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THE GREAT DIVIDE

As conservative activism targets sex ed, new Mass. guidelines are on the horizon

After five years of working on new standards, the state is bringing some clarity on sex education to the classroom.

Can Joe Biden make it ‘Morning in America’ again? Reagan’s ‘84 campaign offers a potential blueprint for reelection.

Ronald Reagan won a second term by running on a theme of economic renewal. Now, some political experts said Reagan’s legendary turnaround offers a potential template for victory for Joe Biden 40 years later.
Biden is heading to Europe. A king and a war are on his agenda.

Boston city councilor apologizes after crashing car into Jamaica Plain home

Lara struck a home on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain in the afternoon of June 30 leaving her 7-year-old son with cuts that required stitches at Boston Children’s Hospital, according to her office.

The discovery of a dead body in Southie led to 4 kids entering DCF custody and is now the front line of a Boston culture war
It is still not clear how the woman died. However, the death — and the public safety response to it — touched off a bitter political spat that in some ways mirrors the culture war that continues to unfold across the country.

YVONNE ABRAHAM

When it comes to extreme heat, we’re all in hot water. But some of us are in deeper than others.

Beverly woman and Boy Scout among three dead in separate water tragedies in New Hampshire
Gary Washburn | On Basketball

For Celtics, Summer League is a proving ground for prospects JD Davison and Jordan Walsh, both of whom could make the team

Davison spent most of last season with G-League Maine and Walsh was the team's top pick in 2023.

Forget farm-to-table — they’re bringing the table to the farm

If you like fresh food — well, it doesn’t get any fresher.

Do you really need to leave two EXTRA hours to get to Logan with the Sumner Tunnel closed? Officials say yes. But where did that number come from?

At an airport Dunkin’ on Thursday locals were complaining the trip to the airport was too fast. Where was the traffic they’d been promised?
Opinion
EDITORIAL

Make way for bicycles on Boylston

Boston, called a "bicycling paradise" in the 1800s, should encourage more residents to commute on two wheels. The city’s proposal to add a protected bike lane on Boylston Street is a step in that direction.
NEWSLETTERS

Latino groups challenge Harvard’s legacy admissions
NEWSLETTERS

Grupos latinos cuestionan admisiones en Harvard
Jim Braude

Why should state legislators control the fate of rent control in Boston?

Alex Beam

Canada, when you’re done with Justin Trudeau, send him here

More recent News

Suspect taken into custody after barricading inside Worcester home after allegedly shooting two relatives, police say
A 24-year-old man was barricaded Friday inside a home on Colby Avenue in Worcester after allegedly shooting two family members and firing at responding officers, police said.

One motorcyclist killed, another seriously injured early Saturday in Taunton crash

Officers responded around 2:30 a.m. to the crash site on Route 24, where Fred Moreira, 35, of New Bedford, had hit the motorcycles, leading two men to be thrown from their bikes, according to State Police.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes
Baseball has made many significant changes, and now it’s time to improve the All-Star Game
The American League vs. the National League had its day and that day has passed.

Uri Geller has been bending reality for 50 years
Bent spoons are Uri Geller's hallmark. He did it in 1973, and he's been a mystifying force ever since.

‘It’s hard to imagine a more preventable cause of death.’ Drowning is the biggest killer of young children.
Drowning deaths are likely to surge this month, as they do every July, with young children being especially at risk.

LOVE LETTERS
Will I get over his affair?
“It lasted about six weeks and ended because I discovered it.”

Recommended reads

On West Roxbury’s Centre Street, a city plan to reduce traffic lanes divides the community

Some residents, worried that lane reduction will increase traffic and cause gridlock, have advocated for alternative measures to draw more attention to vulnerable pedestrians without changing the road’s configuration.

‘A nightmare of epic proportions’: Thousands of Mass. residents languish on subsidized housing wait lists
The Globe talked to three residents about their years-long journey to find an affordable place to call home.

FDA grants full approval for Biogen Alzheimer’s drug that slows cognitive decline
Medicare said it will broadly cover Leqembi, which costs $26,500 annually and was developed by Eisai and Cambridge-based Biogen.

Two hours before my husband died, we were laughing over spilt milk
Our daughters were only 4 and 8 when he died. I’ve tried to fill their lives with their dad’s sense of joy and adventure.

Culture & Lifestyle

At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum this summer, art that lives and grows

‘The Bear’ upends the TV-mom trope

Concerts create discord between Northampton arts center and city

MFA’s 2023 Boston French Film Festival returns July 6

Special Projects

Their lives were rerouted after the Marathon bombing. Here’s where they are now.

Five lives were lost; many more, changed.

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

EDITORIAL

The MBTA let the Lynn commuter rail station fall apart. The T should now expedite its reopening.
Joan Wickersham

The unexpected intimacy of a Zoom memorial service
IDEAS | JUSTIN C. TACKETT

What Thomas Hardy knew about the unknowable

NEWSLETTERS

A ‘Fast Car’ takes a 35-year journey to become a No. 1 country hit
IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: Umbrellas gone haywire
IDEAS

Are you a teen with a story to tell? Globe Ideas wants to hear from you.

Metro

Striking drivers from California picket outside Amazon warehouse in Norwood

The workers deliver packages on behalf of Amazon in Palmdale, Calif., and walked off the job in June after joining the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
THE GREAT DIVIDE

As conservative activism targets sex ed, new Mass. guidelines are on the horizon

After five years of working on new standards, the state is bringing some clarity on sex education to the classroom.

Cambridge enacts ambitious building emissions reduction standards

“It’s really quite groundbreaking,” said Councilor Quinton Zondervan, who worked on the legislation.
YVONNE ABRAHAM

When it comes to extreme heat, we’re all in hot water. But some of us are in deeper than others.

The return of weather pattern El Niño has given us record-shattering air and water temperatures, alarming ice melt in Antarctica, and dangerous heat for tens of millions of people across the planet.

Sports

Gary Washburn | On Basketball

For Celtics, Summer League is a proving ground for prospects JD Davison and Jordan Walsh, both of whom could make the team

Davison spent most of last season with G-League Maine and Walsh was the team's top pick in 2023.
Tour de France

As Mark Cavendish crashes out, Mads Pedersen races to win Stage 8

Cavendish, the most successful sprinter in Tour history, who is competing in his final season, had finished second the day before.
REVOLUTION

New England Revolution bring in left wing Tomás Chancalay on loan from Racing Club

The right-footed Chancalay, 24, is expected to replace Dylan Borrero, who sustained a season-ending knee injury in April.
Wimbledon

Carlos Alcaraz aces talking points, hopefully looking forward to playing Novak Djokovic for title
FREE JACKS 25, LEGION 24

New England Free Jacks clip San Diego Legion to capture first Major League Rugby championship

Tigers finish off first combined no-hitter in team history in victory over Blue Jays

Business

As whiskey and bourbon business booms, beloved distillers face pushback over taxes and emissions

The growing popularity of the industry around the world is fueling conflicts at home.

Uri Geller has been bending reality for 50 years

Bent spoons are Uri Geller's hallmark. He did it in 1973, and he's been a mystifying force ever since.

US Treasury chief Yellen appeals to China for cooperation on climate and other global challenges

Against the odds, the US economy chugs along, as fears linger
magazine
Globe Magazine

Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free?

CONNECTIONS

Two hours before my husband died, we were laughing over spilt milk
Dinner with Cupid

‘My date … recently joined the social sports league that I play [in]’

Perspective

I attended the Market Basket Academy of summer jobs.

metro

Brockton hopes to see Liberty Tree rise again

The MBTA’s new leader is more optimistic about Boston’s subway than you are

Boston city councilor apologizes after crashing car into Jamaica Plain home

sports

Red Sox’ Tanner Houck, recovering after getting hit in the face by a line drive, is taking steps to return to the mound

Soccer star Megan Rapinoe, 38, says she plans to retire at the end of NWSL season

As a college player, Devin Pearson did not want to be drafted. Now he’s in charge of the MLB Draft for the Red Sox.

business

Christmas Tree Shops lays off a third of its Mass. workforce, plans to close all stores

Twitter killer? Here’s what to know about Threads, the new app from Meta.

Wall Street Journal calls for the release of journalist Evan Gershkovich after 100 days in Russian prison

politics

Can Joe Biden make it ‘Morning in America’ again? Reagan’s ‘84 campaign offers a potential blueprint for reelection.

Biden is heading to Europe. A king and a war are on his agenda.

Carters celebrate 77th wedding anniversary

Nation

As whiskey and bourbon business booms, beloved distillers face pushback over taxes and emissions

The mango is king of the Miami summer

Climate change ratchets up the stress on farmworkers on the front lines of a warming Earth

World

On Ukraine war’s 500th day, Russia strikes and Zelensky shows defiance

James Dobbins, US diplomat in global hot spots, dies at 81

The UN refuses to retract its condemnation of Israel over the Jenin military operation

opinion

Imagine a President Cheney — it’s easy if you try

A floating perch gives new meaning to remote work

The Environmental Voter Project’s eye-catching innovations

lifestyle

Extremely overdue book returned to New Bedford library 119 years later

12 out-of-this-world films to fuel your UFO curiosity

Will I get over his affair?

food & dining

How Chris Viaud returned to his Haitian roots and reshaped NH’s food scene

A Taste of Ethnic Boston returns to Big Night Live

Up & Down opens in Jamaica Plain; Las Palmas moves into the Garage

travel

This Mass. beach camping site ranked as one of the best in the country

Spotlight on Dover, N.H., as it celebrates its 400th anniversary

Daydreaming about a daycation? It’s now a reality.

Arts

In his scant six years of painting, Matthew Wong built a vision all his own

At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum this summer, art that lives and grows

John Guthrie’s ‘Evolution’ brings together the unexpected

Books

The prosperous Brookline family of Andrew Ridker’s ‘Hope’ struggles in the aftermath of their own spectacular misjudgments

David Lipsky’s ‘The Parrot and the Igloo’ details the forces behind decades of climate change denial

In ‘After the Funeral,’ Tessa Hadley’s quietly brilliant stories harbor a rebel heart

Movies

‘Desperate Souls, Dark City, and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy’ has a lot to say — maybe too much

‘Joy Ride’: Four friends road trip through China in this raunchy comedy

Everyone is talking about the ‘Barbie’ movie. Here’s a guide to all the hype.

Television

Watch for HBO series landing on Netflix

Max’s Harry Potter series to cover seven books in 10 years

‘The Bear’ upends the TV-mom trope

music

An American portrait in disparate voices

The Eagles’ farewell tour is coming to Boston

‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’ is here. Here’s how to reconsider Taylor Swift’s transformative album.

Theater/Dance

Meet the ‘Lehman Trilogy’ cast, three actors juggling dozens of roles

In ‘The Normal Heart,’ the AIDS crisis and a battle against an epidemic of indifference

Mark Morris Dance Group opens Jacob’s Pillow with buoyant ‘The Look of Love’

globe local

Worrell brothers, one a councilor and one a state representative, open joint Dorchester office for ‘top-notch constituent services’

Fire destroys multiple homes along beachfront in Scituate

Reading harpist returns to hometown for performance with the US Air Force Concert Band

Obituaries

Jack Goldstein, a savior of Broadway theaters, dies at 74

Winnie Ewing, who transformed Scottish politics, dies at 93

Dr. Susan Love, groundbreaking breast cancer surgeon, activist, and author, dies at 75