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OH, CRUEL WORLD!: VOLUME 13, ISSUE 42
Dear City of Boston, I’m not even a smoker but Mayor Tom Menino’s over-reaching, in-home smoking ban is an unconstitutional, unenforceable invasion of privacy and FASCIST by all definitions. Like it or...
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BOOK ‘EM: CHASING GIDEON BY KAREN HOUPPERT
One review of Karen Houppert’s Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Justice (published by The New Press) describes it as “a book of nightmares.” Sure enough, not long after finishing the...
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NEWS TO US: PLEASE CHINA, GET YOUR TOURISM TOGETHER
I have spent my entire life living in numerous different urban environments that have a tendency to skew into tourist traps (London, Hong Kong, Philly, Boston, etc.), and I praise the lord as someone...
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BOOK ‘EM: DICK LEHR, CO-AUTHOR OF “WHITEY: THE LIFE OF AMERICA’S MOST...
Dick Lehr is a former writer for the Boston Globe and currently a professor of journalism at Boston University. He is the author or co-author of five books, including three with his BU colleague Gerard...
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DIG THIS: TAKING THE STAND WITH ALAN DERSHOWITZ @ SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY
opening arguments If you ask Alan Dershowitz, there has never been an argument that Alan Dershowitz has lost. The Cambridge attorney has represented everyone from Mike Tyson to Julian Assange, making...
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MEDIA FARM: THE BOMBING BLAME GAME
IT WAS ALL RUSSIA’S FAULT? The timing of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest rash of post-Olympic muscle-flexing couldn’t have played better into the multilateral effort by U.S. agencies to...
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HARVARD HOPES TRUMP WILL HELP IT UNDERMINE UNIONS
Harvard is asking the NLRB to change how union elections are run, as part of its ongoing fight against graduate student unionization. Photo: Harvard Graduate Students Union-UAW The richest...
View ArticleHARVARD HOPES TRUMP WILL HELP IT UNDERMINE UNIONS
Harvard is asking the NLRB to change how union elections are run, as part of its ongoing fight against graduate student unionization. Photo: Harvard Graduate Students Union-UAW The richest university...
View ArticleGRASSROOTS ORGANIZING KEY TO PASSING JOURNALISM COMMISSION LAW
Journalists mounted unusual lobbying effort to help beleaguered local news outlets
View ArticleREPORT: ‘RAISE THE AGE’ LAW IN MA REDUCED YOUTH DETENTION
"We have our Black and Latino children much more likely to get deeper and deeper into the system than their white peers for similar behavior."
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