For more than a decade, my year-end blogs have typically presented readers with a list of headlines I hoped to see in the coming year. Some were aspirational, some were funny, some were caustic. You often contributed your own imaginings to the list. Last year, my top headline for 2020 announced Donald Trump's defeat and …
Month: December 2020
Famed documentarian captures City Hall and Hizzonah
Boston City Hall, often damned for its award-winning but decidedly Brutalist architecture, is nonetheless home to Boston's fundamental humanity. Mayor Marty Walsh is a man of the people, and the people who work there, who serve the public, who represent government to the citizenry, are the glue that holds together all the disparate and diverse …
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Books for giving, for savoring
FICTION Homeland Elegies, this year’s novel by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Ayad Akhtar, is a stunning book about what it means to be Muslim - in America and in the author’s father’s home country of Pakistan. It is so autobiographical it's easy to forget that it is fiction. The thread among the stories is the …
Monetizing the Presidency for a last big pay day
Donald Trump's use of lies and deceit to swindle the American people out of an authenticated election, the very cornerstone of our democracy, is just part of the problem. Dozens of legal challenges to the November 3 results have been thrown out of court. Recounts and audits have been implemented, by both Republican and Democratic …
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Marjorie Arons-Barron 