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Sunday, July 17, 2022
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World

‘We’re not going to quit.’ In western Ukraine, strength and resilience endure

The Boston Globe spent eight days in western Ukraine speaking with people about how they’re coping amid the ongoing war and what’s next. This is the second in a series of dispatches from a nation under siege. Continue reading →

Technology

A boarding school in the Berkshires is banning smartphones for students and teachers

The Buxton School’s unique experiment comes at time when the pendulum may be swinging away from technology in education. Continue reading →

Politics

Mayor Wu aims to strike a balance of insider experience, outsider perspective with new police and schools leaders

City leaders are optimistic they have struck the right balance between two models of leadership: insiders with enough knowledge to be effective, and outsiders with enough perspective to force a change. Continue reading →

Politics

Kamala Harris steps into the spotlight on abortion rights, an opportunity for her and the movement

Harris has a difficult task before her, trying to organize and satisfy a demanding coalition of elected officials and activists facing steep odds of restoring abortion rights nationwide. Continue reading →

The Nation

Nation

Texas man charged in four decades-old California murders

DNA evidence helped to crack the unsolved murders, some dating to 1980, of three women and a teenage girl in California, leading to the arrest of a 75-year-old man in Texas, authorities said Friday. Continue reading →

Nation

Life or death for Parkland shooter? Trial will take months

Delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and legal wrangling, the penalty-only trial is expected to last four months with the seven-man, five-woman jury being exposed to horrific evidence throughout. The jurors will then decide whether Cruz, 23, is sentenced to death or life without the possibility of parole. Continue reading →

Nation

6 people die after storm causes Montana highway pileup

Twenty-one vehicles crashed Friday evening and Montana Highway Patrol Sgt. Jay Nelson said authorities believe the weather was the cause. Continue reading →

The World

World

Mexico’s capture of drug kingpin could be signal to US

Cooperation between the DEA and Mexico’s marines had led to some of the highest-profile captures during previous administrations, but not under current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, noted security analyst David Saucedo. Continue reading →

World

Who’s the oldest of them all?

An isolated Italian town, once best known for a military base that for decades was a launchpad for economic opportunity and long-range missiles, is trying to position itself as a global capital of long-range living. But a smaller town has staked a rival claim to the title. Continue reading →

World

Sri Lanka begins choosing leader to replace ex-president

Sri Lankan lawmakers met Saturday to begin choosing a new leader to serve the rest of the term abandoned by the president who fled abroad and resigned after mass protests over the country’s economic collapse. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

The US is still not prepared for the next pandemic

It’s not even prepared for the remainder of this one. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Family child-care network will be key to Boston’s pre-K ambitions

Family child-care entrepreneurs, primarily Black and Latina women, are an integral part of the early child-care system. Continue reading →

LETTERS

In stand on abortion rights, she bowed out of Fla. conference

Despite the potential career costs, my advice to a pregnant person would be to avoid travel to states that limit abortion rights and access to potentially life-saving care. Continue reading →

Metro

Crime & Courts

Brother of man killed by police last fall petitions SJC to remove district attorney

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court hasn't exercised its authority to remove an elected district attorney since 1954 when the justices found the prosecutor in Plymouth County was unfit for office. Continue reading →

Metro

Massachusetts has lowest bottle deposit rate, new study finds

The pandemic accelerated the decline in Massachusetts' bottle redemption rate, ranking it the lowest among states with bottle bills. Continue reading →

YVONNE ABRAHAM

While a Healey wins seems inevitable, historically it would be incredible

Viewed from a certain angle, the contest to become Massachusetts’ next governor has gotten kind of dull. Until you think about what it really could mean for women in this state. Continue reading →

Sports

nascar

A trip to New Hampshire Motor Speedway offers drivers a change of pace off the track

“It’s not all about racing and being at the race track, it’s a little bit more like you’re camping out with your buddies and having some fun,” said Aric Almirola. Continue reading →

Yankees 14, Red Sox 1

Red Sox absorb a soul-crushing beatdown in the Bronx against the mighty Yankees

Aaron Judge and Matt Carpenter each homered twice and combined to go 5 for 7 with 10 RBIs for the Bronx Bombers who overcame Rafael Devers's solo home run in the first inning with 14 unanswered runs on 12 hits. Continue reading →

ON BASEBALL

Bobby Dalbec showed a flash, but Red Sox need better solution at first base, and soon

The Sox thought Dalbec would build on a promising 2021, and if he didn’t star prospect Triston Casas would be ready to replace him. Instead, Casas got injured, and Dalbec has regressed both at the plate and in the field. Continue reading →

Business
Ideas

IDEAS

Massachusetts can lead democracy back from the brink

One-party rule doesn't serve this state or any other state very well. Here's how to fix that. Continue reading →

IDEAS

May I have a word: Two challenges, one column!

Readers get an extension on a hunt for one coinage and have their work cut out for them with a new one. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Obituaries

Jerome M. Eisenberg, expert on antiquities both real and fake, dies at 92

Jerome M. Eisenberg, a leading New York antiquities dealer who in the murky world of tomb raiders and smugglers held himself up as a guardian against the illegal importation and sale of ancient art, died July 6, his 92nd birthday, in Manhattan. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Mark Fleischman, the last impresario of Studio 54, dies at 82

Mark Fleischman, who presided over the raucous, drug-crazed denouement of the celebrity-studded Manhattan disco Studio 54 in the early 1980s, died Wednesday in Switzerland. He was 82. Continue reading →

Arts & Lifestyle

SEVEN WEEKS OF SUMMER

Walking on sunshine with 25 of our favorite songs of summer

A great summer song can evoke the season, or it can just be the right song hitting in just the right way at just the right time. Here are some favorites chosen by Globe arts writers, editors, and contributors from summers past and present. Continue reading →

SEVEN WEEKS OF SUMMER

At Williamstown, Harrison David Rivers looks at himself through his mother’s eyes in ‘we are continuous’

The play is drawn from Rivers's experiences as a gay man growing up in a family in which his sexuality was rarely discussed, his fraught yet loving relationship with his parents, and his HIV diagnosis. Continue reading →

SEVEN WEEKS OF SUMMER

Throughout New England, the stage is set for theatergoers who are eager to explore

The local stage scene is quieter this time of year, which makes it an ideal moment to journey further afield. Here are a few promising productions from the Berkshires, the Cape, and all over New England. Continue reading →

Travel

CAPE COD CAPERS

Mixing and mingling with the upper class of the Lower Cape

Welcome to week three of our Cape Cod adventure, in which we eat, bowl, shop, snack, seal watch, do some sandbar hopping, and repeatedly get mistaken for an old married couple. Continue reading →

CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

A look inside Cape Cod’s newest five-star hotel

A Florida attorney and his wife transformed a rundown inn into a nationally lauded property. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Real Estate

Wall-to-wall coverage: Everything you need to know about siding your home

Few other home improvements have such a dramatic, immediate impact on curb appeal. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Home of the Week: New 4-bedroom in West Roxbury boasts built-ins, open shelving, and shiplap

The home has central air, forced-hot air heating, and a brick patio. Continue reading →