Obama’s vital Jewish backing slips in Florida

By Brian MacQuarrie

The stagnant economy and Obama’s Middle East policy are the main reasons the president is losing Jewish support in the swing state, according to activists and demographers.

editorial

A campaign that should be between two competing visions is on its way to becoming a competition to characterize the other guy’s plan as a betrayal of seniors.

Democrats see opening in Social Security debate

By Stephen Ohlemacher

Democrats are eagerly resuming their fight against privatizing Social Security now that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked Paul Ryan as his running mate.

Thousands in China join anti-Japan protests

By Keith Bradsher and Martin Fackler

The landing of Japanese activists on a disputed island Sunday sharply intensified tensions between the two countries.

A bomb struck the convoy of a senior Sunni cleric in western Baghdad Sunday, killing four and critically wounding the antiextremist Muslim leader.

Sudanese helicopter crash kills 32

A Sudanese helicopter carrying a government delegation crashed in a mountainous region on Sunday, killing all 32 people on board including a Cabinet minister.

james carroll

Bridging the science gap

By James Carroll

When scientists are cut off from the broader culture, both sides are impoverished.

Josh Barro

By Josh Barro

This election pits two groups fighting for control over the long-term federal budget. But the groups aren’t Republicans and Democrats — they’re old people and poor people.

robert hughes

By Robert Hughes

Political, labor, and management leaders should turn their energy from fighting against their fellow Americans to fighting for their fellow Americans.

Warren, Brown’s no third-party ad pledge holds

By Noah Bierman

A pact between Senator Brown and Elizabeth Warren to prevent third-party ads in the Mass. Senate race has survived, to the amazement of partisans around the US.

Lucy Wilson, 96, social activist, dance instructor

By Gloria Negri

As an activist during the 1960s and the civil rights movement, Mrs. Wilson demonstrated against the Vietnam War and was a proponent of women’s rights.

To counter gangs, Springfield adopts tactics from war zones

By Carolyn Y. Johnson

US soldiers’ strategies to stop insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan have found a new application in an odd place: the tough neighborhoods of Springfield.

Airlines cut deeper into standard legroom

By Katie Johnston

Legroom is going the way of checked bags, in-flight meals, and pillows — once-free amenities that now come at a cost.

By Beth Healy

Boston investment manager Jim Pallotta’s firm bought a stake in Spartan Race Inc., which runs a new breed of obstacle-race events.

By Carolyn Y. Johnson

University of New Hampshire scientists are playing a vital role in a NASA mission to investigate the radiation belts that girdle the earth.

Lucy Wilson, 96, social activist, dance instructor

By Gloria Negri

As an activist during the 1960s and the civil rights movement, Mrs. Wilson demonstrated against the Vietnam War and was a proponent of women’s rights.

Actor William Windom, 88; memorable on stage, screen

By Eric Grode

Mr. Windom, who won an Emmy Award playing an Everyman drawn from the pages of James Thurber, died on Thursday. He was 88.

Yankees 4, Red Sox 1

Yankees leave Josh Beckett, Red Sox reeling

By Peter Abraham

After Sunday’s loss, the Sox are 13½ games behind the Yankees and 7½ games out in the wild-card race with 40 games left.

Dan Shaughnessy

It’s time for Red Sox to look to the future

By Dan Shaughnessy

No one is going to hammer the organization if it starts making moves with an eye toward 2013. This starts with letting Carl Crawford have his Tommy John surgery.

Red Sox Notebook

Carl Crawford surgery is likely imminent

By Peter Abraham

The team will decide Monday whether Crawford will undergo Tommy John surgery to repair the torn ulnar collateral ligament in his left elbow.

G Cover

Using technology to battle PTSD

By Chelsea Conaboy

Veterans are finding new allies in their fight against war-induced post-traumatic stress disorder: online programs and mobile phone apps.

By Chelsea Conaboy

BU researchers and a Boston division of the National Center for PTSD have developed an online model for treating people with symptoms of PTSD and heavy alcohol use.

Television Review

MTV’s refreshing take on high school geekery

By Matthew Gilbert

The channel’s latest effort, a remake of the British comedy “The Inbetweeners,” is about four guys looking for sex and romance in high school.