Politics

40 days of denial and disinformation

What a long, strange, unprecedented trip this has been. President Trump spent weeks before Election Day attacking mail-in voting and signaling he might not accept the results, but that didn’t fully prepare Americans for what he unleashed hours after the polls closed. Continue reading →

Politics

Boston native Annie Tomasini, with a ‘letting Biden be Biden’ approach, to be a top staffer in his White House

The former Boston Latin and Boston University basketball star will be director of Oval Office operations in the White House. Continue reading →

Coronavirus notebook

CDC panel endorses Pfizer vaccine for people 16 and older

An independent committee of experts advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday afternoon recommended the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for people 16 years of age and older. That endorsement, which now only awaits final approval by Dr. Robert Redfield, the CDC director, is a key signal to hospitals and individual health care providers that they should proceed to inoculate patients. Continue reading →

World

Treasure washes up on Venezuela’s shore, bringing gold and hope to a village

No one knows where the gold came from and how it ended up scattered along a few hundred feet of Guaca’s narrow, workaday beach. The mystery has merged with folklore, and explanations draw equally on legends of Caribbean pirates, on Christian traditions, and on the widespread mistrust of Venezuela’s authoritarian government. Continue reading →

World

Shadowy Ethiopian massacre could be ‘tip of the iceberg’

The only thing the survivors can agree on is that hundreds of people were slaughtered in a single Ethiopian town. Continue reading →

World

How the vaccine rollout will compare in Britain, Canada, and the US

The three countries have very different health care systems. And they face different challenges in the race to get the vaccine to millions of people. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Mail-in voting delivered. Let’s not cancel it

Massachusetts' pandemic-year-only system of expanded voting needs to be made a permanent fixture for future elections. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Epidemiologists wage a battle against more than just the virus

A front-page story on epidemiologists' frustrations generated a wave of supportive reaction from readers. Continue reading →

OPINION

Trans people lifted up Biden. As president, he needs to do the same for them.

At least 41 trans and gender nonconforming people have been murdered this year. This, and other underlying issues, must be addressed on a federal level. Continue reading →

Metro

Vaccine shipments to begin as new coronavirus restrictions take effect in Mass.

As Pfizer plans to begin shipping doses of the first COVID-19 vaccine approved by American regulators for emergency use Sunday, a host of new restrictions on business activities go into effect in Massachusetts, where the death toll has passed 11,000. Continue reading →

Health

Weary doctors confront the second wave of COVID-19 with grief and grit

Physicians are entering the second surge with new confidence in their ability to protect themselves and manage the illness, now much better understood. But they express weariness, and frustration at the needless toll of a virus whose spread could have been curtailed. Continue reading →

Metro

Vaccine shipments to begin as new coronavirus restrictions take effect in Mass.

As Pfizer plans to begin shipping doses of the first COVID-19 vaccine approved by American regulators for emergency use Sunday, a host of new restrictions on business activities go into effect in Massachusetts, where the death toll has passed 11,000. Continue reading →

TD Garden

TD Garden is set to reopen for the Celtics, without fans

Garden staff has had a busy offseason preparing the building for an NBA season, with the admission of fans hopefully to come soon. Continue reading →

Tara Sullivan

Outpouring of love continues for late Patriots cheerleading director Tracy Sormanti

Sormanti was 58 when her three-year battle with multiple myeloma ended. Continue reading →

Dan Shaughnessy

Remembering Joe Mooney, a Fenway original, and other thoughts

Nobody stepped foot on Fenway’s sacred sod without an OK from Joe Mooney. Continue reading →

Business

Follow the data: COVID trends point to more restrictions, perhaps a lockdown, by Jan. 1

With numbers on the rise, hospital leaders and epidemiologists say that more drastic restrictions in Massachusetts — if not a shutdown — are coming, or should be, by the end of December. Continue reading →

Business

Follow the data: COVID trends point to more restrictions, perhaps a lockdown, by Jan. 1

With numbers on the rise, hospital leaders and epidemiologists say that more drastic restrictions in Massachusetts — if not a shutdown — are coming, or should be, by the end of December. Continue reading →

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IDEAS

Massachusetts’ public schools are highly segregated. It’s time we treated that like the crisis it is

The Bay State hasn’t demonstrated any real urgency around integration in decades. Millions of children have paid the price. Continue reading →

IDEAS

Trump closed the door to thousands of refugees. Biden should kick it open.

New refugee policies would not require severe sacrifice — only a recommitment to American ideals. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Charley Pride, the son of a sharecropper who became a country music superstar, dies at 86

Singer Charley Pride's rich baritone on such hits as “Kiss an Angel Good Morning” helped sell millions of records and made him the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. He died after contracting COVID-19. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Doug Scott, part of first team to summit Everest by southwest face, dies at 79

Mr. Scott and Dougal Haston were selected to be the first two climbers of the group to head to the summit because of their endurance, ambition, and ability to make quick decisions under pressure — a skill they ended up needing. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Deb Price, a first as a columnist on gay life, dies at 62

As the nation’s first nationally syndicated lesbian columnist who wrote regularly about gay life, Deb Price certainly covered pointed issues, like the debate over gay people in the military. Continue reading →

TY BURR

Spoiling for a fight

How much information is too much information in a movie review? Continue reading →

MUSIC

When Boston’s music scene was built on Beethoven

The city's fascination is mirrored by a seven-foot statue, which arrived to much fanfare more than 160 years ago. Continue reading →

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

Philip Johnson: An ugly history that must be named

More than 30 artists, architects, and academics are calling for the removal of the Johnson's name from places and titles. Here's why institutions should think twice. Continue reading →

Travel

JetBlue’s Boston to London route moves forward, but with one small snag

Unless coveted slots open at Heathrow between now and the third quarter of 2021, JetBlue will be landing Boston flights not in London, but in Stansted. Never heard of Stansted? Don’t feel bad. Continue reading →

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

Another thing 2020 has taken away from us? Ridiculous service animals on planes

Last week the DOT ruled that only dogs can officially qualify as service animals. We’ll miss tales of peacocks, pigs, and snakes on a plane. Continue reading →

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