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'I'd rather fight like hell': Naomi Klein's fierce new resolve to fight for climate justice

Naomi Klein, black-clad and sharp-tongued mistress of the global anti-corporate left, friend to Occupiers and scourge of oil barons, stood outside a dressing room backstage at Boston's Orpheum Theatre one night last month, a clear-eyed baby boy on her hip.

By: WEN STEPHENSON | December 14, 2012

Weed the People

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The only real role of towns and cities is to figure out where patients will be able to buy, or not to buy, prescription pot.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | December 04, 2012

SLIDESHOW: Inside the Deer Island sanitation complex

By: IAN MACLELLAN | November 30, 2012

The Wreckage Club: How Long Will Cops, Activists, and Mayor Bloomberg Get Along After Occupy Sandy?

By: CHRIS FARAONE | November 27, 2012

When Disaster Strikes

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For better or worse, hometown pride is as central to hip-hop as misogyny and marijuana.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | November 30, 2012

In search of Boston’s worst smell

Our intrepid correspondent travels deep into the bowels of the Deer Island sanitation complex to get a snootful
Take the pretty-vacant Blue Line train — twin rows of hard plastic seats, the digestive groan of the train's wheelwork grinding beneath the pitchy whir of its rectified motor — to Orient Heights.

By: TREVOR QUIRK | December 03, 2012

As marijuana laws ease nationwide, Maine leads — and responds

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | November 29, 2012

Hub fans bid Baron adieu

In the 1960s and 1970s, when the media sky was as expansive as the horizon of Fenway Park, Boston Globe editor Tom Winship hankered to make the Globe one of the nation's top 10 dailies. He succeeded.

By: PETER KADZIS | November 16, 2012

The first Obama administration was a disappointment for progressives. What makes us think the second will be any different?

The fire this time
On LGBT rights, civil liberties, economic inequity, immigration, criminal justice, labor organizing, money in politics, and voting rights, the Obama administration let progressives down time and time again. And who's to say Obama's second term won't be the same as the first?

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 16, 2012

Washington walkabout

KC Hoye walked nearly 500 miles to deliver a letter in which she introduces herself with five words most of us can relate to: "I am an average American."

By: ARIEL SHEARER | November 14, 2012

Everything you want to know about Massachusetts and medical marijuana but were afraid to ask

Haze of Glory
Here in Massachusetts and around the country, it's been a celebratory few weeks as marijuana prohibitions have gone up in smoke.

By: VALERIE VANDE PANNE | November 16, 2012

Massachusetts and Medical Marijuana: The FAQs

Everything you want to know about Massachusetts and medical marijuana but were afraid to ask.

By: CARLY CARIOLI AND VALERIE VANDE PANNE | November 16, 2012

We’re still screwed

To everyone on social media who thanked "god" for the Obama win: next time, please pray for a president who isn't bankrolled by the likes of Goldman Sachs, who respects civil liberties, and who doesn't indiscriminately bomb civilians. For now, you're just making your divine master look like a duplicitous, war-mongering asshole.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | November 16, 2012

New England Storm Front: From Boston to New York, Occupy Sandy Endures

By: CHRIS FARAONE | November 12, 2012

Beacon Hill's Most Beautiful: 25 power players who keep the Golden Dome in style

Politics in Massachusetts can be an ugly business. Let's look at another side of life under the Golden Dome — the beautiful side.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN AND MIKE DEEHAN | November 08, 2012

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American Airlines busted for union-busting

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An inebriated Denzel Washington isn't your biggest problem at the airport.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | November 07, 2012

Interview: Nate Silver explains

The perils of prognostication
Nate Silver's New York Times blog, fivethirtyeight.com, is an island of rigorous thinking in an ocean of political spin.

By: PETER KADZIS | November 05, 2012

A Viewer’s Guide to Election Night

Our hour-by-hour breakdown
Nobody needs convincing of how much is at stake in Tuesday’s elections.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 05, 2012

Stein or Supreme: What kind of voter am I?

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I'm an Italian Bostonian from Korean Queens who's embarrassed by Caucasian corniness and loves soul food. Race isn't my big issue, though; I despise Glenn Beck and Tyler Perry equally, adore Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld, and loathe both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | October 31, 2012

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A Convenient Excuse

On October 2, I led a climate protest inside the offices of the Boston Globe .

By: WEN STEPHENSON | November 05, 2012

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Killing with kindness: Why the Death With Dignity Act endangers people with disabilities

I think my opinions about doctor-assisted suicide crystallized the night Mike — my wheelchair-using, ventilator-breathing boyfriend — choked on pineapple juice, passed out, and died.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | November 05, 2012

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