What Will It Take to Defeat the War?

Humanity is running out of time. That is the stark, bleak message offered by leading Australian reef scientist J.E.N. Veron to a gathering of 50 or so members of the Boston Reef Society this Saturday. By 2030, the oceans as a whole will be too acidic to sustain the coral reefs; well before then, krill populations—which feed everything from mega-mammals to birds and sea creatures much lower on food chain–will have fallen below critical levels.

One man was killed and another seriously injured after being hit by a car while working as part of a clean up crew in Mashpee yesterday.

Twenty Anti-Zionist, Pro-Palestinian and Anti-Imperialist activists protested against CJP's "New England Celebrates Israel @ 60" event in Waltham on Sunday June 1.

The crash of two trolleys on the MBTA's "D" line in Newton, MA was tragic (an operator was killed) but I think the system as a whole is fairly safe.

ACLU Report Exposes Unjust Detention of Youth

Pre-Trial Juvenile Lockup In Massachusetts Disproportionately Impacts Youth Of Color

Driving west along Alewife Brook Parkway recently, through an area called The Alewife - a swath of road and shopping centers where Cambridge, Arlington, and Watertown, MA seem to overlap - I was struc

While the federal government attempts to pass inadequate relief for victims of predatory loans, local groups and outraged citizens are agitating for a trio of bills at the state level.

BOSTON - Last January the U.S.-based El Salvador solidarity group - the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) - received a letter from the U.S.

A lot was going on in Boston yesterday. The weather was spectacular, the Red Sox finished a four game sweep of the Texas Rangers and once again Kenyan Robert Cheruiyot won the Marathon.