For nearly 50 years, the powerful words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’€™s “I Have a Dream” have been quoted all over the world. But too few people know or remember the central metaphor that made up the first half of Dr. King’s speech: the bounced check America had written to its Black and poor […]

What is it about dwarfs? It has long since become unacceptable, at least in public, to belittle ethnic and religious minorities, gays and lesbians, and people with disabilities. Yet dwarfs remain figures of fun, and those who demean them are rarely held to account. As the father of a teenage daughter with dwarfism, I find […]

In the past few weeks alone, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Cisco Systems and Borders have all announced massive layoffs. Borders is closing its retail stores, auctioning off its holdings and letting go 10,000 employees as, due to online competition, the company is no longer profitable and filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. In contrast, […]

The Department of Homeland Security announced plans this week to review 300,000 pending deportation cases in federal immigration courts to determine which individuals meet specific criteria for removal and to focus on “our highest priorities.”

As a criminologist, I was drawn to the interactive map of this year’s Boston homicides that was featured in boston.com earlier this month. The concentration of murders in the city’€™s poorest neighborhoods of Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan is obvious yet hardly surprising. These areas of the city have long been “hot spots” for violence.

Can violence by sports fans be addressed by legislation?

Panicked investors are taking money out of the stock market and putting it into another recently distressed investment — real estate.

Many were surprised to learn that an earthquake that occurred in Virginia could be felt as far north as Toronto and as far south as North Carolina.

Builders of a problem-plagued Big Dig tunnel may have underestimated the sensitive nature of deep underground marine clay -€” considered as fragile as a house of cards -€” when undertaking one of the world’s largest “ground freezing”€ projects, according to an engineering expert.

In order to live, 14-year-old Jenny Asay has to poke herself with a needle more than a dozen times a day.

It was the final day of the 2004 presidential campaign and John Kerry, trying to show his hard-traveling press corps some love, was handing out Team Kerry fleece jackets as mementoes. The sentimentality of the moment faltered slightly when he got to me, handed me a jacket and told me €”in a really nice, solicitous […]