Robert Loftis, Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif

Politics

POV: Iran Nuclear Accord Is a Good Deal

December 9, 2013

Boston University BU, point of view, opinion, American decline exceptionalism

Politics

POV: What’s So Exceptional about America?

November 25, 2013

Boston University BU, point of view, opinion editorial, JFK, John F Kennedy, kennedy assassination 50 anniversary, gun control

Science & Technology

POV: 50 Years after Dallas, It’s Time for Gun Control

November 22, 2013

Robert A. Brown, Thomas M. Menino, Boston University Initiative on Cities IoC, Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future

In the City

Menino Lands at BU

November 13, 2013

Israeli West Bank Barrier, Palestine, Jerusalem, Israeli Palestinian conflict

Global

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

November 12, 2013

Neta Crawford, United States military, collateral damage

Politics

POV: US Military’s Plummeting Collateral Damage

November 11, 2013

Raj Mohanty, Professor of Physics, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences CAS, Avrum Spira, Boston University School of Medicine, James Collins, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, professor of biomedical engineering, College of Engineering, ENG

Faculty

Science Coalition Report: Federal Funding Critical in Supporting New Technologies

October 30, 2013

Boston University BU, US Capitol Hill, Government Shutdown, research funding cuts

Politics

Federal Shutdown Shuts Down Some BU Research

October 16, 2013

Boston University BU, opinion, Nuclear Armament, Neal Leavitt, College of General Studies CGS humanities lecturer

Voices & Opinion

POV: Nuclear Armament Is a Lose/Lose

October 9, 2013

Boston University BU, Point of View POV opinion, opposition to Obamacare maddening, School of Management Stephen Davidson, Affordable Care Act

Health & Medicine

POV: Opposition to Obamacare Is Maddening

October 4, 2013

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), food stamps, federal benefit cuts

Public Health

POV: Starving Out Food Stamps

September 24, 2013

legality of United States US domestic surveillance programs, PRISM, US domestic surveillance program, Edward Snowden, United States National Security Agency NSA, Joseph Wippl, Professor of International Relations, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences CAS

Faculty

POV: The Legality of the Government’s Surveillance Programs

September 18, 2013

POV: The Legality of the Government’s Surveillance Programs