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The Great Divide

Independent study for 6-year-olds? Some Massachusetts districts are skirting instructional requirements for kids

This school year, Massachusetts has reinstated its requirement that public schools provide at least five hours of “structured learning time” every school day. But interviews with a dozen parents, advocates, and experts reveal that districts vary widely on what constitutes remote education. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Dozens of State Police troopers remain on the force despite past illegal conduct

A Globe review of the department’s internal affairs files shows the agency rarely fires troopers almost no matter what they have done. The Globe found only a handful of examples of firings in the last decade. Continue reading →

Business

Chelsea is about to become the country’s biggest experiment in giving out no-strings-attached checks

Beginning in November, about 2,000 low-income families will be given $200 to $400 a month, money that can be used for anything from food to paying bills. Continue reading →

Coronavirus

As cases rise again, second thoughts on another lockdown

More targeted closures are on order, though some experts warn they risk perpetuating the disparities of a total shutdown. Continue reading →

Politics

What happens if Trump won’t concede?

President Trump's possible refusal to clearly commit to this basic norm of electoral civility could enable many unappealing possibilities, experts say. Continue reading →

The Nation

Coronavirus

As cases rise again, second thoughts on another lockdown

More targeted closures are on order, though some experts warn they risk perpetuating the disparities of a total shutdown. Continue reading →

Politics

What happens if Trump won’t concede?

President Trump's possible refusal to clearly commit to this basic norm of electoral civility could enable many unappealing possibilities, experts say. Continue reading →

Politics

A regulatory rush by federal agencies to secure Trump’s legacy

Facing the prospect that President Trump could lose his reelection bid, his Cabinet is scrambling to enact regulatory changes affecting millions of Americans in a blitz so rushed it may leave some changes vulnerable to court challenges. Continue reading →

The World

World

Jacinda Ardern, hero to liberals abroad, is validated at home

Her face has graced magazine covers all over the world. Her leadership style has been studied by Harvard scholars. Her science-and-solidarity approach to the coronavirus has drawn legions of fans in other countries who write to say, “I wish you were here.” Continue reading →

World

Azerbaijan: Armenian missile killed 13, wounded over 50

Azerbaijan on Saturday accused Armenia of striking its second-largest city with a ballistic missile that killed at least 13 civilians and wounded 50 others in a new escalation of their conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Continue reading →

World

Vietnam landslide hits army camp, buries 22 personnel

A landslide in central Vietnam on Sunday buried at least 22 army personnel, just a week after another landslide killed 13 as heavy rains continued to pound the region, state media reported. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

Sorry, Charlie — this election is no time to sit on the sidelines

Simply withholding his support again from Trump does not go far enough. Baker should fully repudiate the president with a vote for Joe Biden. Continue reading →

LETTERS

As election nears, Trump fatigue is keenly felt

Two recent columns about living under the Trump administration cried, "Make it stop." Readers took notice. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Neglect has become far too common at ICE detention centers

Unwanted gynecological surgeries at a Georgia immigration jail are just the latest alleged abuses in a system that over-relies on for-profit companies. Continue reading →

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Metro

Metro

Women’s March demonstrators take over Boston streets chanting ‘Vote Him Out’

Chanting “My Body My Choice," and “Vote Him Out,” roughly 1,000 demonstrators took over the streets around Boston Common in a show of resistance to President Trump, one of more than 400 such events staged in all 50 states on Saturday. Continue reading →

The Great Divide

Independent study for 6-year-olds? Some Massachusetts districts are skirting instructional requirements for kids

This school year, Massachusetts has reinstated its requirement that public schools provide at least five hours of “structured learning time” every school day. But interviews with a dozen parents, advocates, and experts reveal that districts vary widely on what constitutes remote education. Continue reading →

Metro

Women’s March demonstrators take over Boston streets chanting ‘Vote Him Out’

Chanting “My Body My Choice," and “Vote Him Out,” roughly 1,000 demonstrators took over the streets around Boston Common in a show of resistance to President Trump, one of more than 400 such events staged in all 50 states on Saturday. Continue reading →

Sports

Dan Shaughnessy

Hoping Alex Cora returns as Red Sox manager, and other thoughts

He is a proven commodity, and there are indications that anyone other than Cora would be a puppet manager. Continue reading →

ALCS | RAYS 4, ASTROS 2

Rays hold off Astros in Game 7, head to World Series for first time in 12 years

Randy Arozarena and Mike Zunino each homered again for Tampa Bay, which avoided a historic collapse in the AL Championship Series after squandering a 3-0 lead in the AL Championship Series. Continue reading →

PETER ABRAHAM | ON BASEBALL

Chaim Bloom has plenty of tough competition among Rays alumni

The Red Sox chief baseball officer is among the top executives, including three of MLB's final four in 2020, who got their starts with Tampa Bay. Continue reading →

Business

Business

Chelsea is about to become the country’s biggest experiment in giving out no-strings-attached checks

Beginning in November, about 2,000 low-income families will be given $200 to $400 a month, money that can be used for anything from food to paying bills. Continue reading →

Ideas

IDEAS

Amy Coney Barrett and the antiabortion movement’s shifting lines in the sand

Abortion opponents mainly have made peace with in-vitro fertilization, even though it involves the death of embryos. Continue reading →

IDEAS

Just give poor people money

The Nobel-winning World Food Program is one of many agencies increasingly handing out cash rather than goods. Yet the international aid system still isn’t fully deploying this simple, powerful idea. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Bob Shanks, influential TV executive, dies at 88

Bob Shanks, a television producer and executive who helped define the talk show and newsmagazine formats, working with Jack Paar and Merv Griffin and bringing “Good Morning America,” “20/20” and other programs to the air, died Monday in Pittsfield, Mass. He was 88. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Stuart Bowyer, astronomer who lent his ear to the cosmos, dies at 86

Stuart Bowyer made his biggest mark with his ultraviolet studies of the universe. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Max Osceola Jr., Seminole tribal leader, dies at 70

As an elected representative of the Seminole Tribal Council from 1985 through 2010, Mr. Osceola was “one of the tribe’s longest-serving and most powerful politicians,” according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. His adopted brother, James Billie, was the tribe’s longtime chairman. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

BOOK REVIEW

Don DeLillo’s ‘Silence’ ponders an offline world

DeLillo’s seventeenth novel is an investigation into what remains of contemporary life when the technological advances that have permeated much of society no longer exist. Continue reading →

BIBLIOPHILES

For Kelli Jo Ford, short stories and Indigenous authors

The author weaves together the stories of three generations of Cherokee women in Oklahoma in her critically acclaimed debut novel “Crooked Hallelujah.” Continue reading →

BOOK REVIEW

Seeing the tortoise and the hare in ‘The Zealot and the Emancipator’

John Brown and Abraham Lincoln were two of the central figures in the destruction of slavery. Their stories were parallel lines, never intersecting. And yet they exerted irresistible force on each other, power that combined to end a blight on the country. Continue reading →

Travel

Travel

Like the oystercatchers search for clams, we searched for oystercatchers on North Monomoy Island

The 7,600-acre Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge is an important sanctuary for migrating and breeding birds. Continue reading →

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

A Cambridge hotel bravely debuts in an uncertain market

907 Main opens its doors as the COVID-19 pandemic ravages the hospitality industry. Continue reading →

Real Estate