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: […]
Arsenal Football Club Supporters Grow Their Boston Base At A Boylston Street Bar
BOSTON – “Arsenal,” the Boston bar sings in an English accent. Most of the crowd is sipping on a morning Guinness. Dillon’s is a reliable bar with an old spirit, built in 1887. Among the crowd is one ardent Arsenal fan, Dr. Michael Salmon. Salmon is a cheery bloke who wears his hair slightly slicked […]
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, […]
Boots Riley Talks The Art Of The Steal
“I Love Boosters” turns a high-fashion shoplifting spree into a thrilling and didactic vibrant manifesto
The Boston Library Where You Still Can Borrow A Giant Puppet
Catching up with a whimsical cellar collection of papier-mâché characters that endures under a rapidly changing downtown
A New Book From BINJ Prison Reporter Jean Trounstine
“‘Sounds Like Trouble to Me’ isn’t just about the toll prison life takes on women, it’s about the breaking points in all of our lives, from domestic abuse to an attorney’s rage at injustice”
Just Say Knoa: OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma Is No More. This Nonprofit Took Its Place
Can one of the most hated companies in history transform from the source of the opioid scourge into its savior with a new name and a focus on recovery drugs?
Go See “Steal This Story, Please!” … Now While It’s Still At The Coolidge Corner Theater
Brookline, Mass. – On Thursday evening at the screening of “Steal This Story, Please!”— the new documentary on journalist Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! fame—at the Coolidge Corner Theater, I got to briefly chat with Tia Lessin, one of the two award-winning documentarians who directed the film. Noticing that I was sticking to the table […]