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Business

Perhaps more than ever, online shopping is changing the seasonal workforce in 2020

Seasonal gigs at big-box stores now increasingly involve packing orders for pick-ups or shipping them to customer’s homes, while transportation, logistics, and warehousing jobs are anticipated to triple this year as consumers conquer their gift lists online. Continue reading →

Globe Local

More and more Bostonians struggle to feed themselves as a resurgent pandemic approaches

The economic and health ravages of COVID-19, combined with food price increases, have produced a rising tide of food insecurity. Citywide, the number of people receiving SNAP benefits has increased by 21.2 percent since the pandemic began. Continue reading →

Business

MBTA cuts imperil transit-oriented building boom

Housing advocates say closing commuter rail stations and reducing subway frequency flies in the face of a decade of state housing policy largely designed around the notion that the best place to build new homes in a traffic-choked place like Greater Boston is next to a train stop. Continue reading →

Politics

Midnight ruling exposes rifts at a Supreme Court transformed by Trump

The justices issued six opinions, several of them unusually bitter, in upholding challenges from churches and synagogues to state pandemic restrictions. The ruling was almost certainly a taste of things to come, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s support for religious freedom likely to play a major role. Continue reading →

Politics

With Biden, environmental groups see ‘tremendous opportunity’ to address climate change

Environmental groups are expecting a sea change in the way the United States confronts what the former vice president has called the “number one issue facing humanity.” Continue reading →

The Nation

Politics

Midnight ruling exposes rifts at a Supreme Court transformed by Trump

The justices issued six opinions, several of them unusually bitter, in upholding challenges from churches and synagogues to state pandemic restrictions. The ruling was almost certainly a taste of things to come, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s support for religious freedom likely to play a major role. Continue reading →

Politics

With Biden, environmental groups see ‘tremendous opportunity’ to address climate change

Environmental groups are expecting a sea change in the way the United States confronts what the former vice president has called the “number one issue facing humanity.” Continue reading →

Photos

Here’s what the Thanksgiving Day parade looked like in pandemic New York

This year, as with everything in 2020, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, a ritual marker of the holiday, was drastically different. Continue reading →

The World

World

‘The Crown’ stokes an uproar over fact vs. entertainment

Newspapers and television programs have been full of starchy commentary about how “The Crown” distorts history in its account of the turbulent decade in which Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer and Margaret Thatcher wrought a free-market revolution in British society. Continue reading →

World

Sadiq al-Mahdi, Sudan former prime minister, dies of virus

Sadiq al-Mahdi, Sudan’s last democratically elected prime minister and leader of the country’s largest political party, died of COVID-19 Thursday in a hospital in the United Arab Emirates, his party said. He was 84. Continue reading →

World

After two hurricanes, Honduras braces for long recovery

Category 4 Hurricane Eta and Category 5 Hurricane Iota cut similar paths across Central America this month, a one-two punch that killed scores of people and displaced hundreds of thousands. More than a week after the second storm, vast areas of Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala remain flooded. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

OPINION

Trump may be right about one thing, architecture

Will Trumpitecture live on after Donald Trump? Continue reading →

OPINION

Biden needs to bring Republicans on board in foreign policy

It’s the only way he can guarantee a policy that will outlive his presidency. Continue reading →

OPINION

Pomegranate season

We are arriving at the solstice: when the earth starts to swing, slowly but inexorably, toward springtime and the light. Vaccines are coming. A new administration is coming. Continue reading →

Metro

Globe Local

More and more Bostonians struggle to feed themselves as a resurgent pandemic approaches

The economic and health ravages of COVID-19, combined with food price increases, have produced a rising tide of food insecurity. Citywide, the number of people receiving SNAP benefits has increased by 21.2 percent since the pandemic began. Continue reading →

Transportation

A lot of Boston commuters expect to start driving after the pandemic, survey says

With coronavirus vaccines bolstering prospects that daily life will return to normal in 2021, many fear a return to the region’s grueling pre-pandemic traffic congestion. Continue reading →

Metro

President Trump will spend his last months in office pardoning turkeys

Lame duck presidents often take care of their cronies on the way out the door. Continue reading →

Sports

ben volin | on football

Once and for all, Kyler Murray explodes the myth of quarterbacks and height

The Cardinals' 5-10 sensation, whom the Patriots must deal with Sunday, could be on his way to an MVP season. Continue reading →

bc football

Boston College football players sacrificed both family time and fun time

They knew they would be away from family for Thanksgiving, but then their "Turkey Bowl" scrimmage had to be scrapped too. Continue reading →

patriots notebook

Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald will miss Sunday’s game after positive test

The durable wide receiver is in his 17th NFL season and hasn't missed a game since 2014. Continue reading →

Business

Business

Perhaps more than ever, online shopping is changing the seasonal workforce in 2020

Seasonal gigs at big-box stores now increasingly involve packing orders for pick-ups or shipping them to customer’s homes, while transportation, logistics, and warehousing jobs are anticipated to triple this year as consumers conquer their gift lists online. Continue reading →

Business

MBTA cuts imperil transit-oriented building boom

Housing advocates say closing commuter rail stations and reducing subway frequency flies in the face of a decade of state housing policy largely designed around the notion that the best place to build new homes in a traffic-choked place like Greater Boston is next to a train stop. Continue reading →

Business

Perhaps more than ever, online shopping is changing the seasonal workforce in 2020

Seasonal gigs at big-box stores now increasingly involve packing orders for pick-ups or shipping them to customer’s homes, while transportation, logistics, and warehousing jobs are anticipated to triple this year as consumers conquer their gift lists online. Continue reading →

Obituaries
Arts & Lifestyle

COOL IDEAS

All I want for Christmas is some front-row seats

Mendon Drive-In extends season with holiday classics and light shows. Continue reading →

Music

The Cabot turns 100 with a birthday concert and an invite for everybody

The recently refurbished Beverly theater will be serenaded by James Taylor, Paula Cole, Rosanne Cash, Raul Malo, and many more in a livestreamed celebration. Continue reading →

MOVIE REVIEW

‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’: triumph and tragedy meet true greatness

August Wilson’s play has been brought to film as testimony to the ongoing vitality of Viola Davis and a memorial to the late Chadwick Boseman, both of whom give majestic performances. Continue reading →