StageStruck: In the Bernstein

StageStruck: In the Bernstein

This summer at Shakespeare & Company, a season of edgy contemporary works has unfolded in the company's Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. It's an intimate, rough-hewn space in S&Co's new, $10 million Production and Performing Arts Center, a former...

Crazy About Health Care

In a decade or two, we'll look back on the conflagration that's currently passing for healthcare debate with the softening of years. These events will no doubt look different depending on one's political proclivities. That's always somewhat...
Between Too Far and  Not Far Enough

Between Too Far and Not Far Enough

Like many Democratic legislators, U.S. Rep. Richard Neal of Springfield has had to contend with his share of conservative hecklers as he's worked his way through his district trying to drum up support for the Obama administration's healthcare reform plans....

Imperium Watch: A Hard Time to Be Dead

The current economic troubles have spawned pictures of streets lined with foreclosed houses, growing homeless populations and people camped out waiting for free exams at health care fairs. Now a new image embodying the current economic difficulties has surfaced in the...

Getting Hurt in Europe

When I was in college, I traveled to Europe several times. On three occasions I came into close and personal contact with the health care systems of Britain and the Netherlands, and I've never forgotten how profoundly different the experiences were from anything...