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Co-dependent? The US and China

 Action Speaks!
Action Speaks!, the panel discussion series at Providence art space AS220, continues its fall run with a conversation about the increasingly dependent relationship between the United States and China.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  October 14, 2009
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Vote Yoon

It is time for Boston to debate its future
Barring supernatural intervention next Tuesday, incumbent Thomas Menino is expected to top the ticket in Boston's four-candidate mayoral preliminary. The final vote will take place November 3.
By EDITORIAL  |  September 17, 2009
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Yoon or Flaherty

Who will win the chance to challenge Menino?
Boston voters will go to the polls in less than seven weeks to choose two candidates, out of the four now running, to face off against each other in November's mayoral election.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  August 20, 2009
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Does Boston hate the BPD?

A secret survey shows just how low the Boston Police Department’s reputation had sunk two years ago. Is the mayor listening?
When Kathleen O’Toole served as Boston police commissioner, from early 2004 through mid 2006, she and Mayor Thomas Menino seemed in constant denial of the spiraling violence and shocking police scandals that were roiling the city.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  July 18, 2008
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Will Harvard drop acid again?

Psychedelic research returns to Crimsonland
In a moment of delightful whimsy in the annals of drug history, Albert Hofmann, after purposely ingesting LSD for the first time, rode his bicycle home and experienced all manner of beatific and hellish visions.
By PETER BEBERGAL  |  June 09, 2008
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Iraq: Five years later

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explains the punishing cost of staying any longer
Five years later, President George Bush and his minions were wrong about the need to fight in Iraq, wrong about the way to fight in Iraq, and wrong about what the war in Iraq would ultimately cost.
By PETER KADZIS  |  March 12, 2008
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Iraq: Five years later and time to go

Plus, updates on the Cowans   case, performance artist Milan Kohout, and the BPL
March 19 will mark the fifth anniversary of America’s war in Iraq.
By EDITORIAL  |  March 12, 2008
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Publish and Perish?

Blogging Harvard courses could revolutionize open education — if its contributors aren’t expelled first
Professor Tal Ben-Shahar is a resident rock-star lecturer on Harvard’s campus.
By SHARON STEEL  |  February 28, 2008

Politicos Latinos

The growing clout of the Hispanic community
This article originally appeared in the February 22, 1983 issue of the  Boston Phoenix.
By ALAN LUPO  |  October 09, 2008
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Capital loss

How has moving from Boston to Washington changed the Atlantic ?
Two things stood out when the book tour for an impressive new anthology, The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic Monthly , rolled through town this past month.
By ADAM REILLY  |  November 05, 2007
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The 10th Annual Muzzle Awards

Silencing free speech
Mitt Romney will say or do anything if he thinks it will help him become president.
By DAN KENNEDY  |  July 10, 2007

The high hurdles

Obstacles for Dukakis in the long run
This article originally appeared in the March 24, 1987 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By SCOT LEHIGH  |  April 09, 2007
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The green governor?

Few on Deval Patrick's ‘fresh blood’ staff have been seasoned in the State-house hallways
Governor Deval Patrick promised to bring new faces and fresh perspectives to his administration, and he certainly has done that.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  March 07, 2007
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Deval’s New Hampshire Dilemma

Who to back, how to dis Mitt, and what about Nevada?
Mitt Romney has left Deval Patrick a full raft of problems, from last Friday’s out-of-the-blue unilateral cuts to the state budget to a broken downtown tunnel system people are afraid to drive through.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  November 14, 2006
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Ground game

Deval Patrick’s extreme grassroots approach
Forget Deval Patrick’s 5000-person rally on Boston Common last weekend. A humbler event that took place a few days earlier — an October 11 community meeting in Quincy — offers keener insight into the Patrick-campaign ethos.
By ADAM REILLY  |  October 20, 2006
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Republican dirty tricks

What’s up Karl Rove’s sleeve?
Late last month, readers of the conservative web site NewsMax discovered this juicy tidbit in a column by Ronald Kessler: “In the past week, Karl Rove has been promising Republican insiders an ‘October surprise’ to help win the November congressional elections.”
By ADAM REILLY  |  October 05, 2006
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Battle of the second bananas

Three Democrats want to be Lieutenant Governor. Who’s the party’s best bet?
Being Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts has its headaches.
By ADAM REILLY  |  August 28, 2006
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Can New Hampshire keep its first-in-the-nation status?

Scheduling conflict
Few people may have noticed, but some in the Democratic Party seem intent on deflating the importance of the New Hampshire primary.
By CALVIN HENNICK  |  August 02, 2006

Flashbacks: February 10, 2006

The Boston Phoenix has been covering the trends and events that shape our times since 1966.
These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Chris Brook and Jessica McConnell.
By EDITORIAL  |  February 09, 2006
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The prince and the paper

Quietly building his journalistic credentials in Rhode Island, 25-year-old Arthur Gregg Sulzberger could one day vie for the top job at the New York Times
When a young Providence Journal reporter was poised to reveal the all-male membership of the Narragansett Lions Club last year, it didn’t sit well with at least one member.
By IAN DONNIS  |  February 02, 2006

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