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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.

After losing her Altadena home to wildfire, Lynn Sternberger ’07 reflects on loss, accountability, and what it means to rebuild a community.

In the College’s new Narrative Lab, students look deeply into how narratives are constructed and the ways they create meaning.

As the College enters its sesquicentennial year, E.B. Bartels ’10 got to the bottom of some of Wellesley's most famous lore.

“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.