"A young Black woman, seated in a public space, surrounded by men whose message was that this country belongs to people like them and not people like her," Haley Taylor Schlitz writes.

Here is something a little different: @bostonglobe.com is devoting its homepage to what the news might've looked like in 1776. Designed by the unstoppable @ryanhuddle.bsky.social. www.bostonglobe.com

Looking for top books to mark the new season? Today’s Starting Point takes a look through our big summer reading list — and a few recurring themes within it.

Black Market hoped to help small businesses plant roots in Nubian Square. Now after years of business struggles, they're at risk of losing their place there too.

NEW: Healey wants to curb public access to birth and death records in bid to ‘prevent fraud’ www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/16/m...

What's so crazy about the way @emilysweeney22.bsky.social has blown up (for all the right reasons) is that she was using social media to promote her work at the @bostonglobe.com back when most of her colleagues didn't even know what it was. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/s...

Matt Shearer pitched his first-ever show as the “most unhinged episode of Oprah.” He delivered with a furry, poop songs, a Red Line car seat, $5 Dunkin’ gift cards for all, and lots of Masshole energy. More on the famed reporter who took his viral videos onstage: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/10/b...

Brigham and Women's Hospital allegedly disposed of fetal or newborn remains against the family’s wishes five times in 18 months, according to lawsuits. One mother said her baby "was discarded with medical waste. I will never get justice for that.” trib.al/kOjQQj6

Looking to talk to Mass. public school teachers as part of a @bostonglobe.com story on discussing the Iran war in school with students. Interested? Drop me a line: [email protected] * Especially hoping to hear from educators who are veterans of Iraq or Afghanistan.

“The paper can’t survive if it can’t get young people to come and work here,” said Ed Miller, editor of The Provincetown Independent, about why the outlet's nonprofit partner bought a condo to house reporters at below-market rates. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/07/b...

After warning about looming financial challenges, Mayor Michelle Wu said she’ll file a $4.9 billion budget proposal this week that includes “difficult, targeted reductions” but prioritizes maintaining key city services.

Most of the six inmates in Massachusetts prisons who died by suicide last year had been in or just left segregated units the Department of Correction had created to replace the discredited practice of solitary confinement. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/26/m...

The latest allegations of fraud at the troubled school come as hundreds of families mount a desperate effort to raise enough money to keep Croft’s doors open and continue paying its staff. @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/23/m...

A Middlesex County grand jury indicted Dr. Derrick Todd on charges that he sexually assaulted 11 patients. This comes months after a Spotlight story detailing how hundreds of patients said they were abused by the renowned doctor. trib.al/JB4rcJO

The leader of the troubled Croft School needed money. What came next led to the financial unraveling of the private, for-profit school. @bostonglobe.com

The Society of Professional Journalists has named the State of Massachusetts recipient of its 2026 Black Hole Award, an annual dishonor recognizing government entities that demonstrate a troubling lack of transparency and disregard for the public’s right to know.

“Apparently I’m an idiot.” Woman at Pennsylvania gas station who voted for Trump rips into him, calls him “a worthless pile of sh*t”.

The founder of the private Croft School misled families and staff about the institution’s financial condition for years, its directors told families Tuesday, by, for example, hiding $13 million in debt, overspending its budget, and keeping two sets of records. @bostonglobe.com

South Boston smorgasborg www.universalhub.com/2026/south-b... #SouthBoston #parade

The Croft School has launched an independent investigation and suspended its executive director after the school’s board announced Friday there were “serious irregularities” with its finances. @bostonglobe.com

A federal judge Wednesday ordered US immigration authorities to free a 14-year-old girl and return her from New York to Massachusetts after she was detained @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/11/m...

NEW: GBH and WBUR have long insisted that there’s room for two public media giants in Boston. In an era without federal funding, could that come to an end? “It would make a lot of sense to merge,” GBH CEO Susan Goldberg told me. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/12/b...

Eight Cabinet members have departed Healey’s administration since she took office in 2023, including seven in the last year alone, in an unusually busy exodus ahead of a governor’s reelection bid. @bostonglobe.com

America must not learn to live with 72,000 overdose deaths a year www.statnews.com/2026/03/09/d... via @statnews.com

"The voters said one thing. They wanted an audit of the Massachusetts legislature. You would think that people whose salaries are paid by taxpayers would oblige to their wishes. You would be wrong." #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/09/n...

Estefany Rodríguez, a reporter for a Spanish-language outlet in Nashville, was covering immigration raids. The next day, ICE agents arrested her without a warrant. Read Carolina Abbott Galvão. www.cjr.org/analysis/est...

New at Media Nation: The Massachusetts public records law needs some teeth. Will 2026 be the year that it finally happens? #mapoli dankennedy.net/2026/03/05/t...

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

This is as good as it gets!!

...And then we wrote a song about it www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/04/m...

Important story by @iamjohnhilliard.bsky.social -- ‘They don’t even pretend to comply’: Mass. agencies, cities, and towns openly flout open record law www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/04/m...

In Massachusetts, the state law’s deadlines for fulfilling records requests can be ignored, workers can conspire to overestimate costs, elected officials can spend years fighting requests in court, or not bother releasing records at all. @bostonglobe.com

Marcelo Gomes da Silva, a Milford teen who was arrested by ICE last May, went to the State of the Union as a guest of Representative Seth Moulton. He left early after a Department of Homeland Security tweet singled him out by name. trib.al/z40q0Yo

Today's Starting Point dives into a college dorm's attempt to "catch a predator" and the consequences that are still being felt.

The Epstein files mention Harvard University more than 12,000 times. A new Boston Globe Spotlight Team report found that Jeffrey Epstein's ties to the country’s most revered academic institution ran deeper than previously known.

NEW: French food was once considered bygone, too Euro, and boring. Now? Everyone wants a piece of it. So, is French cuisine “hot” again? My latest in my newsletter, the Food Club, via @bostonglobe.com @globeri.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/26/m...

The federal workforce shrunk by nearly 220,000 people last year, close to 10 percent, according to a Globe analysis of federal data.

In Everett, a web of projects — including an extended Silver Line route, a new pedestrian and cycling bridge connecting Everett to Somerville, and a possible commuter rail stop — could make it easier to ride a bike, bus, or train in and out of some parts of the city.

As ICE seeks to build out mass detention centers around the country, they're meeting a wall of local resistance -- even in solid Trump country. My story: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/26/n...

What an incredible sunset over Boston tonight... ❤️ 📹: @Theonlyesti_

Gomes, who was arrested by ICE last May while on the way to volleyball practice, attended the event as a guest of Representative Seth Moulton. @bostonglobe.com

In Massachusetts and beyond, politicians have increasingly turned to people with armies of followers, but that shift has raised questions about how transparent politicians and the influencers they work with should be as they knit their social feeds together. @bostonglobe.com

A retired Massachusetts juvenile court judge is seeking a federal investigation into the Department of Children and Families, saying she fears a pattern of discrimination against children with disabilities. @bostonglobe.com

The White Stadium project's total cost now dwarfs that of similar soccer stadium projects around the country by tens of millions of dollars, if not more. @bostonglobe.com

Some local media news: @politico.com is ending Mass Playbook as @kellygarrity.bsky.social joins the Globe to write a new politics newsletter

When you have Sam Altman co signing maybe rethink it? “The National Association of Government Employees told WBUR it was unhappy with the announcement and said Healey’s administration is “rushing” the introduction of AI.”

In a first-of-its-kind survey, the Globe asked hundreds of scientists about the impact of federal funding cuts. The results were stark: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...

Asked how the federal research cuts have affected science, one Boston Children’s Hospital researcher said, “This is like asking, how do you think dropping an atomic bomb on New York City will affect the future of Broadway musicals?” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...

An aide to Governor Maura Healey, who is an immigrant from Venezuela currently on a work visa, is suing the Trump administration, arguing she could lose her job in state government unless federal immigration officials quickly approve her work authorization. via @bostonglobe.com

Nearly two months after a deadly shooting at Brown University killed two students and injured nine others, released body-worn camera footage of a responding officer. via @bostonglobe.com