In Harm's Way
How cars have become weapons at protests, and why it is likely to continue.
How cars have become weapons at protests, and why it is likely to continue.
Jess Bidgood Boston Globe Oct 2021 Permalink
Vera Pratt moved to the island at age 70 hoping to find many years of happiness. Then she met “Psychic Angela” and her future got a whole lot more complicated.
Alexander Huls Boston Globe Oct 2021 Permalink
When he was 2, Strider was severely beaten by his mother’s boyfriend. Today, at 6, Strider lives with his grandparents in rural Maine, in and out of poverty, trying to make it.
Sarah Schweitzer Boston Globe Nov 2015 35min Permalink
Laura Levis did everything she could to save herself when an asthma attack began. How could she have been left to die just outside the emergency room?
Peter DeMarco Boston Globe Nov 2018 50min Permalink
Jaimee was beloved. Jaimee was struggling. And then Jaimee was gone.
Evan Allen Boston Globe May 2018 20min Permalink
Inside the disturbing “cult” of young acolytes that catapulted conductor James Levine’s career.
Malcolm Gay, Kay Lazar Boston Globe Mar 2018 Permalink
An investigation into sexual exploitation and abuse in the modeling industry.
Jenn Abelson, Sacha Pfeiffer Boston Globe Feb 2018 20min Permalink
How one of the world’s top conductors became ensnared in a WWI-era scandal.
Neil Swidey Boston Globe Nov 2017 40min Permalink
“If a life can have a crystallizing moment, for Jim Graham that 1993 meeting was it, discovering that his father might have been a Catholic priest, rather than John Graham, the distant man who raised him with scarcely a kind or comforting word.”
Michael Rezendes Boston Globe Aug 2017 20min Permalink
The search for a woman’s true identity and the unmasking of a serial killer.
Shelley Murphy Boston Globe May 2017 15min Permalink
Sheryl Waldman lived a reclusive life with her sister, Lynda, in their family’s old home. Over the years she faded from view until she vanished, and no one seemed to notice—until one cold evening last December.
Patricia Wen Boston Globe Mar 2017 20min Permalink
Will Lacey was just a baby when doctors diagnosed a rare form of cancer and told his family there was only one end. Nobody then could imagine the journey ahead, from hospital rooms to board rooms, research labs to government offices, a furious race between hope and death.
Billy Baker Boston Globe Dec 2016 50min Permalink
The story of streetcar 393, which plunged into Fort Point Channel via an open drawbridge in 1916. Forty-six people were killed.
Eric Moskowitz Boston Globe Oct 2016 Permalink
The 66-year-old became lost while hiking the Appalachian Trail. She survived for at least 16 days before crawling into her sleeping bag one last time, her journal sealed in a waterproof bag.
Kathryn Miles Boston Globe Aug 2016 15min Permalink
Dave Goodhouse can’t really make a living anymore. But he can’t get out either.
Sarah Schweitzer Boston Globe Aug 2016 15min Permalink
The results can be deadly.
Jenna Russell Boston Globe Jul 2016 35min Permalink
An investigation into sexual abuse at elite New England schools.
Jenn Abelson, Bella English, Jonathan Saltzman, Todd Wallack Boston Globe May 2016 25min Permalink
The original article that inspired the movie Spotlight.
Matt Carroll, Sacha Pfeiffer, Michael Rezendes Boston Globe Jan 2002 15min Permalink
After years of sexual abuse by a neighbor, a teenager takes matters into his own hands.
Maria Cramer Boston Globe May 2015 20min Permalink
From equipment that doesn’t fit to an ill-equipped VA medical system.
Kathryn Miles Boston Globe May 2015 15min Permalink
On the lawyers who defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Jared Loughner and Whitey Bulger.
Scott Helman Boston Globe Jan 2015 15min Permalink
On July 22, 2013, 66-year-old Gerry Largay began hiking a 32 mile section of the Appalachian Trail. She hasn’t been heard from since.
Kathryn Miles Boston Globe Dec 2014 15min Permalink
Why America, and every other street in Massachusetts, runs (or will eventually run) on Dunkin’.
Neil Swidey Boston Globe Sep 2014 20min Permalink
“They thought they were going to change the world,” he says of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project volunteers. “They didn’t expect that white folks would be so vicious.”
Eric Moskowitz Boston Globe Aug 2014 30min Permalink
One man’s battle with mental illness.
“He was an ebullient boy, quick to laugh and easy to love. And then, at 17, the shadow fell. A devastating diagnosis of mental illness. Trouble, hospital, home, into the depths again. Now, sustained by his mother’s unimaginably patient love, he aims to make his way back.”
“There may be a more exhausting journey than that of the mentally ill, their families, and their caregivers. But for those locked in the cycle of hopes raised and dashed, it’s hard to imagine what it could be.”
“No matter how he hates them, Michael Bourne has finally decided to stick with his meds. They may save his life, but at the price of not feeling fully alive. It is a cruel calculus, for him and for many.”