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Wellesley College ranks third in the Advocate’s list of 10 queer-friendly suburban and rural colleges.

Podcaster Paul Ndiho interviewed political scientist Chipo Dendere about the Zimbabwe Parliament’s debate regarding a constitutional amendment that would reorganize the government’s power structure.

A Tourist in My Own Country blog post talks about English professor Katharine Lee Bates, class of 1880, and the visit to Pikes Peak that inspired her to write “America the Beautiful.”

Economics professor Phillip Levine writes in an opinion piece for the Globe that more transparency about the cost of college could expand access and reduce confusion.

Jennifer M. Grossman, senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women, writes in the Conversation that dads today talk more freely with their teens about sex and relationships.

In the New York Times, economist Phillip Levine comments on a new study from Middlebury College about the connection between smart phones and declining fertility rates.

This summer, it’s Harvard vs. Harvard—still a point for Trump’s score card, economist Phillip Levine told the Boston Globe: “That’s what Trump thrives on: the ability to get people riled up.”

English professor Dan Chiasson writes in the New York Review of Books about why he is against AI: “My love for human language leads me to strongly oppose all attempts by machines to impersonate it.”

Wellesley College economics professor Phillip Levine—an expert in higher education finance—is making it easier for high school students and their families to understand college costs.