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    2025.11.13 Linda Charmaraman on why kids rather talk to Chatbots Science News Explores

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    Why would 15% of kids rather talk to a chatbot than a person? Bots don’t judge, says Linda Charmaraman, director of the Youth, Media, & Wellbeing research lab: “They’re never mad at them or moody.”

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    2025.11.04 Tamanika Ferguson incarcerated people’s access to physical mail is vital Truthout

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    Tamanika Ferguson, visiting research scholar in women’s and gender studies, says protecting incarcerated people’s access to physical mail/inside-led print publishing is a feminist public safety issue.

  • Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones (left) in conversation with Brenna Greer, associate professor of history. They sit on a stage in Jewett Auditorium.
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    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones talks about history and journalism as part of the Jordan Lecture Series

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    First-generation students find camaraderie at Wellesley

  • Zohran Mamdani smiling & holding a birthday cake for himself surrounded by children and adults

    2025.11.06 Dan Chiasson thoughts on mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani New York Review of Books

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    “It was almost weird to walk around New York City and not run into him,” writes Dan Chiasson, Lorraine C. Wang Professor of English, of New York City’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

  • Journalist Arielle Mitropoulos listens to U.S. Rep. Emily Randall on stage.
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    Hillary Rodham Clinton Center for Citizenship, Leadership, and Democracy’s second annual summit focuses on building civic strength

  • Emily Wei Rales ’98 and Darren Walker sit on a stage and talk to each other.
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    This year’s Wilson Lecture featured the president of the Ford Foundation and the alumna who co-founded the contemporary art museum Glenstone

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    2025.10.30 Wendy Robeson from WCW says families moving away is bad from everyone The Boston Globe

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    “[Families] are going to go to other places where it’s not so expensive to live,” said Wendy Robeson, senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women, “and that’s bad for everybody.”