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Local author Chris Boucher joined WBUR's All Things Considered to talk about Harry "Bucky" Lew, the first Black professional basketball play...

Local balafon player Balla Kouyaté joined WBUR's Morning Edition to talk about his family's legacy with the ancient instrument.

WBUR senior political reporter Anthony Brooks joins WBUR's Morning Edition to explain the stakes of the race.

Moulton pressed Hegseth on whether he advised President Trump to go to war against Iran, whether he thinks the U.S. is winning the war, and...

Local author and ornithologist Scott Weidensaul talks about the successful rebounds of local birds, like piping plovers and oystercatchers,...

For years, developers have argued factory-built is part of the solution to Massachusetts' housing shortage. Scott Kirsner, columnist with ed...

The Democrat joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss the mark she wants to leave in her final months on Capitol Hill.

Father J. Bryan Hehir, a top official in the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, articulated a global off-ramp from nuclear apocalypse in his 19...

The fiction podcast tells the story of 12-year-old Joule Watts-Green, who accidentally steps through her mom's time machine into an unrecogn...

A tail wind helped propel runners from Hopkinton to Boston, with the men's champion breaking a 15-year-old course record by more than one mi...

In advance of the 130th running of the race from Hopkinton to Copley Square, Ashlock spoke with WBUR's Weekend Edition about some of the Bos...

A panel convened by WBUR is sorting through dozens of local entries into NPR's famed Tiny Desk Contest.

Fultz won the Boston Marathon on a day when temperatures neared 100 degrees. He's serving as the race's grand marshal this year.

In this excerpt from a conversation at WBUR's CitySpace, Whoop founder Will Ahmed discusses the Boston roots of his wearable tech brand with...

The Sugar Road Band is the brainchild of Berklee College of Music professor Leo Blanco.

On Monday, Mia Sanchez and her grandfather, Carlos Sanchez, will run the Boston Marathon. They believe they're the first known grandparent a...

WBUR's Morning Edition looks back on two decades of a bill that created comprehensive health care reform in Massachusetts and paved the way...

No Boston Olympics co-founder Chris Dempsey and Scottish soccer commentator Rory Hamilton join WBUR's Morning Edition to weigh in on the pol...

Rep. Jake Auchincloss joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss the two-week ceasefire deal in Iran.

President Trump wrote on Truth Social that a "whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" if Iran does not reach...

The plan cuts several city programs and grows spending by only 2%, less than the rate of inflation.

Scott Kirsner, columnist for WBUR's editorial partner MassLive, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to talk about who is winning the race for auton...

Tight tax rules and growing expenses are putting Massachusetts communities in a fiscal bind.

The Sox have stumbled out to a 1-5 start to their 2026 campaign.

Lori Trahan, a member of the all-Democratic Massachusetts Congressional delegation, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss the latest on th...

Marshall Ganz spent 16 years as one of Cesar Chavez's top lieutenants, organizing farmworkers in California.

Mark Ethier runs the Berklee Emerging Artistic Technology Lab, or BEATL. His job is to prepare Berklee College of Music students for an evol...

Massachusetts has too many deer. They eat native plants, spread disease and cause deforestation. To solve that, Gov. Maura Healey wants to l...

A new three-part documentary is set to premiere tonight on PBS. It looks at the life of Henry David Thoreau, from his upbringing in Massachu...

Chris Wrenn, founder of Bridge Nine Records, joined Weekend Edition to discuss his new book “Fenway Punk: How a Boston Indie Label Scored Bi...

Amy Carnevale, chair of the Massachusetts GOP, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to share how she believes Republicans can gain ground in state e...

WBUR's Patrick Madden looked into so-called dark money groups and their growing influence in Massachusetts state politics.

Mary Murphy of Boston College's Irish Institute and Bill Forry of the Dorchester Reporter join WBUR's Morning Edition at the end of St. Patr...

Boston Celtics small forward Jordan Walsh spoke with WBUR's Morning Edition about his impact on and off the court, and how he’s thinking abo...

Muller co-founded International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the Nobel Prize-winning group that sought to build connections...

There’s no moon landing without Robert Goddard. This month marks 100 years since Goddard launched the first liquid fuel rocket on a farm out...

Boston Legacy president Jennifer van Dijk spoke with Lynn Jolicoeur on WBUR's All Things Considered about how the club prepared for this mom...

Intellectual property law experts Bhamati Viswanathan, a senior visitor at University of Cambridge Law School, and Peter Karol, a Suffolk La...

The Democratic Party named Boston one of five finalists to host the next Democratic National Convention in 2028.

Jackie Hamwey spoke from Milan with WBUR All Things Considered host Lisa Mullins about preparing for the Paralympic Games and what her goals...

After a 2007 car accident left him paralyzed from the waist down, Sean O’Neill tried out a series of para sports, ultimately falling in love...

When silent films first hit theaters in the early 1900s they were typically accompanied by live music. Bruce Vogt is one of the musicians ke...

In an interview with WBUR, Gov. Maura Healey acknowledged the seriousness of outmigration and laid out a plan to make Massachusetts a more a...

Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark, the second-highest-ranking Democrat in the House, joins WBUR's Morning Edition ahead a vote on a re...

Keating said he views his vote on the war powers resolution as a solemn and significant responsibility.

Rep. Jake Auchincloss, a Massachusetts Democrat and Marine Corps veteran, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to weigh in on the latest on the war...

Gov. Maura Healey's office recently announced two initiatives: a partnership with Google to offer all state residents free AI training and t...

Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton joins WBUR's Morning Edition to weigh in on the latest from Iran, where the American death toll in an...

This snowy winter could turn into a longer-term headache for cities and towns with little wiggle room in their budgets.

Plus, Wu shares her thoughts on the ballot question on rent control Massachusetts voters may be able to weigh in on later this year.