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Sunday, September 28, 2025
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Arts

A locked door and myriad treasures beyond, in vast rooms deemed unusable at Boston Public Library

Nearly 40 percent of the library's grand McKim Building is badly decayed, threatening sculptures, paintings, and historical documents stored inside. Continue reading →

New England

‘A scary year’: Across northern New England, farmers face the worst drought in decades

Blueberry crops have been decimated. Potato yields are down. Corn stalks are stunted. Haying operations have been halted. And livestock are depleting their water supplies. Continue reading →

Politics

‘Russ has waited for this moment his whole life’: Meet the architect of Trump’s shutdown strategy

Democrats have argued Russell Vought’s actions are illegal and cited them as grounds for demanding Republicans negotiate. Continue reading →

Health

Unproven autism treatment touted by Trump gives some New England families hope

While clinical trials of leucovorin have shown promising results, they all have been small in scale, and specialists say there isn’t enough solid information to determine how effective it is to treat autism. Continue reading →

Health

‘Unprecedented’: Harvard public health school confronts severe financial crisis, seeks corporate sponsors

The school has already laid off some number of faculty and staff, reduced its class of PhD students by nearly half, and shelved research projects. Continue reading →

Globe Magazine

A Boston bartending king. A young woman from Maine. A tragedy that changed everything.

After Julia Phan was found dead in Ran Duan’s house on New Year’s Day, the online culture that fueled his rise turned against him. Continue reading →

Life is chaotic. Sometimes, chaos is an adorable dachshund.

Our tiny puppy is wreaking havoc on our family in just the way we need. Continue reading →

We think hallucinations make AI different from us. What if they make us the same?

Spinning stories out of nothing is a deeply human impulse. As a neurologist, I see my patients do it all the time. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Amid political violence, moments of grace are rare and fleeting

Experts in civic discourse say Trump’s give-no-quarter language is unmatched by other modern American presidents. Continue reading →

Politics

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow end of birthright citizenship

The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to uphold President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship, the long-held principle that children born on American soil are automatically citizens. Continue reading →

Nation

Thieves steal $1M worth in craft whiskey from Washington distillery

“This is an unfortunate and pretty extraordinary situation." Continue reading →

The World

World

Ukraine nuclear plant enters fifth day on emergency power as Zelensky announces $90B arms deal

Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant entered its fifth day running on emergency generators Saturday, creating mounting safety concerns at Europe’s largest nuclear facility. Continue reading →

World

Airstrikes and shooting kill at least 57 people in Gaza as Israel ignores demands for a ceasefire

Strikes in central and northern Gaza killed people in their homes in the early hours of Saturday morning, including nine from the same family in a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp. Continue reading →

World

Tens of thousands protest in Berlin and call for end to the Israel-Hamas war

Around 50,000 people took part in the march through Berlin’s downtown area, according to police. About 1,800 law enforcement officers were deployed to monitor the demonstrators. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

Letters

Creativity — and tension — in push-pull of freedom and limits

A complete meditation on freedom and limits must grapple with actors who seek to exempt themselves from constraints they impose on others. Continue reading →

Editorials

Do apartment buildings really need two stairwells?

Fire safety advances have made single-stair construction safer. Continue reading →

Letters

The Sox in ’67, The Beatles in ’66 — almost like it was yesterday

Two men walked toward me, one wearing a Beatles T-shirt. I told him I went to the last Beatles concert in Boston, at Suffolk Downs in 1966. Continue reading →

Metro

Money, Power, Inequality

Black participants have long been underrepresented in clinical trials. Advocates are working to bridge the gap.

Though Black Americans represent 14 percent of the US population, they account for about 5 to 7 percent of clinical trial participants, according to the National Cancer Institute. Continue reading →

Health

Coastal flooding ravages New England. Can salt marshes help?

Salt marshes can be part of the solution to help protect homes and businesses, but first, they need help. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Residents of this self-described ‘sanctuary city’ in Mass. take steps to protect neighbors amid ICE surge

Group chats and text chains are alight with reports of suspicious cars, and neighbors say they’ve been preparing to keep watch at a moment’s notice. Continue reading →

Sports

Patriots

Who is Zak Kuhr? Meet the man stepping up to call defensive plays in Terrell Williams’s absence.

Kuhr, 37, had never worked with an offense until he joined the NFL. Continue reading →

Celtics

Celtics to run two-man game at ownership level with Bill Chisholm, and Wyc Grousbeck stays in great position to play on

This qualifies as Wyc’s biggest win as a Celtic — but there’s only one Green commander in chief, and that’s Chisholm. Continue reading →

Red Sox

Manager Alex Cora believes nobody predicted the Red Sox would make the postseason, but writers’ polls say otherwise

Motivation is where you find it and Cora will push whatever buttons he can to get his team ready for its first postseason appearance since 2021. Continue reading →

Business
Ideas

Ideas

What Trump doesn’t understand about comedy

Ideological enforcers on the right and the left ought to know by now that it’s pointless to tell Americans what they shouldn’t laugh at. Continue reading →

Ideas

Take farming back to nature

Regenerative agriculture means farmers work with the land, not against it. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Dana C. Chandler Jr., whose racism manifesto put Boston’s art community on notice, dies at 84

Mr. Chandler has had an "outsized impact" on Boston's art community for decades, said Jeffrey De Blois, curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Lifestyle

Full steam ahead as Britain marks the bicentenary of a world-changing rail journey

Thousands are celebrating the 200th anniversary of the historic train journey that set the foundations for much of the modern age. Continue reading →

Visual Arts

At the Addison, Tommy Kha self-identifies (and then some)

His photographs address some very profound issues with exuberance and wit. Continue reading →

Arts

To Trump, late-night TV is not a funny business

Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert are part of a tradition of fearless political comedy that started at the turn of the 21st century. Continue reading →

Travel

Travel

New Hampshire’s $90 million hotel is finally open. Is the Lake Estate on Winnisquam five-star material?

It was a brazen statement: The managers of this luxury resort said they wanted it to rank on the Forbes Travel Guide months before it even opened. Continue reading →

Travel

Bright leaves, small towns: A serene foliage crawl in Southern New England

Skip Northern New England traffic backups by concentrating on the country charms of Connecticut’s so-called “Quiet Corner” and a patch of adjacent Rhode Island. Continue reading →