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The trouble with tourism

The burden of mass tourism threatens to devastate the very assets that lure visitors. It’s enough to make you wonder whether “sustainable...

27.06.2025 10

Renée Loth

Will it be Auchincloss vs. Markey in 2028?

We asked three opinion writers to weigh in on a potential Auchincloss-Markey face-off in the Democratic primary.

11.06.2025 2

Renée Loth

Is ‘pronatalism’ really pro-children?

The pro-natalist movement is just another way for Trump’s acolytes to own the libs.

29.05.2025 4

Renée Loth

For Greater Boston, a different kind of freedom trail

The book “A People’s Guide to Greater Boston” is being refigured into a series of maps so everyday explorers might tread a history that’s...

15.05.2025 4

Renée Loth

Will ‘God’s architect’ become the next saint?

Antoni Gaudí was at the vanguard of Barcelona’s Modernisme movement. But his magnificent obsession is the still-unfinished Sagrada Familia church,...

02.05.2025 10

Renée Loth

Reimagining Paul Revere’s ride to address Trump-era threats

A new play brings into high relief the uncanny parallels between both the Revolutionary and Civil War periods and the perilous present, all through...

17.04.2025 10

Renée Loth

A proposed housing development and the Arboretum’s magnolia trees

There is a lot to like about the plan: It’s attractive, it’s energy-efficient, and it makes a dent in the city’s affordable housing shortage....

02.04.2025 3

Renée Loth

Candy tax is a sweetener for Massachusetts

Over-consumption of candy and other sugary foods contributes to chronic health conditions that cost all of us millions, whether we indulge in Snickers...

24.03.2025 7

Renée Loth

Trump targets brutalism: A wrecking ball for architecture

His contempt for brutalism isn’t surprising, given that it is mostly associated with 1960s-era government and university buildings, hotbeds of...

07.03.2025 7

Renée Loth

How Massachusetts got rich on gambling

New podcast documents the rise of the ‘the other Massachusetts miracle’ — the state lottery.

20.02.2025 2

Renée Loth

Democrats have a new tool to fight Trump: federalism

For decades, "states’ rights” was the scourge of liberals. But when Washington itself is hostile to civil rights and liberties, a check on...

24.01.2025 10

Renée Loth

Celebrating small wins: Positive news from Greater Boston

There are many reasons to love Greater Boston: the intellectual vibrancy, the natural and built beauty, the respect for facts and history, the...

26.12.2024 8

Renée Loth

Bike lanes save lives, so why are you still complaining?

Ultimately, peaceably sharing the streets comes down to mindset. A city is a community, and everyone needs to give a little.

12.12.2024 5

Renée Loth

Obesity’s stubborn political divide

The bitter irony is that Republican policies in states with high obesity rates only exacerbate the gaps in health outcomes.

29.11.2024 10

Renée Loth

Welcome to the world of influencer media

We are in an antiestablishment, almost countercultural era, marked by rejection of traditional institutions and a breakdown of trust in expertise....

18.11.2024 5

Renée Loth

Your results may vary: the trouble with polls (again)

After nearly a century of missed calls, flawed methods, and mea culpas, why follow presidential polls at all?

01.11.2024 20

Renée Loth

A prescient report on where America went wrong on economic equality

Many of the inequities that Donald Barlett and James Steele highlighted in 1991 have only gotten worse.

18.10.2024 8

Renée Loth

Despite GOP claims, noncitizens aren’t voting

No offense to Harris or Trump, but why exactly would undocumented immigrants expose themselves to fines, imprisonment, and deportation just to cast...

04.10.2024 4