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Boston’s Broadcast News Overload
Over twenty years ago, during a segment that always followed the introduction of his Sunday program This Week — in what must have…
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Can U2 Save America from Donald Trump?
Suit and tie comes up to me His face red Like a rose on a thorn bush Like all the colours of…
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Thank You for Being Late… Care to Dance in a Hurricane?
Gentle reader, if the feverish pace of change in technology, globalization and climate change both fascinates and frightens you, read Tom Friedman&…
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Baker’s precarious popularity
If Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker had to defend his incumbency in the cataclysmic election last week he likely would have lost. Baker…
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The complex Catholic vote
Much has been made over the failed prognostications by pundits and pollsters this past election at the presidential level. One particularly fascinating…
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An old-fashioned election in Maine, thankfully
"I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine." –Terry Goodkind, as quoted…
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Curt Schilling for Senate, seriously?
Tracing the "psychologies" and "pathologies" of this season's presidential election in her new book, The Year…
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The sound of defiance: U2 at 40
"I don't mean to sound arrogant, but even at this stage, I do feel that we are meant to…
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What happened to Occupy Boston?
Five years ago, on September 30, "Occupy Boston" first pillaged Dewey Square. For 72 days its participants appeared to be…
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HoJo’s end and boomer nostalgia
"There's many a king on a gilded throne But there's only one king on an ice-cream…
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‘Can’t find any heroin anymore’
State Rep. Randy Hunt was casually flippant — but with an intentionally serious undertone — when he imagined the day when constituents would call…
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Charlie Baker’s quiet revolution
As the national media focus on the civil war within the Republican Party, the Republican governor of this liberal state is leading…
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Sinatra in ’66: It was a very good year
"To do is to be – John Stuart Mill To be is to do – Jean-Paul Sartre Do be do be do…
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GOP, here’s your ‘19th Nervous Breakdown’
"The world goes on fighting cold little wars but we must unite and all fight with one cause" — The Ugly&…
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Government aside, Happy Days still at Arnold’s
On a postcard perfect summer morning, sitting at a picnic table beneath a large scrub pine Nathan "Nate" Nickerson, the…
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FOX News: Conservatives’ fickle friend
"George Will, one of the most overrated political pundits (who lost his way long ago), has left the Republican Party. He&…
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Attorney General Healey should resign
In his dutiful and forceful concession remarks in November 2014, John Miller, the Republican candidate for Massachusetts Attorney General, gave fair warning:…
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The wrecking ball of Romneycare: A retrospective
"Is it getting better, or do you feel the same?" — U2, "One" Like a marauding, unrepentant thief in…
