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The SCOTUS cellphone privacy ruling and the recent celebrity phone hack are two sides of the same coin, according to Frederick Lane, legal scholar and author of AMERICAN PRIVACY: The 400-Year History of Our Most Contested Right.
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South Boston native Michael Patrick MacDonald was a young boy on the day that desegregation busing officially began in Boston, sparking a racial crisis in the city that would last more than a decade.
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As we step into the new school year, parents and teachers need a hearty reminder that all the quirky, alarming, troubling, and troublesome behaviors manifested by children, though concerning, are not evidence of a mental disorder.
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An indigenous community leader from Oaxaca reports on the struggle against economic policies that drive migration, in an excerpt from David Bacon’s The Right to Stay Home (now available in paperback).
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Why the ongoing Market Basket struggle could have lasting impact on issues of fair pay for years to come.
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Legal scholar Frederick S. Lane, author of ‘The Court and the Cross,’ investigates the ramifications of the Hobby Lobby decision and the doctrine of nullification gaining foothold in Christian conservative circles.
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Gender scholar and ‘Gaga Feminism’ author J. Jack Halberstam examines the cult of “triggering” and how a safe space mentality can sometimes do more harm than good.
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