The play “Every Brilliant Thing” is about a man who keeps a list of the things that make life worth living, as a way of coping with the inherent ambiguity and uncertainty of life. Cog was inspired by the play, and asked our readers to share the little things that bring them joy.

The play “Every Brilliant Thing” is about a man who keeps a list of the things that make life worth living, as a way of coping with the inherent ambiguity and uncertainty of life. Cog was inspired by ...

Three months after her son was born, Claudette Mestayer's postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder turned into psychosis. Mestayer hopes, that by sharing her story, she can help to remove the stigma of postpartum mental health challenges, and help other women find treatment and recover.

In response to tech leaders' recent warnings about the speed at which AI is progressing, Joanna Weiss took pen to paper to appeal to the bots, from a human perspective, before things get too out of ha...

A new policy announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using artificial intelligence, but stops short of a moratorium.

"As an aspiring female journalist, I saw Gloria Steinem point the way," writes Pulitzer winner Eileen McNamara. "I didn’t have to write for 'the women’s pages.' I could ask out loud why there even was such a section in the newspaper!"

"Dolly taught me that loving makeup and clothes and shoes and jewelry was okay — that I could be smart and creative and like the color pink," writes Heather Hach. "Being a buxom blonde and having writing chops aren't mutually exclusive."

Poet Maggie Smith and journalist Faith Salie have a new three-episode podcast series, “You Could Make This Beautiful,” produced by WBUR. In an interview with Cog editor Cloe Axelson, Smith said: "The ...

August really is grand, writes Cog senior editor Cloe Axelson. It's 31 days of peak summer -- tomatoes, beach days, novels, baseball games, shooting stars, road trips, as much corn on the cob as a belly can fit.

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"It seems it’s only a matter of time before U.S. soldiers are deployed against the American people," writes Navy veteran Andrew Carleen. "When that moment comes, I wonder what kind of moral courage wi...

The development sector's embrace of “resilience” redirected attention away from governments as duty bearers, writes Jehane Sedky, and made it easier for donors to fund a patchwork of NGO projects rath...

Cog editor Cloe Axelson interviewed Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and her dog Bailey, who's dressing up as Stephen Colbert for Halloween this year. They talked about dogs, political humor in a democracy, and...

Pediatricians across Greater Boston said they are extending patient visits and booking follow-up appointments to talk to families about vaccines, sometimes at the expense of other important topics lik...

" ... [S]ometimes, I lie to myself. Quietly."

Demonstrators in Boston and around the country took to the streets to decry what they describe as "abuses of power, cruelty and corruption" in the Trump administration.

Instinctively, with my toes covered in surf, I grabbed Sarah’s hand. And she grabbed back. The water taught me how to do that, to reach beyond worry to trust, and hold it in the palm of my hand, write...

In the 19th century, urban planners and engineers did what we’ve all been guilty of doing with our problems: They buried them, writes Cog editor Kate Neale Cooper. Sometimes, rivers once poisoned by i...

On the heels of $186 billion in cuts to SNAP, the Trump Administrations announced plans to cancel a long-running annual report on food security. But stopping the count doesn’t stop the suffering, writ...

Doug Brown collects rare books on early America. But he recently acquired a desk that once belonged to Constance Miekevicz (nee Gore-Booth), an Irish revolutionary and suffragist. He was inspired by t...

Child psychologist Ellen Braaten wasn't an expert on gun violence when she received a call from a TV producer in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy. But I did know how to comfort and advise parents af...

Healey's measures include requiring insurance carriers to cover vaccines that the state's public health department recommends and allowing pharmacies to administer the COVID-19 vaccine.

Kathy Gunst resisted tennis as a kid. Her parents were fanatics, and on principle, she decided the sport — and the country club — wasn't for her. Then she found the game again, on a public court, at 6...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act added work requirements and other administrative burdens for people seeking government benefits, write Alister Martin and Annamarie Rapp. These things sound reasonable i...

Trump is consolidating power over government entities with the authority to unleash violence. Such a brazen power grab would be one thing if the administration were more popular, writes Andrew Carleen, but this government is not comporting itself as though it fears the consequences of future elections.

When Linda Button's other half decided to become a beekeeper, he transformed their backyard. He cleared a space for the hives, lining it with rocks and building trellises with flowering vines to guide...

Tuberculosis kills 1.3 million people each year, making it the deadliest infectious disease in the world, write KJ Seung and Kunda Kwabisha Mikanda. Eliminating U.S. funding to combat it around the gl...

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El Salvador has been in the headlines for weeks, primarily because of an agreement its president struck with the Trump administration to accept and detain deported migrants. But the country’s past and...

Many people believe President Trump is weaponizing antisemitism in his war against diversity, equity and inclusion. What many may not realize, however, is that his administration seems to be following...

Huddled around a small conference table in Greater Boston, volunteers form an ad hoc assembly line to slip hundreds of pills into padded envelopes. It's not an illegal drug operation, at least not her...

Julie Brill's grandfather died in the Holocaust -- he was imprisoned in a camp, and murdered by the Nazis outside of Belgrade. But no one ever really talked about the Holocaust in the former Yugoslavi...

Limber up and eat some pasta, because we're about to test you with a bit of Boston Marathon trivia for every mile of the run.

The 250th anniversary couldn't come at a better time to remind people it's OK to have different beliefs, Carl Sweeney, captain of the Concord Minute Men, told WBUR's Cloe Axelson. But you need to talk...

Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...

A little more than 3% of WBUR's annual budget comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. But that doesn't fully encapsulate the potential impact of CPB cuts.

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Amy Hanes is a cultural anthropologist who studies conservation. As part of her research, she helped raise a chimpanzee orphan named Daphne. The Trump administration is gutting conservation efforts wo...