
Some thoughts on the Capitol attack and building a more democratic nation
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Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, Democracy in Crisis, Election, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics
Some thoughts on the Capitol attack and building a more democratic nation
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Analysis, Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS
Do back politicians calling for immediate national living wage checks and Medicare for All
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
"Americans today live in a very real universe where the functional equivalent of Nazis—European colonists—committed genocide against Native American peoples..."
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
Some thoughts about last Saturday’s counterprotest
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
In August 2017, over 40,000 Bostonians marched on Boston Common to tell a small gaggle of nearly incoherent hard-right louts that they were not welcome in our city. Especially in the wake of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in the ... read more
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On Saturday, a few hundred left-wing activists showed up to protest a tiny ultra-right wing protest ... read more
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The timing couldn’t have been better. No sooner did this publication release last week’s editorial announcing our “unnaming” policy ... read more
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As journalists, my DigBoston colleagues and I have a responsibility to do our best to cover news of the day fairly and accurately. And that’s based on our abiding belief in ... read more
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Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
Street protest is a vital part of any genuinely democratic political system. But how and when people choose to demonstrate (or counterdemonstrate) determines the tactic’s relative success or failure. So in a situation like this week’s, when the ultra ... read more