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Best/Worst case scenarios when Obama takes office

Fear and loathing? Or happy days? The only thing we know for sure about the coming year is that we're all in this together.
It will be the best of times. Or, perhaps, it will be the worst.

By: MIKE MILIARD | December 30, 2008

Obama's no FDR

Nor should he aspire to be because, trite but true, things are very different now
As we enter a new year, a new administration, and indeed a new era, the advice most given to Barack Obama is model your presidency after that of Franklin D. Roosevelt's.

By: STEVEN STARK | December 31, 2008

Defense of Marriage Act protest

DOMA Demo
The national LGBT equality group Join the Impact hopes to galvanize sympathizers across the country to demonstrate in their home towns on Saturday, January 10, in protest of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | December 30, 2008

MBTA relaunches Random Baggage Inspection program

MBTA cops never stopped inspecting your bags
These days, the morning commute is hardly complete without a newspaper, coffee, and potential violation of one's Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure .

By: CHRIS FARAONE | December 31, 2008

The year of the nerd

Screw the jocks and prom queens — in 2008, geeks took control of entertainment, pro sports . . . even the White House
Barack Obama is many things. Dedicated senator. Devoted husband and father. Adept orator. President-elect. Nerd.

By: RYAN STEWART | December 24, 2008

Obama's rise to power through cash

Obama's victory was bought and paid for — with change
Conventional wisdom dictates that Barack Obama was swept into office on the winds of change.

By: STEVEN STARK | December 24, 2008

Year in review: Women in politics

Women in politics came a long way in 2008, but the weight of double standards endures
It was almost a banner year for women in politics.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | December 24, 2008

Take Back Barack

It's time to reclaim the man we put in the White House
It's time to reclaim the man we put in the White House

By: JEFF INGLIS + DEIRDRE FULTON | December 19, 2008

Eight years of editorials on Bush

Editorials throughout the years

By: PHOENIX STAFF | December 18, 2008

Rupert Murdoch owns the news

How did a controversial media reporter get total access to the most — and perhaps most — newspaper man in the world? He just asked.
No point in looking for an explanation or asking "why" something was said or done; Murdoch has no demonstrated ability to do so.

By: DANIEL MCCARTHY | December 18, 2008

20 reasons the Earth is glad to see Bush go

As our 43rd president scrambles to screw further with Mother Nature, a look at the ways our planet will be better off under Obama
The planet Earth usually tries to stay out of politics. It doesn't endorse candidates. It doesn't run attack ads. It doesn't even register as a lobbyist.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | December 19, 2008

Obama's Green team

Meet Obama's Green Dream Team
The past eight years have been marked by alternating feckless inactivity and outright hostility toward the environment.

By: MIKE MILIARD | December 18, 2008

Organ bill filed in State Senate

Desperately seeking organ donors
The family of a two-and-a-half-year-old Gloucester boy hopes that a new bill, filed in the State Senate by North Shore state senator Bruce Tarr on Monday, December 15, will prompt increased participation in organ donation, especially pediatric organs.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | December 17, 2008

Dorchester Peace Institute fights for its life

Dorchester Peace Institute fights for its life...and wins
Though the timing was merely coincidental, it seemed extra harsh for Governor Deval Patrick to slash funding for the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute right before Survivors of Homicide Victims Awareness Month.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | December 17, 2008

Sexual assault prevention programs at risk

Will funding cuts thwart area schools' efforts to stop sexual assault before it starts?
Combating sexual assault is especially tough if your workspace is the size of a professional basketball player's shoebox.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | December 12, 2008

Bringing unsexy back

Because There Was an Election
The problem with dropping our Unsexiest list in March of an election year is that we never know what kind of weasels, Republicans, and Republican weasels will urinate in America’s stream of consciousness down the final stretch.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | December 12, 2008