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Traffic on the Southeast Expressway (and elsewhere) seems worse than ever, post-pandemic.

KARA MILLER | THE BIG IDEA

Traffic is so bad, it could hurt our economy. But there’s a way to fix it.

Gridlock reigns during the morning and evening commutes, pretty much no matter where you are. But why is that, and what should we do about it?

Baker allies helped Kim Driscoll win the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor through an unusual super PAC

Donors and a longtime adviser to the governor were the driving force behind a group that funded $1.2 million in advertisements ahead of the Sept. 6 primary, helping lift Driscoll in her three-way race for lieutenant governor onto the Democratic ticket alongside gubernatorial nominee Maura Healey.

13 dead, 21 wounded in school shooting in Russia

A gunman on Monday morning killed 13 people and wounded 21 others in a school in central Russia, authorities said. The governor of Udmurtia, Alexander Brechalov, said in a video statement that the still unidentified gunman shot himself.

Police investigate fistfight involving GOP congressional candidate outside Somerville Theatre Saturday
Somerville police are investigating a fight involving US Representative Ayanna Pressley’s GOP challenger during a political event Saturday featuring Pressley and other Democratic members of the Squad at the Somerville Theatre.

Jesus Lares, a recent graduate of MIT, rejected an offer from Google to work on his start-up full-time. He works out of the entrepreneurship center on MIT's campus.

Working 9 to 5 is not a way to make a living, according to some Gen Zers: ‘It’s just not what I want to do with my life’

The monotonous nature of a typical office job is the subject of an extremely relatable viral TikTok trend.

Ravens 37, Patriots 26

Chad Finn | Unconventional review

Sobering reality is Patriots may not make progress toward future contender status this season
The Patriots are 1-2, with the distinct possibility of facing Aaron Rodgers and the Packers next Sunday with Brian Hoyer at quarterback.

Tara Sullivan: Mac Jones’s injury casts a pall over a concerned Patriots’ locker room Ben Volin: Belichick’s plan to put ball in Lamar Jackson’s hands worked out — for Ravens

Although this fumble on a kickoff by Myles Bryant did not result in a turnover, it was indicative of the way the Patriots dropped the ball Sunday.

Dan Shaughnessy

There was a time when championships were all we knew, but those glory days appear long gone

The golden era of sporting success in New England took another hit with the injury to Mac Jones and the play of the Patriots.

A bear canvassed the Middleton area at the end of last month.

The incredible true story of the bears of Massachusetts

Bears have learned to live around people. The question now becomes: Are people ready to live around bears?

Family and friends mourn during the funeral for US Army Sergeant Elder Fernandes at Melrose Cemetery in Brockton on Sept. 5, 2020.

Family of Brockton’s Elder Fernandes files $25 million malpractice claim against the Army for allegedly not doing enough to save his life

Sergeant Elder Fernandes’s mother is alleging in a $25 million malpractice claim that his 2020 death could have been prevented if the army hospital hadn't left her son to "fend for himself."

Donald R. Sadoway of MIT has invented new technology he says will allow his new company, Avanti, to build better, safer, and cheaper batteries to store renewable energy.

To speed the end of fossil fuels, local researchers are designing a cheaper, safer battery

Researchers and companies around the world are racing to solve the problem of storing clean energy when the sun isn’t shining on solar farms or the wind isn’t turning turbines.

Hispanic Heritage Month

A Beautiful Resistance | Jeneé Osterheldt

The Hispanic history I carry with me: Rixy
A Beautiful Resistance celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month and Latino joy, as told to Jeneé Osterheldt.

Documentando el corazón infatigable de Chelsea Ideas | Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston Read more Hispanic Heritage Month stories

Visiting Guatemala, my parents’ homeland, transported me to my childhood memories

A family outing to Jamaica Plain’s old Hi-Lo Foods market was always a taste of home.

Opinion

The Littleton Mill Gun Shop

As law-skirting practices evolve, the state’s gun laws must as well

The Massachusetts House is ready to lead on that challenge.

Pamela Paresky and Samuel J. Abrams

An ‘us’ vs. ‘them’ mentality on campuses turns potential friends into allies — or enemies

Michael S. Roth

College mission: Encourage diverse views but protect democracy

Russians vote with their feet against Putin’s folly

Even now, slavery is a worldwide scourge

Culture

Banned Books Week Quiz
Banned Books Week is now underway! Put your knowledge of banned and challenged works to the test with our quiz.

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150 years of The Boston Globe

Scenes from a century and a half, as covered by the Boston Globe.

Spotlight investigation

Part 1

A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death
Dr. Yvon Baribeau set a record for malpractice settlements, and many colleagues tried desperately to stop him. But hospital executives let him go on and on.

Timeline: What the public didn't know about Dr. Yvon Baribeau Video: What the Spotlight Team’s investigation discovered about Dr. Baribeau N.H. hospital promises review after revelations about doctor with 21 malpractice settlements

Dr. Yvon Baribeau

A crisis of conscience, with lives on the line

Alarmed doctors at Manchester's Catholic Medical Center tried to get a troubled colleague barred from surgery. But hospital leaders resisted. Then came the "summer of death."

More recent stories

Ian strengthens into a hurricane, heads toward Cuba, Florida
Authorities in Cuba suspended classes in Pinar del Rio province and said they will begin evacuations Monday as Ian was forecast to strengthen before reaching the western part of the island on its way to Florida.

With new headstone, Marblehead won’t let enslaved woman be forgotten
Agnes, a woman who the town’s prominent Russell family enslaved as a domestic servant, died in 1718 at about age 43.

With Aaron Judge chasing Yankees history, Brayan Bello keeps his composure in Red Sox loss
Bello yielded a leadoff double to Judge in the first, walked him in the third, got him to fly out in the fifth, and left him on deck when the game was halted after the sixth.

Somerville tenants rally over soaring rents, gentrification of Green Line Extension corridor

The six-unit building at 82-84 Tremont Street, a few blocks from Union Square, has been bought by a limited liability corporation and is slated to be torn down, tenants said.

Legal peril follows Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s migrant flights

DeSantis faces legal challenges, including an investigation by a Texas sheriff, who called it a "predatory" operation, a federal class-action lawsuit by the migrants alleging a "premeditated, fraudulent, and illegal scheme," and a Democratic lawmaker's state lawsuit challenging the governor's use of a $12 million migrant relocation fund.

Lawrence woman, 21, killed in North Andover crash, three others injured

The head-on crash was reported just before 7 a.m. Sunday on Great Pond Road and involved a 2012 Chevrolet pickup truck and a 2004 Honda Pilot, North Andover police said.

Recommended reads

Alvia Wilson picked up her daughter Lanieca from Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. “I am an immigrant. I work hard. I’ve never been arrested. I became a citizen. I never looked for handouts. But I need help.”

Martha’s Vineyard was portrayed as rich, white, and elite, but there’s another side to the island

Many of the 20,000 year-round residents struggle to make ends meet, housing is desperately scarce and increasingly unaffordable, and the growing number of immigrants is rapidly diversifying the population.

Take a look at the birthday cards ageism advocates say are mean and stereotypical
A group called Changing the Narrative is challenging America’s card makers to reframe their message and design a new collection of birthday cards that celebrate rather than denigrate aging.

TRAVEL

‘We must do this’: German village fulfills promise to God by staging Passion Play every 10 years
Each decade, a small German town comes together to reenact the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. So it was devastating when COVID sidelined their production in 2020. But, at last, the show has gone on.

Amid historic drought, some turn to an ancient practice in their quest for water
Those in need of a consistent water source appear to be shelving skepticism about dowsing, or water divining as it’s sometimes called, turning to the centuries-old practice to fill the void.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Pavement has reunited for a 30th anniversary tour that arrives at the Wang Theatre Sept. 28.

Slanted, enchanted, and a few years older, Pavement embarks on a reunion tour

Raymond Lee as Dr. Ben Song in NBC's reboot of "Quantum Leap."

With tiresome reboots, TV is stuck in a cycle of watch, rinse, repeat

Sidney Poitier, from “Sidney.”

To Sidney, with love — Poitier, that is

Eliot family summer house, c. 1896-1897.

Poet T.S. Eliot’s Gloucester connection

Special Projects

Back to Boston

Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

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

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Craig Sheffer and Brad Pitt as brothers in the 1992 movie "A River Runs Through It."

IDEAS | TOM JOUDREY

The high cost of Hollywood nostalgia

Another white coat in the family

Go back to the office — please!

President Biden delivered remarks at the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on Sept. 21.

At the UN, Biden deftly deals with two of the world’s biggest autocrats

Irina cuts roses from her garden outside her destroyed dacha in Moshchun, Ukraine. She has cleaned the walkways and garden of war's debris.

IDEAS | ED QUINN

Russian bombing reduced their town to rubble. It could not crush their humanity.

Four girls at an athletic field in Roxbury, at a recreational sporting event sponsored by La Alianza Hispana.

IDEAS | OMAR VEGA

Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston

Metro

Rhode Island ‘has all the ingredients to be a leading food state;’ Food innovation platform expands into Providence

In 2015, Lauren Abda founded Branchfood, a launchpad for food innovation that provides specialized support for “stage two” brands.

FOOD & DINING NEWSLETTER

Want a late-night bite? You have a few options in Providence

Like other foodie cities across New England, Providence is struggling to bring late-night kitchens back to the forefront.

First Literacy holds first open house in two years

At the Sept. 21 open house, supporters of the Boston nonprofit were able to meet with scholars and visit classrooms that are used to teach adult basic education courses and workshops.

Somerville tenants rally over soaring rents, gentrification of Green Line Extension corridor

The six-unit building at 82-84 Tremont Street, a few blocks from Union Square, has been bought by a limited liability corporation and is slated to be torn down, tenants said.

Sports

Nelson Agholor's fumble in the fourth quarter was one of four turnovers by the Patriots.

Chad Finn | Unconventional review

Sobering reality is Patriots may not make progress toward future contender status this season

The Patriots are 1-2, with the distinct possibility of facing Aaron Rodgers and the Packers next Sunday with Brian Hoyer at quarterback.

Aaron Judge took a big swing, but flew out to center in the fifth inning.

yankees 2, red sox 0 (6 inn.)

With Aaron Judge chasing Yankees history, Brayan Bello keeps his composure in Red Sox loss

Bello yielded a leadoff double to Judge in the first, walked him in the third, got him to fly out in the fifth, and left him on deck when the game was halted after the sixth.

Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson ran all over the Patriots and accounted for five touchdowns, four through the air.

Ben Volin | Instant Analysis

Patriots finally put some points on the board, but this loss shows they aren’t ready for prime time

The Patriots could not make key plays despite the Ravens being down to a fourth-string left tackle and an injury ravaged defensive line.

Tyler Reddick wins NASCAR playoff race in long, tiring, hot, and rainy Texas day

peter abraham | on baseball

J.D. Martinez reflects on five years with the Red Sox as curious season winds down

On the bright side of a Patriots loss, DeVante Parker announced his presence with authority

Business

KARA MILLER | THE BIG IDEA

Traffic is so bad, it could hurt our economy. But there’s a way to fix it.

Gridlock reigns during the morning and evening commutes, pretty much no matter where you are. But why is that, and what should we do about it?

Amazon to hold holiday shopping event in October

During the Oct. 11-12 event, Amazon Prime members will get early access to discounted items. The “Prime Early Access Sale” follows Amazon's annual Prime Day in July.

Working 9 to 5 is not a way to make a living, according to some Gen Zers: ‘It’s just not what I want to do with my life’

China using civilian ships to enhance navy capability, reach

magazine

Alisa Amador

My Boston History

I'm a multilingual singer-songwriter. Here's why I call Boston home.

The Acostas in Havana — parents Antonio and Rosa Acosta, 2-year-old Rosalin in her mother’s arms, and brother Anthony.

My Boston History

Talent and education aren’t always enough. So I work to ensure opportunities for all.

Sabrina Avilés

My Boston History

Documenting Chelsea’s indefatigable heart

My Boston History

How I found my superpower: Becoming Raúl The Third

metro

Maryann Zujewski, an education specialist with the Salem Maritime National Historic Site, placed flowers at the stone of Agnes, a slave who died in 1718.

With new headstone, Marblehead won’t let enslaved woman be forgotten

Family of Brockton’s Elder Fernandes files $25 million malpractice claim against the Army for allegedly not doing enough to save his life

Amid historic drought, some turn to an ancient practice in their quest for water

sports

Trevor Story is still second on the Red Sox with 16 home runs despite multiple stints on the injured list.

In a season of ups and downs, Trevor Story still working to return to Red Sox lineup

Aaron Rodgers gets better of shorthanded Tom Brady, Buccaneers in Tampa

Longmeadow’s Ryan Downes resets record book while repeating at Cape Cod National’s high school invitational

business

Gavin Newsom, governor of California, spoke during the United Nations Climate Action: Race to Zero and Resilience Forum in New York, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022.

Newsom vetoes ‘premature’ crypto oversight bill for California

They were entitled to free care. Hospitals hounded them to pay.

With home heating bills headed higher, New England lawmakers seek more federal energy assistance for low-income families

politics

Amanda Rouser in front of a recruiting desk for new poll workers at Atlanta City Hall on Sept. 14.

False claims, threats fuel poll worker sign-ups for midterms

Ceremony and controversy await Harris during visit to Asia

Liz Cheney says she won’t be a Republican, if Donald Trump becomes the 2024 GOP presidential nominee

Nation

An animation of the expected collision of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft and Dimorphos.

NASA is about to crash into an asteroid. Here’s how to watch

Tropical Storm Ian strengthens as it heads to Cuba, Florida

The megastate GOP rivalry between Abbott and DeSantis

World

A Ukrainian serviceman from Dnipro-1 regiment walks past a damaged building in the retaken village of Shchurove, Ukraine, on Sept. 25.

Drone attack hits Ukraine; US vows ‘consequences’ over nukes

Ian strengthens into a hurricane, heads toward Cuba, Florida

Fire in shopping mall in South Korean city leaves 7 dead

opinion

View of a house that was washed away by Hurricane Fiona at Villa Esperanza in Salinas, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 21.

Kill the Jones Act

The high cost of Hollywood nostalgia

Another white coat in the family

lifestyle

I’m not meeting high-caliber men

Nia Long issues statement following Ime Udoka suspension, asks for privacy ‘to process recent events’

Battling insecurity while dating

food & dining

Rhode Island ‘has all the ingredients to be a leading food state;’ Food innovation platform expands into Providence

Want a late-night bite? You have a few options in Providence

Near Harvard Square, a Spanish tapas bar that feels distinctly Cambridge

travel

Frederik Mayet leans on a cross before heading to the stage for his impending crucifixion scene. Under his loincloth he wears a climbing belt, which will be used to attach him to the cross. Mayet is the first Jesus in his family, and it’s a big deal.

‘We must do this’: German village fulfills promise to God by staging Passion Play every 10 years

Robots, runs, and King Tut

Can I get a refund for these airline credits on Expedia?

Arts

The beautiful resistance of multidisciplinary artist and muralist, Roxbury's own Rixy.

The Hispanic history I carry with me: Rixy

Subversive strips at Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art

Jordan Seaberry’s nod to the WPA is a labor of love

Books

Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, poses with books that have been the subject of complaints from parents in recent weeks on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021.

Libraries face increased attempts to ban books

Joshua Bennett on reading ‘to pursue astonishment’

Two books on pandemic parenting

Movies

Mr. Jaeckin (second from right) joined, from left, Anthony Delon and actresses Tawny Kitaen, and Dayle Haddon at the premiere of his film "Gwendoline" in 1984 in Paris.

Just Jaeckin, whose ‘Emmanuelle’ was a scandalous success, dies at 82

‘Blonde’ is a rare movie with a NC-17 rating. What set it over the edge?

Forty years ago, Hollywood ushered in a new age of LGBTQ+ films. It didn’t last long.

Television

Rhea Seehorn in a scene from "Better Call Saul."

‘Breaking Bad’ creator teams up with Rhea Seehorn for a new series

As title sequences go, ‘Bad Sisters’ is in good company

With tiresome reboots, TV is stuck in a cycle of watch, rinse, repeat

music

Jesus Garcia as Rodolfo and Lauren Michelle as Mimì in Boston Lyric Opera's "La bohème," directed by Yuval Sharon.

In Boston Lyric Opera’s new ‘La bohème,’ the girl dies at the beginning - and it works

BSO opens new season to a full house

Jake Blount’s ‘The New Faith’ takes on the past and imagines the future under climate change

Theater/Dance

Andrew Montgomery Coleman and Kim Sava in "Little Shop of Horrors" at North Shore Music Theatre.

For ‘Little Shop of Horrors,’ a not-so-little shot of hurrahs

‘Tina’ reaches for a star but falls short

At Moonbox, a journey of reconciliation in ‘The Good Deli,’ a venture into the unknown with ‘Jonathan’

globe local

From left: Marlene Yesley, Sheila Pallay, and Judith Weinberg with the Torah cover they created.

Torah Sisters bond to piece together Jewish history

The Argument: Should accessory dwelling units be allowed statewide in Massachusetts?

Needham Town Meeting will decide on $2.5 million land purchase along Charles River next month

Obituaries

Mr. Jaeckin (second from right) joined, from left, Anthony Delon and actresses Tawny Kitaen, and Dayle Haddon at the premiere of his film "Gwendoline" in 1984 in Paris.

Just Jaeckin, whose ‘Emmanuelle’ was a scandalous success, dies at 82

Ilse Nathan and Ruth Siegler, sisters and Holocaust survivors, die 11 days apart

Donald Blinken, ambassador, financier and art patron, dies at 96