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Boston Mayoral Race

For Boston mayoral candidates, fixing the school system is personal

The vision each Boston mayoral candidate brings for the public school system is deeply personal, shaped by their experience as parents trying to secure the best education for their own children, and by their own education histories. Continue reading →

Higher Education

Return of students to college campuses in Boston area brings uncertainty because of Delta variant

This summer, as vaccination rates rose, it seemed as though the fall season on college campuses might be a blissful rush of normalcy. But the Delta variant is extremely contagious, and no one knows what the colder months will bring. Continue reading →

Business

For workers losing unemployment benefits, jobs not always easy to come by

The looming cutoff of benefits reveals a Massachusetts economy that, now more than ever, is a picture of extremes between the haves and the have nots. Continue reading →

Investigations

Complaints about ferry service to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket coming to a head amid surging tourism

This summer, the ordeal of snatching a coveted reservation on heavy travel days, and navigating the maze of buses, cars, and general commotion at the terminals has gone to migraine level, fueling a season of discontent on the islands and mainland alike. Continue reading →

Health

Booster shot rollout against COVID-19 is likely to differ from the first vaccine effort

Massachusetts doesn’t plan to reopen mass vaccination sites for booster vaccine shots against the coronavirus. Instead, people will get shots at doctor’s offices and local pharmacies. And supplies are expected to be abundant. Continue reading →

The Nation

Coronavirus

Two men in Japan die after receiving Moderna vaccine from batches later pulled; causes unclear

The deaths are being investigated, and the Cambridge biotech says it has no evidence the deaths were caused by its COVID-19 vaccine. Continue reading →

Nation

Contact tracing takes a back seat during latest COVID surge

Health investigators across the United States are finding it nearly impossible to keep up with the deluge of new COVID-19 infections and carry out contact tracing efforts that were once seen as a pillar of the nation’s pandemic response. Continue reading →

Nation

When police lie, the innocent pay. Some are fighting back.

There have long been instances in which the police have provided false accounts of arrests, but disparities between officers’ descriptions and what people see have become more common with the expansion of body cameras and cellphone videos and as police departments’ public accounts draw more scrutiny. Continue reading →

The World

World

Iraq brings together Mideast rivals in bid to ease tensions

French President Emmanuel Macron also attended the Baghdad meeting, hailing it as a major boost for Iraq and its leadership. Continue reading →

World

Injured in Haiti quake at high risk of infection, amputation

“From where I’m coming from, inside the mouth of death, it’s best that they cut the arm off.” Continue reading →

World

A doctor’s tour de France, one ‘medical desert’ at a time

On a sunny but chilly June morning, Dr. Martial Jardel took his black motorcycle out of his camper van, put his helmet on, and started the engine. For his last day on Normandy’s Cotentin Peninsula, he was ready to hit the road along the English Channel to visit a patient. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

LETTERS

State corrections is a system that cries out for independent oversight

It is in everyone’s interest that the prison experience not only be safe but also prepare those incarcerated for their return to the community. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Beyond the fantasy of a gentle death

People may just want the knowledge that they can end pain and suffering when it becomes unbearable. Continue reading →

EDITORIAL

Governor Baker getting what he wants from his Parole Board

But is the slow rolling of commutation hearings what the state really needs? Continue reading →

Metro

Metro

Lawrence mourns Marine who died working with women, children in Kabul airport attack

The family of Marine Sergeant Johanny Rosario is asking for privacy as they mourn her death. Continue reading →

Metro

‘Sailing for all.’ Community Boating celebrates 75 years

This summer will be the 75th anniversary of Community Boating, which since its conception, has sought to make sailing accessible to all regardless of income or ability. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

Western Mass. lawmakers press for new courthouse in Springfield after building closed over mold concerns

The Roderick L. Ireland Courthouse in Springfield closed Wednesday over concerns about mold. Continue reading →

Sports

Chad Finn

Sports card collecting is booming, but it looks a lot different than you might remember

Why the boom? “People were home, cleaning out their attics, or messing around on eBay out of boredom,” one collector said. Continue reading →

dan shaughnessy

Oct. 3 could be notable not just for Tom Brady’s return, and other thoughts

Brady will return to Foxborough with the Buccaneers on the same Sunday that baseball's regular season concludes. Continue reading →

Tara Sullivan

A candid Tom Coughlin opens up about his wife’s devastating illness

The former Boston College and longtime NFL coach is caring for his wife Judy, who is suffering from a degenerative brain disease. Continue reading →

Business

Business

For workers losing unemployment benefits, jobs not always easy to come by

The looming cutoff of benefits reveals a Massachusetts economy that, now more than ever, is a picture of extremes between the haves and the have nots. Continue reading →

Ideas

IDEAS

A weakness in the argument for vaccine mandates

The Supreme Court decision allowing the government to require vaccines is out of synch with dozens of other cases allowing people autonomy over their bodies. Continue reading →

IDEAS

Diplomacy is the only way forward in Afghanistan now

The Taliban aren’t likely to be America’s friends. But they don’t have to be our enemy either. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Rebecca Wasserman-Hone, who put Burgundy on US map, dies at 84

An American-born wine exporter, Rebecca Wasserman-Hone championed the wines and the small artisanal producers of Burgundy, her adopted home, often doing so as the only woman in many of the wine industry spaces that she frequented. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

Television

Television’s 25 best episodes of the 2000s

In an era when TV reached new artistic heights, these are ones that rose to the very top. Continue reading →

Theater

Sandra Bernhard comes to town to make a little mayhem

Singing, dancing, dishing — to her, it’s all performance art. Continue reading →

ART REVIEW

The house that Bob Thompson built

Fifty-five years after his death at 28, a little-known painter with a big vision gets his due at Maine’s Colby College Museum of Art. Continue reading →

Travel

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

The border is open, and some of Quebec’s best-kept secrets are ready to be discovered

The Eastern Townships offer nature, a lot of wine, and a forest full of twinkling fairies. Plus it smells good. Continue reading →

TRAVEL

How one traveler spent her COVID summer

For a moment in time, it had seemed that travel would feel normal again. Instead, there’s a sense of whiplash. Continue reading →

Real Estate