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Learn about the most important issues facing Massachusetts from the people in charge and the people most affected.
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Journalist Noah Schaffer joined WBUR's Morning Edition to share a great list not-so-traditional holiday concerts for those who want to hear something different this year.
The Boston Athenaeum has more than 200 publications in nearly three dozen Indigenous languages from the U.S. and Canada that are being used for revitalization work.
The Trump administration announced plans to re-vet and re-interview refugees who were admitted to the U.S. under President Biden. That will affect thousands of immigrants living in Massachusetts, according to a local resettlement agency leader.
Scientists have been trying to solve the riddle of fusion energy for decades. Scott Kirsner, a columnist with our editorial partner MassLive, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to report on Commonwealth Fusion Systems' progress.
Giselle Byrd, a Black transgender woman, runs a theater company in Boston. She spoke with WBUR Morning Edition Host Tiziana Dearing about how her life has changed following the harassment campaign and why she's determined to stay on the commission.
Policy analyst Evan Horowitz makes the case that Massachusetts should be able to keep those already on Medicaid insured, despite new eligibility rules that were signed into law by President Trump earlier this year.
Larry Summers spent decades leaving his fingerprints on Greater Boston's academic and political institutions. Now, as details of Summers' friendship with Jeffrey Epstein trickle out, those institutions face a reckoning.
"Remixed: The Unexpected Side of Science" is a full dome show, produced by the Museum of Science, Boston in partnership with the Dope Labs Podcast team.
Volunteers who've experienced suicide loss themselves offer support to those in the throes of a loved one's suicide. They're known as LOSS teams, which stands for Local Outreach to Suicide Survivors.
311 Omakase, a tiny but elaborate sushi restaurant in the South End, received Boston's first Michelin star at a ceremony Tuesday night.
Joyce Tavon heads the nonprofit Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance. She joined WBUR's All Things Considered to explain why she thinks new federal homelessness assistance requirements will upend a longtime policy that works.
Former Mass. state Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz and Boston Globe political reporter James Pindell join WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss how likely the strategy is to pay off — and who gets hurt if it doesn't.
Massachusetts Congressman Jake Auchincloss joins WBUR's Morning Edition to share his thoughts on the deal to end the government shutdown.
Fall River Bishop Edgar Moreira da Cunha is pushing back on the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations. He says they've gone too far and are hurting families.
Jenn Brezniak grew up on her grandfather's turkey farm in Lancaster. She speaks with WBUR's Morning Edition about the role generational farms play in communities.
Scott Kirsner, a columnist with our editorial partner MassLive, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss a recent trip to the lab and the future of robotic caregivers.
After four decades on the federal bench, Judge Mark Wolf explains why he left.
Healey argues the compromise doesn't sufficiently protect the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that Democrats have made the centerpiece of the shutdown fight.
Dr. Leah Pierson says that, to settle any open questions about both Tylenol and other medications, drugmakers must do something uncomfortable.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu sat down with WBUR Morning Edition host Tiziana Dearing about the growing role of mayors in America and several other topics.
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