Backstreet’s back this holiday season — thanks to their music, I am tooI am a woman obsessed, writes Thuy Phan. But more truthfully, I’m a woman immersing herself in a past love, remembering who she used to be -- in order to...Dec 9, 2022
I'm a psychologist. As new patients wait, I wonder how much I can helpOver the past two years, my attempts at being helpful feel undermined by the sense of abandoning people in a sea of uncertainty, writes Sarah Darghouth.Dec 8, 2022
It's come to this: our Red Sox as human billboardsThe Red Sox agreed to an advertising deal with MassMutual to put a patch on players’ jerseys. I'm old enough to remember when the only ads allowed in Fenway Park...Dec 8, 2022
The swastikas in my neighborhoodAntisemitism is on the rise in the U.S. When Ben Berman found two swastikas etched into a slide at a playground in his progressive town, he wasn't sure what to...Dec 7, 2022
I’m the victim of a hate crime. Why didn’t the legal system do more?One night in February 2020, two white women brutally attacked me and my teenage daughter for speaking Spanish, writes Sara Vasquez.Dec 5, 2022
Cognoscenti at 10: Our work is ‘to pay attention’In the past decade, we’ve done our darndest at Cognoscenti “to pay attention” as Mary Oliver wrote, for “this is our endless and proper work.”Dec 2, 2022
I live in the US now, but diplomacy in Taiwan is personalWhen your country is an island roughly the size of Massachusetts, in the shadow of two world superpowers, the “status quo” is a balancing act, performed on the world geopolitical...Dec 1, 2022
The Club Q shooting is not the queer story I wanted to tellClubs were where I could stop calculating how to stay alive and calculate how to ask a boy to dance, writes Jason Prokowiew. Nov 29, 2022
My son’s autism is profound — and more common than you thinkFor families like mine, writes Nazli Kibria, shows like "Atypical" remind us how invisible we are to the world.Nov 28, 2022
Nancy Pelosi's long roadI am both old enough to value Pelosi’s enormous accomplishments, and restless enough to appreciate the next generation of progressive leaders, writes Julie Wittes Schlack.Nov 23, 2022
Why I'm still a RepublicanBeing a Republican requires some stubbornness these days. I won't give up on the GOP yet, writes Rich Barlow. Nov 23, 2022
Everything is fine, until it's not“Pray for boring days,” my grandmother used to say. I never really knew what she meant. Now, I think I do, writes Holly Robinson. Nov 22, 2022
My son decided against college. To my surprise, he's where he should beThese days, my son is a different person, writes Erica Youngren. It turns out he’s not unfocused — he just wasn’t inspired by the intangible rewards of school work.Nov 21, 2022
At UVA, choosing to believe in a 'path out of the darkness'These moments of gun violence and school shootings defined my adolescence, and I’m thinking about them as I park my car in the faculty parking lot at the high school...Nov 18, 2022
Artemis finally launched. But we’ll need humility to return to the moonDespite 50 years of technological advance, going to the moon is still hard, writes Joelle Renstrom.Nov 16, 2022
The biggest lesson Democrats should take from the midtermsIt’s true the red wave was more of a ripple, but progressives should be wary of overreach.Nov 16, 2022
The unbearable whiteness of beingI’m raising my sons to be proud of their Blackness, writes John Vercher. But I also know that they’ll benefit from their lighter skin.Play05:39Nov 15, 2022
Disdain won’t get us far with election deniersCelebrating the politicians who concede their losses in the American democratic tradition, should not preclude curiosity about why so many people have lost faith in our electoral system. Nov 15, 2022
What I really want on Veterans DayWe veterans don’t serve for the thanks, writes Laura McTaggart. We serve for each other, and for the country. Nov 11, 2022
The press should put away its crystal ballHere’s an idea for journalists: get out of the business of prognostication and speculation, writes Eileen McNamara.Nov 9, 2022
