Big Tech, Big Law, Big Ed all caved to Trump’s intimidation without a fight. Why so many profiles in cowardice?
Why do powerful people cave to pressure, often without even putting up a fight? If there is a central question of President Trump’s second term, that is it. Globe Magazine editor at large Neil Swidey explores why so many tech billionaires, media executives, managing law partners, and Ivy League presidents were so quick to surrender.
A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose.
Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue in Greenfield has enforced a strict KN-95 mask policy since its opening last year. But a few weeks ago, the cozy lesbian bar announced that one night a week would be mask-optional. Globe Magazine’s Annalisa Quinn follows the immediate meltdown, with critics accusing them of racism, ableism, and more.
Our brains shrink with time — but we actually get better at some things as we get older. STAT reporter Annalisa Merelli debunks the doom and gloom and explains why it helps to be optimistic about aging.
Yes, you’re being ripped off. Here’s how it happened.
Consumers expect higher prices resulting from scarcity during wars, pandemics, and natural disasters. But as writer Lindsay Owens describes in an excerpt from her new book, GOUGED: The End of a Fair Price — and What That Means for Your Wallet, sometimes they aren't the true cause — greed is. Find out how some corporate profiteers are using new technologies to charge people more for a cup of coffee, a gallon of gas, and a flight home.
With her daughter engaged, writer Sari Bodi was on the hunt for the perfect mother-of-the-bride dress. When she enlisted her family for feedback, the assortment of silhouettes, colors, and fabrics all started to pile up.
The war in Iran prevented his parents from attending their wedding; the bride found a way to pay tribute
Ashley Weselak went into her psychic reading in search of career guidance. She left with a prediction that she’d meet her husband in three years. When Ashley visited Boston three years later, she salsa danced with a handsome stranger, Aref Shahini, and they got to talking. “He came at the perfect point in my life,” she says. Read their love story.
This week’s letter comes in response to Aidan Ryan’s profile of Heather Cox Richardson. Find more reader comments on magazine stories here.
She’s writing a personal take on the news — she’s not a journalist. Criticism of her highlighting one series of events and not another is silly — she never claimed to be a newspaper. The part of this profile we need to most worry about is that she is receiving threats of physical harm. Apparently, that is now normal in the Trump era.
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