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05/24/2025

“We were puzzling over all the cancers in our family,” Larry Ingrassia tells Globe columnist Shirley Leung. “There was not a belief that heredity was a major factor in cancers.”

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Cancer took just about everyone in journalist Larry Ingrassia’s family, except him. His book unpacks his family’s multi-generational cancer mystery.

05/24/2025

This homeless shelter controversy is another classic NIMBY drama, writes Marcela García. But it’s also about expectations, and the way that “the process” becomes an end in itself.

The controversy is another classic NIMBY drama. But it’s also about expectations, and the way that “the process” becomes an end in itself.

05/23/2025

Editorial: The Trump administration seems intent on controlling Harvard and scaring the rest of higher education into obedience.

By going after Harvard’s international students, the president might be pleasing his base. But he’s endangering the country’s future prosperity.

05/23/2025

States are going to have to ramp up expenditures as the Trump administration incapacitates the federal government, says Jon D. Michaels.

States are going to have to ramp up expenditures as the Trump administration incapacitates the federal government.

05/23/2025

It’s easier for state Democrats to bash President Trump’s policies than to exercise any restraint of their own, writes Carine Hajjar.

Voters trusted the Legislature to spend the money wisely on transportation and education projects.

05/23/2025

Mexico is about to become the only country in the world where voters elect all judges. This “constitutional reform” was promoted as an anticorruption measure, writes Stephen Kinzer.

It may have the opposite effect.

Electing all judges will make it easier for cartels and other powerful interests to sway Mexican courts.

05/23/2025

Four-year colleges are becoming engines of inequality. We envision an alternative that would help students and their future employers, write , Jeffrey Severts, and Michael D. Smith.

Four-year colleges are becoming engines of inequality. The solution is a new kind of GED exam.

05/23/2025

If there’s a lesson in Sam Altman’s Financial Times house tour, it’s don’t let journalists into your home, writes Alex Beam. But celebrity chaff simply cannot exercise self-restraint.

Who doesn’t enjoy a bit of journalistic naughtiness?

05/22/2025

The smash-hit Netflix series is a gripping and powerful story, writes @/robkhenderson. It’s a mistake to promote it as if it were a documentary.

The smash-hit Netflix series is a gripping and powerful story. It’s a mistake to promote it as if it were a documentary.

05/22/2025

Editorial: The former military base at Devens is a prime site to develop more of the housing that Massachusetts desperately needs. https://trib.al/LoJ6U0Y

Group Insurance Commission will limit GLP-1 coverage.

05/22/2025

“I was in a good old-fashioned variety store when I found a mysterious object,” says Heather Hopp-Bruce. It was a sugar saver, a small terra-cotta disk that promised to keep sugar soft and usable for two thousand years.

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How a simple terra cotta sugar softener changed my perception of time and eased my anxiety.

05/22/2025

A lottery system could exclude even the most qualified and motivated students while admitting others who are not, says Karen Burgio. This will not solve the statewide access problem ― it will simply reshuffle the slots.

A lottery system could exclude even the most qualified and motivated students while admitting others who are not. This will not solve the statewide access problem ― it will simply reshuffle the slots.

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