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American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau told La Tercera that while Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show doesn’t change societal inequalities, it brought the situation in Puerto Rico to the forefront.

Economics professor Phillip Levine tells the Boston Globe that only four New England schools’ endowment performance beat the S&P 500, which grew more than 16% in 2025.

Wellesley Centers for Women senior research scientist Linda Charmaraman talks to PBS about a three-year study that found social media use did not predict teens’ anxiety or depression.

Heather Bryant, associate teaching professor in writing, on meeting her biological father: “After a lifetime of feeling a secret was being kept from me, I met the man who could tell me the truth.”

Petra Rivera-Rideau co-writes an essay for the New York Times about Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl: “[H]is performance was unapologetically political. And you know what? It was a party, too.”

American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau and Loyola Marymount University professor Vanessa Díaz write in Rolling Stone about the symbols and meanings in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show.

The Washington Post has created a database of colleges that offer free tuition. Wellesley is one of them.

Kate Price, associate research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women, writes for The Conversation about how the law can add to child sex trafficking victims’ existing trauma.

Bad Bunny, resistance, and the Super Bowl halftime show: American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau appears on NPR’s Code Switch.