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October 26 | Women & Power

‘My God, is she on top of her game.’ Michelle Wu crushed foes in D.C. and at home. What’s next for the mayor?

shirley leung

Boston’s new women’s pro soccer team flubbed its rollout. Can Legacy FC come back from behind?

“I felt like I had been preparing for a Super Bowl, and we lost 49-nothing.” The team’s female founders are ready to give it another shot.

Meet the Grammy-winning Maine songwriter behind big pop hits like ‘Espresso’

The Top 100 Women-Led Businesses and nonprofits in Massachusetts

A by the numbers look at the Top 100 Women-Led Businesses

Advice

LOVE LETTERS

How do we navigate holiday traditions, and create our own, as newlyweds?

Dinner With Cupid

Blind date: ‘The moment she mentioned going dancing I knew I liked her’

Miss Conduct Classics

As a grown-up, do you have to wear a costume to a Halloween party?

This week's columns

PERSPECTIVE

Is your colleague making more money than you? Soon, you may be able to figure it out.

A new law is aimed at reducing income disparities. But it may have some unintended consequences.

CONNECTIONS
Fellow cancer survivors, I’ve got ideas for cancerversaries to celebrate
Cancerversaries are annual dates important to the lives of cancer survivors. In my case, breast cancer.

Style Watch
Florals, earthy tones help transform an attic space into an enchanting nursery
Pretty — but not pink — for a new baby girl.

Your Week ahead
Five things to do around Boston, Oct. 27 - Nov. 2
Experience ‘Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror’, explore Hammond Castle, and more.

On the Block
For sale: Homes under $600,000
A Lynn single-family and a Melrose condo just hit the market — which would you choose?

Comments
Stories on solar power, a Red Sox romance, children’s independence, and more resonate with readers
Selected letters to the editor of the Globe Magazine.

explore past issues

October 19

A century later, Boston’s Wang Theatre is still packing the house

Golfer’s gem or joke? What I learned from 18 holes at America’s ‘worst’ course

October 5: The Education Issue

New England schools are failing — and ‘nobody seems to care’
Our math and reading scores have been declining for a decade. The “Southern Surge” should be a wake-up call.

School schedules are breaking parents — and hurting kids
With early releases and endless days off, parents are forced to choose between staying home or spending money.

September 28

A Boston bartending king. A young woman from Maine. A tragedy that changed everything.
After Julia Phan was found dead in Ran Duan’s house on New Year’s Day, the online culture that fueled his rise turned against him.

GLOBE MAGAZINE

We think hallucinations make AI different from us. What if they make us the same?

Spinning stories out of nothing is a deeply human impulse. As a neurologist, I see my patients do it all the time.

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GLOBE MAGAZINE

‘It wasn’t a fling’: Will Middlebrooks, Jenny Dell reflect on their Fenway love story and being a media power couple

Their relationship began as fodder for the gossip pages – and things haven’t slowed down since.

A fraudulent cancer breakthrough, a test for the future president of MIT, and a new age of doubt in science

He wanted to make a patriotic movie. He was prosecuted for it — and then disappeared.

Here are 8 New England trips that pack food, adventure, and relaxation in just 36 hours

Special issue
150 years of The Boston Globe
We're marking the Globe's 150th year with a look back through 15 decades of coverage. Explore 150 of the most significant front pages, revisit classic sports moments, try a crossword from 1917, and more.

Secrets & Lies | Chapter 1
Sandra Birchmore put her trust in the police. They broke it.
Sandra Birchmore idolized Stoughton police officers. Time and again, authorities investigating her death gave the benefit of the doubt to the police officer now accused of killing her.

Secrets & Lies | Chapter 2
Investigators assumed Sandra Birchmore took her own life. What did they miss?
Sandra Birchmore’s family spent years trying to make someone look more closely at the circumstances of her death.

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