Did Aaron Hernandez Damage Football, Or Was It The Other Way Around?

Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here]( Sunday, September 24, 2017 [Like us on Facebook]( [Follow us on Twitter]( [View on Instagram]( [Did Aaron Hernandez Damage Football, Or Was It The Other Way Around?]( The stunning news regarding the state of Hernandez's brain complicates his story, writes Steve Almond, just as it should complicate our moral relationship to football. [When Undocumented Immigrants Don't Report Crimes, We All Suffer]( Many immigrants say they're too fearful to report crimes, writes Debra J. Robbin. The Massachusetts Safe Communities Act would offer them protection. [Harvard's Cowardly Rejection Of Michelle Jones]( Had Harvard stood up publicly for the importance of supporting Jones as a scholar, had administrators taken the heat, writes Janna Malamud Smith, they might have helped our country hold onto its better angels. [Why Massachusetts Shouldn't Play 'Let's Make A Deal' With Amazon]( It's time for states and cities to bust the tax-breaks-for-jobs racket, writes Rich Barlow. [The Real Reason Harvard Threw Chelsea Manning Overboard]( Offering the (soon-revoked) fellowship to Manning, writes Miles Howard, was an affront to one of Harvard's most intrinsic traditions: protecting today's societal hierarchies. But the tale of another leaker, Henry Kissinger, ended very differently. [Is Climate Change The Swan Song Of The Black-Capped Chickadee?]( A new report argues our warming climate threatens nearly half the bird species in Massachusetts, writes Frederick Hewett. Here's why it matters. [The Impossibility Of Being Hillary Clinton]( What's happening to Clinton's new campaign book is exactly what happened to her campaign, writes Steve Almond. [Beware Of Apple's New Face ID]( Face recognition technology creates serious legal, cultural and philosophical problems, writes Kade Crockford. Turn it off. [Bernie Sanders' Single-Payer Swoon]( Rather than building on what other nations have successfully done, Sanders has taken a running leap off the dock of reality, writes Rich Barlow. [Heavy Meddle: In Trying To Protect My Niece, I Lost My Only Sister]( An allegation of molestation becomes the dividing line for a family. [The Week That Was: More Extreme Weather, More Extreme Rhetoric From Trump, And A Last-Ditch (And Extreme) Effort To Repeal Obamacare]( It was the week when a bellicose speech by the president was actually a relief from the natural disasters around us. All that and more from Tom Keane's roundup of the top news headlines. [Like us on Facebook]( [Follow us on Twitter]( [View on Instagram]( WBUR, 890 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215 [SafeUnsubscribe™ {EMAIL}]( [Forward this email]( | [Update Profile]( | [About our service provider]( Sent by wburtoday@wbur.org in collaboration with [Constant Contact]( [Try it free today](