John A. Farrell
Why even the brightest minds aren’t safe from economic turmoil
With debate in Washington raging over reforming Social Security and Medicare, the story of Clarence Darrow offers a cautionary tale on the value of the social safety net.
Reuters
Joanna Weiss
Warren shows the right way to get heard
Progressives have been actively seeking a source of fury, and in Massachusetts, they have found one in senatorial candidate and consumer-rights advocate Elizabeth Warren.
Mass. to seek ‘No Child’ waiver
Massachusetts will join a growing number of states in seeking a waiver from a key provision of the “No Child Left Behind” law that a top state education official said today had lost credibility.
Transportation officials warn of looming fare hikes
State transportation officials said today that sometime this spring they anticipate approving the MBTA’s first fare hike in five-and-a-half years to help close a projected deficit of $161 million.
Steep hikes seen in health insurance costs
The cost of health insurance for many Americans this year climbed more sharply than in previous years, outstripping any growth in workers’ wages and adding more uncertainty about the pace of rising medical costs.
“Just the fact that Liz even offered to do this blew me away.”
Kidney recipient Ying Su, on her donor, Liz Kennedy
Inside The Boston Globe
Columnists
Metro
Turnout light in Boston City Council race
The slow pace of voting in the preliminary election for three Boston City Council seats had picked up by this afternoon, but only slightly.
Business
Stocks survive late selloff; close up on Europe debt plan
US stocks advanced today as pledges by European officials to once and for all resolve the region’s debt problems helped soothe market jitters.
Nation
US shutdown avoided by disaster aid accord
The Senate reached a bipartisan spending agreement yesterday to avert a government shutdown, sidestepping a bitter impasse over disaster financing.
World
Civilians flee Khadafy’s hometown
Hundreds of civilians fled Moammar Khadafy’s hometown to escape growing shortages of food and supplies, as fighting escalated between revolutionaries and regime loyalists.
Sports
Eric Wilbur
We’re witnessing the worst collapse in Boston sports history
The Red Sox gave away a nine-game wild-card lead, and it’s going to take months to sift through the fallout. Expect a whole lot of people to be fired, writes the Globe’s Eric Wilbur.
Arts
Stage Review
Yale Rep's ‘Three Sisters’ sparkles in its melancholy
This production at Yale Repertory Theatre reminds us that few writers have ever seen into the human soul with more acuity and understanding than Chekhov.
Lifestyle
Transplant bonds former classmates
Two years ago, Liz Kennedy learned that Ying Su, a former classmate, needed a kidney transplant. A special connection evolved, one that would come to link organ donor to recipient.
Opinion
“[Elizabeth] Warren doesn’t have to win this race - or even the primary - to gain victory, overall.”
Joanna Weiss
Ideas
“Could it be true, Pinker wondered, that humans had actually become less violent with time, as opposed to more? And if so, how had we done it?”
Leon Neyfakh, on Steven Pinker’s new book about violence in history