At his first news meeting as top editor of the Boston Globe, Martin Baron asked what the paper was doing to chase down the pos­si­bility that a Catholic car­dinal cov­ered … read more »

For many blacks, reelec­tion pro­vides irrefutable evi­dence that pres­i­dency was hardly a his­tor­ical fluke. Obama’s vic­tory meant a great deal to vet­erans of the civil rights move­ment. “I am com­pletely exhil­a­rated,” … read more »

North­eastern ath­letic director Peter Roby has been added to the NCAA’s Divi­sion I men’s bas­ket­ball selec­tion com­mittee, filling a spot vacated when former Delaware AD Bernard Muir left for Stanford.

One mes­sage sent to 60 mil­lion Face­book users on Elec­tion Day 2010 got at least 300,000 addi­tional people to vote, according to a study pub­lished Wednesday in Nature mag­a­zine. The … read more »

NEW YORK — When David Bur­rows took on Barry Gold­water and Ayn Rand as “men­tors” at age 14, his par­ents wanted to know what else he was doing that they … read more »

Amer­i­cans are almost evenly divided in how they view Mus­lims, according to a survey released Thursday (Aug. 23) by the Arab Amer­ican Insti­tute in Wash­ington. But the online survey, which … read more »

In March, Dan wrote about a move­ment called “You Can Play”, a public show of sup­port by NHL stars and other ath­letes for les­bian, gay, bisexual and trans­gender players. George Wash­ington … read more »

The cur­rent rank­ings are in the 2013 edi­tion of “The Best 377 Col­leges,” which goes on sale Tuesday. There are 62 ranking lists, each based on sur­veys of 122,000 stu­dents … read more »

The news media’s focus on Holmes also inspired some familiar crit­i­cism. Was the atten­tion to the details of an alleged mass killer’s life not just wrong but also poten­tially lethal? … read more »

The Obama admin­is­tra­tion has failed to meet a legal dead­line for scan­ning all ship­ping con­tainers for radioac­tive mate­rial before they reach the United States, a require­ment aimed at strength­ening mar­itime … read more »

The number of crimes reported to police dropped again last year com­pared with 2010, but a closer look at the num­bers sug­gests the long annual line of declines in crime … read more »

The col­lege class of 2012 is in for a rude wel­come to the world of work. A weak labor market already has left half of young col­lege grad­u­ates either job­less or … read more »