Boston Mayor Wu: “Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures....Unlike the Trump administration, Boston follows the law.” Meanwhile under Trump, “good news on our economy has been as hard to find as the Epstein list.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/19/m... @bostonglobe.com

"The entire time the man in the pink shirt was yelling, he held in his left hand a floppy parcel wrapped in paper. Call it Chekhov’s bun." @devrafirst.bsky.social on DC's pink-shirted hoagie hero, pitching a Subway like Pedro Martinez in the rough www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/13/l... @bostonglobe.com

A Boston luxury tower tale: "Nearly three years after the first tenants moved in, 40 percent of the 114 units remain unsold." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/11/n... @bostonglobe.com

"Starvation is an outrage and a scandal — and very often a crime. The unfolding famine in Gaza today is a massacre in slow motion," writes Alex de Waal. @globeopinion.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/07/o...

A top deputy to Everett's mayor faces second drunken-driving charge, his fourth arrest in two years. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/06/m... @bostonglobe.com

“It seems to somehow turn back the clock,” said Dr. Bruce Yankner. New hope for Alzheimer’s: Groundbreaking Harvard study finds lithium reverses brain aging. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/06/m... @bostonglobe.com ‪@kaylazar.bsky.social‬

Opinion | Bernie Sanders on Israel and Gaza: "This is not military strategy. There is no military purpose to starving children. This is an effort to destroy a people. This is ethnic cleansing." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/01/o... @globeopinion.bsky.social ‪@sanders.senate.gov‬

Mass. agrees to acquire St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, a former Steward hospital, for $66 million by eminent domain. Investment firm Apollo had wanted about $200M. MPT had bought it for $189M. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/01/b... @bostonglobe.com

Love this: Renée Graham on her best celebrity story (it's Prince), her biggest journalistic regret, and 5 other answers to probing questions from @globeopinion.bsky.social colleagues @marcelagarcia.bsky.social and Alan Wirzbicki. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/31/o...

Ozzy Osbourne, his Boston lawyer, and the bat that got its head bit off www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/30/m... @bostonglobe.com

The Velvet Sundown, an AI phenomenon, recently generated a flurry of headlines as it became wildly popular on Spotify. Jon Garelick checked it out. “Yes, AI is making music. And who can tell the difference?” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/28/o... @globeopinion.bsky.social

‘The brutal reality’: The typical single-family house in Greater Boston now costs $1 million, an all-time record. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/18/b... @bostonglobe.com

New filing: Steward general counsel didn’t know Ralph de la Torre was secretly negotiating transaction with MPT and Cerberus that would clear the way for $111M dividend–most of which went to RDLT. Comments of disbelief ensued. More from @globespotlight.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/m...

In explosive new filing, Steward Health Care sues former CEO Ralph de la Torre, alleging he and execs fleeced company and left it "perpetually undercapitalized and insolvent.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/m... @globespotlight.bsky.social @hannakrueger.bsky.social @elizabethrkoh.bsky.social

Amazing: In Massachusetts, "apartment buildings with four units or more can only be built, under current local zoning rules, on roughly 4 percent of the land." @andrewbrinker.bsky.social‬ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/b...

After 13 months homeless , a RI writer finds 'sanctuary ' thanks to 3,300 strangers www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/11/m...

Should insurers cover anti-obesity drugs? “Denying patients access to these medications is cruel and, in the long-term, counterproductive,” says @ashmont.bsky.social. “This is a serious public health issue, but it’s also deeply personal” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/07/o... @globeopinion.bsky.social

Opinion | "Dam It or Bust": Frank Capra meets Norman Rockwell in West Tisbury, in this lovely cartoon from Paul Karasik. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/03/o... @globeopinion.bsky.social

Bankrupt Steward eyes clawbacks from former CEO Ralph de la Torre and others. Internal investigators said a number of transactions, including money taken by private equity owners and distributions to insiders, were fraudulent. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/01/b... @bostonglobe.com

"What will you find at a Trump White House yard sale?" The great @wardsutton.bsky.social: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/19/o... @globeopinion.bsky.social

Astonishing story: Against the odds, nonverbal autistic Brookline teen gets accepted into MIT www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/18/m... @marcelanotes.bsky.social ‬ @bostonglobe.com

Long-buried claim of rapist priest at Catholic summer camp puts N.H.’s statute of limitations to the test www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/17/m... @reporterporter.bsky.social ‪@bostonglobe.com

Happy Monday #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/16/o...

“We are trained differently. The police are trained to de-escalate conflict. The military are trained to kill people, to bring overwhelming, lethal force. That’s not what is needed right now in LA.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/13/m...

Wonderful news: The Scripps Howard Journalism Award for Excellence in Business/Financial Reporting goes to my @globespotlight.bsky.social colleagues and me for our series on Steward Health Care @bostonglobe.com scripps.com/fund/journal...

Amazing story: Can free money help people stay off drugs? Programs that reward drug users with prizes for staying abstinent are gaining ground in New England. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/09/m... @bostonglobe.com @chrisserres.bsky.social

As housing costs rise in Boston, homelessness soars in the cities that surround it www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/09/b... @andrewbrinker.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com

Delighted to win @nihcm.bsky.social award for Boston Globe Spotlight Team's series on Steward Health Care with my amazing colleagues! @bostonglobe.com @globespotlight.bsky.social nihcm.org/awards/winne...

Opinion: Is Josh Kraft pushing the envelope of campaign finance law to challenge Mayor Wu? Whether two companies helping Kraft have ‘a firewall’ between them is a legal question that deserves to be asked, writes @jvennochi.bsky.social‬ @globeopinion.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/02/o...

Proud of the @bostonglobe.com Summer Reading package that we launched this morning. Created by humans, for humans. 75 books! Something for everyone, I hope. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/30/a...

ICYMI: Inside the hidden tunnel under Harvard Square that could become an unusual new music venue www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/29/m... @bostonglobe.com

Former ICA director Jill Medvedow: What is driving Trump’s venom against the arts? They possess a truth-telling power to shape our shared history — a power to change whose stories are told, and by whom. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/28/o... @globeopinion.bsky.social

How an $18 pillow led to the recovery of a $2 million stolen Dutch painting. Online sleuthing yields the return of an artwork nearly 50 years after thieves snatched it from a Worcester home while its owner slept. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/28/a... @bostonglobe.com

“Is Pope Leo my cousin,” my colleague Julian Sorapuru wondered. He ventured to find out and the answer is the story of America.

Delighted to win Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights award for Domestic Print for @globespotlight.bsky.social series on Steward Health Care with my amazing @bostonglobe.com colleagues! rfkhumanrights.org/press/robert...

The @newyorker.com: "In 'Spotlight: Snitch City,' the Boston Globe skillfully reveals how police abused confidential informants in a Massachusetts port town," from @asarahlarson.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/culture/podc... @bostonglobe.com @globespotlight.bsky.social

“A betrayal”: Boston-area arts groups lose NEA grants amid Trump cultural push www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/07/a... @bostonglobe.com

One year after Steward bankruptcy, Warren, Markey demand criminal probe. Senators are pushing the Justice Department to investigate Steward CEO Ralph de la Torre for contempt of Congress. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/06/b... @bostonglobe.com

Delighted to be part of amazing @globespotlight.bsky.social team named a @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social finalist in the public service category for our coverage of the Steward Health Care crisis. Love my @bostonglobe.com colleagues! apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/invest...

Delighted to win first place investigative award (large) from @healthjournalism.org for @globespotlight.bsky.social series on Steward Health Care with my amazing @bostonglobe.com colleagues healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/04...

Opinion | ‘Here comes everybody’: Pope Francis’s broad embrace reshaped the papacy www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/21/o...

Thank you, Jamie Saxon at Princeton -- and Clem Fiori for the wonderful B&W photo inside. Astrophysicist Jeremiah P. Ostriker, pioneer of modern cosmology and ‘source of inspiration,’ dies at 87. www.princeton.edu/news/2025/04...

Thank you, Clive Cookson.

Some very sad family news, and a beautiful obituary by Dennis Overbye of the NYT: Jeremiah Ostriker, who plumbed dark forces that shape universe, dies at 87 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/07/m... @bostonglobe.com

After mass firing, DOGE employee now heads US Institute of Peace, and institute property to be transferred to GSA, court filing alleges. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/31/n... @bostonglobe.com

Opinion: The chilling Ozturk video could launch an international brain drain. Massachusetts has about 80,000 reasons to be concerned. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/28/o... @globeopinion.bsky.social

As Steward Health Care empire crumbles and federal probe plods along, Ralph de la Torre attends horse festival where his wife competes. @globespotlight.bsky.social catches up with the former CEO at a dressage event. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/27/m...

Opinion | Eugene Ionesco tried to warn us: The avant-garde playwright’s 1959 play ‘Rhinoceros’ satirized blind acquiescence to fascism and groupthink. Unfortunately, it’s more relevant than ever. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/o... @globeopinion.bsky.social

“We had a frontier mentality, which meant we could do something bold”: Must-read portrait of Jill Medvedow, remarkably self-effacing giant of Boston's cultural scene, as she bids farewell to the ICA after nearly 30 years bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/a... @bostonglobe.com

Four brothers, vast power, and now a shot at politics: The Kraft family has incredible influence in Boston. But as Josh Kraft runs for mayor, how much power is too much? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m... @bostonglobe.com