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December 27, 2020 By JONATHAN RILEY

SPECIAL FOLLOW-UP FEATURE: NUCLEAR FAMILY

For some with personal connections to past mistakes, the consequences of unfettered ingenuity are no more easily ignored than mushroom clouds on the horizon

Filed Under: Environment, Features, Oral Histories, Throwback Tagged With: Boston, Cambridge, features, history, longform, news, news to us, nuclear, nuclear energy, technology, throwback, Waltham

October 2, 2019 By ERIN NOLAN

GODSMACKED: BOSTON’S HIP CHRISTIANITY BOOM

While attendance at traditional churches is down, the celebrity-studded Hillsong is providing a boost for Boston Christianity, at least for now

Filed Under: Features, Reporting Tagged With: Boston, features, God, Hillsong, Justin Bieber, long reads, longform, longreads, Massachusetts, Millennials, religion

August 17, 2019 By ANA GONI-LESSAN

SEX, DRUGS, AND FENTANYL

Among the nightmares of an unprecedented epidemic, sex work gets more dangerous for opioid addicts

Filed Under: F.I.G.H.T., Features Tagged With: abuse, addiction, AIDS, Boston, drugs, F.I.G.H.T., feature, features, fentanyl, fight, healthcare, heroin, long read, longform, longreads, Lowell, Lynn, Massachusetts, Merrimack Valley, opiates, opioids, OxyContin, prostitution

July 3, 2019 By SETH KERSHNER

HAMPDEN COUNTY’S PEPPER SPRAY PROBLEM

Use of force reports from the Hampden County Correctional Center reveal disproportionate use of chemical force against prisoners with psychiatric disabilities

Filed Under: Features, Reporting, Reports Tagged With: Bristol County, corrections, criminal justice, feature, features, Hampden County, Human Rights Watch, incarcerations, longform, Massachusetts, pepper spray, police, prisons, Springfield, The Shoestring, western Mass

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