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The Scottish national team, playing in the World Cup for the first time in twenty-eight years, is based out of Boston for the group stage. Fifty thousand Scots traveled here for the tournament, equal to nearly a full percent of Scotland’s population. They have won the city’s hearts by drinking up all the beer, buying up all the unwanted Red Sox tickets, and tumbling down the metal slide outside City Hall in their kilts.

The Save Our Bacon bill would make it harder for consumers to know how their meat was raised.

How the war has shifted Iran’s relationship with its proxies.

A new exhibition examines how Western art and colonial aggression made each other possible.

A new papal encyclical exposes the democratic trilemma shaping how the world governs artificial intelligence.

For centuries the Lenape people had hunting grounds and fishing camps in an area they called Penadnic, in the rocky hills of upper Manhattan. Wrested away

It’s the latest Latin American country to elect a Trump-backed leader.

Daniel Sanchez Estrada’s 30-year sentence for moving a box of pamphlets is likely just the start for criminalizing possession of information.

The Gulf region has shown it’s ready to carry the diplomatic burden of managing Iran.

In the high desert of Central Oregon, the Deschutes River is a lifeline for farmers and landowners — but a century-old water law entitles just a few thousand people to more than half of its volume.

By law, one irrigation district has rights to most of the water from the Deschutes, forcing farmers to fallow their land in times of scarcity. Oregon has pushed three main solutions to deliver water more efficiently and sustainably.

Here’s what we know, so far, about the lasting effects of climate change on the body’s vital systems.

A young engineer has a vision for changing their industry, but worries about slowly becoming a cog in the machine. Therapist Leslie Davenport offers advice for staying creative.

We need to learn to manage extreme heat - both in the short and long term. This means reducing carbon emissions now.

Lesson 1: War doesn't just happen to other people “Europeans still think that war happens to someone else. This is an illusion. The storm is global, ”

I wanted to visit La Guajira to learn about the US airstrike on Venezuela but also to see genuine resistance. Under. ..

Strout’s characters live in sociable communities, mostly small coastal towns, where everyone knows everyone else’s. ..

‘I have no journalistic ability, ’ Malachi Whitaker wrote in her memoir, And So Did I , ‘and could not tell a good story to save my life. ’ By this point she had. ..

Comparing Diego Rivera’s murals with Viscount Hastings’s work tells you a lot about the failings of British. ..

Margaret Busby acknowledges the importance of anthologists and editors in championing overlooked or underrepresented. ..