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"On January 1, 2024, Prime Min­ister Keith Rowley offered a disappointing New Year’s greeting to his nation. It is as though he were speaking about another country at another moment," writes professor Selwyn Cudjoe for the Trinidad Daily Express.

The war in Ukraine has again entered a new phase. With neither side believing that it can make significant territorial gains, the action has expanded beyond the front lines... The attacks are “an acknowledgment of the stalemate,” said Stacie Goddard, an international security expert at Wellesley College. “This is all they can do.”

In this episode of Converging Dialogues, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Wellesley College philosophy professor Helena de Bres about the philosophy of twins. They talk about why people are fascinated by twins, binarizing twins, definitions of selfhood, twins and individuality, and the extended mind. They also talk about twins and love, twins and dating, what twins teach people about objectification, and many more topics.

DEAR WENDY, the forthcoming novel by Ann Zhao '24, has been named one of the Geek Girl Authority’s 10 Most Anticipated Debut Books of 2024. 

A panel of local historians joins Radio Boston to look back on 2023 and tell us what lessons they want taken into 2024. The panel includes Wellesley College professor Kellie Carter Jackson and David Gergen, a former White House adviser to four U.S. presidents and founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Professor Selwyn Cudjoe writes for the Trindad Daily Express: "On Saturday of last weekend, I drove from Boston to Harlem to hear my daughter’s sermon at Rev Al Sharpton’s Action Network Committee (ANC) located on West 145th Street. Her sermon, 'A Visit from Your Future,' traced “the life of a wealthy and ruthless businessman named Ebenezer Scrooge, the major character of Charles Dickens’ novella, A Christmas Carol."

Childhood brain development may be driven in part by the trillions of bacteria that live inside our guts, new research has found. This research was conducted in Wellesley biology professor Vanja Klepac-Ceraj's lab; senior research scientist Kevin Bonham is interviewed in this story.

Black and Latino kids use social media differently from white kids, says Linda Charmaraman, director of the Youth, Media and Wellbeing Research Lab at Wellesley Centers for Women: “It’s culturally more acceptable in youth of color households to use technology for social and academic reasons compared with white households,” Charmaraman said. “Parents don’t worry as much about it. There isn’t as much shame around it.”

Afghan girls face educational barriers with the Taliban. Pashtana Durrani, a visiting fellow at the Wellesley Centers for Women, defies this by operating a covert school, nurturing their unyielding thirst for knowledge. She fights for a brighter future.