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English professor Dan Chiasson writes the Globe Magazine cover story about Bernie Sanders: “As a teen growing up in Burlington, Vt., I witnessed one of the unlikeliest rises in politics.”

Many alum business leaders majored in economics, but Paula Johnson says just as many majored in political science, art history, Africana studies, East Asian languages, or women’s and gender studies.

In a “New York Times” opinion piece, Stacie Goddard, political science professor, and Abraham Newman, professor of international affairs at Georgetown, write about Trump’s “baffling foreign policy.”

The leading Colombian newspaper, “El Colombiano,” writes about American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau’s new book, “P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.”

Phillip Levine, professor of economics, writes in the “Chronicle of Higher Education” about the effects of another year of Trump on college finances.

On January 19, World of Wellesley’s 26th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day program explored King’s legacy through the wilderness adventures of J. R. Harris, an 81-year-old explorer.

A “New Yorker” review of English professor Dan Chiasson’s new book, “Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician and the Transformation of One American Place,” calls it “revelatory.”

Single women see IVF as a Plan B when they are ready to be moms, says Rosanna Hertz, sociology professor and author of “Single By Chance, Mothers by Choice.”

In writing about the looting of U.S. foreign policy, Paul Krugman references a new paper on neo-royalism and the Trump administration co-authored by political scientist Stacie Goddard.