

What Mass lawmakers can learn about parole from the battle to end death by incarceration across the country. “To see the transformation of those who have caused harm is important for those who have been harmed.”
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Written by JEAN TROUNSTINE Filed Under: FEATURES
What Mass lawmakers can learn about parole from the battle to end death by incarceration across the country. “To see the transformation of those who have caused harm is important for those who have been harmed.”
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: Dear Reader
Dear Reader,
In the process of editing this week’s cover feature by Jean Trounstine, a collaboration with the ... read more
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
Twenty-five years after the real estate industry destroyed rent control in Massachusetts, ... read more
Written by COLE ROSENGREN Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
Despite a relative win for recycling workers, living wage advocates pledge to keep on fighting
Written by IRENE MONROE Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial
On this anniversary of the riots, let’s get closer to the truth of what happened in NYC
Written by COLE ROSENGREN Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction
For the first time in the city’s history, Boston’s living wage ordinance might finally get applied to low-paid workers sorting the city’s recycling ...
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader
It’s a striking visual, somehow awful and hilarious at once, the latter mainly because the behavior of the perpetrator is so damn outrageous.
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC
"I’m less enthusiastic about the cyber collab—I don’t want to live my life that way. So just the fact that he was down to make the trek repeatedly and be here, and even be here in those instances when I’m looking through records, he was patiently just around."
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: Dear Reader, NEWS+OPINIONS
Here at the Dig, along with our partners from the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, we are busy working on multiple investigations—you know, the kind that critics who don’t know the first thing about independent media in 2018 keep alleging that papers like ours have stopped producing.
Written by COLE ROSENGREN Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
Boston is aiming to achieve “zero waste,” which some say can create more living-wage jobs. Is part of this lofty goal rooted in the region’s dirtiest hypocrisy?