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Liner Notes: Bastille escapes to dystopia on “Give Me the Future”

February 8, 2022

Every song on Bastille’s latest release, “Give Me the Future,” sounds the same, in the best way possible. The band’s fourth studio album, which dropped Friday, is musically and thematically...

Turkolmez: Literature is burning out with devastating consequences

May 10, 2018

It is becoming an unavoidable fact that people, especially teens and children, read less and less by the day. You could go to any bookstore from multi-franchise giant Barnes & Noble to indie Strand...

Roach: Reviving the linguistic legacy of the Civil Rights Act

April 16, 2014

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As we commemorate the breakthrough piece of legislation, it is worth asking what lessons we learned from it. When President Lyndon...

Petkov: Shutdown discussions focus on myths

October 7, 2013

When I was faced with the task of deciphering whether Obamacare was a good idea, and whether the shutdown it helped to precipitate was justified, my eyes glazed over immediately. Few health care systems...

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