Pay Gap Increases

The boss makes more money than the worker bees; we all know that. But a new report underscores just how big that gap can be. According to Executive PayWatch 2013, CEOs at the biggest American corporations are paid 354 times what the average rank-and-file worker makes....

Critics Fight Dog Searches of Prison Visitors

  The Mass. Department of Corrections is considering a new policy that would subject prison visitors to searches by drug-sniffing dogs. “There’s always a problem with people trying to bring things into prisons that shouldn’t be there,”...

Worth Quoting

Glenn Greenwald, columnist for the American edition of The Guardian and author of With Liberty and Justice for Some (2011), had this to say about the Boston Marathon bombing: “The widespread compassion for yesterday’s victims and the intense anger over the...

Will Kochs Buy Tribune?

In a move that could change the character of several major American newspapers, Charles and David Koch are said to be considering a purchase of the Tribune media company, which would give them the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Orlando...

Hike a Valley Ghost Town

New England is full of evocative oddities that are clues to an older time: fragments of stone walls, metal objects poking up from the ground—cryptic but eloquent remains of history. South Hawley, a Franklin County village long forgotten along with the stagecoach...