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Even if a withdrawal from relationships isn’t initially meant to be political, it can still become so, says Rosanna Hertz, sociologist and author of Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice. Many “single by chance” mothers as “reluctant revolutionaries.”

FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with professor emerita Katherine Moon about how South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol created the rhetoric of a national security crisis and has likely signalled his own downfall.

Political science and Asian studies professor emerita Katharine Moon weighs in on the South Korea’s parliament voting to overturn President Yoon Suk Yeol declaration of martial law.

“She was known as a very charming, witty, mischievous woman,” says Lisa Graham, music professor and director of the choral program, of Katherine Kennicott Davis, "The Little Drummer Boy" composer.

American studies professor Michael Jeffries on 100 years of James Baldwin: “He was unapologetic in talking about not only love, but also about violence. He refused to sanitize the violence in this country.”

For young queer pop fans, this summer was a dream come true. As Kaleb Goldschmitt, ethnomusicologist and popular-music scholar, says: “Boy, I wish I had something like that when I was young.”

Americans agree politics is broken − surveys show Americans do not believe the political system is serving them. Wellesley College professor Ismar Volić, a mathematician of democracy, highlights evidence-based changes that could improve matters without tearing the nation apart.

Phil Levine, a professor of economics at Wellesley College, said that the decreases in Indiana state aid are likely to be especially felt by lower-income students, who saw no substantial increases to their Pell awards with the changes to FAFSA. Meanwhile, the increases to Pell for middle-income students will essentially be canceled out by the proposed cuts.

“It’s OK to work for a dream, and it’s OK to cry and lament when that dream is deferred. But we never stop working toward a goal of justice and liberation,” writes Africana studies professor Kellie Carter Jackson about talking to her kids about the election.