President Donald Trump endorsed former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli on May 12 in the bitterly contested Republican primary for governor. Ciattarelli, of Somerville, a onetime harsh Trump critic ...

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The artist Jack Whitten offered the world a new way to see. He worked throughout his prolific career to reimagine art and its relation to society. “My paintings are designed as weapons,” he wrote.