Opinion

OPINION: Defending Affirmative Action

It’s not about diversity — it’s about remedy

OPINION: What Does It Mean When We Say #MeToo?

Race, class, gender intersect to make some people more vulnerable to sexual assault

By Catherine Connell | Boston University

OPINION: Trump’s Opioid Efforts Don’t Go Far Enough

Additional resources are needed to fight the epidemic, write three medical professors

FDA’s Plan to Delay New Food Label Is Misguided

The move will postpone opportunity for consumers to improve their diets, says BU nutritionist

Charles Manson and the perversion of the American dream

Fame — more than art, more than religion, more than money — motivated Manson as he careened from prison, to musician, to murder

OPINION: Get ICE Agents Out of Courthouses

Trump’s new enforcement efforts “run afoul of the Constitution,” writes immigration law scholar

Oprah Winfrey and the Oval Office: Is political experience necessary anymore?

BU political scientist Virginia Sapiro reasons that all presidents face a steep learning curve, governmental knowledge or not

Is species richness increasing?: An intense ecological debate

Scientists explain the complexities behind a controversy that has plagued the biology and ecology communities for decades

Can scientists learn to make ‘nature forecasts’ just as we forecast the weather?

Environmental scientist Michael Dietze argues for ecological forecasting