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The Washington Post has created a database of colleges that offer free tuition. Wellesley is one of them.

Kate Price, associate research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women, writes for The Conversation about how the law can add to child sex trafficking victims’ existing trauma.

Bad Bunny, resistance, and the Super Bowl halftime show: American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau appears on NPR’s Code Switch.

In a time of anti-immigrant rhetoric, said Petra Rivera-Rideau, American studies professor and co-author of a book about Bad Bunny, his presence “because of this political context, is a statement.”

American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau wrote the book on Bad Bunny. NPR’s A Martinez asks her what to expect from the Puerto Rican superstar at the Super Bowl this weekend.

Political scientists Stacie Goddard at Wellesley and Abraham L. Newman at Georgetown have written that the president’s policymaking most closely resembles that of 16th-century royal families.

In “P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance,” American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau and co-author Vanessa Díaz trace the star’s music and activism.

The reviewer calls “Bernie for Burlington” by English professor Dan Chiasson “a sprawling narrative epic, with three equally prominent protagonists”: Bernie, Chiasson, and Burlington itself.

Economics professor Phillip Levine says it can be politically difficult for universities to target specific Ph.D. programs rather than make across-the-board cuts.