Journalism

We remain trapped in Reagan-era contradictions, the decade when America roared and workers lost their security. From The Boston Globe Karen Nussbaum, cofounder of the 9to5 nonprofit organization, featured in the 2021 documentary “9to5: The Story of a Movement.” GLOBEDOCS FILM FESTIVAL Reporters like to say that our stories are the first draft of history. It’s a comforting cliché, implying that even if we miss the grand trajectory of an era while typing on deadline, our dispat

From Bloomberg John Rogers was a Wall Street pioneer during a decade of Black advancement, but his success reveals a divide within Black America that has only grown wider. Illustration: Matt Williams for Bloomberg Many Americans worry about the wealth gap between Black and White America. Less noticed is a divide that has grown even faster: the one within Black America. The top 10% of Black earners now make almost 10 times what the bottom 10% make, a wider gap than among White

From Time.com fotograzia—Getty Images Like most Americans, I arrived at the election watch party on Nov. 4, 1980, expecting a long night. It was a little before 9:00 p.m. in Chicago. By 9:05 the television networks had called the election for Ronald Reagan and against Jimmy Carter. I was 24. The party’s host, a good friend and conservative, Reagan-supporting medical student, laughed exuberantly. Stragglers walking into the party were stunned that the election night was alread

Read the full piece at The New York Times. I spent the 1980s in newsrooms and boardrooms, watching companies get reshaped, watching regulators get dismantled, watching a small group of conservative strategists play a very long game. At the time, I thought I was covering a temporary correction, a pendulum swing that would eventually swing back. It didn't. In my new guest essay for The New York Times, I argue that we're not living after the 1980s. We're living in them. The deca

From Northeastern Global News Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Since the Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel, the Associated Press and most American news organizations have defined Hamas as a “militant group.” But not all news organizations. More than 60 dailies owned by Alden Global Capital ran an editorial urging the news media to describe Hamas a “terrorist organization.” Who’s right? It depends who you ask, says Jonathan Kaufman, director of Northeastern’s S

From WCVB Boston President Joe Biden is confirming that U.S. citizens are among the hostages captured by Hamas in this weekend’s attack on Israel. Hundreds of civilians have been killed, including at least 14 American citizens. Biden condemned the militant group for "sheer evil." A Belmont, Massachusetts, man who lives in Israel and another man whose family has been captured by Hamas are sharing their stories. More Here...

From The Wall Street Journal For more than a century, the fortunes of the powerful Kadoorie family have been a barometer of Chinese openness to the world. Michael Kadoorie (second from left) with David Li, CEO of the Bank of East Asia (fourth from left), and other guests at the opening of the Peninsula Shanghai Hotel in 2010. Alamy Since 1880, when an Iraqi Jewish refugee named Elly Kadoorie arrived in Hong Kong, China has gone through a series of revolutions—from domination

From The Boston Globe Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the revolutions in Eastern Europe, a reporter who was on the ground weighs the fallout. Presidential candidate Vaclav Havel waves to his supporters from a balcony in Prague in December 1989.REUTERS On a chilly November evening in the fall of 1989, I stood on a busy street in Prague and wondered if spring would return. Twenty-one years earlier, in 1968, the “Prague Spring” had brought students and workers

From HuffPost Banning the Washington Post from covering his campaign rallies isn't just a sign of Donald Trump's distrust of the press. Reporters are an early warning system. History shows that politicians who turn against the media and cut off their access don't stop there. Banning the Washington Post from covering his campaign rallies isn't just a sign of Donald Trump's distrust of the press. Reporters are an early warning system. History shows that politicians who turn aga

From The Wall Street Journal Barack Obama's rise is driving a sometimes uncomfortable debate in the black community: What does it mean to be black in America? Sen. Obama embodies contradictions in the community that are starting to bubble to the surface -- largely out of the earshot of whites. He is the biracial son of an African father and a white mother in a community where most people are descended from slavery or whose ancestors had direct experience with segregation. He

From The Wall Street Journal WARREN, Mich. -- Stan Sheyn, a white student who attends community college in this working-class Detroit suburb, supports Barack Obama for president. But he has no time for what he calls "double standards and propagation of victim mentality." "The fact that a black man can run for the position of the President of the United States of America only corroborates that there is enough opportunity and equality for great things like that to happen," he s

From The Wall Street Journal FARMINGTON, Conn. -- Jennifer Glickman, a 17-year-old high school junior, gets so stressed some days from overwork and lack of sleep that she feels sick to her stomach and gets painful headaches. A straight-A student, she recently announced at a college preparatory meeting with her mother and guidance counselor that she doesn't want to apply to Princeton and the other Ivy League schools that her counselor thinks she could get into. "My mom wants m

From The Wall Street Journal DURHAM, N.C. -- Walking into his "Race and Politics" class recently, David Sparks, a white Duke University political-science graduate student, considered whether to move from his usual seat in the group of white students who always clustered at one end of the seminar table to sit with the black students who typically sat at the other end. Mr. Sparks didn't do it. "It would have felt too conspicuous," he says. Still, on Tuesday's primary here, Mr.

From The Wall Street Journal ELGIN, S.C. -- Briana Parker, a 17-year-old African-American, drives her Honda every Wednesday from her suburban home here to the local Barack Obama headquarters to work the phone banks. Already accepted at six colleges, the high-school senior finds Mr. Obama an inspiration. "He reminds me that I can go and do things that others said I couldn't do," says Ms. Parker, who plans to double major at college and become a physical therapist. Seventeen mi

From The Wall Street Journal Portland, Maine Isaiah Oliver, a 24-year-old white social worker, grew up in this overwhelmingly white city and attended the predominantly white University of Richmond in Virginia. Ask him why he supports Barack Obama and he says it's because of the candidate's race. "Because he's black it makes me want to believe that he will change things," says Mr. Oliver, leaving an Obama campaign rally here. "It feels like you are part of something that's sta

From The Wall Street Journal Even in a hip-hop world, there comes a time when every boy needs a suit. Like most 13-year-olds, my son Ben usually wears jeans and a T-shirt, occasionally alternating with basketball warm-up pants and a T-shirt or, for summer occasions, shorts. And a T-shirt. But suits still make the young man -- whether the occasion is a confirmation, a wedding, or a high-school graduation. And when it comes to buying that first suit, it's often dads who supervi

From The Wall Street Journal BEIJING -- It took the Boston Red Sox 86 years to win a world championship. It took me flying 34 hours and 13,468 miles to see them. It all started with an e-mail sent by a Boston friend in the eighth inning of Game 7 of the American League Championship Series with the New York Yankees, with the Red Sox on the verge of going to the World Series. For several years until we moved to Beijing in 2002, our families shared season tickets at Fenway Park