No American writer explores the conundrums of buddhism like Lawrence Shainberg. In his new memoir he searches for his essential nature with two iconic writers and the wackiest Zen master ever.
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Movies do more than entertain us, they mirror our collective anxieties and propose solutions: much the same way that politicians do. And none have more effectively mixed politics and entertainment than Ronald Reagan and his direct descendant, Donald Trump.
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Assistant Majority Whip, the only openly gay, as well as the youngest member of the Massachusetts State Senate, Julian Cyr talks about his fight for the state’s most vulnerable citizens.
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Erin McAleer is the President of the state’s largest anti-hunger organization and as a child she knew hunger first hand. Right now thousands of Massachusetts families are ‘food insecure’ and she tells us what she’s doing about it.
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Shellfishing is back breaking work with many pressures. But as if bacterial infections, predators, and hazardous waste aren’t enough, a proposed new law may be paving the way for independent shellfish farmers to be replaced by large corporations.
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Tim McCarthy was a gay media historian who travelled the world making a video record of human rights abuses against LGBTQ people. After he died suddenly, his friends created a Human Rights Champion Award in his honor.
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Best-selling author Dan Okrent talks about eugenics, the pseudo-science that influenced the Nazis and made the fear of immigrant degenerates tainting the blood of white America the law of the land.
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Los Angeles Times reporter Sam Quinones recounts how a flood of prescription pain meds, along with black tar heroin from Mexico, became as easy to buy as pizza and small cities all over middle America became heartlands of addiction.
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Former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe gets real about working with Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions, and an administration that places personal loyalty above national security and counter terrorism.
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