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The Boston Globe talks with Wellesley students and faculty about a course on “Bad Bunny: Race, Gender and Empire in Reggaeton.” It‘s more than a fan club!

Ismar Volić, professor of mathematics, discusses gerrymandering in the United States and voter-led efforts to redefine representative districts.

Professor emeritus Lawrence Rosenwald reviews James Marcus’s new biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson in the context of the wider canon of work about the great Transcendentalist.

“Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And” marks the first major career survey of the conceptual artist whose work challenges common understandings around gender, race, and class.

Mathematics professor Ismar Volic examines the flaws inherent in the Oscars’ voting system —and what that shows us about our political elections.

Macy Lipkin ’23 is a finalist in NPR’s 10 best college podcasts in America. The podcast follows a 2023 vote that is challenging oil exploration in the Amazon—and also threatening local people's jobs.

History has been “used to legitimize the regime essentially since the beginning of Putin's rule,” says Cornille Professor Ivan Kurilla. With the war in Ukraine, it “finally took a central place in the state ideology.”

Implementing class-conscious admissions could protect racial diversity on college campuses, says Prof. Phillip Levine. But, unfortunately, this is easier said than done.

Activist Pashtana Durrani, scholar-in-residence at the Wellesley Centers for Women, runs underground schools in defiance of the Taliban’s education ban.