Newspapers are dead. That  seems to be the prevailing consensus, and was my own up until very recently.  Newspapers provide a very important service to the local community and society [...]

Scott Brown’s victory tonight is a political earthquake that will be felt throughout the country. This little-known Republican state senator defeated a large and powerful Democratic machine that has defined [...]

Today is the Massachusetts Senate Special Election. The seat up for grabs was held by the late Senator Kennedy for 46 years. His passing marked the end of America’s best [...]

Agganis Arena is home to one of the few things I truly care for, BU hockey. Agganis is one of the best places to watch a hockey game, and has [...]

Few politicians these days have the personality of Boris Johnson, the current Mayor of London, who was elected in 2008. Boris, who has some of the world’s greatest hair ever, [...]

November 9th will see the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Last week I spoke with Jonathan Zatlin,  a BU associate professor, about how The Wall fell [...]

A bill has recently been introduced in the Massachusetts Legislature that would replace the current system of mandatory private health care coverage with a new single payer system to be [...]

This Thursday will see the final meeting of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority Board. The authority will wrap up operations on November 1, when it will merge with the MBTA and [...]

Well, it is difficult to describe the utter shock I felt when I awoke this early afternoon and saw that Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. For What? [...]

Health care reform has proven far more difficult to pull off for the Obama Administration than they seem to realize. No issue has polarized and paralyzed the nation so completely [...]

The sudden arrest of Roman Polanski in Switzerland came as a surprise to many. Having been “on the run” since 1978, few thought that he would ever be caught and [...]