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Judge rules state can’t halt unemployment payments without proper review

The state’s Department of Unemployment Assistancecq can’t halt unemployment insurance payments or demand repayment of benefits that have already been paid out without granting claimants a chance to present their case, a Worcester Superior Court judge ruled in a preliminary injunction last week.

Cornel West leaving Harvard teaching post
Cornel West, the philosopher, progressive political activist, and outspoken social critic who last month threatened to leave his Harvard University teaching post following what he said was the denial of his request to be considered for tenure, said Monday that he’s leaving for a position at Union Theological Seminary.

Analysis
A fifth Senate Republican announces retirement. Yes, it’s good news for Democrats, but the real winner is Trump
The bigger consequence of the 2022 midterms probably won’t be that the Democratic Party will gain seats, but that the Trump wing of the Republican Party will.

ben volin | on football

Here’s what a Patriots trade for Jimmy Garoppolo might look like

He is by far their best option at quarterback for 2021, and the 49ers might be willing to give him up.
Patriots have no shot at Trevor Lawrence — so why did they scout him?

Offshore wind project off Martha’s Vineyard nears approval

The first commercial-scale offshore wind power development in US history, located off of Martha's Vineyard, is edging closer to approval, federal officials said Monday.
KEVIN CULLEN

Gold Star families are more important than royal families

In this day and age, it is utterly preposterous to pay so much attention to something as patently ridiculous as a royal family.

Key takeaways from Meghan and Harry’s tell-all interview with Oprah

The two-hour interview was highly anticipated, and offered several jaw-dropping revelations.
Serena Williams, Amanda Gorman, other celebrities voice support for Meghan Markle following interview with Oprah UK royals absorb the shock of a revealing Harry & Meghan interview
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In this Jamaica Plain home, ‘open concept’ includes a toilet in full view
Many home buyers want more counter space, a landscaped yard, or floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. Precious few are on the hunt for an open-concept bathroom.

Two digital Van Gogh exhibits are coming to Boston. Here’s how they’re different
Both “Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience” and “Imagine Van Gogh” will offer art-deprived audiences the chance to see larger-than-life versions of the artist's work.

Opinion

RENÉE GRAHAM

Meghan Markle was never allowed to fit into the royal family

During a revealing conversation, Meghan’s sorrow was real for every Black woman mistreated in unwelcoming white spaces.
Joan Vennochi

Meghan Markle stands up to palace power and white privilege
Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg and Louise Dubé

The road to a stronger democracy begins in the classroom
IDEAS | JONATHAN BERK

Streets that put people first, not cars
EDITORIAL

There’s no excuse for the deaths at High Street

To promote a new culinary scholarship, Burger King said ‘women belong in the kitchen.’ Now the company is getting grilled
The scholarship is intended to help the company’s female team members who are interested in or pursuing a degree in culinary arts.

‘Forever chemicals’ pervade drinking water sources on Cape Cod, study finds
Scientists at Harvard University found that several watersheds on the upper Cape around Mashpee had 40 times more PFAS, known as “forever chemicals” because they never fully degrade, than new state rules allow. The compounds have been linked to cancer, low infant birth weights, and suppression of the immune system.

Worcester firefighter who died in blaze awarded Medal of Honor posthumously; others honored for bravery
Worcester Fire Lieutenant Jason Menard was given a Medal of Honor posthumously at the 31st annual Firefighter of the Year awards on Monday.

peter abraham | on baseball
Though Brewers outfield is crowded, Jackie Bradley Jr. believes opportunity will be there
Reflecting on his time in Boston, Bradley said he is not quite ready to send a message to Red Sox fans — he needs a little time to get it right.

What Jackie Bradley Jr. had to say about leaving the Red Sox

Innovation Economy
During the pandemic, some businesses have managed to grow, including these seven Boston-area startups
Here are seven startups that you may not have heard about (yet) but that have been building momentum through the pandemic.

MUSEUMS
Mass MoCA employees make first move to unionize
Workers at the North Adams museum could vote on whether to unionize before the end of the month.

UMass Amherst official blasts students for violating COVID-19 safety protocols with large weekend party
Some 200 students at UMass Amherst on Saturday gathered for a raucous party in flagrant violation of COVID-19 safety protocols, a campus official Monday said in a note to students.

House set to take up $1.9 trillion stimulus, putting Biden on track to sign this week
Democrats are expected to approve the bill despite changes to critical elements of the stimulus adopted by the Senate over the weekend.

Recommended reads

THE BATTLE FOR THE GOP

To show loyalty to Trump, Republican state officials nationwide push new voting restrictions

Republican elected officials in Montana and more than 40 other states are proposing voting restrictions to respond to the distrust in the system stoked by fact-free allegations of fraud from former president Donald Trump.

Shirley Leung
City of Boston has a shot at developing Fort Point Channel neighborhood into a waterfront for all. Can it?
Boston has a chance to turn the Fort Point Channel neighborhood into the waterfront the Seaport District has failed to become. Can the city deliver, or will we see, yet again, more broken promises?

For Biogen, it’s been a rough ride
It started a year ago, when the Cambridge biotech’s executive conference became a COVID-19 “superspreader” event.

metro

RHODE MAP
Rhode Island is about to get stimulus money from the federal government. How should it be spent?
We ask some of Rhode Island’s officials and thought leaders how they think the money would best be put to use.

KEVIN CULLEN

Gold Star families are more important than royal families
RI CRIME

Barrington surgeon appeals conviction of assault on Iranian neighbor, AG will seek hate crime sentence

Sports

Patriots
Patriots have no shot at Trevor Lawrence — so why did they scout him?
The star Clemson quarterback certainly seems destined to be taken No. 1 by the Jaguars, but the Patriots had their reasons.

peter abraham | on baseball

Though Brewers outfield is crowded, Jackie Bradley Jr. believes opportunity will be there
ben volin | on football

Here’s what a Patriots trade for Jimmy Garoppolo might look like

business

Trump policy that weakened wild bird protections is revoked
The Biden administration on Monday reversed a policy imposed under former President Donald Trump that drastically weakened the government’s power to enforce a century-old law that protects most U.S. bird species.

Parent of Berkshire Bank names two directors

Legal Sea Foods’ insurance fight ends in loss

politics

Biden to sign executive order to advance gender equity
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Monday — International Women’s Day — establishing a Gender Policy Council in the White House that will seek to advance “gender equality and equity” in both domestic and foreign policy across government.

Biden, House Democrats take different paths on GOP extremes

Biden directs Education Dept. to review Title IX changes

lifestyle

In this Jamaica Plain home, ‘open concept’ includes a toilet in full view
Many home buyers want more counter space, a landscaped yard, or floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. Precious few are on the hunt for an open-concept bathroom.

Oprah interview with Meghan and Harry draws 17 million viewers

UK royals absorb shock of revealing Harry, Meghan interview

arts

ALBUM REVIEW
Lake Street Dive’s grown-up pop waxes and wanes on ‘Obviously’
The New England Conservatory alums' seventh album follows a familiar pattern.

MUSEUMS

Mass MoCA employees make first move to unionize
TELEVISION

‘Generation’ is the newest show for today’s teens

rhode island

RHODE MAP
Rhode Island is about to get stimulus money from the federal government. How should it be spent?
We ask some of Rhode Island’s officials and thought leaders how they think the money would best be put to use.

RI CRIME

Barrington surgeon appeals conviction of assault on Iranian neighbor, AG will seek hate crime sentence
CORONAVIRUS

R.I. to start vaccinating a portion of the state’s homebound population

Newton

Special Projects

PROJECT TAKEOUT | DEVRA FIRST

Project takeout: Get takeout. Save restaurants you love.

Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.
See the full project

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

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

More

Jeneé Osterheldt
A Beautiful Resistance
Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

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.

Globe Spotlight Investigation
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.

Comfort Zone

WORKING ON IT

Are you doing too much? Let the Dutch introduce you to the art of ‘niksen’

Nothing is good. These books about "niksen" – the art of doing nothing – help you get there.
PUNK

A JP resident and her punk rock aerobics star in Green Day’s new music video

The band's "Here Comes the Shock" is set to Hilken Mancini's homemade video of moves like the "Iggy punch" and "whack jacks."
COMFORT ZONE

Boston poet laureate Porsha Olayiwola is at HOME on the open mic

The theme interested the Chicago transplant long before the pandemic.
COMFORT ZONE

GBH’s ‘Masterpiece’ reflects on 50 Years with a new podcast

The three-part series is "a superhero origin story," according to host Jace Lacob.
ART

‘Against all odds,’ Peabody Essex show leads to discovery of second Jacob Lawrence painting

The piece was hanging all these years in a nurse's apartment on the Upper West Side.
COMFORT ZONE

Passim’s Matt Smith brings his love of local music to the airwaves

The new host of WMVY's "Local Music Café" is excited to showcase New England artists.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

EDITORIAL

There’s no excuse for the deaths at High Street
Jerren Chang

Feeling powerless? Exercise your civic rights
Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg and Louise Dubé

The road to a stronger democracy begins in the classroom
JEFF JACOBY

Race-based admissions are wrong, and it’s time the Supreme Court said so
IDEAS | ROBERT ZARETSKY

I fear my students will decide they prefer online classes
IDEAS | JONATHAN BERK

Streets that put people first, not cars

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
Back to Nature

A plant lover's guide to 16 gorgeous gardens and arboretums
Back to Nature

30,000 steps on Cape Cod: A three-day walking tour
Perspective

The pandemic revealed our food system is broken. We can fix it.

Cooking

Forget winter with these 4 tropical desserts

sports

What Jackie Bradley Jr. had to say about leaving the Red Sox

Bruins have issues to work out as they prepare for surging Islanders

With a 22-0 vote from Tournament Management, MIAA sectional spring tourneys moving forward

metro

Worcester firefighter who died in blaze awarded Medal of Honor posthumously; others honored for bravery

Dorchester man, 33, faces federal charges after nine guns recovered from residence, Quincy storage unit

R.I. to start vaccinating a portion of the state’s homebound population

Nation

House set to take up $1.9 trillion stimulus, putting Biden on track to sign this week

Offshore wind project off Martha’s Vineyard nears approval

Biden to sign executive order to advance gender equity

World

In Nepal and across the world, child marriage is rising

Myanmar military storms universities and hospitals, revokes press licenses

Chloe Zhao, Chinese director of ‘Nomadland,’ faces controversy at home

politics

A look at each of President Biden’s executive orders

A fifth Senate Republican announces retirement. Yes, it’s good news for Democrats, but the real winner is Trump

Fully vaccinated people can gather privately without masks, CDC says

business

During the pandemic, some businesses have managed to grow, including these seven Boston-area startups

Oil giants prepare to put carbon back in the ground

Yellen says stimulus unlikely to cause inflation problem

lifestyle

Murder, but gentler: ‘Cozy’ mysteries are a pandemic-era balm

More than you need to know about Harry, Meghan, and Oprah

‘Coming 2 America’ flag flies at Boston Harbor Hotel as Eddie Murphy sequel premieres

marijuana

Buying legal marijuana is more convenient than ever. Good luck finding somewhere to legally use it

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

Marijuana company sues Boston zoning board over rejection

opinion

Meghan Markle stands up to palace power and white privilege

GOP clarifies its election strategy

Meghan Markle was never allowed to fit into the royal family

food & dining

Rutchada Thai Cuisine was ‘meant to be’

A tavern comes to Brookline; a beer hall opens in Belmont; and Del’s Lemonade plans a Massachusetts flagship

At The Federal, a miracle to go: perfectly cooked steak

travel

Drew Bledsoe loves the beach but would also happily tackle a visit to Siberia

Advice for planning that family reunion you just can’t wait to have

My eyes have been opened to the very real threat of avalanches, even in New England

Books

How Dr. Seuss became the second highest-paid dead celebrity

Human nature and ‘Beloved Beasts’

Anne Lamott ponders life’s third act in ‘Dusk, Night, Dawn’

Movies

‘Borat,’ ‘Ma Rainey,’ ‘Nomadland’ among Producers Guild Awards nominations

In ‘Moxie,’ on Netflix, trying to make school cool — or at least less toxic

Eddie Murphy is back, and back up to speed, in ‘Coming 2 America’

Television

‘Generation’ is the newest show for today’s teens

Harry and Meghan going off-script sets the story line for royal dramas to come

This week’s TV: The Grammys, ‘South ParQ,’ and teens on TV

music

Lake Street Dive’s grown-up pop waxes and wanes on ‘Obviously’

For NEC students, it’s been a year of improvising

With another album in the works, singer Lizzy McAlpine has left Berklee behind

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

Record-breaking warmth possible in the upcoming week

A lost year, chronicled through art

Should the federal minimum wage be increased to $15?

Obituaries

Joyce McDaniel, role model for women sculptors in welding, dies at 84

Robert R. Glauber, Harvard professor who led Black Monday presidential commission, dies at 81

Priscilla Read Chenoweth, who won freedom for a stranger, dies at 90