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A Cinnabon worker was fired for a racist slur; her supporters have raised $130,000. Political scientist Jennifer Chudy said fundraising efforts like these reflect how “political winds have changed.”

Stacie Goddard, Betty Freyhof Johnson ’44 Professor of Political Science, and her co-author write in a new paper that Trump’s affinity for Middle Eastern “strong men” is an example of “neo-royalism.”

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Associate Professor of Music Reinaldo Moya’s tribute to his brother that doubles as a musical essay on grief made the Washington Post’s best of 2025 classical music list.

International Relations-Political Science major Zoe Terry ’28 is CEO and founder of Zoe’s Dolls, a nonprofit that gives dolls of color to Black and brown girls. She recently hosted a doll giveaway.

Ismar Volić and Andy Schultz, math professors at Wellesley, and David McCune, a math professor at William Jewell College, say ranked choice voting outperforms the winner-take-all system.

The Globe reports some women’s colleges are thriving, and producing successful, generous alums. “[I]t becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy,” says economist Phillip Levine. “Success begets success.”

In “How to Be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins,” philosophy professor Helena de Bres explores the nature of self, free will, and what she describes as the “special freakishness” of twins.