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One of the blessings, as well as the curses, of constitutional democracy is we keep on having to hold campaigns and elections.

Maura Healey's inauguration is monumental. But the ranks of the state's elected officials are replete with powerful women, writes Tom Putnam, the former director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.

Early on, I discovered that, like the novels I had pored through for years, real politics had a cast of characters that ran the gamut from principled, thoughtful solons to devious, scheming scoundrels.

In June 1944, an unlikely inmate at a federal penitentiary in Minnesota passed the time by corresponding with a priest friend about the wonder...

Asher Muldoon, who wrote the book, music and lyrics, talked to Newsweek about the creation of the "The Butcher Boy," which had its world premiere at Irish Rep.

A glance at the movers and shakers over a century, and some who have starred in the past 25 years (reprinted from PWs 125th Anniversary issue in July 1997)

John Steinbeck, who won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature, had many fans—and a few detractors—among reviewers in America over the years.

A list of the 15 best political books of all time, from Esquire's Charles P. Pierce. They just might take you some time to read, is all.

From cruel history to Irish slang, this is the definitive list of must-read books for Irish Americans from expert Tom Deignan. This is the definitive reading list for Irish Americans

Is Sally Rooney the millennial generation's great Catholic writer?