In last week’s column looking back at “2018: The Year in Global Warming,” I reviewed the dire threat posed to humanity and our environment by climate change, and concluded with the following: The big question for Bostonians and anyone else reading this: How do we go from this grim state Continue Reading
“We are the first generation to fully understand climate change and the last generation to be able to do something about it.” —Petteri Taalas, secretary-general, World Meteorological Organization Given all the developments I could review from the year that’s now drawing to a close—and given that I primarily write Continue Reading
In this special throwback, reporter Jon Riley looks back at why the government may have wanted Bulger dead more than anyone else
With help from a team at Tufts University’s JumboCode, we built a story map for readers to find headlines geographically.
Daybreak at a semihistoric MBTA station you have never heard of and will probably never use It’s an everyday struggle if you head inbound toward Boston from the least-used MBTA train station. There’s only one commuter rail that heads that way on weekdays, and it leaves at 6:58 in Continue Reading
For the first time ever, we did our year-end recap as a video. We hope that you enjoy it, share it, and consider BINJ in your end-of-year giving.
More than 200 Tufts University students, faculty, and allies from surrounding communities held a march and demonstration last week to protest a new campus housing policy, according to the Boston Herald. Over the summer, the Tufts administration announced that its annual lottery system for on-campus housing during each academic Continue Reading
I went to several SLAMS while writing this article, each time trying to find the right words to describe an experience that is deliberately without words. I walked, ran, spun furiously, held poses, pretended to be a mouse as I scrambled on the floor.
For developers in Boston, it may pay off to blow off inclusionary building requirements
The Dance Complex, like other havens for the arts but on a regionally incomparable scale, supports immigrant populations of all kinds and resists discrimination and negative cultural stereotypes.
