EDITORIAL

Boston Tea Party museum reopening will put misconceptions to rest

All too often, the Boston Tea Party has come across as a colorful prank instead of the turning point in the American Revolution that it was.

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New Boston Tea Party Museum opens to a different world

As the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum reopens its doors to the public, it will do so as the co-owner of its iconic brand.

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Boston set to relaunch Tea Party museum

Workers are putting the finishing touches on the museum, which will open Monday after 12 years of planning.

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Photo of protest confrontation prompts Boston Police review

- Boston Police are reviewing officers’ response to a protest rally Sunday on Boston Common after a photo appeared to show an officer with his hand around a protester’s neck.

Dual rallies highlight fracture in Mass. Tea Party

- An apparent rift between state Tea Party activists over whether to put a focus on social issues played out at separate rallies in Worcester and in Boston.

Replica Tea Party cargo ship “Beaver” launched

GLOUCESTER- The ship is a drab yellow, 90 feet long and from a distance looks like any other vessel bobbing up and down in Gloucester Harbor. To maritime preservations, though, the vessel - a 1908 Denmark cargo ship now being renovated to resemble one of three whaling vessels that were boarded during the 1773 Boston Tea Party - is nothing short of a miracle.

OPINION | JOSHUA GREEN

Republicans vs. Republicans

- The rejection by Tea Party Republicans in the House of the payroll tax cut extension shows that their obstinacy can extend to even members of their own party.

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JEFF JACOBY

A sinful ‘Occupation’

- Economic envy cloaks itself in rhetoric about “inequality,” but its oldest name is covetousness.

OPINION: The right way to get heard

- THE GOP gets all the credit for angriness these days, what with those Tea Party folks shouting for death at Republican debates. But last week, the left spent a lot of time dealing with anger of its own - or, more specifically, ways to overcome a lack of sufficient anger from the president.

‘Boston Tree Party’: Bearing civic fruit

- The Boston Tree Party is a cheeky, playful response to the Tea Party, but also a creative, worthwhile effort at promoting urban agriculture, sustainability, healthy eating, and a re-imagining of American civic expression.