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Category: American Society
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Nancy Rubin Stuart, author of ‘Defiant Brides,’ examines the nature of heroes and traitors, asking, “Isn’t it time we take a lesson from…our past to improve the lives of all Americans today?”
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Women’s reproductive health advocate Carole Joffe reflects on the recent Hobby Lobby SCOTUS ruling and who, ultimately, pays the price for such setbacks in contraceptive policy.
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By Tom Hallock | I first became manager of Coolidge Corner’s Paperback Booksmith (now the Brookline Booksmith) back in 1978, just four years after Judge W. Arthur Garrity’s historic decision to integrate the Boston School District through the “forced busing” of students, as it later became known. It was a time when the fallout over…
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Long before the board of American Apparel decided to fire founder and CEO Dov Charney for ethical misconduct, Fran Hawthorne had come to the same conclusion. In an excerpt from her award-winning book ‘Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love,’ Hawthorne profiles the problematic former head of American Apparel, and…
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In an excerpt from ‘All Souls: A Family Story from Southie,’ Michael Patrick MacDonald writes about the firestorm of racial tension that spread throughout South Boston in the wake of Judge W. Arthur Garrity’s forced busing decision, leading up to the tempestuous autumn when Garrity’s plan was set to begin.
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‘Ethical Chic’ author Fran Hawthorne on the teacher tenure conundrum, and why the recent Vergara v. California decision could further erode worker protections everywhere.
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Dr. Carole Joffe—author of ‘Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v Wade’ and ‘Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients and the Rest of Us’—remembers Dr. George Tiller, the late-term abortion provider who was assassinated five years ago, and examines the abortion situation in…
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