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Crime & Courts

With body cameras, an unease for police, and, perhaps, a new age of accountability

Amid a national reckoning over systemic police abuses and growing demands for reform, the calls for cameras have only intensified. Continue reading →

Politics

COVID’s suffocating grasp is choking businesses in Cambridge’s Central Square

Much of what defines Central Square, from shops to restaurants to performance spaces, is changing as the ongoing pandemic brings upheaval and doubts about the future. Continue reading →

Business

Coronavirus made the wealth gap worse. How long can a divided economy stand?

While Wall Street has climbed to new heights, broad swaths of the lower-wage service economy continue to struggle. And many companies that have so far avoided the worst of the pandemic’s economic pain may soon prove vulnerable again. Continue reading →

Travel

Dirty looks, threats, and anonymous notes. Good riddance to the summer of travel shaming

Vacation vigilantes have taken travel regulations into their own hands — by shaming out-of-staters. Continue reading →

Education

Boston students evenly divided on remote, hybrid learning preferences, survey finds

Overall, 51 percent of the respondents said they preferred a hybrid learning model — which will have students in classrooms part of the week — compared to 49 percent who backed remote-only learning. Continue reading →

The Nation
The World
Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

Obama’s ‘biggest mistake’ is still wreaking havoc

The bombing of Libya scattered weapons across Africa. Continue reading →

OPINION

No more political dynasties

Americans should recoil from the idea that some people are fit to govern because they were born into a certain family. Continue reading →

OPINION

Are we looking at 2020 all wrong?

Democrats are understandably nervous, but a Biden landslide isn’t out of the question. Continue reading →

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Metro

Metro

Pair of protests — one decrying Trump, the other decrying police violence — become one in Copley Square

Back-to-back rallies gradually formed into one as protesters with Refuse Facism marched down St. James Avenue holding a banner that read “Trump/Pence #OutNow” and joined the crowd for the Civic Youth Summit’s Black Lives, Black Voices, and Jacob Blake rally in front of Trinity Church. Continue reading →

Crime & Courts

With body cameras, an unease for police, and, perhaps, a new age of accountability

Amid a national reckoning over systemic police abuses and growing demands for reform, the calls for cameras have only intensified. Continue reading →

Politics

COVID’s suffocating grasp is choking businesses in Cambridge’s Central Square

Much of what defines Central Square, from shops to restaurants to performance spaces, is changing as the ongoing pandemic brings upheaval and doubts about the future. Continue reading →

Sports

NASCAR

NASCAR playoffs shaping up as a duel between Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick

Hamlin and Harvick ran away from the pack in their two-man battle during NASCAR's regular season. Continue reading →

Sports media

Forced to retire from baseball early, Will Middlebrooks now has a budding second career

The former Red Sox third baseman is in his second year as a baseball analyst for CBS Sports HQ, the network’s streaming service. Continue reading →

146th Kentucky Derby

Authentic wins the 146th Kentucky Derby

Bob Baffert horse holds off Derby favorite Tiz the Law in second leg of Triple Crown. Continue reading →

Business

Business

Coronavirus made the wealth gap worse. How long can a divided economy stand?

While Wall Street has climbed to new heights, broad swaths of the lower-wage service economy continue to struggle. And many companies that have so far avoided the worst of the pandemic’s economic pain may soon prove vulnerable again. Continue reading →

Ideas
Obituaries

Obituaries

Constance Nxumalo, South Africa’s ‘chief social worker,’ dies at 53

In her early days as a social worker, Constance Nxumalo was so dedicated to the homeless shelter where she served that the children there viewed her as a mother. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Salome Bey, ‘first lady’ of Canadian blues music, dies at 86

In 1978, Salome Bey gathered Black actors and musicians together for a rehearsal of “Indigo,” a musical revue she wrote and starred in about the evolution of the blues. She started with a pep talk. Continue reading →

Sunday Arts
Travel

Travel

Dirty looks, threats, and anonymous notes. Good riddance to the summer of travel shaming

Vacation vigilantes have taken travel regulations into their own hands — by shaming out-of-staters. Continue reading →

Real Estate