“Margo was far from a one-trick activist, so to speak, and she was — from many years of pro-prostitution rabblerousing in San Francisco — very connected to city politics,” Good Vibrations sexologist Dr. Carol Queen said in a statement. “Margo was an extraordinary role model not only for those of us who worked directly with the sex worker’s rights movement — she lit a match to create a flame that hasn’t burned out and has changed the way people across the country think of sex work.”

Josh Hawley made a cynical bet about the Republican Party's future. He might not be wrong.

A man allegedly used racial slurs during a suspected road rage incident in Belmont Tuesday, a confrontation that lead to the death of a 35-year-old Black Boston man, authorities said Wednesday.

The parable is a story that I grew up learning from family members. It was a very visceral memory for many of them. There was a grand, resort-style public swimming pool in the heart of their community. In fact, in the United States there were more than 2,000 of them that were built with tax dollars over the '20s, '30s, and '40s. In many ways, it was one of the most real, everyday examples of the New Deal consensus of government being a force for the improvement of the everyday quality of life of its citizens. Yet in so many of these communities, the pools were for whites only or were segregated. In the 1950s and '60s, as the courts began to knock down these segregation codes in recreational facilities, many towns in virtually every region of the country decided to drain their public swimming pools, rather than integrate them. This happened in St. Louis. It happened in West Virginia, in Ohio, in Florida, and Louisiana. When racism drained the public pool, everyone in the town — including white families — lost out. It's the parable at the heart of “The Sum of Us,” because in many ways the era that I've known my whole life, the inequality era, has been defined most dramatically by the hollowing out of the public goods that we share in common, an era of austerity and a lack of investment in public infrastructure. Both the crumbling public infrastructure that we have, whether it's dams that are breaching and bridges that are collapsing and pipes that are leaching, or the kind of social infrastructure that we desperately need that we haven't even invested in like truly universal health care and child care. The opening sentence of my book asks, “Why can’t we have nice things?” And the answer is that racism has drained our pools.

Corporate America is ready to put the past behind them and hire former Trump staffers.

Last October, Stephen Brussard sued Harvard in federal court in Boston, alleging he was fired as a maintenance worker for blowing the whistle on managers having other employees work on their homes. The case was randomly assigned to US District Court Judge Patti Saris, who promptly recused herself because she lectures at Harvard Law School and her husband teaches at Harvard Business School. The case, - which Harvard has asked to be dismissed s, in part because it says Brussard was technically a contractor, not an employee - was reassigned to Judge William Young. Brussard's lawyer asked that Young recuse himself from the case as well, because he has some Harvard ties of his own: Young graduated from both Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he has taught classes at Harvard Law, has participated in its pro-bono legal program and is a member of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

President Joe Biden is pledging to reopen most K-12 schools within 100 days -- an ambitious goal as Covid cases surge and teachers across the country fight some plans to reopen.

Biden signed executive actions to require masks on all federal grounds and ask agencies to extend eviction moratoriums.

investigators believe drugs may be involved

The Vermont senator’s normcore style has come to represent his honest, practical politics

With little more than a week left to the Trump administration, the Department of Health and Human Services has finalized a rule permitting social-service providers that receive government funds to discriminate based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Critics claim the new guidance could have wide-ranging implications for agencies that address adoption and foster-parenting, as well as homelessness, HIV prevention, elder care and other public services.

President Biden's swearing-in as the nation's 46th president has punctured the hopes of some QAnon followers whopushedthe conspiracy theory that claimed former President Trump would remain in office and arrest top Democrats o

The Biden administration has asked for the resignation of the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel, Trump-appointee Peter Robb, according to four people familiar with the decision.

The organizer of Boston’s “Straight Pride Parade” and a Natick Town Meeting member — both avowed President Trump supporters — are the latest to be arrested.

There’s nothing I will miss about the last four years, but among the many things to which I am happily waving goodbye is the Trump Grifting Industrial Complex. Donald has always surrounded himself with unsavory types, from hilariously inept allies like leaky Giuliani to outrage-millers champing greedily at his heels like the Krassenstein brothers. But it’s the ancillary content engines that I’m hoping will now dry up. You know the ones: The hacks who figured...

Supporters of the unhinged QAnon conspiracy theories were soul searching on Wednesday after Joe Biden became president of the United States without being arrested in "the storm" allegedly predicted. "I'm the laughing stock of my family," one conspiracy theorist lamented. Vice News reported mor...

After the presidential election last year, the Proud Boys, a far-right group, declared its undying loyalty to President Trump. In a Nov. 8 post in a private channel of the messaging app Telegram, the group urged its followers to attend protests against an election that it said had been fraudulently stolen from Mr. Trump. “Hail Emperor Trump,” the Proud Boys wrote. But by this week, the group’s attitude toward Mr. Trump had changed. “Trump will go down as a total failure,” the Proud Boys said in the same Telegram channel on Monday.

While some QAnon disciples gave way to doubt as Trump's term ended, others doubled down on blind belief or strained to see new coded messages in the Inauguration Day’s events.

He's never been more isolated. The coming StackOverflowError will be a real test for his administration.

Why wear a mask that fits in your pocket when you can buy something 50 times more cumbersome.