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Nation

One mother’s quest captures the challenges as Biden seeks to reunite separated migrant families

One family's case provides a window into the immense challenges as Biden administration officials try to reverse the legacy of what many call a stain on the nation’s history. Once families are separated and scattered, getting them back together is an epic challenge — and many such heart-rending cases remain. Continue reading →

Politics

Elizabeth Warren’s influence in Washington rises as allies take Biden administration posts

President Biden is staffing his administration with numerous figures aligned with Senator Elizabeth Warren — a group of hires includes at least four of her presidential campaign staffers and some key proteges and allies. Continue reading →

Coronavirus

It was the company her father started and she then led. Employees were like family. Now, she had to let them go

Amy Yag Sondrup’s entire life was bound up in the company. Her father launched it the year she was born, in 1984, in a massive 19th-century textile machine shop. But Access TCA sat directly in the pandemic’s destructive path. Continue reading →

Metro

The suburban police chief who’s trying to change policing

Ed Denmark, the police chief of the mostly white town of Harvard, worries the policing world is failing to reform. After more than three decades on the job, this much he is willing to admit: The approach to policing in America is broken. Continue reading →

NFL

A beautiful mind: Tom Brady has mastered the art of quarterbacking

Playing quarterback is about making decisions, and Brady has the quickest mind in the NFL. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

One mother’s quest captures the challenges as Biden seeks to reunite separated migrant families

One family's case provides a window into the immense challenges as Biden administration officials try to reverse the legacy of what many call a stain on the nation’s history. Once families are separated and scattered, getting them back together is an epic challenge — and many such heart-rending cases remain. Continue reading →

Politics

Elizabeth Warren’s influence in Washington rises as allies take Biden administration posts

President Biden is staffing his administration with numerous figures aligned with Senator Elizabeth Warren — a group of hires includes at least four of her presidential campaign staffers and some key proteges and allies. Continue reading →

Coronavirus

It was the company her father started and she then led. Employees were like family. Now, she had to let them go

Amy Yag Sondrup’s entire life was bound up in the company. Her father launched it the year she was born, in 1984, in a massive 19th-century textile machine shop. But Access TCA sat directly in the pandemic’s destructive path. Continue reading →

The World

World

Public buildings set ablaze in Chile after police shoot street juggler

Buildings were burned during protests in a town in southern Chile on Friday as angry demonstrators reacted to what officials and local media said was the fatal police shooting of a street juggler. Continue reading →

World

In Afghanistan, a booming kidney trade preys on the poor

The illegal kidney business is booming in the western city of Herat, fueled by sprawling slums, the surrounding land’s poverty and unending war, an entrepreneurial hospital that advertises itself as the country’s first kidney transplantation center, and officials and doctors who turn a blind eye to organ trafficking. In Afghanistan, the sale and purchase of organs is illegal. But the practice remains a worldwide problem, particularly when it comes to kidneys, since most donors can live with just one. Continue reading →

World

To fight or hide: Fear grips Myanmar with military back in charge

As armed police officers stood behind riot shields, marchers called for “democracy to rise, military dictatorship to fall” and sang protest anthems that once brought prison sentences. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

Massachusetts needs a strong transportation vision and a leader who can carry it out

Stephanie Pollack’s departure is a chance for the governor to move past small-bore thinking on transit and congestion. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Consider, for a moment, what it means to have a strong military

"The purpose of the armed forces is security, to protect us from threats military, economic, and social. Its existence is a deterrent against aggression." Continue reading →

LETTERS

If we’re talking of mental health checkups, focus should be on children and teens

"Psychological issues are powerful impediments to education; indeed, half of mental health conditions start by age 14." Continue reading →

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Metro

Metro

The suburban police chief who’s trying to change policing

Ed Denmark, the police chief of the mostly white town of Harvard, worries the policing world is failing to reform. After more than three decades on the job, this much he is willing to admit: The approach to policing in America is broken. Continue reading →

Metro

The suburban police chief who’s trying to change policing

Ed Denmark, the police chief of the mostly white town of Harvard, worries the policing world is failing to reform. After more than three decades on the job, this much he is willing to admit: The approach to policing in America is broken. Continue reading →

Higher Education

Harvard could find an ally in the DOJ under Biden

As the Harvard University case on the use of race in college admissions approaches the US Supreme Court, the school’s onetime foe is likely to become an ally. Continue reading →

Sports

NFL

A beautiful mind: Tom Brady has mastered the art of quarterbacking

Playing quarterback is about making decisions, and Brady has the quickest mind in the NFL. Continue reading →

NWHL

What led to the NWHL shutting down its mini-season in Lake Placid?

It is unclear how the virus arrived in NWHL circles. It was not conducting a strictly protected bubble. Infiltration was a risk from the start. Continue reading →

Tara Sullivan

Thanks to women, the NFL is changing for the better

The pipeline for women in the game has expanded in recent years. Continue reading →

Business
Ideas

IDEAS

Inside the race to develop a vaccine for our other pandemic: Hate

A little-noticed group of government-funded researchers is developing a clever inoculation against the disinformation and violence threatening American democracy. Continue reading →

IDEAS

Social studies: More immigrants, please; climate change and togetherness; in praise of ugly fruit

Unexpected findings from the world of social science. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Margaret Snyder, the U.N.’s ‘first feminist,’ dies at 91

Margaret Snyder, whose liberal Roman Catholic upbringing inspired a pioneering career at the United Nations, where she refocused the mechanisms of global development aid to include millions of women in Africa, Asia and Latin America, died Jan. 26 in Syracuse, New York. She was 91. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

PILGRIMAGE

A deeper look at Edward Mitchell Bannister, the Black painter who changed Providence

The 19th-century artist's excellence should not be eclipsed by his biography. Continue reading →

DON AUCOIN / CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

What President Biden can do to save the arts

Having someone in the Oval Office who views culture as essential gives arts leaders hope. Now they want to see the president step up. Continue reading →

TABLES

Where to celebrate Valentine’s Day

In the mood for romance, despite everything? Try special menus at restaurants around town. Continue reading →

Travel

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

JetBlue is introducing all private seats in business class for forthcoming Boston flights to London

Mint class, the airline’s version of business class, is expanding and getting an extensive makeover. Continue reading →

TRAVEL

Orlando, it’s not, but small-town Florida has its own magic

Tempted to see it for yourself, once it’s safe to travel again? Here’s what you’ll encounter. Continue reading →

Real Estate