Half a century later, diversity still eludes Metco

Ariannah Gervais, a recent graduate of Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. The Metco student, who was bused from Dorchester, said she and others often faced racism. — Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff

Some of the yawning social disparities and tensions the Metco school desegregation initiative aimed to ease still exist.

Walsh kicks off re-election campaign

?What I try to do is change people?s lives every day,? Mayor Walsh said from a stage at Florian Hall.

From the projects to one of the top posts on Beacon Hill

Sánchez represents one of the most liberal districts in the state ? markedly to the left of the current House?s ideological trends.

From Wesleyan, a cautionary tale for Harvard

A Connecticut jury recently sided with a fraternity that sued Wesleyan University.

Somerville stands up for immigrant residents

Aldermen voted in support of Temporary Protected Status, which allows immigrants from 10 countries to stay here.

Xander Bogaerts: ?I?ve never been around such an uplifting little kid?

Bogaerts was distraught after learning of the death of 5-year-old Ari Schultz, with whom he felt a bond.

Christian Marsh from Lynn spent some time in the water Friday at The Rose Kennedy Fitzgerald Greenway. — Jonathan Wiggs/Globe staff

Your air conditioner is going to get a brief respite

Temperatures will retreat from their recent highs and check in around 70 for the next few days.

For Dorchester family, street hockey game is a bittersweet tribute

Hundreds gathered Saturday for the third annual Dot Pot street hockey tournament in Dorchester.

Holliston man faces OUI charge after crash into Natick home

James Sardina, 26, was also charged with malicious destruction of property.

SUBURBAN DIARY

My son likes farming ? will he get into college?

A suburban mom worries whether summers driving a tractor provide enough fodder for the all-important college essay.

The Trump presidency

Protesters agains the Republican health care bill gather inside the office of Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) — Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press

GOP misread Trump victory as mandate to gut health care benefits

The president instinctively understood the pitfalls, when he promised that he would not touch Medicare and Medicaid.

Trump tweets that he has ?complete power to pardon?

True to form, Donald Trump called the Washington Post?s story about presidential pardons ?fake news.?

Trump?s new communications director has local ties

As of Friday, you can find him in the West Wing, but Anthony Scaramucci spent his formative years in the Boston area.

Ideas | David Scharfenberg

Help us, Fox News. You?re our only hope

It?s President Trump?s base that matters, and there?s only one institution that can reach them.

Christopher L. Gasper

Colin Kaepernick saga cuts against the grain

It strains credulity that the 29-year-old Kaepernick isn?t among the 96 best quarterbacks on the planet.

How do you memorialize the fallen in a war without end?

Efforts to recognize Americans killed in the war on terror are bumping into a law against building a memorial on the National Mall until after a war?s end.

live updates

Red Sox, Angels battle on the West Coast

We have live updates from Anaheim, where the Sox are playing the second game of their western swing.

NICK CAFARDO/ON BASEBALL

Red Sox shouldn?t box themselves in in search for third base options

There are some interesting candidates who aren?t everyday players at the position.

THOMAS FARRAGHER

Where boys can be boys, with no iPhones in sight

The governing principle at Camp Moosilauke, one of the oldest summer camps in the United States, is simple and astonishingly successful: Let boys be boys.

Actor John Heard, of ?Home Alone? movies, dies at 71

Heard was best known for playing the father of Macaulay Culkin?s character.

More than 90 in Conn. hospitalized during Chance the Rapper show

Many were taken to hospitals for excessive drinking, and Hartford officers made 50 underage drinking referrals.

Ty Burr

Movies worth finding on Netflix, Amazon, and iTunes

Since it?s a slow week, and a hot one, here?s Ty Burr?s latest rundown of what he?s been finding interesting on the various streaming menus lately.

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Opinion & Ideas

EDITORIAL

For Mission Hill, a senseless loss to gun violence

Andres ?Cholo? Cruz?s death speaks to the harsh and often random nature of gun violence, made all the easier because of ready access to illegal weapons.