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CAMBRIDGE — On the same night that a divided Congress saw a firebrand president draw raucous cheers from Republican lawmakers and stone-cold silence from their Democratic colleagues, a panel of five feminist activists held court at Harvard University's Kennedy School to discuss strategies for progressive activism. "I will
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CAMBRIDGE — Bobby Seale, the 1960s revolutionary civil rights activist, told a crowd that he believes recently-inaugurated President Donald Trump is far more dangerous to the social justice movement than former President Richard Nixon could have ever hoped to have been. "When I look at Trump today, I say '
Maura Healey
BOSTON — President Donald Trump's revocation of a set of public accommodations "guidelines" for how to treat transgender public school students enacted by former president Barack Obama's administration prompted howls of criticism this week, especially from Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. Healey on Thursday organized
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CAMBRIDGE — An unofficial kickoff to the 2018 Democratic gubernatorial primary season occurred in Cambridge on Thursday night, as a handful of Democrats who are seriously considering challenging Republican Governor Charlie Baker held court during a candidates' event. The event, sponsored by the Cambridge Democratic City Committee, saw four speakers
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Undercover conservative journalist James O'Keefe has made good on his promise to release secret recordings leaked to him by a source inside CNN's Atlanta headquarters. In what he described as a "WikiLeaks-type" release, O'Keefe uploaded 119 hours of raw audio footage that
Maura Healey
Her stardom may be on the rise nationally, but Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey insists she has no aspirations to challenge Governor Charlie Baker in 2018. "I'm giving you the same answer that I've given when asked — you know, as lawyers sometimes you get in
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Earlier this week, residents living along the eastern Connecticut and western Rhode Island shoreline — not to mention the eastern tip of Long Island — received a shot of panic when a sitting congressman took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to voice concerns over a Russian spy
Maura Healey
BOSTON — A trio of citizens looking to overturn the commonwealth's ban on personal stun guns is taking the state's most active and vocal firearms enforcement authority figure to federal court — Attorney General Maura Healey. In their lawsuit filed Wednesday, two Bay State residents and a self-defense