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CURRENT STREET EDITION

DIG 23.02 – 1/28/21

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GOING ONLINE: NO REPLACEMENT FOR INTERACTION IN REAL TIME

Written by MITA KATARIA Posted May 30, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, COVID, FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Roxie Zwicker. Photo courtesy of New England Curiosities.

New England Cultural Organizations Struggle to Survive in an Age of Social Distancing

Filed Under: A+E, COVID, FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: America, arts, Boston, coronavirus, COVID-19, culture, feature, Massachusetts, new england, New Hampshire, news, online, pandemic, Portsmouth, slider, streaming, usa, Video, Zoom

DEATH THREAT AGAINST MASS POLITICIAN IS A BAD SIGN

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted May 20, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized

flowers in gun white on black

Should violence replace political debate, democracy could end

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized Tagged With: America, Apparent Horizon, Boston, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, death threat, Debate, Democracy, dialogue, extremism, extremist, guns, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, Politics, Rep. Mike Connolly, slider, United States, violence

RECLOSE AMERICA: DON’T FOLLOW FASCISTS IN THE SERVICE OF WALL ST TO YOUR GRAVES

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted April 29, 2020 Filed Under: Analysis, Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

image with President Trump surrounded by quotes about right-wing protests to end coronavirus stay at home orders

Do back politicians calling for immediate national living wage checks and Medicare for All

Filed Under: Analysis, Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: America, Apparent Horizon, Bernie Sanders, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, DigBoston, fascist, hard right, Health, Jason Pramas, Koch, labor, Medicare for All, middle class, nazi, news analysis, pandemic, Paycheck Security Act, Protest, public health, Reopen America, right wing, slider, stay at home, United States, Wall St, white supremacist, worker, working class

INTERVIEW: CHASE WHITESIDE

Written by JAKE MULLIGAN Posted February 10, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Film

Chase Whiteside is an American nonfiction filmmaker who recently co-directed, co-produced and co-edited his feature debut, América (2018), in collaboration with fellow director/producer/editor ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: America, Chase Whiteside, The DocYard

THANKSGIVING FICTION: WE LIVE IN THE UNIVERSE WHERE THE BAD GUYS WON

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 25, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

National Day of Mourning Plaque. Photo by Melissa Doroquez, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://flickr.com/photos/merelymel/3119433076/.

"Americans today live in a very real universe where the functional equivalent of Nazis—European colonists—committed genocide against Native American peoples..."

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: african american, alternate history, America, Apparent Horizon, Book, Column, criticism, Democracy, DigBoston, genocide, holiday, Jason Pramas, Journalism, native american, nazi, Philip K. Dick, racism, review, science fiction, slavery, television, thanksgiving, The Man in the High Castle, United States

WHY REPARATIONS: AMERICA NEEDS TO PAY UP AND PAY FORWARD

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted August 30, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Uncle Will’s grandmother, my spouse’s great-grandmother, was born into slavery and died as a free woman at the age of 108.  Sometime during Reconstruction (1863-1877), the great-grandmother accrued a small plot of farmland that now awaits its fate, as her brood scrape together enough money to keep it. 

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: 1619, America, Boston, history, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK, reparations, slavery, throwback, throwbacks

THE RIGHT QUESTION FOR THE BROAD LEFT

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 2, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

On July 5, start asking the Democrats, “What policies will help working families?”

 

The patriotic season is upon us. With it comes the arrival of the 2020 presidential race—far too early, in my estimation. Which in turn tends to generate conservative political ripples all the way down to the local level in the service of “winning” ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: America, anarchist, Apparent Horizon, Boston, capitalism, City Councilor Michelle Wu, Column, communist, corporations, Democracy, Democratic Party, Democrats, Environment, Gov Charlie Baker, Green Party, Jason Pramas, July 4, July 5, left, left wing, Massachusetts, Politics, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Rep. Mike Connolly, Republican Party, Republicans, right, right wing, socialist, usa

DEPTHS OF DEPRAVITY DEPT.

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted August 28, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Does the GOP have a cutoff point for racist fearmongering?

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: America, national politics, racism, Trump

THAT N-WORD AGAIN

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted July 24, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial

A short history of rationalization, hate, and debate

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial Tagged With: America, bigotry, Bill Maher, hip hop, history, n-word, Papa John, racism, Trump

OF RATS AND WRITERS

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted March 27, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader

Considering it now, I suppose it was naive to put much faith in Charley as a literal source in the first place.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader Tagged With: America, Bill Steigerwald, fake, John Steinbeck, Reason, Stanford Prison Experiment, Travels with Charley

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