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Higher Education

Will Harvard win its legal battle against the Trump administration?

As legal battles drag out, and possibly work their way up to a firmly conservative Supreme Court, the school is at an increasing disadvantage, some observers point out. Continue reading →

Climate

An economic opportunity, or an energy crisis in waiting? Data centers are coming to Massachusetts.

As the state prepares for the anticipated boom, questions are piling up. Continue reading →

Economy

‘The Commonwealth’s business model is at risk’: Trump 2.0 is hitting Massachusetts harder than expected

The president’s agenda has exposed how vulnerable the region’s economy is to punitive, ideologically driven federal policy. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

‘Everybody on our street owns a weapon’: An 800-resident Mass. town has the state’s highest rate of licenses to carry

There are towns that voted Democratic last fall where not only are guns a part of a way of life, but they are also ubiquitous. Continue reading →

World

Parents in Gaza are running out of ways to feed their children: ‘All we want is a loaf of bread’

It made sense to a Gaza couple to try for another baby in 2023. Back then, there was food. By the time Heba al-Arqan found out she was pregnant, things in Gaza were much worse. Continue reading →

Globe Magazine

A Cape Cod summer home that’s been in one family since the 1960s gets a refresh

Most important to the homeowner was maintaining the familial spirit her parents fostered. Continue reading →

Big business beat out independent films. All we have left is an indie vibe.

We don’t really take no-budget films and put them on the big screen anymore. That world no longer exists. Continue reading →

How moving back to my old house came as a surprise

I couldn’t have guessed where new love and a new marriage would take me. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Why a Minneapolis neighborhood sharpens a giant pencil every year

Throngs of people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil. Continue reading →

Nation

A San Francisco plaza was down and out. Then skaters moved in.

Two years ago, United Nations Plaza was vying for the title of "Saddest Place in San Francisco." A sunny brick promenade surrounded by government buildings, the plaza had become a trash-strewn dumping ground for the city's most vexing problems. Continue reading →

Nation

Ex-police chief and convicted killer who escaped from an Arkansas prison has been captured

Searchers had been using bloodhounds, officers on horseback, drones and helicopters in their hunt for the ex-chief, known as the "Devil in the Ozarks," since he escaped on May 25. Continue reading →

The World

World

Israel recovers body of Thai farmworker in Gaza

Israeli security forces have recovered the body of a Thai citizen who was abducted and taken back to the Gaza Strip in the 2023 Hamas-led attack, the military said Saturday. Continue reading →

World

Lebanon aims to lure back wealthy Gulf tourists to jumpstart its war-torn economy

After a bruising war between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon’s new leaders sense an opportunity to revitalize the country’s devastated economy with help from its wealthy Gulf neighbors. Continue reading →

World

Can an American pope apply US-style fundraising and standards to fix troubled Vatican finances?

Leo’s election as the first American pope has sent a jolt of excitement through U.S. Catholics, some of whom had soured on donating to the Vatican. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

Letters

Revisiting a lasting lesson from Paul Reubens: Be kind

Reach out to people, as Reubens did, to let them know how much you appreciate them and why. Not only will it make them feel good, but it will make you feel good. Continue reading →

Letters

Stay strong, Harvard

Readers decry the Trump administration for hypocrisy in going after the university's prominent Jewish leaders. Continue reading →

Letters

For rural students, college can be a strange, forbidding landscape

As one student explained, it wasn’t surprising. Few of his classmates — and even fewer of his professors — were from rural places. Continue reading →

Metro

Rhode Island Education

‘It’s just too expensive’: R.I. child-care centers raise alarm over funding for infants and toddlers

Even as pre-K expands, child-care centers say it’s more and more difficult to staff infant and toddler rooms. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Filipino Americans celebrate culture and community at Iskwelahang Pilipino graduation

Founded in 1976, Iskwelahang Pilipino claims the title of the oldest continually operating cultural school for Filipino Americans in the country. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

US consulates to resume processing visas for Harvard students, report says

The department’s latest instructions cap off a week in which President Trump's attempt to ratchet up his assault on the college was temporarily thwarted by the courts. Continue reading →

Sports

Red Sox

In first taste of Red Sox-Yankees rivalry, a duel between Garrett Crochet and Aaron Judge is a key subplot

Crochet allowed a season-high five runs in six innings, but grinded through early trouble and defensive issues to offer the Sox much-needed length from their starter. Continue reading →

Red Sox

Red Sox and Yankees have traveled different paths, but for one night rivalry felt alive again

The Red Sox have four titles since 2004 and the Yankees one. By that measure, Boston has been the better franchise for more than 20 years. But in 2025 the old rivals exist in vastly different worlds. Continue reading →

Bruins

Patrice Bergeron and others believe Marco Sturm can do for the Bruins what he did seven years ago for Team Germany

Germany’s Cinderella run to the gold-medal game at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics was one few saw coming. Continue reading →

Business
Ideas

Ideas

We are like frogs boiling in Trump’s water

Amid the onslaught of norm-shattering news, daily routines go on. How do we know if our country is cooked? Continue reading →

Ideas

The conservative-friendly studio beating Hollywood at its own game

Angel Studios makes TV shows and movies that "amplify light." Its audience is huge — and growing. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Alice Notley, poet celebrated for ‘restless reinvention,’ dies at 79

The poet dispensed of literary traditions and forms in creating dreamlike worlds that drew from myth, motherhood and the voices of the dead. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Per Norgard, daring symphonic composer, dies at 92

Mr. Norgard composed eight symphonies, 10 string quartets, six operas, numerous chamber and concertante works, and multiple scores for film and television. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Visual Arts

Turner unbound: Yale revisits the radical painter’s journey

Go the wrong way through this chronological exhibit to fully appreciate the artist’s explosive impact. Continue reading →

Theater

On Broadway, death does not take a holiday

A look at this year’s Tony nominees reveals one very morbid recurring theme. Continue reading →

Music

Ryan Walsh on the ambitious new 54-track Hallelujah the Hills album

"Deck" is organized by card suit and packed with contributions from other Boston musicians. Continue reading →

Travel

Travel

The best souvenir they ever got on vacation? A professional photo shoot.

Even as technology puts photography in everyone’s pockets, travelers are increasingly investing in high-end, high-priced images of themselves and their families and friends on vacation. Continue reading →

Travel

Meet the city that inspired Beverly Hills

Who needs "Real Housewives" when you’ve got all this? Our Beverly is not to be missed. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Real Estate

Is it time to wave goodbye to home inspections as a negotiation tool?

New state law says real estate agents can’t discuss such contingencies with buyers or sellers. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Home of the Week: For $1.29m, a Boxborough Colonial with a sweet suite

Property comes with four bedrooms, 4.5 baths, a lower level with its own entrance, and a koi pond. Continue reading →