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Et Tu, Maura? Attorney General pulls plug on equality, tells transgender people to hold it
AG to TG: Hold It. Maura Healey has betrayed transgender people everywhere.
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Justice Without Process?
Procedure is a pillar of justice. The American Founders knew that an ordered and accepted means of settling disputes and adjudicating disagreements was fundamental to the public good. In fact, procedure was so important to the Revolutionary generation that the idea was specifically incorporated into the federal Constitution as "
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Saying goodbye
Dear friends, As many of you already know, today is my last official day with NewBostonPost. When I agreed to help launch the site in July 2015, I committed to stay through the presidential election of 2016. My goal was to establish NBP's reputation as a credible, conservative
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Trump’s urgent job: Clean up the VA
Last week, Veterans Affairs got caught covering up the quality ratings of its 146 medical centers. VA Secretary Robert McDonald insists. "No VA medical facility is bad or failing." Really? Not even a hospital that earns only one star out of five? McDonald denies he's hiding
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Why parents are concerned about Trump’s appointment for USED
Many of the parents who have been active in combating Common Core and its many tentacles in the past six years are expressing amazement at the appointment of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education. One such parent, Jenni White, Education Director of Reclaim Oklahoma Parent Empowerment (ROPE), posted a long
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Is an ad for breast implants the answer to post-election healthcare panic?
For sheer accumulation of elite institutional prestige, it's hard to top Atul Gawande. He is a professor at both Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health and a regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine, where I've enjoyed reading and learning from some
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Obesity, fatty foods, death and science
Something is killing us — beyond the fact that life itself is a terminal condition. This week brought news that the U.S. mortality rate overall has risen slightly since 2014. "It's a definite milestone in the wrong direction, and the concern a lot of us have is
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The state of the Democratic party…and the states
In the aftermath of Hillary Clinton's loss and the Democrats' failure to regain control of either house of Congress, the focus has since shifted to how the Democratic Party has been decimated at the state level. Since President Obama was elected in 2008, the Democrats have lost
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