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SCOTUS

GRANITE GRIND: SUPERFICIAL RIFTS ASIDE, WARREN AND SANDERS HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT IDEAS & TACTICS

Written by PATRICK COCHRAN Posted January 26, 2020 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

Less than a year out from the 2020 elections, and weeks away from the dawn of the Democratic Party primaries, the race for the presidential nomination has been whittled down to four “top tier” candidates and a swath of longshots desperate to make late breakthroughs.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, candidates, cannabis, caregiving, Citizens Agenda, criminal justice, Elizabeth Warren, engagement, gun control, guns, immigration, income inequality, law enforcement, Manchester Divided, New Hampshire, police brutality, Politics, primaries, Primary, religion, SCOTUS, town halls, voter rights

SPECIAL FEATURE: A MODERN METCO

Written by BRENDAN MCGUIRK Posted May 29, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

For more than 50 years, Metco has stood as a hallmark effort to address racial disparities in education. But for the progressive civil rights program to keep pace with the national dialogue around race, inequality, and white supremacy, stakeholders say it’s time to reexamine and recommit to Massachusetts’ once-radical program.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: Boston, Boston Public Schools, BPS, Charter Schools, Concord, Darren Wilson, education, lexington, Lincoln-Sudbury, METCO, Metco Inc., schools, SCOTUS, segregation, suburbs, Susan Eaton

MASS IMPACT: THE POST-KAVANAUGH STENCH IN BAY STATE ELECTIONS

Written by PATRICK COCHRAN Posted October 9, 2018 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Both Diehl and Gonzalez trail the incumbents they’re chasing by significant margins. Democrats are hoping an anti-Trump wave can help sweep the latter into the corner office, while it appears the GOP’s leading priority is damaging the presidential prospects of Warren.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Charlie Baker, Diehl, Jay Gonzalez, Kavanaugh, Massachusetts, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, US Senate, Warren

PROXY WARFARE: THE US SENATE RACE IN MASS MAY GET UGLY, BUT NOT SERIOUS

Written by PATRICK COCHRAN Posted July 17, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

For a meaningless contest, there’s major national significance to Warren’s reelection scrum

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Beth Lindstrom, conservatives, Elizabeth Warren, Geoff Diehl, GOP, immigration, Kingston, liberals, Massachusetts, SCOTUS, senate, Trump

SPECIAL FEATURE: PRIDE, PREJUDICE, AND THE PATRIARCHY

Written by MAX L. CHAPNICK Posted June 28, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

Brown is retiring this year, and the university she leaves is very different from the one of her tenure suit that began more than 30 years ago. But while much has changed, Brown’s story contains a certain timelessness, particularly in the current struggle by women against institutions traditionally dominated by men. Like an Austen novel, Brown’s battle forces a reckoning with the type of sexism society tries to hide from itself. As Brown says, “Making the people who had done this have to defend themselves and be accountable, that was worth it.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: academia, Boston, boston university, BU, Jane Austen, John Silber, Julia Brown, literature, metoo, SCOTUS, sexism, Supreme Court, tenure

GUEST OPINION: COLORADO CAKE WALK

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted June 13, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

While the justices did not blatantly grant a license to discriminate against LGBTQ Americans, I, like so many in our community, was hoping the case would render once and for all a cease-and-desist order, thus resolving the God-versus-gay rights dispute for those who want to codify discrimination against us under the guise of religious freedom.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Colorado, LGBTQ, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, SCOTUS

FINALLY, THE FIGHT FOR GAY MARRIAGE IS OVER

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted July 1, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical

When people say “love wins,” I hear something different ...

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical Tagged With: challenge, LGBT youth, SCOTUS, Supreme Court

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