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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.