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Imagination is a fundamental tool for everyday life. Unsurprisingly, many kids harness it during athletic play, conjuring a fun teammate, a supportive coach or a worthy opponent, says Tracy Gleason.

In Kufre n’ Quay by playwright Mfoniso Udofia ’06, characters from various backgrounds must work to come closer together instead of further apart. Boston Arts Academy put on the show’s world premiere.

“Anyone who cares about… fairness, representation, or competitiveness in our democracy would think it’s terrible that the President is so open about it,” says Ismar Volic. “But it’s not illegal.”

Bad Bunny Syllabus co-founder Petra Rivera-Rideau was featured in Argentina’s major newspaper about “the Puerto Rican who turned reggaeton into a political manifesto and even a university lecture.”

Wellesley Centers for Women associate research scientist Kate Price’s book was included on The Washington Post's list of ten noteworthy books for July and August.

The real story from the NYC mayoral primary isn’t Mamdani’s victory, but voters’ response to a different way of voting, writes Ismar Volić, director of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy.

Wellesley professor Chipo Dendere and University of Oxford professor Miles Tendi analyze the state of democracy in Zimbabwe and, in particular, the Western responses reacted to the 2017 military coup.

Petra Rivera-Rideau, who codeveloped and teaches a course on Bad Bunny, says she is impressed how the artist continues to center and advocate for Puerto Rico. “He doesn’t have to do this,” she said.

Levi Mngomezulu, 11, makes his professional debut in ‘Kufre N’ Quay’, a play about a Nigerian boy navigating life in New York, written by Mfoniso Udofia ’06 as part of her nine-play UFOT Family Cycle.