Scotland play two of their three opening round World Cup matches in Boston. That means, for the next week or so, there'll be kilts as far as the eye can see. Cloe Axelson got a taste of the Tartan Army at The Haven in Jamaica Plain.
"In 2018, photographs of children in chain-link enclosures produced a genuine moment of national recoil. Many Americans believed they were watching an aberration, a policy excess that would be corrected," writes James Lomastro. But "the danger was never only in the specific policy. It was in the lesson the policy was teaching the country about what it could tolerate."
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Cog editor Cloe Axelson interviewed two bar owners -- Jason Waddleton, of The Haven, and Liz Nicol, of Drawdown Brewery -- about their plans for the world's biggest sporting event,...
When author Emily Franklin went through her closet before going on book tour, she found a beloved shirt. Her mother had written her name in the collar 40 years prior,...
"Simmelian strangers" like Banksy and Satoshi Nakamoto are symbolically important, writes Jonah Prousky. "They encourage us to think about an invention or piece of art — say, Banksy’s 'Balloon Girl'...
The trust long-time creative collaborators build allows for the freedom of handing things back and forth, without compromising the integrity of the work -- or creative individuality.
Kaivan Shroff discovered the music of Tori Amos as a teenager when, outwardly, he was most concerned with getting into an Ivy League college and fitting in. “It was cathartic...
Guster got its start in a Tufts dorm room in the early ’90s. Thirty years on, they’re still going strong. Cog editors Cloe Axelson and Sara Shukla caught up with...
When it comes to stroke treatment, we need to align incentives with urgency, writes Sandeep Kumar, a vascular neurologist. "That means reimbursing not just for transport, but for readiness and...
Plenty of people will tell you the U.S. has a “collective action” problem. We’re too busy being undone to make progress together, and it’s hard to argue with them, writes...
"Night after night, Colbert told the truth, made you think, made you laugh and sent you to bed slightly less alone in your concern or alarm," writes Bill Lichtenstein. "For...
A 2,000-square-foot pocket forest will not solve climate change, writes Rob Moir. But when efforts like this are repeated across communities, their impact begins to add up.
In the name of preventing a rodent apocalypse, pest-control companies and property owners use highly lethal rodenticides. The problem, explains Colby Galliher, is that our ecosystems are engines of transfer...
Healthy communities are not built through obligation alone, writes Emily Isaacson. They are sustained through shared joy — and shared joy has a skill set.
What hit me hard as I went to bed Monday night is how few people I heard from that day, writes Anri Wheeler, a Cambridge resident. Perhaps the news of...
"I’ve spent my career as a mediator sitting across from people who are convinced the other side will never understand them," writes Seth Izen. "What I’ve learned, again and again,...
"We think humans are different from non-human animals — with our clothes and cars and houses and ability to destroy or save the world — but here we are, affected...
"In 2020 — after three years of immunosuppression — when I learned of mRNA vaccine research for MS, I was relieved," writes Lindsay Karp. Then came the cuts to the...
Whether a mother-child relationship is healthy and attached, difficult and estranged, or somewhere in between, mothers and motherhood is good fodder for the page, writes Cog editor Cloe Axelson.
"My mother's grocery list is the length of a CVS receipt. Mine is a folder of photos I texted myself consisting mainly of which frozen brand of saag paneer I...
Between DOGE and the rise of AI bots, work is far more precarious than it used to be, writes Joanna Weiss. Amid so much uncertainty, it’s no surprise that people...
"Motherhood and activism are not mutually exclusive," writes Victoria Livingstone. "Rather, they are categories of identity that inform each other."
