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Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Today's Headlines

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Politics

The New Hampshire primary is a ‘circus’ but no one is having any fun

While Nikki Haley supporters are holding out hope the state will deliver the kind of surprise result that has long burnished its political mythology, the campaign’s closing days have felt decidedly strange, feeding a creeping sense that perhaps nothing here really mattered in the face of Donald Trump’s dominance. Continue reading →

Higher Education

At Harvard, new semester, but same roiling troubles about antisemitism and speech

Students returned to campus Monday and found posters about hostages taken by Hamas defaced, including one showing a kidnapped baby with the words “Israel did 9/11″ scrawled over his face. Continue reading →

Politics

Inside the strange unsanctioned effort to convince N.H. voters to write in Biden

The write-in campaign behind President Biden in New Hampshire is bereft of field offices, has one paid full-time staffer, and aside from spending by a related super PAC, has a $70,000 budget. Continue reading →

Health

Federal vouchers could help halve homelessness among Mass. young adults. Why isn’t the state using them?

The voucher program is hindering itself through bureaucracy and a failure to recognize the realities of Massachusetts' real estate market. Continue reading →

Higher Education

MIT facing threat of plagiarism investigation from the outside, complaints of antisemitism on the inside

So far, a sampling of faculty at MIT, the region's mightiest citadel of science, are greeting the external threat of an AI-based plagiarism inquisition with a bit of a shrug. Continue reading →

Boston Globe Today

Boston Globe Today | January 18, 2024

WATCH: Thursday's episode. Stories include: The Red Sox’s off-season picture comes into focus and the battle over the future of Boston Public Schools. Watch →

CVS struggles to keep stores clean and shelves stocked

WATCH: Business enterprise reporter Thomas Lee explains the contrast between the Rhode Island chain's long-term goals and current retail struggles. Watch →

The final sprint to the New Hampshire primary

WATCH: Political reporter James Pindell is in the Granite State and breaks down what to expect from the first-in-the-nation primary. Watch →

The Nation

Politics

Supreme Court backs Biden for now in dispute with Texas over border barrier

The high court’s decision came as Senate negotiators said they were nearing a deal that involves border policies and US wartime aid for Ukraine. Continue reading →

Nation

Cal State faculty begin largest US strike of university professors

The strike reflects two national trends in labor: an increase in large-scale strikes, such as those that Hollywood actors and writers, and a rise in education walkouts in particular. Continue reading →

Politics

US, British militaries launch new round of joint strikes against multiple Houthi sites in Yemen

The attacks came as the Israeli government faced criticism on several fronts, including from those who family members remain hostages in Gaza. Continue reading →

The World

World

A ‘revolutionary’ way to feed the world that’s very old

Instead of urging developing countries to grow only huge amounts of corn and other staple grains, as American policy has done for decades in Africa, Cary Fowler is promoting a return to the great variety of traditional crops that people used to grow more of, such as cowpeas, cassava, and a range of millets. Continue reading →

World

A new concern on the Ukrainian battlefield: North Korea’s latest missiles

A range of Western officials said they fear the Russians hope to use missiles to overwhelm Ukraine's air defenses. Continue reading →

World

Modi’s consecration of controversial Hindu temple caps years-long campaign

Featuring seven shrines, a soaring dome 160 feet high, and grounds encompassing 71 acres, the Ram Temple, in some ways, traces the rise of the Hindu nationalist movement, its most prominent political wing, the BJP, and their effort to remake India into a religious state. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

In the war on administrative agencies, Supreme Court justices must show humility to keep Americans protected

Putting judges in the place of experts at federal agencies would not only risk the marine life and the livelihoods of Northern Atlantic fisherman seeking relief from an agency rule but also offend constitutional principles of separation of powers. We can afford neither. Continue reading →

OPINION

What has Biden gotten right and wrong on immigration?

Taking stock of Biden and the Democrats’ record on immigration policy ahead of the pivotal New Hampshire primary. Continue reading →

OPINION

I’m a teen, and here’s why I’m with Nikki Haley

She brings new inspiration to people like me. Continue reading →

Metro

Politics

False robocall targets Biden voters ahead of New Hampshire primary

Joe Biden supporters in New Hampshire are crying foul after a number of New Hampshire voters received a message imitating the voice of the president and urging them not to vote in Tuesday’s primary. Continue reading →

AS I SEE IT

A New England spring ahead (perhaps)

These are the dog days of winter. But better days are coming. Continue reading →

Politics

Healey shelves, for now, a proposal to strip lawmakers of their control of liquor licenses

A spokesperson said Governor Maura Healey still supports the idea, but that the administration needed more time to get the “language right.” Continue reading →

Sports

BRUINS NOTEBOOK

One of the Bruins’ biggest strengths up front? Morgan Geekie.

Geekie is "farm boy strong" and has used that to his, and the team's, advantage in his first season in Boston. Just ask Bruins captain Brad Marchand. Continue reading →

CELTICS NOTEBOOK

Grant Williams still has gift of gab, happily adjusting to new role with Mavericks after trade from Celtics

“I love the city, love the people. Very, very fortunate to be in Dallas and for them to trust me and bring me here,” Williams said. “Just trying my best to perform for the opportunity.” Continue reading →

patriots

Fewer hoodies won’t be the only difference in Foxborough without Bill Belichick around

Here are six things that should be changing when it comes to how the Patriots do business now. Continue reading →

Business

bold types

From a cocktail bar to a production house, Element plans a new future for Flash’s

Bold Types is our weekly roundup of movers and shakers on Boston's business scene. Continue reading →

Trendlines

How a private equity firm made a killing on Steward Health Care

Cerberus Capital Management grabbed its $800 million profit before the hospital chain’s financial problems became critical. Continue reading →

commentary

‘Not a fight I want to have’: Affordable housing battle in Dorchester is far from the not-in-my-backyard story

The clash, over 72 units of much-needed affordable housing, adds a new wrinkle on the not-in-my-backyard story. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Tanya Berezin, behind-the-scenes off-Broadway force, dies at 82

Also an actor, Tayna Berezin was artistic director of the Circle Repertory Company, a storied off-Broadway incubator of talent that she had helped found in 1969. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Brent Sikkema, influential New York gallerist, dies at 75

Mr. Sikkema, a former gallery owner in Boston before moving to New York, was found stabbed to death in an apartment he owned in Rio de Janeiro. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Dexter Scott King, younger son of Martin Luther King Jr., dies of cancer

The King Center in Atlanta, which Dexter King served as chairman, said the son of the civil rights icon died at his home in Malibu, California. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

LOVE LETTERS

They want a buddy, not a girlfriend

Or maybe they want ... a mother? Continue reading →

Movies

Sundance buzz: Kristen Stewart, ‘I Saw the TV Glow,’ and Sasquatch sex heat up Park City

Time after time at Sundance — which turns 40 this year — I’m reminded of the truism to expect the unexpected. Continue reading →