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DREAM FELLOWSHIP DEFERRED

Photo via US Department of Homeland Security / Mani Albrecht Diabetes researcher claims she was unlawfully denied entry to US A Canadian scholar hired for a prestigious diabetes research fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center says she was wrongfully denied entry to the US and

SARAH BETANCOURT May 25, 2022

APPOINTED SOMERVILLE OFFICIAL SPURS OUTRAGE WITH TWEETS FROM DC MOB SCENE

Mayor Curtatone says “We’re taking it seriously and doing our due diligence”

MARC LEVY January 9, 2021

“Sunset Koksijde” by fdecomite is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0.

2019: WE HAVE 11 YEARS TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE

In last week’s column looking back at “2018: The Year in Global Warming,” I reviewed the dire threat posed to humanity and our environment by climate change, and concluded with the following: The big question for Bostonians and anyone else reading this: How do we go from this grim state

JASON PRAMAS December 26, 2018

LITTLE GOES A LONG WAY

Boston native skates across country for trans rights and awareness On a Sunday earlier this month, Calleigh Little was making her way down Boylston Street toward the Marathon finish line, weaving her way through pedestrians and parked cars. To those who noticed her, she looked like any other skateboarder; apart

KATELYN BURNS December 13, 2017

MASS BAIL REFORM NOW

November 9, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Lots of innocent people are spending time in jail in Massachusetts. And unsurprisingly many of those people are poor and a disproportionate number are people of color. But they are not convicted criminals. They are people who are charged with a crime—often a

JASON PRAMAS November 9, 2015

BOSTON ARTISTS UNITE

Kenmore image by Henry Han via Wikimedia Commons November 2, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS If you work in one of the creative professions, then you know how tough it has become to make a living in the Boston area in recent years. But there are a couple of upcoming

JASON PRAMAS November 2, 2015

SHUT PILGRIM NOW … AND SAVE MASS FROM NUCLEAR DISASTER

Image by Kent Buckley October 26, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS About 50 people—most from the South Shore and Cape Cod—held a protest rally last Thursday at the Grand Staircase in the Massachusetts State House to demand the immediate closure of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station on a long list

JASON PRAMAS October 26, 2015

SANDERS SHRUGGED

Image by Kent Buckley October 20, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS One of the marks of what scholars call hegemonic discourse is the assumption that a society’s ruling ideology is considered so “normal” that it does not even need to be named, let alone explained. So it is with the

JASON PRAMAS October 20, 2015

INTRODUCING #BINJBADBOSS

October 14, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Do you have a bad boss? I don’t just mean a boss that you don’t want to hang out with after work. I mean a boss that’s ripping you off or otherwise harming you systematically over time. And doing the same to

JASON PRAMAS October 14, 2015

UMASS BOSTON WILL ALSO BE USELESS UNDERWATER

Image by Kent Buckley October 5, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS This week’s column is a codicil to last week’s column on the need for local policy wonks and politicians to stop proposing major public infrastructure projects in parts of Boston that are going to flood during the increasingly frequent

JASON PRAMAS October 5, 2015