Playing Cards – The Boston Globe
The market for sports memorabilia is shaky, but a Mansfield card show keeps fans returning every year.
Fenway 1912 – Christian Science Monitor
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.
There's a Fine, Fuzzy Line Between Heartbreak and Obsession – The Cut
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.
Why do so many working class Americans feel politics is pointless? – Salon
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.
Why Barack Obama was particularly unsuited to live up to the ideals of the Nobel Peace Prize – The Conversation
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.
How much credit should corporations get for the advancement of LGBTQ rights? – The Conversation
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?
Holding on and holding still, a son photographs his father with Alzheimer's – The Conversation
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?