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Most American friendships happen between people with similar political beliefs, according to new research by professor Angela Bahns, director of the Prejudice Reduction and Friendship Diversity Lab.

Four Massachusetts elite liberal arts schools avoided a big Trump tax, and may have an unlikely ally to thank for it––Hillsdale College. “We dodged a bullet,” said economics professor Philip Levine.

“Time turns us all into conservationists,” the philosopher Erich Hatala Matthes observes. “If we want to save the things we cherish from time’s ravages, then we need to preserve them, conserve them.”

“Between the endowment tax and all the other policy changes … these institutions are going to have to cut something. It’s just too much money," economics professor Phillip Levine said.

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.