Today's Paper 11/19/2012 - The Boston Globe

The Nation

Bipartisan steps urged on climate change policy

Sandy’s cost will spark federal action to deal with global warming, US Representative Ed Markey said.

By Beth Daley

Energy and environmental analysts warn that idealistic calls to action may hurt policy efforts, since political consensus is needed.

Gas rationing extended through week in NYC

Vice President Joe Biden visited Seaside Heights, N.J., which suffered damage during Hurricane Sandy, on Sunday.

By Winnie Hu

The city extended gas rationing through Friday because of the heavy travel week ahead.

Crews continue search for missing oil worker

After an oil platform explosion, one worker is still missing and one that was burned is now in fair condition.

The World

Israel delivers deadly airstrike, warning to Hamas

Israeli soldiers watched as an Iron Dome launcher fired an interceptor rocket near the southern city of Ashdod Sunday.

By Fares Akram and Jodi Rudoren

Israeli forces killed at least 11 people, including several children, in a single airstrike that destroyed a home in the Gaza Strip on Sunday.

Congress to investigate Benghazi ‘talking points’

Lawmakers said Sunday they want to know who created the now-discredited ‘‘talking points.”

Egyptian army fights Cairo squatters, 3 dead

The Egyptian army fought a four-hour gun battle with protesters in Cairo on Sunday.

Editorial & Opinion

Juliette Kayyem

BP lets employees take the fall

By Juliette Kayyem

The company’s plea arrangement leaves three BP employees alone — as villains or perhaps as scapegoats — to fend for themselves.

James Carroll

How R.I.’s Roger Williams gave us Thanksgiving as we know it

Providence founder Roger Williams fought for religious freedom.

By James Carroll

What we celebrate on Thanksgiving isn’t theocracy, but the ideas of Williams, a Puritan who defended the right to be religiously impure.

John E. Sununu

Milk-pricing morass in Calif. shows folly of misguided regulation

By John E. Sununu

During the past weeks, a battle over milk prices in California turned ugly, pitting dairy farmers against cheese makers, with consumers caught in the middle.

Metro

Mass. to widen tuition breaks at state colleges

By Maria Sacchetti

Young illegal immigrants will pay the lower resident rate at state colleges and universities as soon as they obtain work permits through a new federal program.

Harlem Quartet’s long search gathers an intensity

Melissa White read a message while Ilmar Gavilán (left) and Juan Miguel Hernandez prepared to play.

By Geoff Edgers

There are many twists on the path to finding the right musicians and holding onto them.

Community colleges to try blended studies

By Peter Schworm

Online education provider edX has teamed up with two Mass. community colleges to offer computer science classes that will combine virtual and classroom instruction.