Boston Sunday Globe
What the Republican ‘siege’ on New College means for Harvard
Third in a three-part series reported by Hilary Burns, Mike Damiano, and Patricia Wen. Today’s story is by Burns. Folded into an Adirondack chair too small for his 6 foot, 6 inch frame, Jackson Dawson gazed across sarasota Bay, a century-old marble...
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‘Cut out all the money’
“We’re at harvard in harvard square,” steve bannon said, leaning into a microphone, and “every morning feels like christmas morning.” It was feb. 8, just three weeks into Donald trump’s second term, and every day brought a new delight for bannon:...
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How Harvard became Trumpʼs perfect target
First in a series reported by Hilary Burns, Mike Damiano, and Patricia Wen. Today’s story is by Patricia Wen. It was another beautiful morning at harvard University. On May 29, 2014, some 30,000 guests streamed through the university’s wroughtiron...
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A watchdog for patients, slow to bark or bite
Dr. Young Ho Oh’s patient was headed for disaster. The woman bled heavily throughout her surgery and lost even more blood afterward. Within hours, an intensive care nurse noticed she had no feeling in her right leg. Worse, the nurse told the doctor,...
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Rümeysa Öztürk, an American story
The agents arrived in the darkness before dawn. At 5:44 a.m. on March 25, 2025, a silver dodge charger rolled up quietly from the north, into a slumbering somerville neighborhood near Tufts University. The driver pulled over on Mason street, near its...
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A mentally ill mother, her violent spiral, and a test of the ‘insanity defense’
Latarsha Sanders was convicted of first-degree murder for killing her children Marlon, 8, and La’son, 5, in 2018, even though she was experiencing severe symptoms of mental illness at the time. This series explores what led up to the horrific day when...
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ICE MOVES QUICKLY — AND RAISES CONCERNS
MILFORD — in mid-november, João Marciano do carmo returned to his family in Milford, embraced his crying mother, and fell into the comfort of his living room couch. The 19-year-old had finally made the journey home from a jail in Mississippi, one of...
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The ruin at the end of the drug conduit
Bill may’s leg spasmed as he sank into a tattered chair and recounted the life that brought him here: to a living room with holes punched in the drywall, a woman writhing on the couch in a drug stupor, and empty narcan bottles littered about. it was...
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The ghosts of his war, laid to rest
Ed Kochanowski was conceived amid the ruins of a world war and has lived through other wars since, from those that simmered during his upbringing in south Boston, that heated up at the Marine testing grounds of parris Island and boiled over in the...
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A swamped Seaport?
Third in a series Nearly half a century ago, boston’s civic leaders faced a choice. the city was nearly bankrupt, but the big dig and boston Harbor cleanup promised to transform downtown. Just across fort Point Channel sat roughly a thousand acres of...
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Left out of the promise of pregnancy
It was midday when the nurse pulled her car into the Market Basket parking lot in hanover and sidled up to a black sUV. she said hello to the sUV driver, a suburban mom she’d connected with in a private Facebook group. The driver got out and handed...
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Partisan battle lines drawn on America’s 250th
wAsHingTOn — The instagram page for America250 was a haven of nonpartisan patriotism throughout the summer as it sought to build momentum for the nation’s milestone birthday bash on July 4, 2026. The official account for the congressionally authorized...
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The lost children
There was only one bed available at pathways, a Bradford group home for teens in crisis, when a state worker secured a spot there for G Araujo. The home was supposed to be a haven for the vulnerable 17-year-old from Gloucester. Araujo had begun...
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‘He saw my vulnerability. I was so desperate.’
Laura Cappello remembers the unease, the heart-racing anxiety, the self-doubt that came with each visit. Her trusted rheumatologist, Dr. Derrick Todd, made her the last appointment of the day and sent his receptionist home, leaving just the two of...
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Library of treasures, off limits
The resplendence of the Boston Public Library’s McKim Building unfolds with each step up the grand staircase. Past the imposing stone lions, the golden-hued stairwell gives way to an airy gallery of murals, a millennium-spanning celebration of the...
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Should Harvard settle?
When harvard said it would refuse to give in to the Trump administration’s farreaching demands, it won supporters from within academia and beyond who see the university as a beacon of resistance against an overweening government. Many want the school...
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ICE’s hardened machinery
In late August, Marta Portillo Vasquez kept a routine appointment at a federal immigration office in Revere to update her visa application to live in the United states legally after coming here from el salvador 20 years ago. Instead, she was abruptly...
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‘how do yoU proteCt a plaCe like this?’
BAr HArBOr, maine — The first bus making the 90-minute loop through Acadia national Park rumbled out of Hulls Cove visitor Center at 9 a.m. on a recent sun-splashed saturday, packed as full as a shuttle at disneyworld during spring break. Hordes of...
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two countries,
The main event of the annual friendship festival between the towns of calais, Maine, and st. stephen, new Brunswick, is the parade across the Us-canada border. it’s a winding thread of homemade floats and howling fire engines that denotes how...
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The poWeR dynAmIc, bluRRed
In early may, harvard president dr. Alan Garber received a letter from the national institutes of health notifying him that hundreds of scientific grants had been rescinded, as the next step in the escalating battle between harvard and the Trump...
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$1 billion
At Harvard University, international undergraduates are more likely to receive financial aid than their American counterparts. At Ivy League rival Columbia University, some foreign students are lured by annual aid packages averaging nearly $89,000....
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A loss, left unanswered
Judy Rodriguez keeps photographs, candles, and flowers at the spot outside her home in Braintree where her 16-year-old son and another teenager were shot to death. Two years after that night, she’s still waiting for answers. “i want them to get to the...
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A NIGHTMARE OF FIRE AND SMOKE
FALL RIVER — It was the kind of pleasant summer night along the south coast that can make people momentarily forget the vagaries of new England weather. Temperatures on this sunday night, July 13, were in the low 70s with a slight breeze to the...
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Mystery beneath the surface
Families, others haunted by eerie similarities between deaths of two diving buddies and a third victim ROCKPORT — It was just after 11 a.m. on a perfect October day in 2023 when the body of a diver washed up on Front Beach. It took police three hours...
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From Harvard to the Heartland, a lifeline, now threatened
stephen sehy was dying. he just didn’t know it yet. in the spring of 2009, when he was 63, ominous-looking black bumps began appearing in front of his right ear. Doctors went to remove them, only to discover melanoma, an aggressive skin cancer. it was...
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‘I FEEL THAT NOWHERE IS SAFE’
Afather self-deports before dawn. A retired postman helps a teenager he barely knows muddle through an immigration court proceeding. A community activist — to some, a modern-day paul revere — drives from city to city, making herself hoarse to warn her...
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A FAMILY SEEKS ANSWERS ... AND CHANGES
Lens Arthur Joseph woke up like he normally did that monday morning in late April, the 5-year-old gently nudged awake by his grandmother. Always fastidious in his appearance, he brushed his teeth and tongue, dressed, then tucked into his breakfast of...
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A promise unkept
fifty years ago, the United states made a pledge: No child, no matter how complex their disability, would be deprived an education. WakEfIELD — It was 10 a.m. on a Wednesday, and Dante fowler was seated in his family’s living room for “circle time,”...
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A day of pride, protest — and violence
president Trump presided over a show of American military might in the nation’s capital saturday evening, a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Us Army that became a test of wills and competing imagery, with demonstrators around the country...
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An economy pressed from all sides
This story is by Larry Edelman, Hiawatha Bray, Alexa Gagosz, Diti Kohli, and Omar Mohammed of the Globe staff, and Globe correspondent Stella Tannenbaum. From higher education to hospitals, from retail shops to tourist destinations, employers across...
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LAB-GROWN PROMISES, BROKEN
Becks Padrusch’s fondest memories growing up were of trips to Boston’s Museum of Science, where the Arlington native got to touch animal organs and watch with fascination as chickens hatched in incubators. As a toddler, Padrusch, who uses they/ them...
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A sudden turn on the road ahead
The high school auditorium was unusually empty for a graduation: just two students in bright red caps and gowns, sitting side by side at the front. the small crowd that had gathered sat scattered across the room. it was mid-april, early for a high...
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a barN burNer iN New hampshire betweeN church aNd state
wEArE, n.H. — Howard and martha kaloogian consider the red barn behind their 200-year-old house to be an extension of their home. They lined the interior of the rustic structure with pine shiplap, added insulation, upgraded the propane heating system,...
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‘A beautiful prison’
west FaIRLee, Vt. — when he reached the ridgeline above his property, Mohsen Mahdawi marveled at the miles of rolling hills in the distance, a late-afternoon sun illuminating the budding trees in the valley before him. “this feels like freedom, you...
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A family shattered by a catastrophic injury on the field.
A reluctant football mom rushed to her fallen son. He lay motionless in the wet grass, emergency responders hovering around him. She heard a voice pleading, “Rohan, wake up, your mom’s here.” Then nothing. Moments earlier, 15-year-old Rohan Shukla...
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For a Rhode Island family, first a tragic loss, then division
no one knew shahrzad naso was dying until it was too late to save her life. after 11 days at her bedside in a boston hospital, helpless as his wife succumbed to cancer, scott naso returned to their home in portsmouth, r.i., facing life as a single...
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Minute Men fired at British troops in the reenactment on Lexington Green.
Saturday’s event was special for the town.
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From the pulpit, a last word
the rev. wesley a. roberts reached toward his dense, crowded bookshelf and extracted a binder. with one flip, he found a description of his first sermon. date: august 1960. Location: Clarksonville baptist Church in Jamaica. title: “the tongue.” he...
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For her, a marathon of another kind
Alice Cook knows big challenges. As a US Olympic figure skater, her drive and dedication landed her in Innsbruck, Austria, skating in the pairs competition at the 1976 Games. nine years later, at age 30, she became Boston’s first full-time female...
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The raw end of a deal with the police
He calls every few days, from a cramped cell inside a Massachusetts prison. He talks about his past, his days playing football or basketball at the playground. He’ll talk about the present, the endless hours spent watching movies on his prison-issued...
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For a troubled force, a chief with his own past
New bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell gathered civic leaders and reporters for a major announcement one afternoon in June 2021. A decade into his tenure, Mitchell, a former federal prosecutor who once led the task force that tracked down the fugitive gangster...
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Welcome to Snitch City
NEW BEDFORD — During daylight hours, the docks of this city’s historic port are a hive of activity — dive-bombing gulls, rumbling diesel trucks, and the playful banter of fishermen. When night falls, the fishermen retreat to crowded tripledeckers or...
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The battle of Lexington vs. Concord
LEXINGTON — On April 19, 1775, the revolutionary War began. On April 20, 1775, Concord and Lexington began fighting over where exactly that war began. now, with the 250th anniversary approaching, shots are flying again in this long-running dispute...
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A border runs through it
DERBY LinE, vt. — For decades, a scuffed-up line of electrical tape bisecting the floor of the haskell Free Library & Opera house has marked the border between the United states and canada inside what may be the only public building of its kind in the...
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Brain freeze?
The strength of the Massachusetts economy comes down to one thing: brain power. it has become our brand and identity — powered by the scientific and medical advances from nobel Prize-winning scientists and professors at world-renowned universities and...
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Outlaw life, if only to survive
Milton DoSouto parked his car along the cemetery road and labored with his cane to walk toward the gravesite of his two slain brothers. he looked around for signs of danger. he was vigilant wherever he went, but this place, new calvary cemetery in...
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Unity, lost
Huddled in our homes, we rallied. We sewed masks, delivered groceries to neighbors in need, and spun up mutual aid groups. We celebrated first responders and front-line workers, and sacrificed time with loved ones even as we spent long days juggling...
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ROAD MAP THROUGH A SEGREGATED PAST
People were packed inside the dining room at camp twin Oaks: Men in white button-down shirts and women in sundresses sat at tables covered in pressed tablecloths. they picked at the bread baskets and entertained the young children while looking around...
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On city streets, a scourge of dirty needles
The number of 311 service requests for needle pickups surged nearly 50% in the final six months of last year, compared with the same period in 2023. The increase started after the city halted a COVID-era needle collection. shortly after sunrise, John...
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‘Hard times are coming’
NEw BEdFORd — For weeks after Ricardo Gómez Garcia was arrested at his textile job in the largest workplace raid in modern massachusetts history, his autistic 4year-old son would scour the family’s apartment trying to find him. mauricio Gutierrez had...
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THE BATTLE GOES ON
After a week of unparalleled horrors in the Los Angeles area, guarded optimism about containing some of the largest wildfires gave way saturday to fears that strong santa Ana winds could return and push the flames toward the J. Paul getty museum and...
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Finding family amid the tragedy of history
Vilunya Diskin’s earliest memory is as a 4-year-old, traveling on a train through a country that no longer exists, being implored to stay quiet as she and others fled the genocidal violence convulsing much of Europe. in the early 1940s, authorities...
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In Maine, remote work gives prisoners a lifeline
Every weekday morning at 8:30, preston Thorpe makes himself a cup of instant coffee and opens his laptop to find the coding tasks awaiting his seven-person team at Unlocked Labs. Like many remote workers, Thorpe, the nonprofit’s principal engineer,...
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The Beacon Hill side hustle
The number two Democrat in the Massachusetts house worked as a consultant on the side — and didn’t have to name his clients on his financial disclosures. A Brockton state representative doubled as a city councilor while also owning a law firm and a...
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Broken promises, lax scrutiny
Officials softened critical reports, ignored poor conditions and eroding finances, and let the chain close services. Healey says she did what she could within the law. The phone call to steward Health Care chief executive ralph de la Torre from the...
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Emergency response, in distress
Just before 10:30 a.m. that January morning, Feeley was kneeling in front of the couch trying to entice her curly-haired little girl, Yuna, to take a drink of Pedialyte when she suddenly went limp and stopped breathing. Yuna had been sent home from day...
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Falsely accused and cleared.
PAWTUCKET, R.i. — As the tide went out, George Guzewicz unchained his neighbor’s dog from the yard and set off for a walk on Conimicut Point in Warwick. The air was bitterly cold just an hour after sunrise on Feb. 28, 1988. He recalls that the dog was...
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The way station. As in Boston, many migrants find Chile unprepared for so many of them.
Jean Eddy Baptiste lives with his wife, Williene Duvelsaint, and their 3-year-old daughter, Laisha, in a shantytown known as “Nuevo Amanecer,” or New Dawn, miles away from the sparkling center of this city ringed by the snow-capped Andes Mountains. The...
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The silent treatment
Massachusetts public schools spend more than $1 billion annually on tuition for out-of-district special education placements. Some families receive more than $100,000 in annual tuition reimbursements, while others with children in need get much less...
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The blurred fabric of America
READING, Pa. — It was the dairy farmer in rural Wisconsin who believes that donald Trump will be better for the economy, tariffs be damned. It was the 48-year-old North carolina restaurant employee who voted for some democrats down ballot but went for...
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An election and a nation on edge
We’re entering the last nervous days of a season of contention and of mystery, upheaval and dread, a time when the country could lurch in entirely different directions or completely lose its way. And when there isn’t a pollster, politico, or pundit in...
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‘Lewiston is forever changed’
LeWiStOn, Maine — Perched halfway up a stepladder, artist tanja Hollander reached for the ceiling as she held fishing line and a small metal hook in one hand. the ladder squeaked beneath her as she hung dozens of bouquet wrappers, most a translucent...
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wounds to heal, wounds that never will
Anas Abumuhaisen stared out the Boston hospital lobby window and saw a bright red fire truck rolling by with its sirens and lights off, no emergency to hurry to. As Anas, 13, observed the truck, he imagined one coming to the rescue after an israeli...
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The money behind Steward’s rise and spectacular fall
VESTAVIA HILLS, ALA. — it felt like the beginning of a beautiful friendship. When dr. ralph de la Torre, a brash and brilliant son of cuban immigrants, jetted into the Birmingham airport in 2015, he was a man with a vision for the struggling steward...
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A meeting of needs: New arrivals find work in hard-to-fill jobs
A series exploring how new migrants are reshaping Massachusetts’ political, social, and economic landscape. Bending low, elbows resting on the table, Rosmy Dorcelus leaned over a man focused on the notebook in front of him. Dorcelus spelled out the...
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