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If you conceive of the Universe as the full suite of matter and energy we know, and the early stages had it all compressed into a tiny region of space, then why didn't it collapse into a black hole?

The latest Facebook personal data revelations provide a window into the future we have sleepwalked into, the era of Surveillance Capitalism. The sins of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica must spark demands for a much wider debate about the role of surveillance in our increasingly digital society.

Two new books about making change in smaller cities are worthy of close study by anyone hoping to push their own city hall in a similar left-wing direction.

What about in Somerville? According to a recent email I got from the City’s Assessing Department, “if the University was a taxable entity it would generate residential tax at $596,700 and commercial tax at $6,103,800.”

Overall membership was up slightly, by 262,000. The increase included 166,000 in the private sector; 96,000 in the public sector.

March for Our Lives draws huge numbers of protesters. Trump spends weekend at Florida retreat of Mar-a-Lago

An important viewpoint on the dangers of Trump's abuse of power, but it neglects the power of people being organized against Trump.

With current media celebrating the role of the soldier, US Army veteran/poet Roy J. Adams offers an ironic antidote.