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We are in an antiestablishment, almost countercultural era, marked by rejection of traditional institutions and a breakdown of trust in expertise. Why...
After nearly a century of missed calls, flawed methods, and mea culpas, why follow presidential polls at all?
Many of the inequities that Donald Barlett and James Steele highlighted in 1991 have only gotten worse.
No offense to Harris or Trump, but why exactly would undocumented immigrants expose themselves to fines, imprisonment, and deportation just to cast a...
Gillette’s relocation opens up possibilities for the area.
I don’t want to prepare for the changes ahead with still more self-improvement regimens. I want that last unproductive moment when I am on the porch...
The slogan orients the Harris campaign to the future, in contrast to Donald Trump’s “Make America great again,” with its bitter nostalgia for...
If the new day in US politics hasn’t rekindled pride in our system, at the very least it has rekindled buzz.
He has worked to reassure businesses and community groups alike that Mayor Michelle Wu’s pledge to ‘abolish’ the quasi-independent BPDA and...
I’m a soldier in the climate wars, cranky and enervated.
The City of Light has ambitious plans for life after the Olympics.
The 1936 play “It Can’t Happen Here” is adapted for our times.
For a guy who crusades against nanny-state overreach, Governor Ron DeSantis is doing an awful lot of finger-wagging lately about other people’s...
I often worry that writing letters of all kinds is a dying art form. But then I meet someone like David English, and I go find a stamp.
The city will join a coalition of cities experimenting with a guaranteed basic income by giving 200 families at risk of homelessness $750 a month for...
Boston’s parks create space for people of all types to get out of their pixelated bubbles and, simply, be together.
Several investment experts say Trump’s IPO is little more than a Ponzi scheme with a gloss of Wall Street legitimacy.
This country’s insistence on capital punishment poisons international treaties and agreements, complicates diplomacy, and limits America’s ability...
Is it time to move on from the threat to America posed by autocracy and start taking seriously the threat of theocracy?
Fairhaven High School, the 1906 building in this South Coast town of 15,000, shines in the Oscar-nominated film.
The Library of Congress has launched a COVID-19 oral history project to preserve the experiences ordinary Americans had during the pandemic.
Is this a lesson — or preview? — in how a population can submit to authoritarian rule in the service of “order” so long as they’re not...
The way Trump plays the game, it’s an insidious manipulation of the truth, a way to project upon his opponents the most noxious qualities of his own...
It may feel like an act of desperation, but these are desperate times.
Unlike causes that tug at the heartstrings to make an appeal, EA looks only at the most efficient way to improve the world. It all makes perfect,...