Erick Trickey
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Boston, MA, United States
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Bannon contempt of Congress trial echoes Nixon burglar Liddy’s
In 1974, Nixon aide G. Gordon Liddy was convicted of a rarely charged crime: contempt of Congress. Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon goes on trial Monday for the same allegation. → Read More
The 150-year-old Ku Klux Klan Act being used against Trump in Capitol attack
The groundbreaking Klan Act, passed in 1871, still protects Americans from political intimidation. It was cited in a lawsuit filed against Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol in order to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden's 2020 election victory. → Read More
Long before QAnon, Ronald Reagan and the GOP purged John Birch extremists from the party
Six decades ago, Reagan, Sen. Barry Goldwater, conservative writer William F. Buckley Jr. and others in the GOP backed away from the conspiracy theories peddled by the leader of the increasingly influential John Birch Society, who claimed former President Eisenhower was a communist plant. → Read More
TRASH PROSPECTORS: THREE DAYS BEFORE PRIMARY, THE TOWN DUMP IS THE PLACE TO CAMPAIGN IN NH
“On Saturday, going to the dump is as normal as going to the post office ... Good campaigns will have people at the dump.” → Read More
THE OTHER PROTEST: PRO-TRUMP TRUCK FLASHES HIGH-WATTAGE TV CLIPS ABOUT DEMS OUTSIDE NEW HAMPSHIRE CLIMATE TOWN HALL
While college students interviewed presidential hopefuls at a town hall on energy and climate change, supporters of President Donald Trump staged a high-wattage protest outside. Giant flatscreens, attached to a pro-Trump PAC’s black truck, flashed TV news clips meant to embarrass leading Democratic candidates. → Read More
REQUESTING EQUITY: STUDENTS PRESS CANDIDATES TO REMEMBER POOR PEOPLE IN CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES
“We have to make sure that money goes right back to people, to help with their heating and their cooling bills, or we’re never going to get it passed.” → Read More
The backroom deals that saved Andrew Johnson’s presidency by a single Senate vote
In 1868, the power to remove a president from office created intense pressure on the senators who would cast the deciding votes. Those same pressures are playing out this week in President Trump's impeachment trial. → Read More
‘The President himself may be guilty’: Why pardons were hotly debated by the Founding Fathers
The Mueller report has revived has revived a 232-year-old question: What if the president abuses his pardon power to obstruct justice? → Read More
Has Boston Given Up On God?
The church once held a powerful place in Boston. But as science and tech take over, a new religion is taking its place. → Read More
Inside Don Chiofaro’s Long War to Make Boston's Skyline Taller
After decades of fighting City Hall, Don Chiofaro’s bullish style has made him the most talked-about developer in Boston. But with a friendly mayor now in place and his plan for a soaring waterfront tower in the works, is the town’s toughest builder finally learning to play nice? → Read More
Labor Day: Rosie the Riveter isn't who you think she is
While the female factory worker is a pop icon now, the “We Can Do It!” poster was unknown to the American public in the 1940s. → Read More
Fact-checking QAnon conspiracy theories: Did J.P. Morgan sink the Titanic?
The group may have only surfaced nine months ago, but its obsession with the Titanic, the Rothschilds and the Illuminati revives decades, even centuries, of moth-eaten paranoia. → Read More
Roldo Bartimole, Cleveland’s original alt-journalist
The day Roldo Bartimole turned 35—April 5, 1968—a crisis of conscience struck him. Martin Luther King had been assassinated the night before, and riots had broken out in major US cities. Bartimole, a Cleveland journalist who’d gone to the 1963 March on Washington, attended a meeting between George Wiley, a civil-rights activist, and several Ohio […] → Read More
Move over, Trump. This president’s two lions set off the greatest emoluments debate.
The sultan of Morocco gifted Martin Van Buren a pair of lions, but a little-known part of the Constitution — the same that threatens to ensnare President Trump — forced him to turn them over. → Read More
When Hitler met Hoover: 9 photos of dictators scoring presidential face time
Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is very presidential, historically speaking. → Read More
‘Kill the beast’: The impeachment trial that nearly took down a president 150 years ago
On May 16, 1868, the Senate voted on whether to remove President Andrew Johnson from office. And no one was sure what the outcome would be, including Johnson's arch-foe, Rep. Thaddeus Stevens. → Read More
Fixing a Highway-Shaped Hole in the Heart of Black Boston
In Dudley Square, residents are organizing to ensure that the next round of urban renewal benefits them. → Read More
5 Ways L.A. Could Change the Olympic Games Model for the Better
And one big way it could fail. → Read More
Some Boston Commuters Got Free Rail Rides in May
"It'll take some resources, but it'll last decades." → Read More
FDR Had a Famous Ghostwriter: Orson Welles
The legendary actor stumped and even wrote speeches for the 32nd president → Read More