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Questions For: Will Leitch, Part II

In yesterday’s installment of Questions For, we engaged in a lively back and forth with one Will Leitch, the genius behind Deadspin and the author […]

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If We Ignore Him, He’ll Go Away

Struggling artists are a lot like recalcitrant children—if you pay attention to their negative behavior, they’ll learn to keep misbehaving. Boston City Council President Maureen […]

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The Hill and the Hall Week in Review

Each Friday, Paul McMorrow will take you inside the smoke-filled rooms and darkly-lit corridors of government to bring you the hottest and juiciest political tidbits. […]

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Clinton or Obama, Or Not

Well, how’s that for timing? On the same day that the Herald not so subtly raised the point that Massachusetts politicians are choosing up sides […]

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Questions For… Will Leitch

You probably know Will Leitch from the groundbreaking website Deadspin, where he and his merry band of commenters gleefully skewer the sports world every day. […]

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Breaking: Kerry to Endorse Obama

We were pretty sure the Democratic National Committee had gagged Sen. John Kerry and locked him in a basement. After his swiftboating and defeat at […]

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More New Hampshire Fallout

Last night, the media was on auto-pilot. As the moments until the New Hampshire polls closed crept closer, the pundits talked about the implosion of […]

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And the Winner Is. . .

The thrill of victory. The agony of defeat. Both were evident in spades at last night’s BoMag primary viewing party. We’ve got six long days […]

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Dispatches from Romneyland

Mitt Romney and his supporters are robots. Whether that’s in a real sense, or a metaphoric one, may be a mystery for the ages, since […]

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Duke: Cool with Jerry, Not with Howie

Alex Beam’s column today is another phoned-in meta job of little interest to anyone, but there’s a nice bit at the end about a new […]

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Last Night’s Primary

Wow. That’s what I kept saying last night while watching the returns from New Hampshire. (Actually, I kept saying holy shit, but I was trying […]

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Stealing the Cahds from Hahvahd Yahd

Fairly or unfairly, there is a tendency to pounce whenever something goes wrong at Harvard. Nobody would care, people say, if it weren’t Harvard. Everyone […]

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Mitt Romney: Not a Cuddler

As we cruise the internet this afternoon, trying to get through these last painful hours before primary results start to filter in, we noticed something. […]

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Questions for…Walter Lewin

When we last saw MIT physics professor Walter Lewin—the craziest, funniest professor this side of Buddy Love—he was enjoying minute seven of his 15 minutes […]

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Snowstorms and the Second Amendment

When a snowstorm or other weather system descends upon our fair state, our first instinct is to stock up on bread and milk (. . […]