Mass incarceration harms the health of prisoners, their families and the people who work in detention centers.
Articles on Massachusetts
Displaying 41 - 48 of 48 articles
HIV, STIs and other dangerous infections are feeding off of the opioid epidemic, creating an even more complicated threat to public health.
Standardized test scores drive many of our decisions about students, teachers and school districts. But research shows that the results are highly predictable, in a bad way.
Of the 34 state ballot initiatives seeking to limit or abolish the death penalty, 31 have failed. Is this democracy at its worst?
When do words at an end-of-life decision constitute a crime? A law professor explains why lawmakers should act to clear up the gray area that remains.
Neither Democratic candidate for president has gotten the endorsement of Massachusetts’ junior senator. Here’s a look at Elizabeth Warren’s long game playbook.
Boston’s bid to host the Olympics in 2024 suffered from misplaced priorities, yet it offered a rare opportunity for large-scale community development.
Charlie Baker is the new Governor of Massachusetts and, doggone it, he likes government. Though this notion is antithetical to most elite Republican office holders, Governor Baker is firmly in the blue…
Top contributors
-
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
-
Professor of Law, Boston University
-
Professor of Earth Science, University of Connecticut
-
Associate Professor of Political Science, UMass Boston
-
Professor of English, UMass Lowell
-
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law, Wayne State University; Institute for Humane Studies
-
Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering and Faculty Director of The Energy Transition Institute, UMass Amherst
-
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics & Gynecology, UMass Chan Medical School
-
Associate Director and Professor, School of Public Policy, Penn State
-
Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University
-
Associate Professor of Obstetrics-Gynecology and Pediatrics, UMass Chan Medical School
-
Professor of Law, Boston University
-
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UMass Amherst
-
Ph.D. Candidate in Genetics and Genomics, Texas A&M University
-
Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution