Pop culture’s political influence, from Rock the Vote To TikTok
F. Willis Johnson In 1992, a young Bill Clinton tried to connect with Generation X by joking around and soulfully playing the sax on “The Arsenio Hall Show.â€...
Baker: My pal Jack Connors
Bob Baker An hour of banter, laced with laughs in March of ’71 and pals-for-life was a given. The occasion was the Ad Club of Boston’s lunch for newly elect...
Social-media bans could deny teenagers mental-health help
Daniel Chang Social media’s effects on the mental health of young people are not well understood. That hasn’t stopped Congress, state legislatures, and the ...
Bizarre raw-milk trend is putting kids at risk
Lisa Jarvis If there’s one thing that wasn’t on my bingo card for 2024, it was this: that amid a national outbreak of bird flu among dairy cows, sales of ra...
Regulatory problems, deregulatory solutions
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Ryan Young Most American families spend more on regulatory compliance than they do on food, education, or any other expense besides ho...
New cardiovascular risk tool could guide who needs medication for high blood pressure
Laura Williamson For years, the question of whether to take medication to lower high blood pressure had been partly answered by a tool that calculated someone&#...
Have the 2024 Olympics really changed the game for women in sports?
Avni Shah This year, quotas requiring equal numbers of female and male athletes delivered a Summer Games closer to gender parity than any other Olympics in hist...
Nature in the Neighborhood: Having a whale of a time this year
The Swampscott Conservancy Whales have been a big thing in the culture, tradition, and imagination of humans for a long time. Some civilizations believe whales ...
A call for accountability and justice in Japan-Korea relations
Sinu Je How do we reconcile a nation’s victimhood with its history of aggression? As we remember the devastating impact of events like the atomic bombings...
Fences have gotten taller, gone horizontal, redefining neighborhood life
Frank Shyong My cynical oversimplification of the story of Los Angeles goes like this: lots of people saw how beautiful Southern California was and wanted not j...