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Phil Eng, the general manager of the MBTA, chatted with a driver before a Blue Line train pulled out of Wonderland Station in Revere.

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

Can Phil Eng actually turn the dumpster fire of a transit agency around? “People think I’m crazy, but I’m happy I’m here,” he said.

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.

Laura and Herman Rooks, shown with their 10-year-old grandson Cameron Rooks, have been on the Section 8 waiting list with the Boston Housing Authority since 2011.

‘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.

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.

Beverly woman and Boy Scout among three dead in separate water tragedies in New Hampshire

The tragedies occurred in a span of several hours and drew a major response from multiple local and state public safety agencies.

Falmouth deals with aftermath of rowdy July Fourth beach parties
Restaurant workers, public safety employees, and residents expressed concern on Saturday after days of parties had left beaches trashed.

Maine company responsible for ‘highly hazardous’ fireworks shells that washed up on Chappaquiddick Island, state officials say

Central Maine Pyrotechnics has been temporarily suspended from operating in Massachusetts, pending a July 26 hearing, state fire officials said.

Driver charged in crash that killed 19-year-old police officer in Rutland, Vt.

Last week saw the hottest days ever recorded on Earth.

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.

In late May, Amherst Regional High School journalism teacher Sara Barber-Just, sitting at her classroom desk, talked to 17-year-old junior Talvin Dhingra, the lead reporter on an investigative story in the student newspaper, The Graphic, about antitransgender bullying and discrimination at the nearby Amherst Regional Middle School.

In Amherst, teen journalists’ investigation of transphobia at the middle school forced a district shake-up

High schoolers published a report in the student newspaper that shook this college town, long considered an LGBTQ-friendly, liberal enclave.

The Newark Eagles in 1936, from "The League."

Odie Henderson Review | ★★★1/2

‘The League’: An American story told through the lens of Black baseball

Documentarian Sam Pollard is in a league of his own, continuing his streak of excellent sports documentaries

Opinion

Demonstrators in favor of canceling student debt marched from the Supreme Court to the White House in Washington, June 30.

More can be done to ease the heavy burden of student debt

The US Supreme Court killed President Biden’s loan forgiveness program, but there are other things the government can do to help borrowers with excessive debt.

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

Polarization will put Spain’s young democracy to the test

It is long past time for NATO to admit Ukraine

Domestic violence isn’t just a ‘family matter.’ It’s ‘community violence.’

New landscape, same challenges with the end of affirmative action

More recent News

Pope Francis names 21 new cardinals, including prelates based in Hong Kong and Jerusalem
Pope Francis on Sunday announced he has chosen 21 new cardinals, including prelates from Jerusalem and Hong Kong — places where Catholics are a small minority.

Boston city councilor apologizes after crashing car into Jamaica Plain home

Kendra 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.

Six are dead after small plane crash in California

Six people were killed on Saturday after a small plane that was traveling from Las Vegas crashed near an airport in Murrieta, California, authorities said.

The FDA is being asked to look into Logan Paul’s energy drink, which has the caffeine of 6 Coke cans
An influencer-backed energy drink that has earned viral popularity among children is facing scrutiny from lawmakers and health experts over its potentially dangerous levels of caffeine.

Video apparently shows Britney Spears inadvertently hit herself in the face in encounter with Victor Wembanyama
No charges will be filed following a brief investigation of the altercation involving pop star Britney Spears, San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama and a member of the player’s security team, Las Vegas police said Friday after determining she inadvertently “hit herself in the face.”

LOVE LETTERS

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

Recommended reads

From left, Sabrina Wu as Deadeye, Ashley Park as Audrey, Sherry Cola as Lolo, and Stephanie Hsu as Kat in "Joy Ride."

Odie Henderson Review | ★★½

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

Stephanie Hsu and Sabrina Wu are the film’s hilarious MVPs, but Adele Lim’s directorial debut is shaky in its tonal shifts.

Globe Magazine

Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free?
Likely the longest-serving prisoner in America, he’s been paroled into a Connecticut nursing home. But he’s still not out.

Beth Teitell | Commentary

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?

Nantucket waterfront estate sells for $38.1 million, breaking island record
The 10-bedroom compound overlooking Nantucket Harbor spans 15,322 square feet on almost four acres.

Culture & Lifestyle

Rashid Johnson, “Antoine’s Organ,” 2016. Black steel, grow lights, plants, wood, shea butter, books, monitors, rugs, piano.

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

Jamie Lee Curtis as Donna in "The Bear."

‘The Bear’ upends the TV-mom trope

Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity co-founders Kyle Homstead and Cassandra Holden, shown in the Florence Congregational Church sanctuary that doubles as a concert venue.

Concerts create discord between Northampton arts center and city

Still from "Final Cut" (2022) by Michel Hazanavicius

MFA’s 2023 Boston French Film Festival returns July 6

Special Projects

Main marathon 10th anniversary gif

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

Five lives were lost; many more, changed.

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

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

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

Brittany Tee, Soomaiiah Quraiishi, and Reina Morales Rojas are among thousands of people thought to be missing from Massachusetts.

How the missing become the uncounted

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

Two Weeks in America

Two Weeks in America

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

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A bicyclist made their way down the bus lane on Boylston Street between Exeter Street and Dartmouth Street on June 27.

Make way for bicycles on Boylston

The Chica Project was founded in 2012 and has served more than 3,000 women of color since.

Latino groups challenge Harvard’s legacy admissions

Those asking for rent control and help with housing demonstrated on the front steps of the State House on June 1.

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

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has beaten three successive Conservative Party leaders in three elections in 2015, 2019, and 2021, and there’s no particular reason why he couldn’t beat a fourth.

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

The Chica Project was founded in 2012 and has served more than 3,000 women of color since.

Grupos latinos cuestionan admisiones en Harvard

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

Metro

Shawn enjoys sports and music

Sunday’s Child is a weekly column featuring a child currently in foster care awaiting adoption.

Driver charged in crash that killed 19-year-old police officer in Rutland, Vt.

Tate Rheaume, 20, is to be arraigned Monday for the crash that killed Officer Jessica Ebbighausen, who joined the force part-time in May, and injured two other officers on Friday, Vermont State Police said.

Falmouth deals with aftermath of rowdy July Fourth beach parties

Restaurant workers, public safety employees, and residents expressed concern on Saturday after days of parties had left beaches trashed.

Lexington celebrates first Massachusetts Emancipation Day

Also known as Quock Walker Day, this was the first celebration since Governor Healey designated July 8 an official day back in September.

Sports

Tayler Scott spent the first part of the season with the Dodgers.

ATHLETICS AT RED SOX | 1:35 P.M. (NESN)

Game 91: Athletics at Red Sox lineups and notes

Tayler Scott will start the final game of the first half, likely in an opener role.

Britney Spears appears at the 29th annual GLAAD Media Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on April 12, 2018, left, and San Antonio Spurs NBA basketball first round draft pick Victor Wembanyama during a news conference in San Antonio on June 24.

Video apparently shows Britney Spears inadvertently hit herself in the face in encounter with Victor Wembanyama

No charges will be filed following a brief investigation of the altercation involving pop star Britney Spears, San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama and a member of the player’s security team, Las Vegas police said Friday after determining she inadvertently “hit herself in the face.”

West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins watches from the bench during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Iowa State, on Feb. 27, in Ames, Iowa.

Bob Huggins says he never resigned as West Virginia’s coach and wants his job back, attorney claims

Bob Huggins says he never resigned as West Virginia’s basketball coach following a drunken-driving arrest and wants his job back, according to a letter from his attorney to the university.

US Women's Open

Nasa Hataoka masters winds at Pebble Beach to take lead as US Women’s Open

US track and field championships

Spreading her wings in a new event, hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone wins women’s 400 at US track and field championships

RED BULLS 2, REVOLUTION 1

Review negates stoppage time equalizer and shorthanded Revolution fall to Red Bulls

Business

The FDA is being asked to look into Logan Paul’s energy drink, which has the caffeine of 6 Coke cans

An influencer-backed energy drink that has earned viral popularity among children is facing scrutiny from lawmakers and health experts over its potentially dangerous levels of caffeine.

South Korean lawmakers berate IAEA chief over Japanese plans to release treated Fukushima wastewater

South Korean opposition lawmakers sharply criticized the head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog for its approval of Japanese plans to release treated wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant during a tense meeting in Seoul on Sunday, with protesters screaming outside the door.

Yellen says Washington might ‘respond to unintended consequences’ for China due to tech export curbs

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

magazine

Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades, likely longer than anyone alive.

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

HP Component Magazine tie

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

This week's daters: William and Travis.

Dinner with Cupid

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

I attended the Market Basket Academy of summer jobs.

metro

Amazon drivers are unhappy about working in triple-digit heat in vehicles without air conditioning or operable windows.

Striking drivers from California picket outside Amazon warehouse in Norwood

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

Cambridge enacts ambitious building emissions reduction standards

sports

Boston Renegades quarterback Allison Cahill, 42, threw five touchdown passes in a 56-8 victory over the Alabama Fire in the Women's Football Alliance semifinals on Saturday night at Harry Della Russo Stadium in Revere.

Boston Renegades trample Alabama Fire to earn berth in Women’s Football Alliance championship game

For Red Sox prospects Nick Yorke and Marcelo Mayer the Futures Game felt inevitable, but for Luis Guerrero it’s an unlikely tale

New England Free Jacks capture first Major League Rugby title in franchise history

business

Uri Geller in 2008.

Uri Geller has been bending reality for 50 years

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

politics

A pedestrian walks past a sign for the Iowa Caucuses on a downtown skywalk, in Des Moines, Iowa, on Feb. 4, 2020.

Iowa GOP schedules Jan. 15 for leadoff presidential caucuses. It’s on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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.

Nation

Nikki Haley spoke in North Conway, N.H., on Thursday.

Nikki Haley makes her pitch in New Hampshire

Six are dead after small plane crash in California

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

World

A member of the media works outside BBC Broadcasting House in central London on July 9.

Syria revokes BBC’s media accreditation and accuses the British broadcaster of spreading ‘fake news’

Pope Francis names 21 new cardinals, including prelates based in Hong Kong and Jerusalem

UN chief says Sudan on the brink of a ‘full-scale civil war’ after nearly 3 months of fighting

opinion

An American flag waved in front of the Supreme Court building in Washington on Nov. 2, 2020.

New landscape, same challenges with the end of affirmative action

Don’t let an assault weapon end another life. Ban them.

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

lifestyle

New Bedford Public Library Director Olivia Melo points to a stamp dating to 1882 when the New Bedford library system acquired the book, on July 7, in New Bedford, Mass.

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

Chef Chris Viaud is reshaping New Hampshire's food scene by bringing the flavors of Haiti to his restaurants in Milford and Wolfeboro.

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

Sand dunes at Cape Cod National Seashore in Provincetown, Mass., May 22, 2023.

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

Matthew Wong, "Path to the Sea," 2019 (left) and "Unknown Pleasures," 2019. From "Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances," a retrospective exhibition of the artist's work at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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

A still from the documentary "Desperate Souls, Dark City, and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy."

‘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

Yvonne Orji, left, as Molly and Issa Rae as Issa in "Insecure."

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

Members of the chamber orchestra A Far Cry performing at Rockport's Shalin Liu Performance Center on Thursday night.

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

From left: Firdous Bamji, Steven Skybell, and Joshua David Robinson. Among them, the three actors handle dozens of roles in "The Lehman Trilogy."

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

Brothers Brian Worrell (left), District 4 Councilor, and state Representative Chris Worrell just opened a district office on Erie Street.

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

Workers cut away steel from the roof of the Helen Hayes Theater as part of the demolition of the building, in New York, in 1982. Mr. Goldstein reacted to the razing of several venerable Broadway theaters under a Times Square redevelopment plan by helping to organize a successful campaign to give landmark status to more than two dozen other theaters.

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