COMMONWEALTH BEACON: Was a vote to seize Northeastern University land for conservation in ‘bad faith?’
ADVERTISEMENT New from CommonWealth Beacon NEW CODCAST: Gov. Maura Healey has released her state budget proposal – a $63 billion spending plan. This week on the Codcast, reporter Chris Lisinski digs into the plan with Viviana Abreu-Hernandez, president of the left-leaning Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center and Jim Stergios, executive director of the free-market-oriented Pioneer Institute. OPINION: When the Trump administration cancelled citizenship ceremonies in Boston last year, it marked the quiet erasure of a tradition that once made American citizenship visible, contested, and public, writes public historian Nick DeLuca. Through its indifference to this history, US immigration authorities caused emotional and institutional injury to both American citizens and the idea of citizenship. Was a vote to seize Northeastern University land for conservation in ‘bad fait...