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Sunday, November 3, 2024
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Elections

In three key battleground states, a blue wall of anxiety about the presidential election

For several election cycles, the path of a successful Democratic candidate has gone through Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. This year, voters in those states and elsewhere are on edge. Continue reading →

News Analysis

Ahead of unprecedented election, looking for lessons in America’s past

Perhaps only twice have Americans experienced anything like this: once at the precipice of civil war at home, the other time over a proxy war 8,000 miles away. Continue reading →

Elections

Amid burning ballot boxes and other threats, vigilant elections officials say they’re better prepared than in 2020

They're using the lessons of the last election to help ensure this one runs smoothly. Continue reading →

World

Iran’s supreme leader threatens Israel with ‘crushing response’ to strikes

Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday threatened “a crushing response” to Israeli strikes on his country, as the Pentagon said it would deploy additional resources to the region in the coming months. Continue reading →

World

Hindus in Muslim-majority Bangladesh rally to demand protection from attacks

Hindu groups say there have been thousands of attacks against Hindus since early August, when the secular government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was overthrown and Hasina fled the country following a student-led uprising. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Local sheriff asks FBI to investigate death of Black man found hanging in Alabama

Sheriff Eric Balentine, who confirmed the FBI accepted his request to investigate, said his department “exhausted all resources” in its investigation. Continue reading →

Nation

Mike Tyson, Marlon Brando, G.I. Joe: The old-world art of pigeon racing

“Tonight me, you, somebody else, goes to the club,” explained Mario Costa, 70. “You bring your best birds. Whoever comes home first wins.” Continue reading →

Nation

Jury convicts former Kentucky officer of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during deadly raid

The 12-member jury returned the late night verdict after clearing Brett Hankison earlier in the evening on a charge that he used excessive force on Taylor's neighbors. Continue reading →

The World

World

Ukraine’s Zelensky urges allies to act before North Korean troops reach the front

Zelensky raised the prospect of a preemptive Ukrainian strike on camps where the North Korean troops are being trained and said Kyiv knows their location. But he said Ukraine can’t do it without permission from allies to use Western-made long-range weapons to hit targets deep inside Russia. Continue reading →

World

As Mexicans celebrate Day of the Dead, they grapple with what it means to hold on to tradition

“We’re conserving our tradition, part of our heritage that my mother instilled in me,” said 58-year-old Antonio Meléndez. “We can’t let it be lost.” Continue reading →

World

At UN summit, historic agreement to give Indigenous groups voice on nature conservation decisions

Indigenous delegations erupted into cheers and tears after the historic decision to create the subsidiary body was announced. Continue reading →

Globe Magazine

‘You can be nice and polite, and tough as nails’: How Katherine Clark wields power in Congress

With Election Day around the corner, we sat down with the second most powerful Democrat in the US House of Representatives. Continue reading →

‘Fight Song’ was Rachel Platten’s breakout song. Then, she broke down.

Almost 10 years after the Newton native’s hit became Hillary Clinton’s campaign song, the singer is rethinking her priorities. Continue reading →

A workaholic’s guide to building a sense of self outside of professional achievement

The physical risks of the always overachieving work life — and how to avoid them. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

Enrolling kids in college isn’t enough

Students need support to persist to graduation. Continue reading →

LETTERS

The paths to reach, and teach, English language learners

"Speaking a second language is an asset," writes one observer. Another: "Authentic language learning comes only when there is a hunger to communicate and a trust in another person’s positive response." Continue reading →

LETTERS

As heat rises to extremes, worker protections go nowhere

The Department of Labor has proposed federal regulations that would protect indoor and outdoor workers from the hazards of extreme heat. Its fate rests with the next administration. Continue reading →

Metro

Massachusetts

At ICA Watershed, a Day of the Dead altar exhibit comes to life

The cavernous space of the ICA Watershed became bursting with life Saturday as volunteers prepared for festivities celebrating Day of the Dead, the annual Mexican holiday remembering departed family and friends. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

From West Stockbridge to Rockefeller Center, Berkshires spruce tree hits the big time

For the first time since 1959, the famous Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center will hail from Massachusetts. Continue reading →

Higher Education

Harvard leadership debated how to respond publicly after Oct. 7 attack. Read the emails.

Even at the country’s oldest university, the response to the Hamas attack on Israel was fraught as Harvard brass wrestled with how best to address the violence. Continue reading →

Sports

Celtics Notebook

Lingering hip flexor issue keeps Jaylen Brown out for Celtics on Saturday

Brown, who played 37 minutes in Friday’s win, was scratched from the lineup early Saturday. He said the injury dates back to training camp. Continue reading →

Dan Shaughnessy

These Mookie Betts/Babe Ruth parallels with the Red Sox are getting spooky, and other thoughts

Things haven't been the same for the Red Sox since they dealt Betts, who just won another World Series with the Dodgers. Continue reading →

Bruins 3, Flyers 0

Bruins win rematch as Joonas Korpisalo blanks Flyers in Philadelphia

The Bruins are right back at it on Sunday (5 p.m.) as they host the Seattle Kraken. Continue reading →

Business
Ideas

IDEAS

Election forecasts are sophisticated — and possibly meaningless

Supposedly Donald Trump has a 53 percent chance of winning. How would we ever know if that assessment was accurate? Continue reading →

IDEAS

Harvard-MIT chaplain says tech is our new religion

Harvard and MIT humanist chaplain Greg Epstein says our relationship with technology would be healthier if we approached it as agnostics. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Gary Indiana, acerbic cultural critic and novelist, dies at 74

Gary Indiana, the elfin novelist, cultural critic, playwright and artist whose crackling prose and lacerating wit captured the ravages of the AIDS crisis, Manhattan’s downtown art scene, lurid true crimes and his own search for love, died Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 74. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Baltazar Ushca, ‘last iceman’ of Ecuador’s highest peak, dies at 80

He was the last of a community legacy that made a living off the Reschreiter glacier, whose ice was mostly used for refrigeration before electricity was widespread in their stretch of the Andes. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Movies

‘The reckoning is still ongoing’: Cillian Murphy on the Catholic Church, complicity, and his new Irish drama

The Oscar winner plays a village coal merchant who discovers a secret about the local convent in the Irish drama "Small Things Like These." Continue reading →

Visual Arts

Voting with your eyes: A new exhibition at the MFA looks at art and democracy

The show is divided into three parts: the Promise of Democracy, the Practice of Democracy, and the Preservation of Democracy. Continue reading →

BEHIND THE SCENES

‘My dog peed on my music’ and other mishaps: Boston Symphony Orchestra librarians are on the case

"We’re there in case some last-minute disaster happens," said BSO principal librarian D. Wilson Ochoa. Continue reading →

Travel

TRAVEL

Holiday feasts and fanfare: New Orleans is always up for a party

New Orleanians never miss a chance for a party and every occasion calls for festive attire. Give yourself the gift of a good time by heading south. Continue reading →

TRAVEL

American Airlines’ new tactic to tackle ‘gate lice’ crowding may miss the mark

The airline that created the phenomenon of gate-crowding now wants to stop people from trying to jump the line. But its idea for how to do it needs some work. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Real Estate

Son builds parents’ dream: A modern take on Wright’s Prairie style

“We were building a modern house using modern materials. What Wright designed in 1905 is not practical today.” Continue reading →

Real Estate

Moulton backs North-South Rail Link, touts housing boost

Critics say project could cost in the tens of billions and be a wash-rinse-repeat of Big Dig overruns and disruption. Continue reading →