BUNS Podcast

BU News Service News Editor, Brooke Lewitas, speaks with Shannon and Bart about 2021 Boston Marathon coverage.

The season’s hotly debated beverage, the Pumpkin Spice Latte, makes an unavoidable guest appearance in coffee shops around the country. BU’s José López Ganem takes a sip into the fuss around it.

LISTEN: The road leading up to (and ahead) for Boston Marathon's 1st Oct. runners by BU News Service

Boston University News Service speaks to Chief Historian at the Massachusetts Historical Society Peter Drummey, BU Associate Professor of Political Science Katherine Levine Einstein, Associate Professor and chair of the department of political science and legal studies at Suffolk University Rachael Cobb and Professor and chair of Political Science at Northeastern University and editor of the American Politics Research journal Costas Panagopoulos to gather context for the November election. We asked them about the historic nature of the election, the factors that affected the primary, and what the candidates might focus on as Election Day approaches.

Bart Tocci and Shannon Sollitt discuss the disappearance and death of Gabby Petito, and what coverage of her story reveals about how we value missing women.

Shwetha Surendran and Shannon Iriarte recap the third race weekend of the young Formula 1 season and explain why we shouldn't take Lewis Hamilton for granted.

It has taken more than a century, but President Joe Biden on Saturday recognized as genocide the killing of an estimated 1.5 million Ottoman Armenians beginning in 1915. The first time an American President has made that declaration.

Why does it matter? WTBU reporter Iris Tao talked with Gayane Kaligian, a IR major at BU and a student activist speaking out about the Armenian genocide.

Political leaders in New York are calling for justice after an attack in Harlem against a 61-year-old Asian man, who is now in critical condition and fighting for his life. WTBU reporter Iris Tao is in New York with more.

With the school year winding down, most schools districts are looking ahead to the fall. WTBU reporter Maya Jones is in Maryland where The State Board of Education wants all schools to fully reopen for in-person instruction five days a week this fall.

In Myanmar, Over 700 civilians have been killed by the Myanmar military since the coup in February. Kaye Lin, a BU alum, has been living in Myanmar for the past four years as a communications consultant, and she still has family in the country.

She was in Myanmar for the duration of the coup until just last week when she returned to New York and is now able to speak freely about her situation there. WTBU Reporter Will Holmes has more.