Democracy is better served when more people can participate in it
As a democracy, we should be doing our best to ensure eligible people have access to the polls.
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As a democracy, we should be doing our best to ensure eligible people have access to the polls.
Case focuses on whether the voter registration cutoff law, which disenfranchises thousands of potential voters every election, is unconstitutional.
Case focuses on whether the voter registration cutoff law, which disenfranchises thousands of potential voters every election, is unconstitutional.
“The only sensible next step is for all of the victims of this crisis to have their convictions vacated and their tainted drug charges dismissed.”
When WBUR's Simón Rios was covering a recent story in Back Bay, his interview was interrupted by someone hurling a racial slur at a bystander. The incident prompted him to examine the climate of race in Boston.
Michelle Carter was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the suicide of Conrad Roy III.