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Sunday, April 20, 2025
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Higher Education

How Harvard president Alan Garber came to lead the higher ed resistance against Trump

After Columbia University’s capitulation, Garber said he knew Harvard was going to have to fight. Continue reading →

Healthcare

Rising drug prices are hammering patients, employers, and insurers. Is there any end in sight?

Soaring demand for high-priced weight loss drugs, known as GLP-1s, has worsened affordability issues. Continue reading →

Business

Crowds gather peacefully at 250th anniversary celebrations despite divided political climate

At a peaceful Lexington reenactment marking 250 years since the Revolution’s first battle, echoes of America’s founding ideals clashed with today’s political tensions, drawing parallels between Colonial resistance and modern debates over democracy. Continue reading →

Politics

Top Republicans who graduated from Harvard aren’t lining up to defend it. Quite the contrary.

Since the beginning of the Trump administration's battle with the university, alums in the upper echelons of the administration and the Republican Party have had no kind words to say in any public forum about Harvard. Continue reading →

Analysis

Russians wonder: Can Trump really negotiate peace in Ukraine?

In interviews, people in the Kremlin’s orbit have revealed frustration both with Trump’s whirlwind approach to the talks and with Putin’s apparent inflexibility in the negotiations. Continue reading →

The Nation

Politics

RFK Jr. wants to ‘Make America Healthy Again.’ So what should SNAP recipients be allowed to buy?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is crisscrossing the country to ban unhealthy foods from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. His primary target is soda, and others are taking aim at sugary sweets. Continue reading →

ANALYSIS

Defying the law and the courts, Trump seeks to shift the focus

Trump and his team are trying to rewrite the narrative so that it is a dispute about illegal immigration rather than the rule of law. Continue reading →

Nation

How universities became so dependent on the federal government

American universities spent $60 billion in federal money on research and development in fiscal year 2023 alone. Continue reading →

The World

World

Where do whale sharks mate? The search to learn where the magic happens for the world’s biggest fish.

Scientists suspect the mating waters may be around St. Helena, a remote volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean where Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled and died. Continue reading →

World

Syrian president meets a US Congress member on an unofficial visit to Damascus

It was the first visit to the country by American legislators since the ouster of former leader Bashar Assad Continue reading →

World

US and Iran conclude a second round of nuclear talks

Implicit in the next talks is the assumption that President Trump is willing to back down from the administration’s original insistence that all of Iran’s major nuclear sites and long-range missile arsenals must be dismantled. Continue reading →

Globe Magazine

The 36 Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2025

Is Massachusetts’ roller coaster real estate market slowing down a bit? Maybe? Continue reading →

Top Spots to Live north of Boston 2025

A culturally thriving former mill town, sunsets along the coast, and historic architecture beckon buyers to the north. Continue reading →

Top Spots to Live west of Boston 2025

Small-town vibes and space aplenty are the themes of this region’s selling points. Continue reading →

Editorial & Opinion

EDITORIAL

This is not a drill

A repressive, arbitrary regime is taking shape before our eyes. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Let young readers lose — and find — themselves in literature

Our youth need adults to give them the permission, the time, and the scaffolding to pause long enough to inquire, to muddle through, and to emerge with some new insight. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Run aground by the force of Trump, he’s buoyed by Harvard fight

I have been so depressed since Donald Trump won the presidential election. I’ve longed for something or someone to believe in and fight for. Continue reading →

Metro

Massachusetts

Boston Marathon will offer sensory-friendly area along course for spectators with autism, other needs

The section, located at mile 13.5 in Wellesley, prohibits loud cheering and noisemakers such as cowbells and horns. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

‘This has been on my bucket list’: Lexington and Concord mark 250th anniversary of Revolutionary War

The milestone reenactments launched a full day of commemorations, both solemn and festive. Continue reading →

K-12

‘This process is illegal’: Special education advocates, lawyers question legality of new BPS bus policy

The district’s new Ridership Procedure, unveiled Wednesday, is meant to eliminate bus stops where students are no-shows for at least two weeks in a row. Continue reading →

Sports

Dan Shaughnessy

Since the dynasty of the ’60s many Celtics teams have failed to repeat, so this won’t be easy, and other thoughts

A less-than-healthy roster blocked the Celtics from repeating in the ’70s, ’80s, and again in this century. And it’s the only thing that can stop them now. Continue reading →

RED SOX 4, WHITE SOX 3

Triston Casas delivers Red Sox a fourth straight win with walkoff wall-ball single in 10th inning

Casas was quick to credit others for setting up his walkoff hit. Garrett Crochet gave the Red Sox six scoreless innings before the White Sox took advantage of an error to tie. Continue reading →

Celtics

Celtics’ Jaylen Brown, who practiced without limitations all week, cleared to play in Game 1 Sunday

Brown has been dealing with a painful bone bruise in his right knee the past month. Continue reading →

Business

Business

Crowds gather peacefully at 250th anniversary celebrations despite divided political climate

At a peaceful Lexington reenactment marking 250 years since the Revolution’s first battle, echoes of America’s founding ideals clashed with today’s political tensions, drawing parallels between Colonial resistance and modern debates over democracy. Continue reading →

Ideas

IDEAS

RFK Jr., America’s Lysenko

The Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko peddled pseudoscience, had Stalin’s backing, and promoted notions that wrecked the lives of millions before he was stopped. Continue reading →

IDEAS

Social Studies: Unintended consequences of mandatory voting; debate skills in the workplace

Surprising findings from the social sciences. Continue reading →

Obituaries
Arts & Lifestyle

Visual Arts

Ohan Breiding’s ‘Belly of a Glacier’ at Mass MoCA is a personal lament about loss

Ohan Breiding’s film is part documentary, part lament that casts climate change as less scientific emergency than occasion for grief. Continue reading →

Arts

An archivist’s job is to ‘keep the receipts.’ What happens when they can’t do their job?

Several archivists told the Globe they see the president’s actions as a threat to government transparency. Continue reading →

Television

Star Wars spinoff ‘Andor’ offers an urgent and timely message about facing fascism

As the show prepares to launch its second season, it’s worth revisiting what made the first season so unusual. Continue reading →

Travel

TRAVEL

Retired at sea: Why one woman spends 10 months a year cruising the world

Interest in months-long, globe-trotting cruises is rising among travelers with enough free time (and deep pockets) to make it happen. And the cruise industry has responded. Continue reading →

TRAVEL

Play pickleball, eat a torta, and sleep in a former saloon. Here’s the latest from Newport.

You can do all of these new things in one day, but why not make a weekend of it and fit in some of your old favorites, too? Here’s a look. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Real Estate

Is it worth it to move north from Massachusetts?

To answer that question, we took $600,000 and compared what you’ll get settling down in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Ask the Remodeler: Ways to keep your basement dry this spring

Plus, how to patch holes in cement steps. Continue reading →