The risks are serious, but focusing only on artificial intelligence misinformation threatens to overtake conversations about where AI has been most impactful as a mass communication tool.
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Mass. delegates explain why they’re backing Biden in new survey
While President Biden faces unprecedented calls from within his party to step down as the Democratic nominee, members of the Massachusetts delegation who are headed to the national convention in Chicago appear largely supportive of Biden staying at the top of the ticket, according to a new survey.
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Marty Walsh, Biden’s former labor chief and ex-mayor, gets married
Walsh and Lorrie Higgins, who have been together for about two decades, quietly married in March, almost a year after he left public service for the private sector, according to their marriage certificate. A local justice of the peace performed the ceremony.
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Richie Neal wants to make a deal
The ethos of compromise has been Neal’s guiding light over four decades in politics. In today’s hyper partisan climate, it’s often reviled as a sign of weakness.
Posted inEconomy, Health Care
Baker suggests he may lift emergency COVID order August 1
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER suggested for the first time Monday that he may lift the COVID-19 state of emergency at the same time as he allows businesses to fully reopen, which is now scheduled for August 1. Baker […]
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Biden taps Boston Mayor Marty Walsh for labor secretary
PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN has tapped Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to serve as his labor secretary, a move that would elevate the former union leader to a prominent national post and set in motion […]
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Can there be a DC return to ‘normality’?
MONDAY’S MEETING OF presidential electors in state capitols across the country is the kind of ritual that usually gets cursory news coverage, one of those quadrennial stories reported more as […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
What a Biden administration could mean for policing
LOOK FOR THE terms “procedural justice” and “police legitimacy” to re-enter the vocabulary of the West Wing. As the incoming Biden administration forms its policy on policing in the US, […]
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Trump made gains in urban areas of Mass.
VOTING TRENDS THAT showed shifts in heavily Hispanic communities in Massachusetts toward President Trump in this month’s election are also apparent in other urban areas, including huge swaths of Boston, […]
Posted inOpinion
Trump is biggest presidential loser since Hoover
DONALD TRUMP’S FAILURE to recognize his electoral defeat belies that he turned in the worst performance for an incumbent president with only one main opponent since Herbert Hoover. Trump was […]
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Mass GOP jumps on unfounded election ‘fraud’ bandwagon
“DEAD PEOPLE voted!” “In Wisconsin, a ‘glitch’ added over 100,000 votes to Biden’s tally in the dead of the night, and ZERO to any other candidate.” Tweets from President Trump? […]
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Biden trumps Trump
AFTER FOUR TUMULTUOUS years under Donald Trump that upended countless norms of the US presidency and four days of vote-counting that kept the country — and world — on edge, […]
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Race in doubt, polling in the cross hairs
WE DON’T KNOW who will win the presidential election, but it seems clear who is getting tagged with a big loss: pollsters. “We still don’t know much about this election […]
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Blue wave rolls across state
WITH AMERICANS CASTING ballots in an election unlike any other, Massachusetts residents voted in record numbers, with Democrats hoping that a blue wave washing over Bay State contests extends to […]
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Trump or Biden? Big impact looms on state budget, health care, immigration
AS VOTERS ACROSS the nation wait eagerly for the results of Tuesday’s presidential election, here in Massachusetts the race could have major trickle-down effects. In addition to the question […]
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Pence-Harris debate more traditional
THE MOST BUZZED-ABOUT moment in Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate came when a fly perched on Vice President Mike Pence’s head for over two minutes, during which he was calling […]
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The vote goes on
WHEN JOE BIDEN OFFERED REMARKS on his primary victory sweep last night via a shaky video live stream from his Delaware home that had Globe columnist Scot Lehigh wondering if it […]
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The vote goes on
When Joe Biden offered remarks on his primary victory sweep last night via a shaky video live stream from his Delaware home that had Globe columnist Scot Lehigh wondering if […]
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Biden surge swamps Warren in her home state
SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN lost her home state of Massachusetts in Tuesday’s presidential primary to former vice president Joe Biden, in a surprise victory for Biden and a devastating blow to […]
Posted inNews Analysis
Simplistic theories won’t beat Trump
THE DRIVING FORCE in the Democratic presidential contest is the near-obsession of many voters with choosing a candidate who can beat Donald Trump. Nearly two-thirds of voters (63 percent) in […]
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Joe “One-Term” Biden for president?
Someone has finally taken on the elephant in the room looming over the campaign of Joe Biden, who has managed to be the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination and […]
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Joe “One-Term” Biden for president?
SOMEONE has finally taken on the elephant in the room looming over the campaign of Joe Biden, who has managed to be the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination and […]
Posted inHealth Care
Mass. voters offer Warren a warning on Medicare for All
AS MASSACHUSETTS Sen. Senator Elizabeth Warren joins Joe Biden atop the Democratic primary field, her rivals have sharpened their attacks on her positions, most notably around her support for Senator […]
Posted inHealth Care
Biden, other pols rally around Stop & Shop workers
FORMER VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN got national media attention on Thursday when he spoke at a rally of striking Stop & Shop workers, saying, “This is wrong. This is morally […]