Erstwhile Boston media darling Steward Health Care has been strip-mining hospitals for a decade now. The power elite may finally be paying attention.
Massachusetts
Posted inWorking in America
The Fight for $15 Can Take a Bow
Workers are celebrating minimum-wage increases around the country, but the new frontier is already creeping toward $20.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Monopolies and Maps Are Killing ‘Internet for All’
The $65 million moon shot to bring every American affordable broadband is failing low-income communities of color.
Posted inPolitics
Massachusetts Blues
It’s not just far-right Republicans who undermine democracy. A majority of voters in the Bay State favor progressive policies, but don’t get them. Why not?
Posted inTransportation
Escaping Public-Transit Quagmires
New York City moves to overcome its public-transit dysfunction and is on the road to stability. Boston, not so much.
Posted inTAP
The War on Libraries
Today on TAP: Far-right state governments fear allowing children to think for themselves.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Federal Highway Safety Regulator Torpedoes Massachusetts Right-to-Repair Legislation
The federal regulator cites concerns over hacking, but that argument is an industry pretext.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
What Defunding the Police Actually Looks Like
Across the country, community alternatives to policing show the way to a more effective and less risky response.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
How Many More Years of Living Dangerously?
The National Flood Insurance Program can’t keep pace with the challenges posed by climate change and insuring oceanfront homes in Scituate, Massachusetts.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Celebrating Dr. King’s Embrace of Multiracial Justice
We need coalitions of conscience now more than ever.
