While both New York and Massachusetts have charted remarkable roads to recovery, it is New York — the state with the highest total death count in the country — that has emerged as a national leader this summer. Continue reading →
The forms have some students and legal experts worried that the colleges are shifting potential blame to students and trying to protect themselves from lawsuits, even as they invited thousands to return. Continue reading →
A question on November’s ballot proposes voters rank their preferred choices in both primary and general elections. Implementing the new system would mean in a race with several candidates, the person who receives the most first-place votes could, in fact, lose. Continue reading →
Massachusetts’s top prosecutor is discussing a lawsuit with other state attorneys general to prevent the Trump administration from potentially further curtailing US Postal Service operations amid an expected rush of voting by mail in this fall’s general election. Continue reading →
In recent years, libraries had become far more than their traditional stacks and shelves, offering services ranging from kids’ yoga classes to job hunting. Now, like so many other institutions, libraries are trying to sort out their safe and productive place in this pandemic world. Continue reading →
Around the country, office workers sent home when in March are returning to the world of cubicles and conference rooms and facing certain post-COVID adjustments: masks, staggered shifts, spaced-apart desks, and sanitizer everywhere. Continue reading →
With the balloon drop scrapped and the cheering crowds banished, Democratic convention planners faced the grim prospect this summer of throwing Joe Biden a party in a pandemic without any apparent celebration. Continue reading →
There’s no vaccine for COVID-19, but there’s one for influenza. With the season’s first doses now shipping, officials are struggling over how to get people to take it. Continue reading →
President Moon Jae-in has vowed to crack down on the Sarang Jeil Church for flouting preventive measures. The church happens to be his most vocal critic. Continue reading →
The public needs to take a lesson from the private sector and capitalize on the downturn in real estate in order to guarantee affordable housing. Continue reading →
Images of thousands of parents and students carrying boxes — along with moving trucks mashed beneath low overpasses — have long been a feature of August in Greater Boston, but the process looks very different this year as schools implement strategies to cope with COVID-19 concerns. Continue reading →
Boston Public Schools and its after-school providers stepped up planning to create emergency learning centers where students will be able to gather in person during the fall to study. It’s an effort that several city leaders say is long overdue. Continue reading →
While both New York and Massachusetts have charted remarkable roads to recovery, it is New York — the state with the highest total death count in the country — that has emerged as a national leader this summer. Continue reading →
We know by now how unfulfilling it is for professional athletes to play in empty arenas, and how comical it is when fan noise is streamed in. Ditto for musicians performing online, without fans swaying to the sound. I’m here to say it’s the same for authors. Continue reading →
The Sterlingwear of Boston garment factory, facing closure, has been tapped by the City of Boston to produce medical gowns for frontline workers. Continue reading →
In recent years, libraries had become far more than their traditional stacks and shelves, offering services ranging from kids’ yoga classes to job hunting. Now, like so many other institutions, libraries are trying to sort out their safe and productive place in this pandemic world. Continue reading →
Mr. Thompson, whose prosecutions of public officials — including a predecessor — helped catapult him to become the state’s longest-serving chief executive, was 84. Continue reading →
Mr. Steffen was an Arctic scientist whose work showed that climate change is melting Greenland’s vast ice sheet with increasing speed. Continue reading →
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