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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 running. Credit:AP Washington’s political tragics are obsessed that Trump will invoke the Insurre...

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 rental units, four of which would be income-restricted in compliance with the city’s Inclusionary D...

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 the economic development of the Republic. Slavery contradicted the ideals of the Declaration of Indepe...

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 organization the heroes. it's upside-down backwards history and it was time to do that. end of the civil wa...