September 19, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS APPARENT HORIZON: Your Gateway to a Better Universe is the full title of my new column and it was inspired by a somewhat rarefied area of scientific inquiry. Current hypotheses in theoretical physics — notably one recently propounded by Stephen Hawking — discuss the region surrounding a black hole as an “apparent horizon.” Unlike the […]
LABOUR HATERS: The Boston Globe’s Worrisome Rightward Lurch
September 17, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS There was a time when the Boston Globe was led by what Americans like to call “good liberals.” In global terms that would have made them perhaps center-left at best. Reliably progressive on social issues. Able to at least consider the public good in political economic discussions while trumpeting the […]
LABOR BLUES
Boston Fight for 15 March, April 2015 — Photo © 2015 Jason Pramas September 10, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS A number of contradictions hung in the air at the Greater Boston Labor Council’s annual Labor Day breakfast on Monday. Foremost among them was that the Democratic Party-dominated Massachusetts legislature has agreed to release the MBTA from the provisions […]