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THE INCALCULABLE ELECTION (NON-PROPHETS)

America’s Top Political Analysts Explain: It’s Not Their Fault At the planet’s most prestigious school, during an event designed to make sense of the most consequential upset in a year full of them, the world’s most prominent statistician admitted that his research and reporting, which millions of readers had turned to

BRENDAN MCGUIRK April 1, 2017

THE OUTSIDERS

Kicked out of home and misunderstood by social service providers, homeless LGBTQ youth often have nowhere to turn Author’s Note: The central character in this story, Liniște, asked that she be referred to by a pseudonym for safety reasons. I met Liniște in September and spent five months following her

MIKE DESOCIO March 8, 2017

POWER STRUGGLE

Regulators infuriate activists with announcement that power plant will stay open About 300 residents of Cape Cod and the South Shore packed into the ballroom of Hotel 1620 in Plymouth last Tuesday, hoping to finally get some answers from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) about the future of the beleaguered operation

MIRIAM WASSER February 6, 2017

SMOOTH LANDING (FOR NOW)

At Logan airport, a weekend of relief after a week of chaos WORDS AND PHOTOS BY JOSHUA EATON (Spanish Version Here) Azi Torkamani was skeptical when she heard that a federal court order in Massachusetts had temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s 90-day ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran. Torkamani’s

JOSHUA EATON February 6, 2017

FLAME WAR

Council greenlights social media surveillance despite lack of BPD transparency With the dawn of a new kind of surveillance upon us, it’s critical to trace the advent of social media monitoring in Mass back to its roots. There is a demonstrable history of the Boston Police Department and other city

SARAH BETANCOURT December 19, 2016

SNUBWAY

This may help explain why you’ve had so much trouble renting and returning public bikes in Boston By most measures, the Hubway bike-share program has had a very successful fifth year. It celebrated its 5 millionth ride and expanded deep into East Boston, South Boston, Dorchester, and Roxbury. But Hubway’s growth has

NOAH SCHAFFER December 12, 2016

TRASH TO TABLE

Everything you didn’t want to know about cannibal swine and trash feeding, from Mass to the UK BY EVAN C. ANDERSON AND KATIE CAMPISI On a crisp fall day in 2007, a Massachusetts motorcyclist was headed home on I-93 North, enjoying the New England air, the light and sweet smell of the fallen leaves,

KATIE CAMPISI December 7, 2016

50 YEARS OF YEAST AND LOVE

An oral history of Haley House AS TOLD TO THE BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM If hungry people had to count on seasonal compassion, the poor would likely starve but for the holidays. The government only assists so much; in Boston, for example, it’s been two years since the closing of

CHRIS FARAONE November 22, 2016

CAUGHT WITH OUR GANTRIES DOWN

Everything you think you know about the new Mass tolls is wrong Surprise! The new all-electronic tolling system (AETS) that went live in Massachusetts on Oct 28 collects a lot more data on vehicles passing beneath pay road gantries than has been previously reported. While the focus of the media and citizens alike has

EVAN C. ANDERSON November 9, 2016

MASSROOTS

Photos via Boston For Bernie unless otherwise noted | Graphic by Kent Buckley The relatively short but nonetheless inspirational history of Boston for Bernie Ed. note: I commissioned this recorded narrative, compiled by a journalist-supporter of Bernie Sanders who peripherally volunteered for Boston For Bernie, not out of political motivation

PATRICK COCHRAN July 28, 2016