Author: Samuel Needham
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Temple of Robbers and Thieves: Massachusetts Episcopals Call on Bank of America to Repent
Under a gray churning sky, as those with roofs over their heads in Boston threw together preparations for Sandy’s landfall, a group of Episcopalians made their stand against Bank of America. Two tempests were fuming a short time ago: one has subsided, leaving a trail of destruction here and to the south. But the other,…
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The Making of Willard "Mitt" Romney
Recently disgraced conservative tent-pole Dinesh D’Souza has devoted the last three years of his public life to establishing a sort of determinism in Barack Obama’s administration. Obama’s father, as D’Souza argues in print and film, has wielded incalculable influence on his son’s career as an anticolonial activist, community organizer, academic, and politician. In a Forbes…
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Homeless Vote: Losing one's home does not mean one loses the right to vote
Tucked away in a corner of the mail-in voter registration form for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a small diagram of a city intersection, with streets labeled north, south, east and west. This chart, for those who cannot describe their place of residence “as a number and street or as a rural route and box…