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Fatal Attraction

As the recent murders of two young women tragically demonstrate, it’s long past time this state got serious about teenage dating violence.

Family, Interrupted

When DJ Henry was shot to death by police last year, it made national headlines—a black college football player from a comfortable Boston suburb killed by white cops in Westchester County, New York. The media coverage focused on what had gone wrong and who was to blame. For DJ’s family, though, there was another important question: How do you grieve on a public stage?

The Long Goodbye

Jeff Gonski lost his fiancée during 9/11. Every September since has been an exercise in distraction—anything to avoid the memories. But with the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks this month, it’s time to look his loss in the eye.

Parents Gone Wild!

In the battle to protect their kids, adults are hurting the very people they claim to be looking out for.

Patrick’s Folly

In rushing to fix the system after a police officer was killed by a criminal on parole, our governor is leading us down the wrong path.

A Party of Asses

With Scott Brown’s reelection campaign gathering momentum, Democrats around here are stuck in a haze of nostalgia and complacency.

Boston Scientific and the Road to Ruin

How greed, incompetence, and arrogance brought the world’s leading medical device company to its knees.

Can These Styles Save Talbots?

The New England fashion bastion is struggling to emerge from its dowdy funk, but is it too late?

Out of the Mouths of Babes

Why are the Democrats trying to take from the poor and give to the rich?

Dead Air

Why should taxpayers be asked to fund a union-busting, freeloading corporate behemoth…like WGBH?