The secretary of state has been engaged in a headlong rush of diplomacy in a host of hot spots that often makes him appear more energetic and ambitious than his predecessor.
Robert C. Cantu’s many connections have become emblematic of conflicting interests in the football, helmet, medical, and scientific communities.
The case goes next month before the US Supreme Court, which will have to weigh free speech against the state’s ability to enact what it calls long-needed public safety regulations.
Celeste and Sydney Corcoran, the mother and daughter nearly killed in the Marathon bombings, end 2013 with a profound gratitude to simply be alive. By Kay Lazar
While much of the attention to youth in urban environs is focused on young men, there are young women who prove equally difficult to reach — that’s where Roca steps in.
Dan Shaughnessy
Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy explains who he wants to send to Cooperstown, and why.
TOM KEANE
Assessing Edward Snowden, six months laterIt is worth asking precisely what the NSA leaker has accomplished and whether his critics should reconsider their view.
The franchise that George Preston Marshall founded here and packed up lock, stock, and logo in December 1936 is embroiled in an increasingly contentious public debate.
A growing number of indoor races have popped up in recent years to meet demand from marathoners looking for a new challenge.
Months of American misunderstandings and misperceptions about Libya, and especially Benghazi, may have failed to stop the 2012 attack on the US consulate.
Breaking with historical precedent, outgoing Mayor Thomas Menino will be one of just a handful of mayors in the past century who did not attend their successors’ swearing-in.
Essex County was a major rum manufacturing center for Colonial America, and Maggie Campbell is one of a handful of craft distillers again settling along the coastline.
A look back at the trends, successes, and letdowns in theater, video games, classical music, television, and more.
The unbridled emotion of Corsican singing is best heard directly from the source, on the Mediterranean island 100 miles southeast of Nice.
Video
Watch the ‘Broken City’ Insiders eventVideo of a discussion with The Boston Globe’s Washington bureau of the gridlock in Washington and what can be done to end it.
Ideas
What we learned in 2013From dashcams in Russia to the power of Black Twitter, here are some of the things we would never have known if not for 2013.
