I felt no need to say something nasty or snarky (or much of anything) yesterday when syndicated columnist Robert Novak died. He was, in essence, a minor figure, and he probably would have agreed with that assessment. I do think his sins have been [...]
With the election in Afghanistan just days away, GlobalPost, the Boston-based international news service, has weighed in with a first-rate multimedia presentation on the Taliban.
At the summit of Mt. Monadnock
The Cambridge Police Department has adopted a restrictive policy that would force the Cambridge Chronicle to pay more than $1,200 to obtain public records of police activity for most of July, according to a story by Chronicle reporter Erin Smith. What's more, the policy' [...]
Even as a third prospective buyer has emerged for the Boston Globe — and even as the New York Times Co. has finally acknowledged that the Globe is for sale, something that's been clear for months — the company's top two executives have broken their [...]
Even many of us who think the Cambridge Police overreacted by arresting Henry Louis Gates in his own home have assumed — for the sake of argument if nothing else — that Sgt. James Crowley's report was accurate.
One thing that has struck me in the endless discussion over Henry Louis Gates' arrest is the difference in cultural attitudes between those who are defending Gates versus those siding with the Cambridge police.This afternoon in an interview, Gates said he never yelled at [...]
The partly free republic of Kazakhstan has taken a step toward greater repression, as President Nursultan Nazarbayev (photo) recently signed a bill aimed at cracking down on the Internet.
George Merry, a longtime political reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, who died on July 1, is someone I knew slightly. We were both graduates of Northeastern University, and George often attended events organized by our journalism alumni group in the 1980s.
In my latest for the Guardian, I weigh in on the life and long career of CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite.
The Bay State Banner may survive. According to the Boston Globe's Meghan Irons, Harvard Law School professor Charles Ogletree (photo) says he has lined up a dozen investors to save the weekly newspaper, which serves Greater Boston's African-American community. Ogletree says the Banner, founded [...]
The student-run Huntington News is taking the social-media route to covering the collapse of a cornice on a Northeastern University-owned residence hall on Huntington Avenue.
My Fourth of July is complete. As always, I read the Declaration of Independence in the Boston Globe from start to finish. It's a great tradition, and I hope it remains unchanged as long as the Globe is in business.