1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (748+ words) To state the obvious, our region has a serious housing crunch. One way to spur new housing, quickly and cheaply, would be to put up more prefabricated homes. Build them offsite in a factory, then later snap the pieces — a…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1416+ words) In the upheaval that followed the Gaza protests on college campuses and the Trump administration’s subsequent attacks on universities, school administrators confronted a thorny challenge: how to get students and professors to speak freely when they have reason to fear…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (205+ words) Social media fueled the rise of Ran Duan into a titan of the Boston cocktail scene. After 24-year-old Julia Phan was found dead in his house on New Year’s Day, that digital discourse turned against him. A Boston bartending…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (631+ words) The ad, doing the rounds on social media, is chilling. A woman is tending to a baby in a crib when she hears an intruder entering her house. She puts a chair up against the nursery door and calls 911. They…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (939+ words) The show deals honestly with the persistent issues women’s sports face in their efforts to build successful teams. How the hit TV show ‘Ted Lasso’ has brilliantly shined a light on women’s sports The final, dialogue-free scenes of the…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (557+ words) Karen Weaver, a former college field hockey coach and athletics administrator, is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of “Understanding College Athletics: What Campus Leaders Need to Know About College Sports.” There are…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (772+ words) David H. Rosmarin is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the director of the McLean Hospital Spirituality & Mental Health Program. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been inundated with messages about the trial of Lindsay Clancy, who…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1079+ words) PROVIDENCE — After Wednesday’s primary delivered victories for progressive candidates up and down the ballot in Providence, city leaders are all but certain to enact limits on rent increases in 2027. The Providence City Council narrowly failed to enact rent control earlier…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (373+ words) Hydro-Quebec withheld power from Massachusetts during a January cold snap, shortly after a new power line was completed in Maine to bring that electricity here. Now, the Quebec energy company is sparring in court with the state’s publicly traded utilities…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (357+ words) As a teenager, yard work was presented as a chore to complete. The lawn had to be mowed, the leaves had to be raked, and mulch was to be spread as directed. Perhaps due to my interests lying in other…...