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On Point news analyst Jack Beatty brings historical context to analysis that President Trump’s war with Iran has no realistic off-ramp.

In a posthumously published book, the former Massachusetts congressman spells out where he believes the party went wrong and how it helped fuel the rise of Donald Trump and his brand of "xenophobic populism."

Borders have always been more than lines on a map, marking where one culture gives way to another and traditions collide.

Combining archival imagery and his pictures of present-day landscapes, the photographer and writer brings new meaning to places like Franklin Park and Martha’s Vineyard, where his family traces its roots.

The Boston-based artist envisions life in Latin America if Spanish colonization had never happened with his project “A Él Mismo."

The Roxbury artist’s work offers a way to cross between worlds, from life-size slave cabins to sacred “ring shouts” that connect the living to the dead.

The educator and writer spends a lot of her time thinking about mycelia.

The Boston-based marimbist knew he wanted to have a life in music from the moment he first touched a marimba.

The pianist's compositions unfold like chapters in a story of artistic evolution.

The multimedia artist’s appreciation of traditional techniques and materials is a way for ancestral wisdom to be passed to newer generations and audiences.

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This episode was originally released on June 11, 2018.

Deaton spent about an hour and a half inside ICE's New England headquarters with a campaign staffer, who ICE also allowed in for the tour.

Health officials in Massachusetts are expanding their advice about alcohol use to emphasize the health risks of regular drinking.

Historian Beverly Gage hit the road to learn about our country's history.

Older Americans have amassed massive wealth, power and voter influence.

The Tufts University Prison Initiative offers higher education courses inside the state prison in Shirley and a re-entry program.

For years, many attorneys for the Committee for Public Counsel Services have tried to form a union.

Here are some tips from local experts on raptor watching during fall migration season, including where to go in Massachusetts and what you might see.

The strike will be open-ended, meaning it’s unclear how long the 4,000 staff nurses would leave their jobs.

President Trump has found himself on the defensive, campaigning in red states with one month to go before elections.

On "Reckoning," Mary Gauthier unpacks her recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.

Over the next four months the, G7 nations are going to release as many as 100 million barrels of emergency oil and diesel stocks.

The book follows the lives of four young women as they start a new life in America — learning English, repeating college and forging new identities.

The state of Tennessee tried and failed to execute her on Wednesday.

On Sept. 11, 2001, Brooklyn firefighter Stephen Siller, just off an overnight shift, saw the planes hit the towers.

The marriage has curdled for tech titan Morgan Henderson (Dominic West) and his movie-star spouse, Carla Duval (Sienna Miller), after she orchestrates her own husband's infidelity.

Rural voters, especially farmers, have largely voted conservative in recent years.

Bendancer danced for 168 hours over seven days, seemingly smashing the previous record of 127 hours set by a dancer in India.

A new generation of mothers looking for community online is often feeling manipulated by the $60-billion U.S. baby product market to buy, buy, buy.

Americans owe $220 billion in medical debt, according to a federal survey.

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"Cowboy boots are still work boots for plenty of people," writes Cog editor Kate Neale Cooper.

Topsfield Fair organizers say some of the giant pumpkins could at Friday's contest break fair — or even world — records.

Two Massachusetts men have been sentenced to probation and given fines after they pleaded guilty to setting off fireworks at an empty Harvard Medical School building in 2025.

Robin Schoenthaler wanted to buy cowboy boots for a Texas wedding.

"Flock and other companies are building an omnipresent digital dragnet without democratic consent, enabling law enforcement to track people across the country with the click of a mouse," writes Gideon Epstein, of the ACLU of Massachusetts.

The internet is the great connector.

This week, the attorney general's office released its investigation on clergy sexual abuse in the Worcester, Springfield and Fall River dioceses.

In her new novel, "Hocus Pocus," Keene State professor Brinda Charry follows an Indian stage magician through a frozen 1816 Boston, where audiences see him as a curiosity.

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Judge William Sullivan issued the decision Thursday, stating that prosecutors had offered enough evidence for a jury to decide whether Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three children.

DraftKings was sued in a federal class-action lawsuit in Massachusetts.

After spending 8 years running focus groups with voters, the former Republican operative and Never-Trumper says she knows not only how voters think but why they vote the way they do.

Most adults in the U.S. cannot consistently afford health care.

This time of year, when peppers come in a rainbow of colors and shapes and sizes and flavors, it’s hard not to love sweet peppers.

Death row inmate Christa Pike survived two injections intended to kill her.

Santa Rosa Island is one of only two naturally occurring groves or Torrey pines in the world.

Are any of the recent unsettling food-related headlines related to FDA cuts?