Anthony Brooks

Massachusetts' political leaders are bracing for a second Trump administration. Nobody more so than Gov. Maura Healey, for whom Trump represents a challenge both familiar and new.

Back in 2016, Governor Maura Healey, then the state's Attorney General, was vocally opposed to Donald Trump. This time around, her rhetoric seems more subdued. WBUR senior correspondent Anthony Brooks joins Radio Boston to discuss why and what's changed.

During President-elect Donald Trump's first term in the White House, then-Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey was a fierce opponent of his policies. As he returns to the White House for a second term, she's taking a more measured approach as governor of Massachusetts.

Julieanna Richardson has re-invented her career several times. WBUR's tells us why she left the boardroom to launch an ambitious project to document oral Black histories as her "third act."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pushing back against Republican pressure to weaken or even abolish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — an agency she helped create that has returned billions of dollars to Americans.

Boston is on track to report a historically low number of murders this year.

Massachusetts lawmakers described the mood on Capitol Hill as somber, boring, dutiful — and nothing like Jan. 6, 2021.

'That's the problem we have right now. We're not even willing to entertain these debates in our party,' said the Salem Democrat, who wants to hash out thorny issues, not bow to political correctness.

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take the oath of office Monday, Massachusetts' all-Democratic congressional delegation is bracing for the challenge ahead.

President Donald Trump's supporters celebrated Monday as he was sworn in for a second time, many of them hailing his promises to eject immigrants here without legal status and his claims of bringing a "golden age" to America.