‘A stunning rebuke.’ Voters support for legislative audit, ditching MCAS mandate sends message to Beacon Hill.
The state’s voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a pair of proposals that impose new scrutiny on the state Legislature and scrap the MCAS as a graduation requirement, bucking the state’s ...
Trump won. Here’s what Democrats — and Republicans — need to do next.
For Republicans, this will inevitably be a time of feeling vindication and jubilation against a Democratic Party they have ...
Election Day is past, but climate concerns are still with us
Despite increased public awareness of the escalating dangers of rising emissions, climate policy has taken a back seat to ...
The morning after: Readers express fear, rage, disgust over Trump win
"Most Americans were in the mood for John Wayne movies. Democrats offered 'Sesame Street' episodes instead," writes one reader. Another: "Today I am ashamed to be an American. Period." ...
Donald Trump’s transition starts now. Here’s how it will work.
Donald Trump’s impending return to the White House means he’ll want to stand up an entirely new administration from the one that served under President Joe Biden ...
R.I. Democrats react to Trump’s re-election: ‘The voters have spoken’
I wish it need not have happened in my time,” US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse wrote on X, quoting “The Lord of the Rings.” ...
Global leaders congratulate Trump but his victory looks set to roil the world — again
Trump's return to the White House has huge consequences for everything from global trade to climate change to multiple crises ...
Swap your lawn for oaks: A new call to homeowners
It is quite a paradigm shift to ask homeowners to switch from killing insects to encouraging them, but entomologist Douglas W. Tallamy wants homeowners to do just that by replacing half their lawns ...
Winner of pivotal 2nd Congressional District race in Maine still being determined
The race between Democratic Rep. Jared Golden, a moderate known for defying party orthodoxy, and Austin Theriault, a stock ...
Here’s what happened in Rhode Island yesterday
Depending on where you live in Rhode Island, you might have noticed that you had several — in some cases, many — local ballot ...
Lili Anolik on icons Didion and Babitz
One item that particularly piqued Anolik’s interest was an unsent letter to Joan Didion from 1972, chastising her for, among other things, not reading Virginia Woolf. The allure of greater ...
Richard Price’s ‘Lazarus Man’ asks what you’d do with a second chance
Richard Price plays with those resonances in his arresting if occasionally diffuse new novel, “ Lazarus Man ,” which percolates with all manner of rebirths in the wake of a building’s explosion amid a ...