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There is no doubt about it: Michael Lewis is a wonderful storyteller. He demonstrated his skill in his beguiling autobiographical best seller, Liar's Poker. And again in The Blind Side and Moneyball. Then in 2010 came The Big Short — the fascinating story of a handful of hedge-fund managers
Commentary
A cardinal feature which has distinguished the American democratic experiment from most other nations in the modern era is that we have, with several major exceptions such as the Civil War, been a society under the rule of law. The best known expression of this principle is that the rule
Commentary
You have to go back to the 1896 presidential race between William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley to find an historical parallel to the contest in 2016 between the three finalists: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Unfortunately, the great majority of American citizens know virtually nothing about President
Blogs
On Saturday a week ago, some friends and I went to the Zac Brown Band concert at Fenway Park. My friends suggested that we take the Framingham/Worcester line of the Commuter Rail, as Yawkey station is less than 200 yards from the stadium. It seemed like an excellent idea,
terrorism
Why is it that in the last 40 years, the only American ambassadors to get murdered were when Democratic administrations were in office? Before Ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed in Benghazi in 2012 on the evening of Sept. 11, the last American ambassador to be killed was Adolph Dubs during
transgender
Sixty years ago, there were two universally known sex symbols in the West: Marilyn Monroe in America and Bridget Bardot in France. Most millennials have heard of Marilyn Monroe, if for no other reason than the scandals with the Kennedy brothers. But my admittedly anecdotal experience leads me to believe
Massachusetts
Last week, readers of the Boston Globe were treated to yet another article lamenting the fact that Boston, according to an analysis of 2014 Census data by the Brookings Institution, is the U.S. city with the greatest income disparity between the top 5 percent of income earners and the
Immigration
Over the past several years, elites in America have unleashed a tidal wave of propaganda about the curse of economic inequality in our country. President Obama has made it one of his signature themes, calling income inequality "the defining challenge of our day" in a widely reported speech