I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT where to focus my work and energy in 2018. I participated in the Women’s March last month, and was energized by the massive coming together of […]
National Politics
Posted inGambling
A campaign that may be all about nuance
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE ON THE BANKS of the Mystic River, workers have been building a structure envisioned by Steve Wynn, the casino magnate who recently relinquished control of his […]
Posted inOpinion
Baby boomers need to let go
ALMOST A DECADE AGO, a small group of civic leaders in business, government, labor, and academia decided to organize an intimate retreat, a mini Aspen or Renaissance weekend, called the […]
Posted inOpinion
A Dreamer about to graduate – now what?
THIS IS THE MOMENT I’ve been waiting for. I’m finally in my senior year at Lesley University, majoring in business management and minoring in communications, and my future is ahead […]
Posted inPolitics
Trump in charge of Warren’s baby
THE TUSSLE OVER Richard Cordray’s successor as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau underscored a new reality for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The agency she created, which was by […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Politics
Confusion reigns in states with legal pot
THE ONE THING that is certain with the change in enforcement of federal marijuana laws is that there will be no uniform approach to enforcement by US attorneys in states […]
Posted inThe Download
Did GOP strengthen Affordable Care Act?
Along with celebrating a major revamp of tax rates — which will generate a windfall for lots of companies and wealthy individuals like himself — President Trump is crowing about […]
Posted inThe Download
Is it time to talk about gun violence?
When Adam Lanza, an anti-social misanthrope who shot and killed his mother in Newtown, Connecticut, and then took her gun arsenal and slaughtered 20 six- and seven-year-olds and a half-dozen […]
Posted inThe Download
No Moore
Even for deepest red Alabama, it proved to be a molestation bridge too far. If Roy Moore couldn’t be trusted at the local mall, voters concluded, the US Senate might […]
Posted inPolitics
Baker said he backs the Dem in Alabama
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE GOV. CHARLIE BAKER said he supports the Democrat running for US Senate in Alabama against Roy Moore, the controversial Republican who has been dogged by multiple […]
Posted inThe Download
Post turns tables on O’Keefe
James O’Keefe, known for his no-holds-barred undercover video stings, had the tables turned on him by the Washington Post. The Post lays out a great yarn about a woman who […]
Posted inPolitics
Calling the question on guns
A week after a gunman mowed down 25 members of the First Baptist Church in Sutherland, Texas, worshippers from the church gathered yesterday for Sunday services — this time in […]
Posted inThe Download
Does GOP infighting matter?
Republicans in Washington are eating their own. US Sens. Jeff Flake and Bob Corker, on their way out the door, have unleashed themselves to attack President Trump and his […]
Posted inThe Download
No laughing matter
Nothing is more responsible for televisions in bedrooms than late-night talk shows and the comedians who hosted the programs that generations of Americans tuned into at the end of a […]
Posted inThe Download
What front pages say
The shootings in Las Vegas dominated the nation’s news coverage Tuesday morning, but the front pages of newspaper print editions showed some different points of emphasis. Most of the front […]
Posted inHealth Care
Graham-Cassidy would be devastating for Mass.
CHUCK IS A 58-YEAR-OLD MALE with multiple chronic physical and mental health conditions, including diabetes, congestive heart failure, kidney disease, and depression. On top of his urgent medical needs – […]
Posted inThe Download
Chasing health care’s ‘big white whale’
As Margot Sanger-Katz wrote in the New York Times on Monday, Democrats “giddy” from their recent health victory were ready to reach for the big prize — a single-payer health […]
Posted inPolitics
NH voter fraud claims baffle Mass. officials
AT A MEETING of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity on Tuesday, New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner dismissed assertions by commission vice chair Kris Kobach that widespread […]
Posted inThe Download
Trump’s DACA dodge
So solving one important part of the immigration reform puzzle is now all up to a Congress that hasn’t been able to organize a two-car funeral. Trying to appease his […]
Posted inEnvironment
Monument tradeoffs are necessary
CAN ANYONE REALLY SAY why there is such an outcry about the establishment of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument? It is doubtful that a majority of those […]
Posted inThe Download
Perchance to dream
College campuses are anxiously waiting for President Trump’s decision on whether to dismantle or even substantially change the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. DACA was an executive order from then-President […]
Posted inPolitics
Was Boston Common rally really about white supremacy?
THE 40,000 PROTESTERS who showed up at Boston Common on Saturday had nothing to protest because the free speech rally was focused on free speech and not white supremacy or […]
Posted inPolitics
‘This ain’t Charlottesville’
This story was updated at 5:15 p.m. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS converged on Boston Common Saturday to chant, wave signs, and boo about 50 people holding what they described […]
Posted inOpinion
On immigration, Baker follows Trump playbook
ON JULY 24, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued its decision in the case of Lunn v. Commonwealth, holding that Massachusetts law enforcement officers lack authority to hold individuals on […]