Paul Theroux, the quintessential travel writer, has also enshrined his Massachusetts roots in his writing. Here are his recommendations for those who come to visit.
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.