Editor’s Note: Welcome, BINJ Summer Intern Cohort!

Another season, another bunch of BINJ reporting interns. I wanted to take this opportunity to welcome our incoming summer cohort (size TBA as we’re still interviewing candidates)—already clearly another talented crew from a wildly diverse array of backgrounds, as has been typical of every group of interns since we started recruiting them years ago. Chris […]

Checks, Balances, And Bypasses

In the early hours of January 3, as US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, members of Congress learned not through a vote or debate, but after the fact. Weeks later, as news of US strikes on Iran began, members of Congress once again learned of the operation only while it was underway.   These events […]

IndyMass: May 7, 2026

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #59. ARTS Armory board members are named, including leaders at Esh Circus Arts, Arlington International Film Festival Cambridge-Somerville Independent Spicier than your typical report on such matters, nine out of 10 stars lol. Television Review: […]

Two Bostonians elected to self-deport. They remained in ICE custody for months.

BOSTON – On a typical November Tuesday, approximately 20 black SUVs surrounded the Allston Car Wash on Cambridge Street in Boston. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wearing army green bulletproof vests with the word “Police” on them swarmed the business and detained nine workers. The employees were grabbed, often from behind while cleaning cars, […]