Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey is locked in a neck-and-neck race that Democrats need him to win to have any chance at holding their two-seat Senate majority. Continue reading →
The ridership drop largely reflects a more than decade-long decline in student enrollment in Boston Public Schools and offers another window into the financial strain it is causing. Continue reading →
Trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere when they perform photosynthesis. Does logging in national forests release too much carbon dioxide at a critical time for climate change? Continue reading →
Major businesses and their lobbying groups have seized on a set of recent Supreme Court decisions that sharply limit the government’s regulatory powers, aiming to advance dozens of lawsuits that could invalidate a vast array of federal climate, education, health, and labor rules. Continue reading →
Nearly half of all voters are skeptical that the American experiment in self-governance is working, with 45 percent believing that the nation’s democracy does not do a good job representing ordinary people, according to a new New York Times/Siena College poll. Continue reading →
If he wins the White House, he could disrupt or even dispose of the various criminal cases he is facing. But if he loses, he could become the first former president to lose his liberty, too. Continue reading →
The Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed Japan for all but four years since 1955, lost more than 50 seats in an election for the House of Representatives, the influential lower chamber of parliament, according to the public broadcaster, NHK. Continue reading →
The comments came as Israeli and US negotiators headed to Qatar in an effort to revive long-stalled talks aimed at brokering a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. Continue reading →
The T has been closing subway lines for weeks at a time to eliminate slowdowns and address a maintenance backlog. With that program ending, the focus now should be on riders. Continue reading →
Any institution, no matter how mission driven or unified in purpose, can expect to entertain disputes. The mark of a healthy institution, though, is the procedures it has in place to address these. Continue reading →
What must be done to reduce the harmful health effects of major storms and make our communities ready for the short- and long-term impacts of severe weather events? Continue reading →
The adjustments are coming quickly after hundreds of residents began clamoring for changes after a man was struck by an MBTA bus while in the crosswalk there earlier this month. Continue reading →
