An analyst on the Middle East discusses why Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman visited Boston on a three-week U.S. tour.

Tens of thousands of people took part in Boston's march Saturday as part of a national movement for gun control, with students at the front -- leaving adults to look on with a mix of emotions.

The Boston demonstration against gun violence was among hundreds of youth-led protests taking place across the U.S. Saturday.

The compromise bill would eliminate a handful of mandatory minimum sentences for what lawmakers described as "low-level drug offenses."

The governor beats his three Democratic challengers by at least 34 points in hypothetical head-to-head match-ups.

The new IDs will be available in the state beginning Monday but are not actually required to fly in the U.S. or to enter a federal building until October 2020.

WBUR's pollster, Steve Koczela of the MassINC Polling Group, and Lauren Dezenski, of Politico Massachusetts, discuss our latest survey.

A new WBUR poll finds that 73 percent of Massachusetts voters support students' recent activism calling for stricter gun laws.

For some Latina women, wearing their natural curly hair is a journey of unlearning fraught messaging that characterized curly hair as an undesirable marker of non-assimilation.

Critics say social media scanning programs, like the one run by Vermont-based Social Sentinel, raise concerns about racial profiling and civil rights.