RegalCare and other nursing home chains have rapidly expanded in Massachusetts. The Globe Spotlight Team found widespread problems and little state intervention.

Defeatist narratives abound. Yet Germany’s latest elections suggest voter dissatisfaction is benefiting the left as well as the right, says the political scientist Cas Mudde

Fariba Hashimi, who is based in Italy, powered home second in the women’s road race near Nagoya in Japan, calling the triumph ‘something special’

Grievance politics has grown in the east of the country where I was born. But west Germans have hard questions to answer too, says writer Carolin Würfel

MAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism

“No one had trained us for an airplane itself to become the weapon.”

Uptick in US union membership coincides with high public approval ratings of unions

Trump administration has indefinitely stranded hundreds of kids and lawyers from over 50 organizations are fighting for their release

Immigration authorities arrested Luis Manuel Aviles, a handyman with a work permit whose son was serving as a sailor on the carrier at the time.

A retired corporate exec and classically trained musician crunches the orchestra's numbers.

Is it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed?

Hungarians resoundingly rejected a would-be autocrat and got another lease on life for their democracy. Can we?

In 2017, the NFL effectively ended Colin Kaepernick’s career; no team signed him, or called.  The most visible act of Black protest in professional sports since Muhammad Ali was met with the r…

On paper, the US constitution is a thing of beauty. But the would-be emperor in Washington has revealed its great weakness, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The team time trial returns as this year’s Tour starts in Barcelona for the first time in the race’s history

With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX

Before a night of blood sport, a photo opportunity for fighters raises some questions.