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Politics

The most complicated election in modern history is coming — soon. Are we prepared?

Experts worry about a nightmare election during a pandemic marred by disenfranchisement and chaos, followed by an acrimonious legal and political dispute over the results that would test the nation’s democratic resolve. Continue reading →

Politics

The fate of Ginsburg’s successor rests with a handful of Senate Republicans

Buttressed by senators like Lindsey Graham, President Trump and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said they have every intent of moving quickly to fill the vacancy left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Continue reading →

Politics

Cash is flowing over confirmation battle for Supreme Court vacancy

Just hours after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death was announced Friday, the leaders of three of the left’s most potent advocacy groups, Demand Justice, Naral Pro-Choice America, and Indivisible, were on a call with 1,000 progressive activists and strategists to begin to unfurl a plan they hoped they would not have to use. Continue reading →

The Great Divide

Educational inequality likely to widen this fall as white students return to school and students of color learn from home

Roughly two-thirds of Black and Hispanic students live in districts where schools are starting the year remotely. By contrast, most white students—about 70 percent—live in school districts with “hybrid” back-to-school plans that include some learning time inside school classrooms. Continue reading →

Television

Who’ll win at the Emmys, who should, and who got left behind

Globe TV critic Matthew Gilbert offers his best guesses and biggest complaints. Continue reading →

The Nation

Politics

The most complicated election in modern history is coming — soon. Are we prepared?

Experts worry about a nightmare election during a pandemic marred by disenfranchisement and chaos, followed by an acrimonious legal and political dispute over the results that would test the nation’s democratic resolve. Continue reading →

Politics

The fate of Ginsburg’s successor rests with a handful of Senate Republicans

Buttressed by senators like Lindsey Graham, President Trump and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said they have every intent of moving quickly to fill the vacancy left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Continue reading →

Politics

Cash is flowing over confirmation battle for Supreme Court vacancy

Just hours after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death was announced Friday, the leaders of three of the left’s most potent advocacy groups, Demand Justice, Naral Pro-Choice America, and Indivisible, were on a call with 1,000 progressive activists and strategists to begin to unfurl a plan they hoped they would not have to use. Continue reading →

The World

World

Russia is slow to administer COVID-19 vaccine despite Kremlin’s approval

More than a month after becoming the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine, Russia has yet to administer it to a large population outside a clinical trial, health officials and outside experts say. Continue reading →

World

Canada’s Napa Valley seeks elusive audience: Canadian wine drinkers

Canadian gastronomy may be better known for poutine, gravy-drenched cheese fries, than for pinot noir. But a new generation of winemakers is putting the Okanagan Valley on the global wine map, alongside famed regions like Bordeaux, Tuscany, and Napa Valley. Continue reading →

World

Thai protesters reinstall plaque symbolizing democracy

Anti-government demonstrators occupying a historic field in the Thai capital on Sunday installed a plaque symbolizing the country’s transition to democracy to replace the original one that was mysteriously ripped and stolen three years ago, as they vowed to press on with calls for new elections and reform of the monarchy. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

Why ranked choice is the wrong choice

Massachusetts elections are won by the candidate who gets the most votes. That’s a better system than the one Question 2 would create. Continue reading →

OPINION

New allegations evoke an American tradition of violating Black and brown women’s bodies

A whistleblower claims immigrant women in ICE custody were subjected to forced sterilization. No one should be surprised. Continue reading →

OPINION

What’s at stake in a new Supreme Court

If Trump gets a conservative justice, environmental regulations, Roe v. Wade, the Affordable Care Act, and affirmative action programs would be in jeopardy Continue reading →

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Metro

The Great Divide

Educational inequality likely to widen this fall as white students return to school and students of color learn from home

Roughly two-thirds of Black and Hispanic students live in districts where schools are starting the year remotely. By contrast, most white students—about 70 percent—live in school districts with “hybrid” back-to-school plans that include some learning time inside school classrooms. Continue reading →

Metro

Mass. reports 26 new deaths, 569 new cases of COVID-19 Saturday

Massachusetts’s health department reported new deaths due to COVID-19 Saturday, along with new confirmed cases of the virus. Continue reading →

Metro

Ruth Bader Ginsburg remembered locally, at Harvard

On Saturday, mourners gathered at Harvard Law School and grieved the jurist, who persevered her way to the US Supreme Court, opening doors of opportunity for women and others at stops along the way. Continue reading →

Sports

Sunday hockey notes

Well-traveled Geoff Ward has found a coaching home with Calgary

The Flames' dossier includes three first-round exits in the last four years, and four coaches in the last five. Continue reading →

Sunday baseball notes

With few days off in MLB playoffs, pitching staffs will have to be managed differently

Once the best-of-three first round ends, a team could conceivably play 12 games over 13 days before getting to the World Series. Continue reading →

Sunday football notes

Patriots, Seahawks bring impressive defenses into Sunday night showdown

The Patriots had nine defensive backs who played at least 44 percent of the snaps in the Week 1 win over the Dolphins. Continue reading →

Business
Ideas

IDEAS

Algorithms may never really figure us out — thank goodness

Life turns out to be messier than computerized decision-making systems usually can account for. Continue reading →

IDEAS

Social Studies: White women and interracial marriage, changing views on the death penalty

Unexpected findings from the world of social science Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Kathleen Bruyere, Navy captain who helped win right for women to serve at sea, dies at 76

Joining a military branch steeped in a tradition of "iron men in wooden ships," Kathleen Bruyere went on to become a trailblazer for women in the Navy, rising to the rank of captain, shaping policies on sexual discrimination and working to expand opportunities for women to serve "not for self but for country," in the words of the Navy's unofficial motto. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Henrietta Boggs, southerner who spread her wings, dies at 102

At every turn Ms. Boggs challenged the segregated and patriarchal society in which she was raised. As a youth, she cut church on Sundays and sneaked off to the drugstore for Cokes and cigarettes. As a young woman traveling in Latin America, she wrote to her hometown newspaper, The Birmingham News, with detailed descriptions of the poverty and deprivation she witnessed. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Jack Kelley, who led BU to back-to-back national hockey titles, dies at 93

Mr. Kelley also led the then-New England Whalers to the first Avco World Trophy. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Television

Who’ll win at the Emmys, who should, and who got left behind

Globe TV critic Matthew Gilbert offers his best guesses and biggest complaints. Continue reading →

FALL FOLIAGE

Six places in New England to see fall foliage without the crowds

Mother Nature doesn’t stop for a pandemic. She’ll deliver us an eye-popping fiesta of color this fall, as always. Here are some less-populated places to take it all in. Continue reading →

BIBLIOPHILES

Claudia Rankine on race, reading, and conversation

Given the mass demonstrations over police violence against Black people plus a president bent on widening the country’s deep racial divide, the author’s new book, “Just Us: An American Conversation,” could not be timelier. Continue reading →

Travel

FALL FOLIAGE

Six places in New England to see fall foliage without the crowds

Mother Nature doesn’t stop for a pandemic. She’ll deliver us an eye-popping fiesta of color this fall, as always. Here are some less-populated places to take it all in. Continue reading →

FALL FOLIAGE

Six places in New England to see fall foliage without the crowds

Mother Nature doesn’t stop for a pandemic. She’ll deliver us an eye-popping fiesta of color this fall, as always. Here are some less-populated places to take it all in. Continue reading →

Real Estate