Opinion: A Rebuttal To My Opponent In The 26th Middlesex District Race
For the past five months, candidate Neil Miller has made false and distorted claims about my work in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and in our Cambridge and Somerville community. On the eve of the Democratic primary, I want to correct the record. Mr. Miller and I agree that the rent is too high and […]
Elite Socialists Don’t Get It
In a recent Jacobin article, Noah Suárez-Sikes, “an organizer with the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America,” criticized mainstream news outlets for gleefully outing DSA leaders who hail from backgrounds that range from upper-middle class to upper class. Dubbed “Class traitors are welcome in the socialist movement,” a construction perfectly tuned to […]
Documenting The Surge In Harassment Of Vulnerable Young Adults In Harvard Square
Unhoused Trans Women Describe Systemic Targeting, Excessive Restraints, and Unnecessary Warrant Searches in Harvard Square
In New Era For Reproductive Rights In Mass, Same Old Pro-Life Protests Continue
Inside the daily clash on Commonwealth Avenue, where past trauma meets new legislation, and two opposing groups fight to control the atmosphere outside a Massachusetts clinic.
Editor’s Note: Now Accepting Applications for the BINJ Fall Internship Cohort
It’s that time again! Are you a young journalist looking for more experience? Then apply to join the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism’s Fall Internship Cohort today! Program Basics The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism Internship Program works with university students at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as people out of school (with […]
IndyMass: August 7 & August 21, 2026
Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #65 and #66. ARTS Arts Feature: The Museum of Modern Renaissance — The Urgency of Preserving a Living Work of Art The Arts Fuse (Somerville) Two immigrant artists who created a highly unusual museum in […]
Video: Demonstrators At South Bay Call For Justice In Shacoby Kenny Killing
The latest on the escalating situation in the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department
BINJ At The Movies: Reflections From A Year Of Slumming It On Social Media
Back then, we did what many said couldn’t be done. Now, we’re doing what we said we wouldn’t do.*
Editor’s Note: BINJ Has Great Supporters
Over the summer, careful readers may have noticed that I’ve mentioned an upcoming funding crunch on and off. That in itself wouldn’t be worthy of note given the economic crisis now faced by the entire journalism industry, nonprofit or for profit. For an independent newsroom like BINJ, going broke periodically—and soldiering on despite that fact—is […]
Opinion: Democratic Civil War Has Working Class Casualties
There is a civil war within the Democratic Party. The establishment is fighting off an insurgency for the soul of the party. As with any war, the victims are everyday working people, caught between factions who claim to fight for them but are in fact causing the suffering. This is no different in the Second […]