Stories
Miscellany
Why confine reporting and writing to the big subjects, when there’s such a curious world waiting to be explored?
E.J. Graff has written about everything from what our cars say about what we value to why people fake hate crimes, why the definition of “terrorism” is irrelevant, and the winter that made even hardened Bostonians curl up under their beds and weep. Here’s a sampler.
The terrifying and counterproductive school shooter drill
The Boston Globe
Almost every school in America practices for the day a gunman roams the halls. But it’s unclear if they’re doing this wisely — or whether they should be doing it at all.
Why do people fake hate crimes?
Donald Trump’s election unleashed a wave of (very real) hate across America, but some people are still inventing violent crimes of prejudice. What gives?
What we talk about when we talk about terrorism
Every expert interviewed knew exactly what it meant. But no two agreed precisely with one another.
Boston’s Winter from Hell
You’ve seen the starkly beautiful pictures, but you haven’t heard this: Boston was being devastated by a slow-motion natural disaster of historic proportions.
Never Say ‘Never Again’
Columbia Journalism Review
Heda Kovaly wrote a heartbreakingly beautiful — and starkly hopeful — book about life in Prague during the brutal 20th century: first escaping Auschwitz and then surviving Stalin’s show trials.