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Emerson College’s only independent, student-run newspaper since 1947

The Berkeley Beacon

Emerson College’s only independent, student-run newspaper since 1947

The Berkeley Beacon

Illustration Rachel Choi

Trump thinks drag performers target youths. He’s the real threat.

By Charlie Desjardins, Beacon Contributor / 21 hours ago

Ben Folds, a masterful pianist and singer-songwriter, has soundtracked my life with his acerbic wit and penchant for singing about losers.  As I’ve...

Illustration Rachel Choi

As international students, we’re living in limbo

By Ella Duggan and Josie Arteaga / 23 hours ago

While most students were out buying last-minute flowers and CVS chocolates for their Valentines last week, international students at Emerson were making...

Illustration Rachel Choi

Trump’s immigration policies towards non-white groups spike anxiety

By Ari Mei-Dan, Staff Photographer / February 5, 2025

Being an immigrant under President Donald Trump’s new term has sparked complicated emotions for me, ranging from anger to deep concern. As I begin to...

Illustration Rachel Choi

The blue-collar burden of paying for a Trump economy

By Tess Gleason, Beacon Contributor / January 22, 2025

As the daughter of a blue-collar family from the predominantly lower-middle-class village of Waterford, New York, I’ve shared economic concerns with...

The Delta Youth Chorale group from West Monroe, Louisiana, singing to the crowd of Trump supporters in front of the U.S. Capitol on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Nick Peace/Beacon Staff)

As It Happened: Trump moves into White House, signs first executive orders

After a freezing cold Inauguration Day in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden participated in a peaceful transfer of power that, four years earlier, the 47th president subverted.
Illustration Kellyn Taylor

Letter from the editors: living in Trump’s America

By Merritt Hughes and Ella Duggan / November 7, 2024
Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States. What comes next?
Boston, MA: December 8, 2021 – 2B Alley in the snow.

No neutrality in a fist fight

By Peter Medeiros, Guest Author / November 7, 2024

As a martial arts instructor, one question I get is: When is it okay to fight?  There is a legal answer to that, but the real question I hear is:...

Graphic Rachel Choi

Anger, fear, betrayal: how do people feel about Trump’s win?

By Ella Duggan, Opinion Editor / November 7, 2024

At a time like this, words are hard to find. Grief and loss are such personal subjects, and to many of us, that’s what this is: grieving our hope for...

Illustration Rachel Choi

Trump won: America and the future of journalism may have lost

By Merritt Hughes, Dept. Campus Editor / November 7, 2024

My friend woke me up Wednesday at 5:45 a.m. I knew from her face that Kamala Harris lost the election before I could even check my phone for the time,...

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance addresses journalists in the spin room after the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in Philadelphia on September 10, 2024 (Bryan Hecht / Beacon Staff)

Trump is not the scariest candidate on the ballot: Vance is

By Ella Duggan, Opinion Editor / October 30, 2024
If I saw JD Vance on the street, I wouldn’t cower. I wouldn’t avert my eyes, and I certainly wouldn’t step out of his way. But rest assured, I am afraid of Vance.
Illustration by Kellyn Taylor.

Donald Trump was just indicted. Now what?

By Meg Richards, Managing Editor / April 5, 2023

Former Pres. Donald Trump has been indicted by a New York grand jury for using campaign funds to pay off adult film star Stormy Daniels and two other women...

Illustration by Rachel Choi

One step forward, two steps back: immigration policies in the United States

By Rachel Choi, Multimedia Managing Editor & Chief Copyeditor / March 8, 2023

It’s been three years since former President Donald Trump was in office, but it seems his presence refuses to leave the room.  On Feb. 21, the Biden...

The madness over McCarthy could help the Democrats in 2024

The madness over McCarthy could help the Democrats in 2024

By Meg Richards, Managing Editor / January 25, 2023

After a week of humiliating deliberations, phone calls to “DT”, and a near-miss physical altercation on the House floor, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)...

OISA Director Andrea Popa

International students relieved by reversal of Trump-era visa policy

By Camilo Fonseca, Editor-at-large / September 9, 2021

Much of Emerson’s international student community is breathing a sigh of relief after a Trump administration rule that would have limited the amount...

Joseph R. Biden is 46th President of the United States.

We ‘settled for Biden,’ but our work has only begun

By Editorial Board / January 21, 2021

We can all breathe a sigh of relief after President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday. The tumultuous years of former president Donald Trump’s...

Emerson community relieved by Biden inauguration

Emerson community relieved by Biden inauguration

By Dana Gerber, Ann E. Matica, Alec Klusza and Frankie Rowley / January 20, 2021

After 1,462 days of one of the most contentious presidential administrations to date, the sun broke out in Washington D.C. on Wednesday as Joseph R. Biden...

Belichick declining the Presidential Medal of Freedom is the right play call

Belichick declining the Presidential Medal of Freedom is the right play call

By Brendan Beauregard, Assistant Sports Editor / January 18, 2021

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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

The Capitol attack that could have been prevented

By Shannon Garrido, Editor-in-chief / January 9, 2021

On the day Congress met to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over incumbent President Donald Trump, a violent mob of pro-Trump insurrectionists...

Boston Mayer Martin J. Walsh.

Walsh calls for Trump to “be removed from office”

By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor / January 7, 2021

Mayor Martin J. Walsh said President Donald J. Trump should be removed from office following the armed insurrection of the U.S. Capitol Building Wednesday.  “I...

President M. Lee Pelton responds to community unrest following COVID-19 pandemic.

President Pelton condemns capitol siege in letter

By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor / January 6, 2021

President M. Lee Pelton condemned Wednesday’s siege of the United States Capitol building, a last-ditch effort by Trump loyalists to overturn the results...