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‘Rubber stamp’ justice? In Mass., prison officials almost always deny prisoners’ claims of abuse behind bars

A Globe review of more than 1,500 prisoner grievances filed at the state’s six largest prisons found that incarcerated men seldom prevail when they allege they've been abused. Grievance investigators fully corroborated the prisoners’ accounts only nine times.

Ghislaine Maxwell convicted of helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls

Jurors deliberated for five full days before finding Maxwell guilty of five of six counts. She faces the likelihood of years in prison.
THE LATEST COVID-19 NEWS

Baker says 2 million booster doses have been administered in Mass.

Report: Samsung in talks to acquire Biogen

Biogen is reportedly in talks to be acquired by Korea's Samsung Group in a deal that would value the Cambridge-based drugmaker at $42 billion.
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Our Beautiful Resistance
Behind the scenes of A Beautiful Resistance, Season 2 with Jeneé Osterheldt, Chaney Carlson-Bullock, Daymian Mejia, and Katherine Otuechere. ( Created and produced by Jeneé Osterheldt/Globe Staff, Directed and edited by Chaney Carlson-Bullock, First Assistant Director Mikayla Litevich, Supervising Producer Caitlin Healy/Globe Staff, Illustrations by Paula Champagne )
A Beautiful Resistance | Jeneé Osterheldt

Behind the scenes of Season 2

We didn't just feature Black folk in front of the camera. We teamed up with three local visual storytellers to help direct and film every episode.
Watch Season 2 Follow @abeautifulresistance on Instagram
Opinion
New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick speaks during a news conference in September in Foxboro.
Joan Vennochi

In praise of the reporter who asked Bill Belichick his New Year’s resolutions

The encounter, which went viral, illustrates not only the power that grumpy Belichick exerts over the press and the willingness of many in the media to bow to it — but also what it takes to break from the pack.
Shoes worn on court by Enes Kanter Freedom of the Boston Celtics.
Enes Kanter Freedom

The Boston Celtics, my political activism, and a call for greater freedom
A restaurant in San Francisco.
IDEAS | Lakshmi Ganapathi and Ramnath Subbaraman

The equity-enhancing power of mandates
In America, sheep have long been prized for their wool. Their meat? Not so much.
IDEAS | IKER SAITUA

The long history of Americans’ sheepishness about lamb
Richard Sackler, the former president of Purdue Pharma, appears in a 2015 deposition video.
EDITORIAL

Throwing out the $4.5 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma is the right call
What will travel look like this year?
CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

What experts say about planning your 2022 vacation as Omicron surges

The question isn’t where to go in the new year, it’s whether you should go anywhere at all.
The Sports Hub launched in 2009.

The Sports Hub reaches new heights as it dominates Boston sports radio ratings again

All of The Sports Hub’s weekday programs finished first in their time slots in the fall Nielsen Audio ratings.
Anne Finucane, vice chair of Bank of America, at her downtown office. Finucane, one of Wall Street’s most powerful women, has retired.
shirley leung

Twice, Anne Finucane stepped back from her career. She still became one of the most powerful women in Corporate America

Finucane is among a cohort of trailblazing Boston women leaders who broke up the city’s old boys club. It can be easy to forget how hard they fought to be where they are and how many barriers they knocked down along the way.

More recent stories

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
Mayor Wu announces slate of Cabinet re-appointments
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced Wednesday an array of Cabinet re-appointments, as the leadership team of her administration continues to take shape.

Love Letters
She’s talking marriage after two months. And she makes me smell her feet
Is this couple too out of step?

chad finn | sports media
Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas — home of the Raiders — displayed a tribute to John Madden, who died Tuesday at 85.
John Madden’s connections with Patriots illustrated how special he was
A couple of Super Bowl calls and a tragic event in 1978 will inextricably link the late broadcasting legend to New England forever.

A room with a fireplace? Yes, please. The Rose Room at Castle Hill Inn, shown here, is one option.
These are the five coziest inns for a winter getaway
Grab a jigsaw puzzle or the chess board, get cuddly under a fuzzy blankie with your best travel buddy, and enjoy the best of the chilly season.

Darlene Hazel was grateful for the safe return of Nala, her 4-month-old golden retriever puppy who ran away on Christmas.
‘A Christmas miracle.’ This puppy was lost in Harvard, and residents answered the call.
When a puppy went missing on Christmas in the town of Harvard, members of the community were quick to step up and launch a massive search.

Rhode Island state Representative Patricia Morgan.
How people reacted to state Representative Patricia Morgan’s tweet about losing ‘a black friend’ and CRT
Twitter was still on fire a day after the Rhode Island lawmaker’s most-recent lament about critical race theory. Here’s a roundup of the biggest reactions.

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See the latest from our education team focused on race, class, and opportunity in schools.

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See the latest from Globe Rhode Island.

NEWTON ⟶

See the Globe’s expanded Newton coverage in partnership with Boston University.

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A resident walked through floodwater left behind by Hurricane Ida, the fifth strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States, in LaPlace, Louisiana. on Aug. 30.

In a record-breaking year of weather, signs of a changed world

The year 2021 was, for many people, the year in which climate change jumped from the part of our brains reserved for future-think — for worries not yet realized — and landed squarely in the now.

People waited in long lines for COVID testing Tuesday at Rivergreen Park in Everett at a site run by Cataldo Ambulance Service.
‘Is COVID-19 ever going to go away?’: Mass. surpassed 1 million cases … and counting
Massachusetts officially surpassed 1 million cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, a sobering milestone that would have seemed unimaginable in March 2020 but now strikes many experts as conservative in its scope.

They took rapid COVID tests. The next 15 minutes were agonizing
Oh, rapid at-home tests, how much we need you. And how stressful you are.

A couple paused to take in the lights in the park across from the Boston Harbor Garage on New Year's Eve in 2020.
Where to safely celebrate New Year’s Eve outdoors in Massachusetts
For those feeling comfortable enough to venture out this New Year's Eve, outdoor events are still happening in and around the city.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Getting fresh air is one way to stay sane during quarantine.

Found yourself in quarantine? We asked public health experts for suggestions on how to spend the time
Tortilla soup.
COOKING

Recipes: Tortilla soup and two more spicy soups to warm a winter night
Vanessa Hudgens appears in "The Princess Switch: Switched Again."

10 romantic-comedy movies that are perfect for the holiday
If there is one thing we love, it's a good whoopie pie.

Where to find the best whoopie pies around New England

Special Projects

An older lobsterman passed by Tanner Lazaro as he hauled up his traps in his boat, Used N Abused, on Aug. 24. During the summer Tanner hauled his own traps on whatever days his mentor Frankie Thompson or another lobsterman didn't need his help.

The lobster trap

The plentiful catch that brought wealth to fishing families is at risk, as climate change warms the Gulf of Maine. A way of life is on the line, but lobstermen can't, or won't, imagine another.

The 2021 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts

Is your employer among the 150 companies to make the list?
Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

A restaurant in San Francisco.
IDEAS | Lakshmi Ganapathi and Ramnath Subbaraman

The equity-enhancing power of mandates
In America, sheep have long been prized for their wool. Their meat? Not so much.
IDEAS | IKER SAITUA

The long history of Americans’ sheepishness about lamb
Richard Sackler, the former president of Purdue Pharma, appears in a 2015 deposition video.
EDITORIAL

Throwing out the $4.5 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma is the right call
If corporate greed is Senator Elizabeth Warren’s one-size-fits-all explanation for why prices go up, how does she explain why they go down?
JEFF JACOBY

Elizabeth Warren’s one-trick inflation pony
OPINION

Words of the Year
"I didn’t have a plan. I didn’t know how I’d pull it off." The author runs along a dilapidated street in Maracaibo.
IDEAS | ANTONIO MATHEUS

The lunacy of the long distance runner

Metro

Mameve Medwed, who filled her novels with humor and heartbreak, dies at 79

A novelist, critic, and essayist, Ms. Medwed also was an enthusiastic and encouraging writing teacher and a champion of other writers' work.

Hospitals prepare for more children, but so far, few are getting very sick from Omicron

Boston Children’s Hospital, which cares for the region’s sickest children, had 17 children with COVID-19 in the hospital this week, up from six on Nov. 23.
Coronavirus Live Updates

Baker says 2 million booster doses have been administered in Mass.

The latest news and guidance on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic in New England and beyond.

Local libraries are writing new chapters during the pandemic

Although begun as short-term workarounds, officials expect many innovations — from virtual and outdoor programming to expanded loans of electronic devices and contact-less checkouts ― to remain in use long after the health crisis ends.

Sports

Brad Marchand (right) of the Bruins would be 36 years old if given the chance to play hockey in the 2024 Olymopics.
Kevin Paul Dupont I On hockey

Why NHL players should lobby for hockey to be moved to the Summer Olympics for 2024

Rather than shutting down league operations for upward of three weeks during the season, the NHL can stay out of the picture entirely.
Former Boston College women's basketball coach Erik Johnson (left) is a volunteer assistant for Needham coach Amanda Sheehy.
GIRLS' BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK

Needham assistant Erik Johnson, daughter Avery Johnson know basketball inside and out

The former women's coach at Boston College, now a Rockets volunteer, realizes the transition game is the key to a successful father-daughter relationship.
Rhamondre Stevenson is back in practice after a trip to the Reserve/COVID-19 list.
Patriots notebook

Patriots get Rhamondre Stevenson back, no new additions to Reserve/COVID-19 list Wednesday

Stevenson and linebacker Harvey Langi returned, but the Patriots still have six players sidelined by protocols.
CORONAVIRUS

NHL cutting isolation time to five days, change applies in US
live updates

COVID-19 sports updates: 2022 World Junior Hockey championship canceled
Sports Media

The Sports Hub reaches new heights as it dominates Boston sports radio ratings again

Business

Flight cancellations, delays continue Wednesday as airlines grapple with fallout from omicron, weather

Flight disruptions eased slightly Wednesday as airlines continued working to get travelers to their destinations, an early indication of progress after thousands of cancellations that began before Christmas.

Boston startup’s new drone explores inner space

Cleo Robotics' "Dronut" is a surveillance drone that’s designed to operate indoors, flying through dangerous or hard-to-reach places, like air ducts, oil pipelines, or perhaps a booby-trapped building

Report: Samsung in talks to acquire Biogen

Talking Points

Truck travels 80 miles in Arizona without a driver

STAT

Dr. Monica McLemore, Associate Professor in the Family Health Care Nursing Department at UCSF, stands for a portrait at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on Friday, September 10th, 2021 in Oakland, Calif.
‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities
A STAT investigation shows that researchers with little or no background or training in health equity research are rushing in to scoop up grants and publish papers.

Covid winter illustration
Winter is coming, again: What to expect from Covid-19 as the season looms
STAT spoke with infectious disease experts and others about what to expect from Covid-19 as the seasons change.

Funeral goers sing during a service for Daisy Pace at New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in January 2021.
DISTANCED: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South
Photographer Bethany Mollenkof spent six months documenting the impact of Covid-19 on residents of rural Black communities in the South.

Boston, MA -- 05/12/21 -- Dr. Matthew Carty examines patient Jerry Majethic at Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital on May 12, 2021, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real
The procedure aims to restore proprioception, the ability to sense where our limbs are in space and how fast and forcefully they’re moving.

magazine
The best photos of 2021 from Boston Globe photographers.
2021

The 24 best photos of the year by Globe photographers
best features

The top 12 most popular Globe Magazine stories of 2021
Dave Barry looks back at the newsmakers of 2021.
GLOBE MAGAZINE

Dave Barry’s 2021 Year in Review: A variant of 2020, so to speak
Jonathan Way plays with two coyotes he helped raise at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham in 2004.
GLOBE MAGAZINE

This scientist bottle-fed and bayed with coyotes. Was he sidelined for loving them too much?

metro

Mr. Crowe (right) performed in 2012 with Del McCoury (center) and Bobby Osborne (left) at the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards show.

J.D. Crowe, banjo virtuoso and bluegrass innovator, dies at 84

‘Rubber stamp’ justice? In Mass., prison officials almost always deny prisoners’ claims of abuse behind bars

‘A Christmas miracle.’ This puppy was lost in Harvard, and residents answered the call.

sports

John Madden won 103 games as coach of the Raiders.

‘He set the standard for coaching in his era.’ Bill Belichick paid tribute to the late John Madden

John Madden’s connections with Patriots illustrated how special he was

Bruins-Canadiens game at TD Garden March 21 is now off the schedule

business

Anne Finucane, vice chair of Bank of America, at her downtown office. Finucane, one of Wall Street’s most powerful women, has retired.

Twice, Anne Finucane stepped back from her career. She still became one of the most powerful women in Corporate America

China’s COVID rules led fugitive to surrender after three years

Three planes to fly potatoes to ease Japan french fries shortage

politics

President Joe Biden.

Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin to speak Thursday as Russia steps up security demands

Biden, Putin to hold call over stepped up security demands

Leaders mourn former Senate majority leader Harry Reid

Nation

Pharmacist intern Kevin Kim of VaxinateRx administered a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children age 5-11 to Cameron Godsoe, 6, as his sister Isabella, 8, and mother, Kristen, watched during a vaccination clinic at A. W. Coolidge Middle School in Reading.

Hospitals prepare for more children, but so far, few are getting very sick from Omicron

Baker says 2 million booster doses have been administered in Mass.

J.D. Crowe, banjo virtuoso and bluegrass innovator, dies at 84

World

A supporter of the Memorial human rights group wearing a face mask with the words "The Memorial cannot be banned!" stood waiting for Moscow City Court's decision about the Memorial Human Rights Center in front of the Court building in Moscow on Wednesday.

As Russia’s courts muzzle Memorial human rights group, activists stress that ‘the truth is on our side’

How democracy was dismantled in Hong Kong in 2021

WHO warns of a ‘tsunami’ of Delta and Omicron cases as US officials stress Omicron’s ‘milder’ effects

opinion

A lot of little things in the Constitution would be returned to a grammar school student, circled in red.

May I have a word: Copyediting the Constitution

Individual accountability alone won’t change things at Soldiers’ Home

Get the lead out

lifestyle

The Local Vyntage storefront, which sells apparel featuring the logos of New England businesses of the past, opened in late October.

Local Vyntage storefront opens in Jamaica Plain

These apps can help you stick to your New Year’s resolutions

Flirting! Jealousy! Open marriages! Hiking! Here were 2021’s most popular Love Letters of the year

food & dining

Tortilla soup.

Recipes: Tortilla soup and two more spicy soups to warm a winter night

Get spicy with Ricky’s Hot Stuff

With On The Rocks cocktails, all you need is ice

travel

What will travel look like this year?

What experts say about planning your 2022 vacation as Omicron surges

This Legoland deal included tickets. Where are they?

Ancient works in Vermont, a traveling stand-up desk, and a new hotel in Seattle

Arts

A detail of Helina Metaferia's "Headdress 30," from 2021.

In Helina Metaferia’s show at the MFA, an ‘army of women’ wear history on their heads

In SoWa Art + Design District, video gallery brings art to the sidewalk 24/7

‘Imagine Van Gogh’ doesn’t leave much to the imagination

Books

Novelist Mameve Medwed photographed in the third floor study of her Cambridge home. Medwed, whose seven witty novels included “Mail” and “How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life,” died Sunday, Dec. 26, 2021.

Mameve Medwed, novelist with an ‘irrepressible sense of humor,’ dies at 79

Away in a manger in ‘The First Christmas’

She reads about politics — and everything else

Movies

Charlton Heston in "Soylent Green."

‘Green’ technology of a different sort

They called him ‘The Torso Killer’

At this family film festival, see the world through kids’ eyes

Television

From left: Desmond Chiam, Mark Indelicato, and Emeraude Toubia in "With Love."

Happy trumps sappy on Amazon’s ‘With Love’

Seven TV shows that were major disappointments this year

Fans thank Issa Rae, ‘Insecure’ for its portrayal of growth — and its representation of Black women

music

Shane MacGowan and Victoria Mary Clarke at their Dublin home. The former Pogues frontman, who turned 64 on Christmas, has been slowed significantly by a series of health issues.

Speaking of Shane MacGowan, and for him: ‘I think he’s getting his mojo back. But it’s been a painful process.’

6 New Year’s Eve performances from Boston-bred artists

It didn’t take a lot for drummer Billy Conway to make a big impression

Theater/Dance

Gregg Mozgala and Shannon DeVido in the Huntington's "Teenage Dick."

‘Teenage Dick’ closes early at the Huntington due to COVID cases

Six local New Year’s Eve comedy shows to help you get the last laugh on 2021

On New Year’s Eve, a cautious return to comedy

globe local

Molly Smith, 5, listened during the Young Scientist STEM program event Dec. 8 at the Northborough Free Library.

Local libraries are writing new chapters during the pandemic

The mouse in the muffins

Officer offers a helping hand to a wayward cat

Obituaries

Mameve Medwed, who filled her novels with humor and heartbreak, dies at 79. She posed in Cambridge on April 23, 1997.

Mameve Medwed, who filled her novels with humor and heartbreak, dies at 79

J.D. Crowe, banjo virtuoso and bluegrass innovator, dies at 84

Keri Hulme, New Zealand’s first Booker Prize winner, dies at 74