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Renée Loth

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Welcome to the world of influencer media

We are in an antiestablishment, almost countercultural era, marked by rejection of traditional institutions and a breakdown of trust in expertise. Why...

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Renée Loth

Your results may vary: the trouble with polls (again)

After nearly a century of missed calls, flawed methods, and mea culpas, why follow presidential polls at all?

01.11.2024 30

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A prescient report on where America went wrong on economic equality

Many of the inequities that Donald Barlett and James Steele highlighted in 1991 have only gotten worse.

18.10.2024 10

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Despite GOP claims, noncitizens aren’t voting

No offense to Harris or Trump, but why exactly would undocumented immigrants expose themselves to fines, imprisonment, and deportation just to cast a...

04.10.2024 10

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Getting growth right in Fort Point

Gillette’s relocation opens up possibilities for the area.

20.09.2024 10

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The fifth season is upon us, but I am resisting its call

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...

29.08.2024 20

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The power of Harris’s ‘we’re not going back’

The slogan orients the Harris campaign to the future, in contrast to Donald Trump’s “Make America great again,” with its bitter nostalgia for...

21.08.2024 10

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The side benefits to our new day in politics

If the new day in US politics hasn’t rekindled pride in our system, at the very least it has rekindled buzz.

07.08.2024 6

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Boston’s chief of planning Arthur Jemison departs with a brief but meaningful legacy

He has worked to reassure businesses and community groups alike that Mayor Michelle Wu’s pledge to ‘abolish’ the quasi-independent BPDA and...

01.08.2024 10

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Living without air conditioning: The heat is on

I’m a soldier in the climate wars, cranky and enervated.

24.07.2024 4

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Paris goes for the gold in making the city more sustainable

The City of Light has ambitious plans for life after the Olympics.

27.06.2024 10

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A new plot for America

The 1936 play “It Can’t Happen Here” is adapted for our times.

14.06.2024 10

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Florida, the new nanny state

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...

03.06.2024 20

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The much-published letter writer David English extols his craft

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.

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In Somerville, guaranteed basic income provides a safety net

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...

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Friends of the Public Garden: ‘We are a democracy in trees and dirt’

Boston’s parks create space for people of all types to get out of their pixelated bubbles and, simply, be together.

19.04.2024 10

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Taking stock of Truth Social

Several investment experts say Trump’s IPO is little more than a Ponzi scheme with a gloss of Wall Street legitimacy.

03.04.2024 100

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Another reason to end capital punishment

This country’s insistence on capital punishment poisons international treaties and agreements, complicates diplomacy, and limits America’s ability...

21.03.2024 60

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The threat of theocracy in the United States

Is it time to move on from the threat to America posed by autocracy and start taking seriously the threat of theocracy?

07.03.2024 60

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Will ‘The Holdovers’ return us to a time when exalted public school buildings were valued?

Fairhaven High School, the 1906 building in this South Coast town of 15,000, shines in the Oscar-nominated film.

26.02.2024 10

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A call for Americans to share their COVID-19 memories and experiences

The Library of Congress has launched a COVID-19 oral history project to preserve the experiences ordinary Americans had during the pandemic.

10.02.2024 10

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Letter from Ecuador: We flew into a national emergency

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...

31.01.2024 30

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For Trump, every day is Opposite Day

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...

11.01.2024 6

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Nikki Haley, a she-wolf in moderate’s clothing. But Trump is worse.

It may feel like an act of desperation, but these are desperate times.

28.12.2023 10

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The trouble with Effective Altruism

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,...

18.12.2023 7

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