As they so often do, Republicans have severed the phrase from its actual meaning and used “critical race theory” to describe any antiracist teaching, diversity and inclusion efforts, and discussions of racism, period. | Continue reading
A new book examines "the hormone that dominates and divides us." | Continue reading
Cambridge Mobile Telematics has acquired TrueMotion in the emerging field of tracking driver behavior to help set insurance rates. The acquisition was valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a source familiar with the transaction. | Continue reading
When droves of quarantined Americans took up bird-watching, they turned to guide books by a soft-spoken Western Mass. ornithologist, one of the best there’s ever been. | Continue reading
It’s an ignominious end for what had been one of WeWork’s first locations in Boston, a buzzy hive of activity that grew to fill most of the 11-story office building across from the station. | Continue reading
The pandemic delivers an overdue reminder that ‘all labor has dignity.’ | Continue reading
Melinda Gates began working with divorce lawyers well over a year before her split with Bill Gates was announced last week, partly over concerns about her husband’s dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to the Wall Street Journal. | Continue reading
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday that it would no longer prosecute prostitution and unlicensed massage, putting the weight of one of the most high-profile law enforcement offices in the United States behind the growing movement to change the crimina … | Continue reading
Two previously detected black holes are spinning too quickly to have ever been impacted by the hypothetical particle known as ultralight bosons, according to new research from an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published Wednesday. | Continue reading
Robinhood “has continued a pattern of aggressively inducing and enticing trading among its customers — including Massachusetts customers with little or no investment experience,” state regulators say. | Continue reading
We were venturing into what was once a den of human sacrifice. | Continue reading
Richard DiBona, a 53-year-old software manager who was fired from Wayfair, filed a lawsuit against the company for age and caregiver discrimination. His case is among an “explosion of litigation” involving caregiving during the pandemic. | Continue reading
The faculty members questioned the government’s case against the professor and the larger effort to target academics with ties to China. | Continue reading
Similar to “right to forget” programs that have cropped up across the country, the undertaking is meant to address the lasting impact that stories about past embarrassments, mistakes, or minor crimes, forever online, can have on a person’s life. | Continue reading
Globe journalism was never meant to be a permanent obstacle to someone’s success, with the worst decisions and moments in regular people’s lives accessible by a few keystrokes for the rest of time. This initiative aims to empower all people who want to have a fresh start. | Continue reading
Similar to “right to forget” programs that have cropped up across the country, the undertaking is meant to address the lasting impact that stories about past embarrassments, mistakes, or minor crimes, forever online, can have on a person’s life. | Continue reading
Some Massachusetts lawmakers and staff members said they felt unease Wednesday before the riot at the US Capitol, despite receiving assurances from police that security would be tight. | Continue reading
Katie Paul, who heads the Tech Transparency Project, helps to uncover what tech companies are doing behind the scenes. | Continue reading
The Nobel-winning World Food Program is one of many agencies increasingly handing out cash rather than goods. Yet the international aid system still isn’t fully deploying this simple, powerful idea. | Continue reading
A critic of US foreign policy responds to a reader’s challenge. | Continue reading
Life turns out to be messier than computerized decision-making systems usually can account for. | Continue reading
The American campaign against socialist leader Nicolás Maduro is only hurting the people of the country. | Continue reading
Public health experts on Wednesday slammed President Trump for acknowledging privately in February that COVID-19 was far more deadly than the flu and highly contagious, even as he played down the threat publicly and urged states to reopen businesses. | Continue reading
A state investigation found the lab “put patients at immediate risk of harm.” | Continue reading
The town of Millinocket had not recorded a single case of coronavirus. One celebration would change all of that. | Continue reading
“That’s ridiculous,” Lisa Piccirillo thought when she first learned about the Conway knot problem. “We should be able to do that.” | Continue reading
“That’s ridiculous,” Lisa Piccirillo thought when she first learned about the Conway knot problem. “We should be able to do that.” | Continue reading
Ten years after opening her account, Harriet had a balance of $998 on the phone. But then that balance plummeted to $0, without explanation. | Continue reading
If our response to the coronavirus prioritizes being safe above everything else, we risk losing far too much. | Continue reading
In engineering and computer programming parlance, the terms « master » and « slave » are used to describe the control relationship between circuits or codes, to emphasize how one component can trigger others, from brake and clutch systems in cars to Bluetooth technology. | Continue reading
Using unidentified paramilitary squads to maintain order is deeply anti-democratic. | Continue reading
The employees, including a former police captain in California, are accused of sending items including fly larvae, live spiders, and a bloody pig mask to the home of a couple in Natick. | Continue reading
By filing a third-degree murder charge against Derek Chauvin that a judge is likely to dismiss, the county prosecutor in Minnesota is setting the stage for a miscarriage of justice. | Continue reading
At least 10,000 Boston public school students have not logged in to class since schools shut down in March due to the coronavirus epidemic, making them virtual dropouts whose formal education stopped two months ago. | Continue reading
While some workers are turning down jobs because they’re worried about getting sick or infecting family members or because they don’t have child care, others are flat-out telling employers they’re making more money safe at home collecting unemployment. | Continue reading
The US Marshals Service’s Special Operations Group and deputy marshals arrested Taylor, 59, and his son Peter, 27, on a provisional warrant based on charges brought in Japan earlier this year, | Continue reading
With a phased-in restart of the local economy imminent, companies are preparing to gradually return to dramatically changed workplaces. | Continue reading
Deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had his own office in a Harvard department and visited there more than 40 times after he was released from jail in 2010 up until 2018, according to review of the university’s ties to the financier released on Friday. | Continue reading
The widespread use of ventilators to save COVID-19 patients has sparked layers of controversy. Now, a new discussion is emerging: the fate of those who survive the ventilator, but awaken to find their brains and bodies altered. | Continue reading
Politicians and editorial boards must demand accountability | Continue reading
In 1865, a failed stockbroker tries to pull off one of the boldest financial schemes in American history: the original big short. | Continue reading
More than 400 people lost their jobs at the Boston business catering startup. Here’s how it went down, from the perspective of the boss and an employee who was laid off. | Continue reading
A Mass. General researcher says the results point to a « raging epidemic, » but may also indicate the city is further along the disease curve than some other municipalities. | Continue reading
One of the many things I learned from reading “The Three-Body Problem” is that it’s OK for China to harm the world in order to save it. | Continue reading
A century ago, a surprising remedy for the Spanish Flu emerged from a series of tents on Corey Hill just off Washington Square in Brookline. | Continue reading
AdviniaCare at Wilmington, which has 142 beds, tested 98 residents and found 51 were positive for COVID-19, Pointe Group Care LLC said in a statement Friday. | Continue reading
Libraries are hurriedly adding thousands of titles to their catalogues of electronic books, as online services make borrowing and reading a book online easier than ever. | Continue reading