BOSTON — The collapse of local news is a global crisis. And in countries around the world where...
Feb 19, 2021
America turns the page
WASHINGTON — Fireworks exploding spectacularly over a nearly deserted National Mall on Wednesday evening closed a nail-biting day...
Jan 21, 2021
Civil Rights generation sees echoes of Jim Crow in Capitol attack
WASHINGTON – Shirley Ann Queen remembers being 10 years old when Mr. Horton, the white owner of the...
Jan 18, 2021
How to recognize fascism
As the saying goes, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. As the world commemorates the 75th...
Jan 07, 2021
Photographers capture a world after war in ‘Imagine: Reflections on Peace’
Peace is not simply the absence of war. It is a complex and often-fragile condition that requires courage...
Dec 03, 2020
Attempted coup or auto-coup? Either way, an attack on the guardrails of democracy
WASHINGTON — Like yelling “fire!” in a crowded room, alleging an attempted coup is not something to be...
Nov 13, 2020
The significance of Kamala Harris’ election for women
WASHINGTON – This day, Nov. 7, 2020, will take a seat at the table as one of the...
Nov 12, 2020
An elegy for the American election
BOSTON -- Like great American poetry, this election speaks directly to who we are, and we need to...
Nov 06, 2020
Sectarian violence in America is not fiction anymore
It can happen here. With so much fear and loathing in America and militias armed with assault rifles...
Nov 02, 2020
Safer in Rwanda: Other Countries Are Taking COVID-19 Seriously, and It Shows
As an American documentary filmmaker on location in Rwanda, I saw what it takes to successfully flatten the...
Oct 29, 2020
