Fittingly, and somewhat depressingly, Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year for 2016 is ‘post-truth.’ In a year of politics demonstrating that feelings count as facts, the Oxford Dictionary defined ‘post-truth’ as “denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal…

I deeply admire you, Senator Elizabeth Warren, which is why I was looking to you for answers last week. “Donald Trump ran a campaign that started with racial attacks and then rode the escalator down. Millions of Americans — African-Americans, Latinos, Muslims, LGBT Americans, women — have every right to…

In a few weeks, Massachusetts will vote on lifting the cap on its number of charter schools. Naturally, this has led to a feud rivaling Shakespeare’s Montagues and Capulets — minus the star crossed lovers who will admit to liking someone from the other side. Wherever you live, you’ve likely…

No, I was never in the secret service. This was a teacher training program. From the back of my classroom, my “real-time coach” whispered into a microphone, a notebook covering his face so students couldn’t hear. If it sounds like a bizarre setup, it was. While it’s always helpful to…

This quote came from an aspiring author who had recently suffered a long stretch of writers’ block (we’re talking months here). How did she cure this chronic ailment? Well… She wrote. …