Given that Massachusetts is one of the deepest blue states, it makes sense that it would be firmly in the vanguard of the resistance to Trump. The challenge for the state’s all-Democratic congressional delegation is that the overall Massachusetts electorate is not exactly mounting the barricades.

John Gee
Posted inBook Review
Questioning competitiveness
Through 200 years of manufacturing in the South Coast communities of Fall River and New Bedford, Shaun Nichols outlines cycles of growth and decline in multiple industries, raising compelling and uncomfortable questions about regional economic development.
Posted inOpinion
No middle ground on campus McCarthyism
Harvard president Claudine Gay was sent packing because of real misconduct, but the right-wing activists who drove her out have a much bigger goal — to undermine US higher education.