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40 percent of Boston high school juniors and seniors are chronically absent, raising concerns about their futures

The most striking increases in chronic absenteeism — defined as missing at least 10 percent of classes — occurred among Black, Latino, disabled, and English-learner students.

After years of inaction, federal regulators are on the cusp of imposing new rules to protect right whales

The proposed rules are drawing opposition from both the fishing industry and environmentalists.
Dave Epstein | Weather

Meteorological spring has arrived — but it will feel like winter for much of this week

A blast of Arctic air will bring mid-winter cold later Monday night and Tuesday.

Golden Globes 2021: A complete list of winners (and nominees)
Here are the actors, directors, and musicians that took home the golden trophies at the mostly-virtual show Sunday.

Matthew Gilbert: At this Golden Globes, glitches and mea culpas Here’s what stars wore on the virtual Golden Globes red carpet
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Special election for former speaker DeLeo’s seat will test appetite for progressive politics

Candidates vying to fill the seat long held by former Massachusetts House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo span the ideological spectrum, and the outcome could send a message about the changing politics of the State House.
THE BATTLE FOR THE GOP

In three Republican districts, a view of Trump’s continued dominance in the party

Former president Donald Trump is still the most popular potential presidential candidate in his party, and even his biggest Republican detractor in Congress, Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, says Trump probably would win the 2024 nomination if he runs.

In return to stage, Trump stokes partisan divisions with speech at CPAC

Taking the stage for the first time since leaving office, former president Donald Trump on Sunday called for Republican Party unity in a speech at a conservative political conference, even as he exacerbated its divisions and made clear he intended to remain a dominant force in the party.

The Black history I carry with me

A Beautiful Resistance — a special project from the Globe's culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt — is celebrating Black History Month by amplifying local stories of change-makers and the people inspired by them.

Opinion

EDITORIAL

Parenthood shouldn’t be a bar to public office

Something’s wrong when politicians can spend campaign cash on tuxedos and club dues but not child care.
David Daley and Sarah E. Hunt

Citizens should demand transparency in redistricting

Abdallah Fayyad

How prisons distort American democracy
Renée Graham

Tiger Woods, Serena Williams, and our demands on aging superstars
EDITORIAL

Press freedom is under attack in Latin America. Biden can help defend it

Project takeout: Get takeout. Save restaurants you love.
Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.

Restaurants we supported this week Learn more about Project Takeout

Gary Washburn | CELTICS 111, WIZARDS 110
Jayson Tatum showed Star stuff when it counted Sunday, and the Celtics some character
Since being humiliated in Atlanta on Wednesday, the Celtics have backed up their statements about better play with a pair of victories that weren't always pretty, but that ended up on the right side of the ledger,

Observations from the Celtics’ late escape against the Wizards

Peter Abraham | On baseball
For Alex Cora, the outcome wasn’t what mattered in his first game back as Red Sox manager
Despite a 7-6 loss to the Twins, Cora said he was “happy to be in the dugout. It was a great day just to be around and talking baseball.”

Given a second chance, Alex Cora seeks to move on — and learn from his past

Sale of Watertown Mall to lab developer may be near
The mall is along an Arsenal Street corridor that is fast emerging as a new hub of the region’s life sciences industry and as an attractive place for development in general.

New York Governor Cuomo acknowledges behavior seen as ‘flirtation’
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo acknowledged for the first time Sunday that some of his behavior with women had been “misinterpreted as unwanted flirtation,” and said he would cooperate with a sexual harassment investigation led by the state’s attorney general.

Michael Downing, whose books illuminated his illness and the lives of others, dies at 62
A novelist and teacher, Mr. Downing "taught not only writing, he taught a way to be,” a colleague said.

Adrian Walker
Once again, Boston’s battles over equity center on schools
This is the latest chapter in a fight that has defined Boston for decades: the battle for educational equity.

Raimondo expected to be confirmed as Commerce secretary on Tuesday
Senator Jack Reed predicts the Rhode Island governor will receive bipartisan support in the Senate vote.

Dr. Anthony Fauci rejects possible shopping around between three vaccine choices
Fauci pushed back against any tendency to wait for a preferred coronavirus vaccine among the three that are now approved for use in the US.

Recommended reads

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Cosmetology is one of the most popular vocational tracks in Mass. But is it too late for a makeover of Madison Park’s beauty program?

Statewide more than 1,500 students have been enrolled in a high school cosmetology program each of the past three school years, making it one of the most popular vocational tracks across Massachusetts.

Mass. marijuana has to be ultra-sterile. Just one problem: It’s a plant
Massachusetts cannabis regulators are considering loosening the state's strict microbe standard, after farmers complained the rules hurt small businesses and discourage sustainability.

Is it COVID… or just ‘coronaphobia’? In a pandemic, it’s easy to convince yourself you’re sick
With new variants surging and cases high, it’s easy to jump to the worst-case scenario.

metro

INNOVATORS Q&A
Bike and scooter riders, rejoice: Pointz helps navigate rides through cities safely
The new microbility GPS app, founded and designed by a Brown University student, will launch in Providence on April 1, and on May 1 in Boston.

Boston delays reopening of concert halls, theaters, other indoor businesses
Dave Epstein | Weather

Meteorological spring has arrived — but it will feel like winter for much of this week

Sports

Gary Washburn | On basketball
Jayson Tatum showed Star stuff when it counted Sunday, and the Celtics some character
Since being humiliated in Atlanta on Wednesday, the Celtics have backed up their statements about better play with a pair of victories that weren't always pretty, but that ended up on the right side of the ledger,

CELTICS 111, WIZARDS 110

‘We just stuck with it:’ Observations from the Celtics’ late escape against the Wizards

NASCAR | Dixie Vodka 400

William Byron captures NASCAR race at Homestead-Miami Speedway

business

Fact check: Trump clings to his core election falsehoods
Donald Trump clung to his core election falsehoods in his first post-presidential speech, wrongly blamed wind power for the catastrophic power failures in Texas and revived a variety of the baseless claims that saturated his time in office, on immigration, the economy and more.

CDC advisers recommend Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine

Tips on this tax season

politics

Democratic voting bill would make biggest changes in decades
As Congress begins debate this week on sweeping voting and ethics legislation, Democrats and Republicans can agree on one thing: If signed into law, it would usher in the biggest overhaul of US elections law in at least a generation.

In return to stage, Trump stokes partisan divisions with speech at CPAC

A Supreme Court test for what’s left of the Voting Rights Act

lifestyle

‘We have our own work to do’: Golden Globes’ Hollywood Foreign Press Association makes statement on its lack of diversity
In the midst of the ceremony, three Hollywood Foreign Press Association members acknowledged the group’s lack of diversity and promised to forge “a more inclusive future.”

Here are what stars wore on the virtual Golden Globes red carpet
ARTS

ICA’s 2021 Foster Prize goes to three artists who ‘help illuminate the way forward’

arts

Norman Lear, an Emerson College alumnus, accepts Golden Globes award for long career in TV
The longtime TV legend accepted the Carol Burnett Award for his storied career in television, saying he “could not feel more blessed.”

MATTHEW GILBERT

At this Golden Globes, glitches and mea culpas

Golden Globes 2021: A complete list of winners (and nominees)

rhode island

INNOVATORS Q&A
Bike and scooter riders, rejoice: Pointz helps navigate rides through cities safely
The new microbility GPS app, founded and designed by a Brown University student, will launch in Providence on April 1, and on May 1 in Boston.

POLITICS

Raimondo expected to be confirmed as Commerce secretary on Tuesday
RI BUSINESS

Evicted from Boston, a new West African restaurant is being welcomed in Providence

Newton

Special Projects

A Beautiful Resistance celebrates Black History Month

A Beautiful Resistance, in a special collaboration with Reebok, celebrate Black History Month. Black Joy. Black Wellness. Black Futures.
See more from 'A Beautiful Resistance' Follow on Instagram

On the Street

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength

Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation

This time, Quincy Center’s revival looks legit

Revere was going through a revival before COVID-19. Can it stay on track?

See more from our business series ‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

More

Boston Globe launches ‘Fresh Start’ initiative: People can apply to have past coverage about them reviewed
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.

Last Words: Is death the great equalizer?
Quite the contrary, a Spotlight investigation shows. Death exposes in high relief the layers of inequities, in race and income, care and opportunity, that shape life down to its final hours. It is a truth the pandemic has only underscored — one hard to see, because it is so much easier to look away.

I knew getting prostate cancer at 48 would change me. I had no idea how much
For the past year, Mark Shanahan has been working on Mr. 80 Percent, a six-episode podcast miniseries about his experience with prostate cancer. It’s a deeply personal, sometimes harrowing, often funny story about a disease that affects millions of men. The heroes are his doctors and family, who put up with some appalling behavior. You’ll hear from both.

Comfort Zone

ASK MATTHEW

10 reader-approved TV shows for parents and tweens

We asked for suggestions, and from "Sherlock" to "Green Acres," readers responded.
COMFORT ZONE

Flock to these winter birding hot spots around Boston

Pete Gilmore, field trip coordinator for the Brookline Bird Club, shared his favorite local stops.
A.Z. MADONNA

What would Beethoven think of climate change? Composer Iman Habibi has a few ideas

Habibi's “Jeder Baum spricht” (”Every tree speaks”) is part of a new BSO Now program.
ASK MATTHEW

If you enjoyed ‘Your Honor,’ who am I to judge?

As a critic, I don’t pretend my opinions are the correct ones, or even the best ones; they’re just mine.
COMFORT ZONE

Tatiana de Rosnay on ‘Sarah’s Key,’ Boston memories, and her scary new novel

The author casts a wary eye on on the near-future in her new book, "Flowers of Darkness."
COMFORT ZONE

Stars to come out (remotely) for a new Boston clinic for homeless women

Renee Fleming, Laura Benanti, Cheyenne Jackson, Heather Headley, and others are slated to perform in a benefit for Health Care Without Walls.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

IDEAS | KELLY HORAN

More heart, less darkness
EDITORIAL

Massachusetts can succeed in a teleworking world
IDEAS | KAREEM KING

Fighting the pandemic with information by us, for us
IDEAS | Christina Szalinski

Two masks could be one too many
Renée Loth

Debra Haaland as interior secretary — a champion for the land

IDEAS | Rachel Rebouché and Mary Ziegler

Could Roe v. Wade really become ‘the law of the land’?

STAT

The Road Ahead: Charting the pandemic over the next 12 months — and beyond
In this project, STAT describes 30 key moments, possible turning points that could steer the pandemic onto a different course or barometers for how the virus is reshaping our lives.

From a small N.C. town to big-city hospitals, how software infuses racism into U.S. health care
The racial bias can produce huge differences in assessing patients’ need for special care to manage conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, or depression, a STAT investigation found.

Covid-19’s wintry mix: Dry indoor air helps the virus spread
The worry is not just that people might mingle more closely inside, but that the air they breathe will make the virus more dangerous.

In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic
The hospital's first employee to die of Covid-19 was a kitchen worker named Marie Deus — and her illness sparked a question. Why weren't bedside clinicians getting sick at the highest rates?

magazine
Pandemic Parenting

We can care about education and be OK writing this year off
Parenting advice

'Being forgiving of ourselves is probably the biggest'
Dinner with Cupid

'The more she smiled the more tempted I was to want to get to know more'
Connections

My mom lives 2,000 miles away but keeps my daughter company on her iPad

sports

Raptors-Bulls game cancelled after positive COVID tests

Fans got back out to the ballgames in Florida and Arizona on Sunday

Lingering knee problem keeps Jaylen Brown out of Sunday’s Celtics game

metro

‘Charlie, you’re making a big mistake’: Experts criticize state’s Monday reopening

Once again, Boston’s battles over equity center on schools

40 percent of Boston high school juniors and seniors are chronically absent, raising concerns about their futures

Nation

Democratic voting bill would make biggest changes in decades

Here’s a look at what can reopen in Massachusetts beginning today

‘Nomadland,’ ‘Borat’ win at a socially distant Golden Globes

World

Iran rejects nuclear deal talks with US proposed by Europe

In confronting Saudi Arabia, Biden tiptoes with a close ally

The ugly divorce between Britain and Brussels is just getting started

politics

Some GOP state lawmakers help spread COVID-19 misinformation

Supreme Court could put new limits on voting rights lawsuits

Biden hails House passage of $1.9 trillion virus bill, now to Senate

business

Fraud overwhelms pandemic-related unemployment programs

Sale of Watertown Mall to lab developer may be near

Biden team readies wider economic package after virus relief

lifestyle

A Great Barrington therapist explores grief, vulnerability, and hope through Instagram

Right now, FaceTime isn’t enough

The parenting crisis without a vaccine: loneliness

marijuana

Mass. marijuana has to be ultra-sterile. Just one problem: It’s a plant

Marijuana company sues Boston zoning board over rejection

New Jersey governor signs laws to set up marijuana market

opinion

Parenthood shouldn’t be a bar to public office

How prisons distort American democracy

The Census Bureau must be allowed to finish its job

food & dining

At Mikkusu, a talented chef bides her time

Tim and Bronwyn Wiechmann plan a Lincoln restaurant, and hot chicken comes to Allston

Celebrating the Irish poitín

travel

New NE bike tours, a favorite bar reopens, and new virtual travel experiences

Michael Chiklis loves Aspen, Capri, and of course, Boston

The new travel reality: Vaccine required

Books

Crime and damages in ‘The Lowering Days’

A fictional retrospective of a filmmaker’s life in ‘Foregone’

Glenn Adamson on the perfect reading chair and books organized by color

Movies

Golden Globes 2021: A complete list of winners (and nominees)

Armie Hammer is in ‘Crisis’ and they can’t hide it

Some sequels take longer (a lot longer) to arrive than others

Television

At this Golden Globes, glitches and mea culpas

‘SNL’: Kate McKinnon plays Dr. Fauci as the game show host of ‘So You Think You Can Get the Vaccine’

April brings continuing ‘Tale,’ new ‘Law & Order’

music

When Beethoven resonates in a crisis

Jazz artist Maria Schneider on making music, and making a living

Velvet mornings and boots made for walkin’: Nancy Sinatra retrospective revisits a singer with swagger

Theater/Dance

Boston Ballet celebrates Jorma Elo in a rich program of new work and past highlights

On your screen but outside the box: Theater companies rise to a creative challenge

Stars to come out (remotely) for a new Boston clinic for homeless women

globe local

Devastating fire at Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Connecticut can’t touch its soul

‘It is not just about memorizing facts.’ Historians examine how Black History Month was intended to be celebrated

Meteorological winter ends this weekend

Obituaries

Michael Downing, whose books illuminated his illness and the lives of others, dies at 62

Sheila Washington dies at 61; helped exonerate Scottsboro Boys

Claudette White, innovative tribal judge, dies at 49