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Alex BeamBoston Globe |
The joke in Progressive’s commercials is that nobody wants to become their parents. I disagree.
Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement sounded like a windfall. For many authors, it’s turning out to be something closer to a tip.
The slogans are cheesy, the ticket prices obscene, and the hype endless. But no sport delivers drama quite like soccer.
Keep calm, and change the subject.
Salem’s cat museum joins a global collection of places that celebrate everything from failed products to lost love.
Inside the church, a clash over whether the Iran attack satisfies the church’s "just war" criteria.
New biographies of Stephen Sondheim and Jan Morris reveal two towering talents with sharp edges.
America has violated the territorial sovereignty of Iran and Venezuela, two United Nations members — and Olympic and FIFA competitors.
The late MIT professor Claude Shannon was known as ‘the Father of the Information Age.’
It can beam high-speed internet to war zones, protest movements, remote islands, and festival deserts — while placing extraordinary power in the...
AI Jesuses have proliferated in multiple apps, prompting one to wonder: Whom to believe?
Hold onto your wallets: Trump’s affordability messaging campaign has begun.
Holiday greetings from the House of Perpetual Self-Praise.
The ultrawealthy used to leave legacies. Now they leave middle fingers.
I write checks, I read the paper newspaper, I have even been known to pen a letter now and then.
A chatbot, a PC, and an iPhone walk into a bar.
Leo’s lifetime devotion to the theologian, philosopher, and memoirist Augustine offers a window into his papacy.
Once "the greatest sycophant in Cabinet history," Mnuchin probably wouldn’t even place in the top 10 if the balloting were held today.
There was a time when such ridiculous circumlocutions seemed outlandish. Now outlandish is the new normal.
President Putin fast-tracked resettlement options for those hoping to escape the "destructive neoliberal" lifestyle of the decadent West.
Members of the Keith Richards Improbable Survival Club are showing us that living badly is the best revenge.
“All these zany Catholics brought a ferocity of love to everything to what they did that cannot be denied.”
There are thousands of reasons why I won’t be visiting Saudi Arabia.
I want the whole Trump enterprise to fail. But when it does, it will injure the country I love.
Who doesn’t enjoy a bit of journalistic naughtiness?
How did Dr Pepper become America’s No. 2 soda? Cue the old Avis slogan: Dr Pepper tried harder.
Boston is the city that is always looking back, never looking forward.
I don’t have the moral fortitude to engage in tax resistance. But godspeed to those who do.
Donald Trump Jr. is now a front man in what is essentially a grievance network for consumers who purport to be offended by mainstream products.