EVERETT — As a kid he drew cartoons on his math papers. Now he draws math in his cartoons. What’s up with that? “I Hate Math” is a new comic book by Ian Brown, 37, a third grade teacher at Challenger ...

I hear those three words all the time at the elementary school where I teach. So many students say they hate it that I started asking why. Their answers are almost always the same: Math is hard. Math ...

When is the right time - if ever there's a right time - to make jokes about violence that's killed tens of thousands of people? For Palestinian American Sammy Obeid, the time is now. Obeid's a former ...

One fateful day in 1967, Ron Forman’s mother, Blanche, went to a dentist’s appointment in Brooklyn. She may only have needed a teeth cleaning, but Blanche left that dentist’s office with more than ...