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January 20 is Joe Biden’s first day as president. And Donald Trump’s last. It is a measure of Trump’s corruption of the Zeitgeist that, while more than 3000 Americans are dying each day from the pandemic, with 500,000 dead by April, the number one story is Trump, the insurrection and the militarisation of Washington. Covid – more Americans dead in one year than US troops killed in the four years of World War II – is number two. New US President Joe Biden is promising to hit the ground...

By Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff January 14, 2021 Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff A rendering of what the condo complex at 1471 Blue Hill Ave. would look like. Courtesy Thedore Touloukian, Inc. A development team led by four brothers who run a Mattapan car wash aired their proposal to construct a four-story, mixed-use building on a vacant lot at 1471 Blue Hill Ave. during a virtual meeting of the Woodhaven Culbert Regis Neighborhood Association on Monday.   The proposal includes 34 residential r...

The esteemed historian explains how the Civil War is still raging, and our fragile democracy hangs in the balance.

Smoke in Washington hasn’t cleared — it’s billowed Updated January 6, 2021, 5:21 p.m. Email to a Friend Our Civil War ‘can still be lost’ I agree with Kevin Cullen in his column “Confederate redux” (Metro, Jan. 5) that our moment is part of the Civil War that burned hot between 1861 and 1865 but that had brewed since the birth of our nation and that continues to divide us. The underlying issue for that ghastly military conflict was slavery, a key element in th...

War -- the civil war series today, having this fight about confederate memorials. how would you address it? have you thought about it? >> think about it all the time every day. it mains me. the axian in the case of the civil war. exact opposite. we lived until i suggest my series and other things with birth of a nation and gone with the wind, as a generally accepted version of what happened in the civil war, which was that in both films makes the ku klux klan the first domestic terrorist organiz...

Great interest and hopefulness. and you hope the institution is strong enough and i think we all have to work for that as we go forward. >> and charlie, to you for republicans who are afraid to fully distance themselves from donald trump for fear of electoral disaster, what would you say to them? >> well, i would say that do the moral thing and distance yourselves. i dont know electorally given the way the country has been jerry mannered if some of them would play a political price. but i think ...