Apparent Horizon Archives

Collage by Jason Pramas. Downloaded from BINJ's paid Canva account on September 25, 2025.

How Reddit Mods Are Hurting Indy News Outlets

Arbitrary and capricious rules created on too many subreddits by volunteer moderators make it virtually impossible for independent journalists to use the supposedly open and democratic platform to help build our audiences in a period when we have few other options

JASON PRAMAS September 25, 2025

Bust of Hannah Arendt by Attila Diénes, Budapest 2016. Photo by Globetrotter19 via Wikimedia Commons. This reproduction is permitted under article 68 of the Hungarian copyright law (1999/LXXVI).

Why This Political Moment Is Particularly Dangerous For The American Left

A point by philosopher Hannah Arendt makes it plain that de-escalation should be our watchword at present

JASON PRAMAS September 11, 2025

Clip art downloaded from BINJ's paid Canva account on August 28, 2025.

Labor Day Should Remind Bostonians Why Trump Is Threatening To Send In The Troops

And what we can do about it

JASON PRAMAS August 28, 2025

How Tech Giants Are Harming News Outlets Like HorizonMass And BINJ

But our fans can help us survive by, yes, actually reading our articles (and sharing them)

JASON PRAMAS August 7, 2025

Celebrating 10 Years Of BINJ

The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism’s first decade has been an incredible roller-coaster ride, but Chris Faraone, John Loftus, Linda Pinkow, and I look forward to the challenges to come It’s truly wild that the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism just turned 10 years old. Although ace journalist Chris Faraone

JASON PRAMAS July 17, 2025

Collage of a young Jason Pramas overlaid over a photo of Out of Town News in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass.

Out Of Town News And Me

My brief and tumultuous tenure working at the famed Harvard Square newsstand was nothing if not formative

JASON PRAMAS June 26, 2025

Collage with gold dollar sign dripping blood over a green background.

10 Exhibit Ideas For The Museum Of American Finance

On May Day, “the other workers’ holiday,” some public-spirited programming suggestions for the incoming Boston attraction

JASON PRAMAS May 1, 2025

A recent rally in support of Rümeysa Öztürk at Somerville City Hall.

Can Nonviolent Activists Thwart ICE Snatch Squads?

Rallies in support of recently detained immigrants like Rümeysa Öztürk are important, but might it be possible to prevent federal agents from arresting immigrants in similar situations in the first place?

JASON PRAMAS April 3, 2025

Large crowd outside of Skinner and Eddy employment office. The shipyard workers struck two weeks before the Seattle General Strike on Feb. 6, 1919.

General Strikes Are Now Mainstream In Massachusetts

Big ups for Rep. McGovern and Jon Keller discussing what was once undiscussable in Bay State media, but a few historical corrections are in order

JASON PRAMAS March 20, 2025

African American and white Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party supporters demonstrating outside the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey; some hold signs with portraits of slain civil rights workers James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.

The Minimum Program: A Strategy For Political Mobilization

We can rebuild the Mass. (and US) left by fighting for democracy, human rights, environmental restoration, peace, and bread-and-butter economic guarantees for working people

JASON PRAMAS March 6, 2025