Eight years after the Supreme Court's controversial decision, a ballot initiative in Massachusetts is asking voters to say on the record that they oppose the ruling.
If elected governor, the Democrat is proposing big initiatives: universal access to high quality preschool and childcare, debt-free college tuition at public colleges and an endowment tax.
Death is a topic all parents have to address with their kids eventually. The experts offer some guidelines, writes Cloe Axelson, but in the moment, what does a parent say?
The idea is to build seawalls and natural barriers, and elevate roads in low-lying areas by as much as 7 feet to prevent flooding from rising sea levels.
Gov. Charlie Baker focused the first two years of his term on expanding charter schools in Massachusetts. When that failed, Baker shifted much of his attention to other smaller programs such as making college affordable and upgrading vocational technical schools.
West Roxbury Academy and Urban Science Academy, which share a building, are slated to close at the end of this school year. Officials also plan to close the John W. McCormack Middle School in Columbia Point by summer 2020.
WBUR Edify reporter Carrie Jung was in federal court on Monday for day one of a suit saying Harvard University discriminates against Asian-Americans, and joined Morning Edition to discuss what happened.
Translating Shakespeare allowed Migdalia Cruz to settle into her power as a playwright, to take ownership of her talent, she said. "It made me feel really free. After years of being treated as less than."
Lawyers laid out their key arguments in opening statements Monday, and Dean of Admissions William Fitzsimmons took to the stand to defend the university.
Speculation that Sen. Elizabeth Warren will be launching a presidential bid in 2020 is mounting in the wake of her carefully-orchestrated release of a DNA test supporting her claim that she has Native American heritage.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's campaign is out this morning with a DNA test that shows Warren does have Native American ancestry. It comes after years of accusations that Warren faked her heritage in order to further her career.
In the latest episode of Last Seen, WBUR and The Boston Globe's look at the largest unsolved art heist in history, the investigation turns "The Bobbys" -- Bobby Guarente and Bobby Gentile.
