Most people only care about the U.S. Senate election in Maine because of what it means from a national perspective. That ignores the complex reality of life in Maine, writes Naomi Schalit, who worked as a journalist in the state for nearly 25 years.
Myrieme Nadri-Churchill is a psychotherapist and the executive director of Parents for Peace. She believes we should treat the radicalization of youth as a public health issue: “We cannot fix what we don’t understand,” she explains. “We have to study extremism."
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A 2,000-square-foot pocket forest will not solve climate change, writes Rob Moir. But when efforts like this are repeated across communities, their impact begins to add up.
In the name of preventing a rodent apocalypse, pest-control companies and property owners use highly lethal rodenticides. The problem, explains Colby Galliher, is that our ecosystems are engines of transfer...
Healthy communities are not built through obligation alone, writes Emily Isaacson. They are sustained through shared joy — and shared joy has a skill set.
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Whether a mother-child relationship is healthy and attached, difficult and estranged, or somewhere in between, mothers and motherhood is good fodder for the page, writes Cog editor Cloe Axelson.
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Between DOGE and the rise of AI bots, work is far more precarious than it used to be, writes Joanna Weiss. Amid so much uncertainty, it’s no surprise that people...
"Motherhood and activism are not mutually exclusive," writes Victoria Livingstone. "Rather, they are categories of identity that inform each other."
I have no statistics to cite about the number of women who experience what is sometimes called "breastfeeding grief," writes Miriam Wasser. But I've come to believe that what happened...
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"There is a particular grief to being a bilingual writer, having access to words and worlds that cannot be easily shared," writes Juliet Faithfull. "But it is also a gift."
The HLO, which is expanding into the U.S., shares many of the same objectives as a lending library, writes Judy Bolton-Fasman. "It serves as a public resource intended to be...
To paraphrase Audre Lorde, we need poetry because there are no new ideas — only new ways of making them felt. "And, boy, do poems make us feel things," writes...
In Kate Peltz's public library, there's a box of lost relics that people once used as bookmarks. "Sifting through the dusty pile felt like being in on a delicious secret...
In April 2024, Massachusetts State Police rolled out a voluntary Blue Envelope Program to protect autistic drivers and officers. But the program must still be codified into law to ensure...
The running community lost a legend last week: Bob Hall, the first person to ever race the Boston Marathon in a wheelchair, died at 74. Cog editor Cloe Axelson talked...
