Playing Cards – The Boston Globe
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The market for sports memorabilia is shaky, but a Mansfield card show keeps fans returning every year.
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Fenway 1912 – Christian Science Monitor
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The story of Fenway Park's first season is a vivid portrait of a specific time and place in baseball’s history: when pitchers threw scuffed balls smeared with dirt and saliva, players brawled with the umpires, and Tris Speaker, the Red Sox star outfielder, smacked ten home runs – enough to lead the league.
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There's a Fine, Fuzzy Line Between Heartbreak and Obsession – The Cut
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After a breakup there's the expectation that you'll eventually move on. But what if you can't? What if the impulse to think about an ex became all-consuming — months, even years later? What if it never goes away? Psychologist Albert Wakin has spent his career studying this type of lovelorn suffering, which he thinks should be included in a future edition of the DSM.
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Why do so many working class Americans feel politics is pointless? – Salon
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A sociologist spent over a year interviewing black, white and Latino residents of a declining coal town in central Pennsylvania, plumbing the sources of their political disillusionment.
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Why Barack Obama was particularly unsuited to live up to the ideals of the Nobel Peace Prize – The Conversation
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A critic of Obama's two terms explains how the 44th president's personality and his politics of 'least resistance' prevented him from rising to the moment.
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How much credit should corporations get for the advancement of LGBTQ rights? – The Conversation
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In an interview, law professor Carlos Ball explains how gay rights activists and corporations went from adversaries to partners. But would the alliance have happened if it had hurt companies' bottom lines?
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Holding on and holding still, a son photographs his father with Alzheimer's – The Conversation
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What does an artist do when the subject is a disease as much as a person, and when the disease then subsumes the person – to the point where he can't recognize his own son?
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