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Political speech was suppressed under socialist rule in her native China, and her aversion to politics stayed with her when she emigrated.","âWe have a saying in China, âä¸è°æ¿æ²».â That means, âdon't talk about politics,â â Yuan said. âYou can get in trouble.â","Yuan, 55, goes by Susan now. She left Wuhan for the U.S. to pursue a post-doc in biomedical research, a field that then offered few opportunities in China while demand here was high. She even landed a scholarship.","But when her landlady brought Yuan to a local municipal meeting, eager to show the young grad student what American democracy looked like, something changed in Yuan. She was impressed that ordinary people were even aware of government gatherings, let alone that they could attend.","âThat city council meeting really opened my eyes,â Yuan said. âYou can have a chance to speak â directly speak â to those officials.â","Decades later, that first brush with local government would lead Yuan to try her chances at politics, a pathway she couldnât have imagined had she stayed in China.","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Yuan is among 175,000 people of Chinese descent who call Massachusetts home, including one in six Quincy residents. For most of U.S. history, Chinese immigrants have journeyed here in hopes of a better life. Their aspirations have varied decade to decade, and person to person. Indeed, ask people in Quincy about the American dream and the answers are as varied as the food options along Hancock and Beale streets.","Interviews with Chinese immigrants spanning multiple generations suggest the allure of the U.S. is being put to the test, amid a torrent of immigration restrictions under President Trump and the emergence of China as the worldâs second-largest economy. But for many, the core draw of America remains strong, whether thatâs for greater wealth, liberty or cultural freedoms that are elusive in China.","____","\u003ch3\u003eThe â80s generation\u003c/h3\u003e","On a recent weekend in a downtown event space in Quincy, seniors in classical Chinese attire acted out the myth of the immortal moon goddess.","The \u003ca href=\"https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/nzDBVQCLt9vSFrr9AMdc5g\"\u003eMid-Autumn Festival\u003c/a\u003e celebration was organized by Frank Poon of the nonprofit âCivic Education Alliance. Poon came to the U.S. during a wave of Chinese immigration in the 1980s. Ronald Reagan was president, Beijing relaxed restrictions on its citizensâ ability to leave the country and the British would agree to transfer Hong Kong to Chinese control.","Poon said he knows success in the U.S. is far from guaranteed â and it often takes a lifetime of struggle.","âWeâre still aiming at the American dream,â Poon said, and that people like him are âwilling to invest all our time, all our effort, to make it come true.â","Looking back, Poon said heâs achieved what brought him to America 43 years ago. For him, that success has been more spiritual than something that can be measured.","âMy American dream is, âI want to have a better life,â â he said. âI do have a better family. I do have opportunity to work with the community, and deep inside, in my heart and soul, I feel good.â","But one attendee of the harvest festival had something to say about a dream deferred.","In 1988, Carol Chu followed her future husband to Boston, with little money and no family here.","âThe United States is such a freedom country,â she said. âI wanted to enjoy all the opportunity â get the chance to be free, live free, speak freely.â","Soon after they settled, however, Chu began to realize those things might be out of reach. She became pregnant, and her husband developed a severe gambling addiction. The worst part was when Chu lost custody of her son.","âI [was] so disappointed
1when I came here, because my American dream totally has not come true,â she said.","Instead of returning to her country, Chu stayed in the U.S. in order to be with her son, even if she could only see him one hour at a time.","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Chu recently retired after 37 years working for the Postal Service, and as the years have brought her closer to her son, she said she is finally happy here. Now that her boy is grown, Chu plans to split her time between China and the U.S.","âI think my duty is done,â she said.","Over the decades since these folks emigrated to the U.S., China has roared forward as an economic titan, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/lifting-800-million-people-out-of-poverty-new-report-looks-at-lessons-from-china-s-experience\"\u003ehundreds of millions\u003c/a\u003e emerging from extreme poverty. For the Chinese youth of today, that adds a new dimension to the decision to leave, whether for the U.S. or anywhere else in the world.","____","\u003ch3\u003eThe next generation\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cspan data-index=\"3\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","At Quincyâs Wollaston Beach, dozens of Chinese youth spread out on the sand, playing mahjong and practicing the Cantonese language. It was a meetup of the Boston Cantonese Club, and DJ Amanda Lou was spinning pop music under a tent.","The recent Boston University graduate is from Macau, a special administrative region of China ruled by the Portuguese until 1999. She spoke about the American ideal more in terms of culture than economic opportunities or political freedom. For her and many other Chinese graduates, Lou said, the exposure to freedom and different lifestyles is a strong motivation to stay.","âIn Boston, I can just wear whatever I want, right? I can wear a tank top, shorts, walk outside â nothing will change,\" she said. \"No one's going to stare at you.\"","At 23, Lou is ready to make a life in Boston. But remaining in the U.S. has never been a certainty for international students. It depends on factors like finding an employer to sponsor a visa petition. And with the current administration looking to add \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/06/09/nx-s1-5851474/federal-judge-fee-h1b-visa\"\u003emassive fees\u003c/a\u003e for foreign worker visas â and to \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-changes-process-for-awarding-h-1b-work-visas-to-better-protect-american-workers\"\u003efavor\u003c/a\u003e âhigher-skilled and higher-paidâ applicants â big challenges loom for people like Lou.","âWhat happens if I don't find an employer who's willing to sponsor me?â she said. âEven if they do, what happens if I get fired or something? Definitely very stressful.â","\u003cspan data-index=\"4\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Lou hopes to open a jazz bar in Boston one day, but if America is out of reach, sheâll have to bring her dreams elsewhere.","This kind of uncertainty is well-known to Vincent Lau, an immigration attorney in Boston. Much of his work involves helping American companies secure work visas. Lau said the traditional legal routes still exist, but they have increasingly narrowed under President Trump.","Among an array of measures to tighten rules on student immigration, Lau said consular officers now hold greater discretion to deny visa petitions, making it more difficult to advise parents on the wisdom of sending their kids to the U.S.","âApplying for the visas at the consulates has become much more challenging for Chinese citizens in general,â Lau said, âespecially for students.â","On top of that, the administration is cutting research funding and suing elite universities, which Lau said have long been reliable paths to success in America. The administration has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/international-students-visas-trump-guidance-social-media-a1f5180ce83560aff66dd65534906697\"\u003ethreatened\u003c/a\u003e to revoke visas for some Chinese students, and it \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05/22/harvard-university-loses-student-and-exchange-visitor-program-certification-pro\"\u003eaccused\u003c/a\u003e Harvard of collaborating with the Chinese Communist Party.","Lau said the draw to study and live in the U.S. remains strong, but those policies are taking a toll.","âWhen [universities] are not being backed by the government, when they are being attacked by the government, it's not a quote-unquote, safe place,â Lau said. âIt's not a place where people want to go.â","The impetus to immigrate has also changed as Chinese universities rise in global rankings. More Chinese youth are pursuing their studies in China. At the same time, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.economist.com/china/2026/08/06/why-ever-fewer-young-chinese-study-abroad\"\u003eincreasing number\u003c/a\u003e of students are returning home after graduating overseas.","But for Boston Cantonese Club organizer Alex Ng, China is no promised land. Ng said the Chinese tech economy suffers from a \"race to the bottom\" mentality, more driven by the search for rock bottom prices than by innovation. Ng said competition for jobs is fiercer in China than in the U.S., and that's especially hard for college grads.","âThere are a lot of scientific and technology breakthroughs in China. I'm not discounting that,â said Ng, who holds a masterâs in electrical engineering from MIT. âBut on the other side, a lot of people graduate from college, they just cannot get a job.â","\u003cspan data-index=\"5\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Born in Hong Kong, Ng moved to Boston from Toronto four years ago. He considers himself lucky that he got his work visa when Joe Biden was president; he worries his peers will now have a harder time.","Ng has yet to achieve his goals of getting married and starting a business. But among his options â and for all this countryâs imperfections â Ng said the United States is the place to be. The prestige of the American dream persists, even for a Chinese immigrant who grew up just north of the border.","âFirst of all, we don't have any Canadian dream,â Ng said with a laugh. âBut in Canada, we always heard of the term American dream.â","While many immigrants, like Ng, feel that dream is still a thing, others caution that in one principle area, America could be slipping.","____","\u003ch3\u003e'Liberty is precious'\u003c/h3\u003e","Sitting outside a Quincy church where tw
1o U.S. presidents are interred, Susan Yuan reflected on her path to politics.","After eight years doing research at the University of Vermont and Dartmouth College, she decided to leave academia. She moved to Quincy, and eventually took a job at the Quincy public library.","Soon news out of City Hall started to get under her skin. The council approved a 79% pay hike for the mayor in 2024, and Yuan helped organize a ballot petition to reverse the raise. She was a city employee at the time, and people asked her if she feared retaliation.","âThis is America. People should have a right to speak and to petition,â Yuan said. âThat's what I learned when I came to U.S.â","\u003cspan data-index=\"6\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Yuanâs experience with grassroots activism led her to run for Quincy councilor-at-large. She considered herself a longshot. But she became part of an anti-incumbent wave in the city, and in January, she was sworn in alongside five other new councilors promising to bring change to the city.","âHonestly, I never planned to become a public official,â she said. âAnd I don't think that could happen if I'm still in China. So, by that sense, it is a kind of American dream, even though I never dreamed about it.â","But Yuan said she worries the U.S. is showing signs of the authoritarianism she left behind.","At the Sept. 8 meeting of the Quincy City Council, dozens of residents showed up to protest the police department's use of Flock Safetyâs automated license plate reader cameras. 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Bracken said that left overall unadjusted sales for the month $109.3 million above last year's total. And an estimated $16.2 million decrease in profits at retail last month meant the agency turned a smaller profit than in August 2025, by about $5.5 million.","Not all Lottery games are available online and Lottery officials have said their online offerings are meant to be different enough from traditional retail games to avoid cannibalization of sales. Bracken alluded to that concern when he noted that Powerball sales last month \"were down ... primarily due to the jackpot. It's not like those sales were transferred over to the Powerball online.\"","Through the first two months of fiscal year 2027, Bracken said Lottery sales are up $113 million combined (despite a $26.4 million decline at retail) and its estimated profit is up just more than $26 million ($10 million attributed to online games). 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It would be the first program of its kind in New England.","But first, the company must ask the Westborough planning board to approve changes to the layout and infrastructure of the distribution site.","John Gelcich, vice chair of the planning board, spoke with WBUR's \u003cem\u003eAll Things Considered. \u003c/em\u003eHe said his biggest concern right now is the noise.","\"âWe have gotten information and data from Amazon about the noise that the drones will generate, but without seeing them in person, without really experiencing that, we don't know exactly what we'd be getting into.\"","Amazon spokesperson Jack Stelzner said the drones fly mostly at a higher altitude so the \"sound is comparable to a window fan on low, lasting 30 seconds and typically not heard indoors.\"","Westborough residents have also raised concerns about privacy and safety, according to Gelcich.","At a recent Westborough planning board \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE8UzPj-Nns\"\u003emeeting\u003c/a\u003e, an Amazon official said the technology is secure and responsible.","\"We have developed the system so that it flies automatically along a charted path with the ability to make adjustments as necessary,\" said Tareq Wafaie, Amazon's manager of economic development policy. \"If it sees an unregistered aircraft in the sky, it is going to make a maneuver and avoid that collision.\"","The drone deliveries are also monitored by a team, according to Amazon. 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Susan Collins of \"corruption\" following an investigative report in ProPublica suggesting she steered federal dollars toward a contractor who contributed heavily to her 2020 reelection campaign.","Collins' office as well as FBI officials called the allegations false, saying lengthy federal investigations demonstrated that neither the senator nor her staff committed any wrongdoing.","The major player in \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2026-09-22/the-fbi-anti-corruption-squad-was-circling-susan-collins-until-trump-got-in-the-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ethe ProPublica article\u003c/a\u003e, Martin Kao, is already serving several years in prison for money laundering, bank fraud and defrauding the federal government. Kao pleaded guilty in 2022 to illegally funneling more than $150,000 to a super PAC supporting Collins through a shell company set up to hide the money's true source.","But the investigative news organization reported that Kao subsequently told federal investigators that he had orchestrated a \"pay-to-play\" scheme in which he, his associates or his company donated to members of Congress and, in return, received lucrative federal contracts for their firm, Navatek.","ProPublica described Collins as Navatek's \"most important patron\" and that \"the senator's office steered government contracts worth millions toward the company while her campaign was pumping Kao and his network for donations.\" At the time, Collins was the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, which she now chairs. One example of a federally Navatek project was a 3D-printed boat â funded with $8 million from the Navy â that was produced by a University of Maine engineering center.","âThis is corruption of the highest order,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/07/24/troy-jackson-platner-maine-senate-collins\"\u003eTroy Jackson\u003c/a\u003e, Collins' Democratic opponent this November, said in a statement. \"Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, and then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time and has rubber-stamped his agenda to hurt Maine.\"","According to ProPublica, federal agents believed they had enough evidence in 2024 based on Kao's statements and documents to launch a broader bribery probe into Collins and other members of Congress. But President Donald Trump largely dismantled the public corruption investigative teams at the FBI and the Department of Justice after retaking office in 2025. And \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susan-collins-navatek-campaign-donations-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eaccording to ProPublica\u003c/a\u003e, the two investigators pushing for a bribery probe were either fired or pushed out by the Trump administration as part of a purge of agents who helped with previous investigations into Trump or other public officials.","\"We deserve answers about every contract and every conversation that Collins and her team facilitated on the backs of taxpayers,\" said Jackson, a former Maine Senate president. \"The jig is up.\"","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Collins' office fiercely refuted the allegations in the article, saying her offices fully cooperated
1with FBI and DOJ investigations into Navatek during the Biden administration.","âThe seven-year-old allegations made against Senator Collins and her staff in this piece are categorically false,\" Annie Clark, deputy chief of staff for Collins, said in \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://x.com/annieclark25/status/2102418037857022067\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ea statement \u003c/a\u003eon Tuesday. \"There have never been any allegations of wrongdoing by the Collins for Senator campaign, and the campaign was never the target of the FBI investigation. ProPublica took the word of someone who pled guilty to five counts of money laundering, three counts of wire fraud, one count of bank fraud, and making false submissions to the FEC.\"","Clark accused Kao of making \"outlandish charges about the Collins office\" in an effort to deflect blame for his own crimes just prior to sentencing but that his hefty jail time showed neither the FBI nor the judge believed him.","An FBI spokesman told ProPublica that the agency found no evidence implicating Collins or her campaign staff during its investigation, adding \"any suggestion otherwise is totally false.\"","Collins has made her ability to bring federal money back to Maine a\u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/npr/nx-s1-5823448/susan-collins-maine-senate-graham-platner\"\u003e pivotal part of her campaign\u003c/a\u003e as she seeks a sixth term. Her seat is a top priority for both parties because Collins is the only Republican seeking reelection in a state that voted for Democrat Kamala Harris over Trump during the 2024 presidential election.","The two parties and their deep-pocketed political allies are expected to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the race, which could be key to which party controls the Senate next year.","____","\u003cem\u003eThis story is a production of the New England News Collaborative. It was originally \u003ca href=\"https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2026-09-22/democrats-accuse-susan-collins-of-corruption-following-report-on-alleged-pay-to-play-scheme\"\u003epublished\u003c/a\u003e by Maine Public.\u003c/em\u003e"],"enhanced":false,"seriesMeta":null,"iframeHero":null,"postType":"post","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinks":[{"id":288647,"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/07/24/troy-jackson-platner-maine-senate-collins","prefix":"","title":"With Platner out of Maine Senate race, can an Allagash logger take on Collins?","index":1},{"id":288648,"url":"https://www.wbur.org/npr/nx-s1-5823448/susan-collins-maine-senate-graham-platner","prefix":"","title":"Susan Collins brings federal dollars to Maine. She's hoping that's worth it to voters","index":2}],"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":"","broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":0,"itunesSeason":0,"itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"socialTease":null,"volume":3,"enableRecirculation":true,"suppressAudio":false,"hideArchiveMsg":false,"disableAds":"enabled","audioDatetime":null,"taxonomy":[{"id":5691,"type":"tag","name":"New England News Collaborative","description":"","slug":"new-england-news-collaborative-stories","series":false,"global":false,"count":894,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":73,"type":"category","name":"News","description":"","slug":"news","series":false,"global":false,"count":79561,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":75,"type":"category","name":"Politics","description":"","slug":"politics","series":false,"global":false,"count":35866,"hide":false,"primary":false}],"audio":[],"embedMeta":{"embed-1":{"id":1,"parentID":1119157,"type":"caption","attributes":{"id":"attachment_1119159","align":"alignnone","width":"1000","alttext":"Troy Jackson, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks at the Maine Democratic Nominating Convention, Saturday, July 25, 2026, in Bangor, Maine. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP, File)","caption":"Troy Jackson, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks at the Maine Democratic Nominating Convention, Saturday, July 25, 2026, in Bangor, Maine. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP, File)","imageSizes":{"medium":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2
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1ple during a parade in 2014.","bylines":[{"name":"Roberto Scalese","nameLastFirst":"Scalese, Roberto","slug":"roberto-scalese","wordpressID":498619,"title":"Senior Editor, Digital","type":"newsroom","channels":["news"],"thumbnail":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2019/07/berto-scalese-1-1-600x600.jpg","photo":{"url":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2019/07/berto-scalese-1-1.jpg","width":1600,"height":1600,"title":"Berto Scalese","caption":"Berto Scalese","description":"Berto Scalese","alttext":"Berto Scalese","index":0,"bgPosition":null,"sizes":{"medium":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2019/07/berto-scalese-1-1-400x400.jpg","width":400,"height":400},"large":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2019/07/berto-scalese-1-1-1000x1000.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000},"thumbnail":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2019/07/berto-scalese-1-1-200x200.jpg","width":200,"height":200},"medium_large":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2019/07/berto-scalese-1-1-768x768.jpg","width":768,"height":768},"square":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2019/07/berto-scalese-1-1-600x600.jpg","width":600,"height":600},"1536x1536":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2019/07/berto-scalese-1-1-1536x1536.jpg","width":1536,"height":1536},"full":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2019/07/berto-scalese-1-1.jpg","width":1600,"height":1600}}},"relativeURL":"/inside/staff/roberto-scalese","apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/roberto-scalese","organization":"wbur","shortBio":"Roberto Scalese is a senior editor for digital.","bluesky":"bertoscalese.bsky.social","facebook":null,"website":null,"email":"[email protected]","content":null,"embedMeta":null}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":null,"superTitleURL":null,"content":["The state's highest court on Tuesday vacated the murder conviction of a man accused of shooting two people during a parade in 2014.","Keith Williams was convicted of murdering Dawnn Jaffier and shooting Lealah Fulton during the 2014 Jâouvert celebration in Dorchester.","The courtâs decision focused on expert testimony involving gunshot residue. Williams and two other people were tested for residue. Two \"particles\" of residue were found on Williams, and none on the others. An expert said a positive identification requires at least three particles, yet prosecutors used the presence of the two particles as evidence Williams was the shooter.","\"Because this error was prejudicial in the circumstances here, the defendant is entitled to a new trial on his convictions of murder in the first degree, armed assault with intent to murder, and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon,\" the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court \u003ca href=\"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/sjc-williams.pdf\"\u003edecision\u003c/a\u003e states.","During the trial, witnesses said Williams was one of three men who got into an argument with another group on the morning of the shooting. Following that dispute, one of the three allegedly fired a handgun, which struck bystanders Jaffier and Fulton. Prosecutors said witness descriptions pointed toward Williams as the shooter.","Another witness described seeing the men dispose of a gun nearby. Police found a gun in that area, and later testing showed it had fired the shots that struck the victims.","This is the second murder conviction stemming from the 2014 shooting that the high court has sent back for retrial. In 2021 the court ruled there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/02/22/dawnn-jaffier-murder-new-trial\"\u003enot enough evidence to convict Wesson Colas\u003c/a\u003e, who reportedly pointed a handgun at Willams during the incident but did not fire a shot. His attorneys had argued there was no evidence he had a gun at all, and that witnesses may have mistaken his cell phone for a weapon."],"enhanced":false,"seriesMeta":null,"iframeHero":null,"postType":"post","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinks":[{"id":288686,"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/02/22/dawnn-jaffier-murder-new-trial","prefix":"","title":"SJC: Man Convicted For First-Degree Murder Of Boston Youth Worker To Get New Trial","index":1},{"id":288687,"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2018/01/08/dawnn-jaffier-sentencing","prefix":"","title":"2 Men Sentenced To Life In Prison For Shooting Death Of Boston Youth Worker","index":2}],"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":"","broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":0,"itunesSeason":0,"itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"socialTease":null,"volume":3,"enableRecirculation":true,"suppressAudio":false,"hideArchiveMsg":false,"disableAds":"enabled","audioDatetime":null,"taxonomy":[{"id":73,"type":"category","name":"News","description":"","slug":"news","series":false,"global":false,"count":79561,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":61,"type":"category","name":"Boston","description":"","slug":"boston","series":false,"global":false,"count":63368,"hide":false,"primary":false},{"id":64,"type":"category","name":"Crime \u0026 Justice","description":"","slug":"crime-justice","series":false,"global":false,"count":13462,"hide":false,"primary":false}],"audio":[],"embedMeta":null,"images":[],"index":2,"editorCreated":true,"isAd":false,"videos":[]},{"program":"Morning Edition","images":[{"id":"g-s1-144613","title":"Early Voting Begins For The Midterm Elections In Virginia","caption":"Voters cast their ballots on Sept. 18 in Arlington, Virginia. 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1ould see Democrats regain control of the House and even the Senate. Trump 2024 voters are more likely to say they are not following the midterm election closely than those who voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris. They are also less likely to care as much about who wins control of Congress and less likely to have been contacted by someone encouraging them to vote in the election.","These dynamics are one reason why Democrats are competitive in Senate races held in states where Trump won big in 2024 like Ohio (11 points), Alaska (13 points), Iowa (13 points) and Texas (14 points) that could give them a majority in that chamber.","\u003ch3\u003eRepublicans lose advantage on key issues\u003c/h3\u003e","More than a year and a half into Trump's return to office, a solid majority of voters (59%) continue to disapprove of the president's performance in office while 39% approve.","Overall disapproval has remained the same since May but the intensity of that disapproval has increased: 53% of voters strongly disapprove, the highest mark recorded at any point during Trump's two terms. Since his return to office, Trump has been viewed less favorably by voters, too, from a 44% favorability rating in January 2025 to just 37% today.","The Republican Party has lost its advantage on several key issues in the eyes of voters, including immigration: 41% say the Democratic Party would do better while 38% say Republicans. In February 2024, it was 42% for Republicans and 30% for Democrats.","By a wider margin, voters also think Democrats would be better for the economy (42% to 38%), gas prices (40% to 27%) and foreign policy (42% to 36%). These four are top issues for the midterms and where Republican candidates have begun to break with Trump.","Last week Florida Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, who represents a district where Trump won by more than 14 points in 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://platform.adimpact.com/viewer/d28e3513-556e-43d8-9f31-0432a7e271f6\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ereleased a campaign ad\u003c/a\u003e telling the president \"some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far.\"","This week, Iowa Rep. Ashley Hinson and former Michigan Rep. Mike Rogers, both Republican Senate nominees, reversed their positions to come out in favor of ending the Iran war and called for suspension of gas taxes to combat rising prices.","According to AAA data, the statewide average for diesel fuel is more than \u003ca href=\"https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=IA\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e$6.31 a gallon in Iowa\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=MI\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e$6.88 in Michigan\u003c/a\u003e, both the highest record average prices in their tracking history."],"nprTranscriptID":"nx-s1-9936865-transcript","audio":[{"id":"nx-s1-9936865","audioLength":216,"articleAPIURL":null,"audioAPIURL":null,"org":"npr","orgKey":null,"audioMeta":{"extension":"mp3","sizeInBytes":3471614,"url":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2026/09/20260923_me_poll_most_voters_agree_the_2026_midterms_are_all_about_trump_and_they_disapprove.mp3"}}],"relatedLinks":[],"superTitle":null,"bylines":[{"name":null,"relativeURL":"","id":""},{"name":"Stephen Fowler","relativeURL":"https://npr.org/people/1219684807/stephen-fowler","id":"1219684807"}],"channel":"NPR","fullChannel":null,"channelType":"","channelURL":"","id":"nx-s1-5977613","wordpressSlug":"","wordpressID":null,"guid":"","source":"NPR","headline":"Trump is on voters' minds in the midterms -- and they're not happy, poll shows","publishDate":"2026-09-23 05:00:00","updatedDate":null,"relativeURL":"/npr/nx-s1-5977613/trump-poll-democrats-congress","apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/stories?id=nx-s1-5977613\u0026org=npr","externalURL":"","shortLink":"","miniExcerpt":"Democrats have edge on economy, immigration in new NPR poll","excerpt":"A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds President Trump â and his unpopularity â is an outsize factor in why most voters say they want Democrats to win the midterms.","nprID":"nx-s1-5977613","nprURL":"https://www.npr.org/2026/09/23/nx-s1-5977613/trump-poll-democrats-congress","dateline":"","superTitleURL":"","postType":"","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":null,"broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":"","itunesSeason":"","
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And some people experienced benefits to their blood pressure and cognitive function, the study found.","bylines":[{"name":"Sujata Srinivasan, Connecticut Public","slug":null,"wordpressID":null,"content":null,"apiURL":null,"relativeURL":null,"organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"title":"","type":null,"channels":null,"photo":null,"website":null,"email":null,"nameLastFirst":null,"thumbnail":null}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":null,"superTitleURL":null,"content":["A scientist at the University of Connecticut stumbled on a surprising finding when studying the effect of indoor air filters on people exposed to particulate matter â like from vehicle exhaust and hot cooking oil.","âI assumed we would see benefits on inflammatory markers in the blood system for a large percentage of people, maybe most or almost all of them,â said Douglas Brugge, professor and chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.","On average, Brugge and his team found no impact in levels of certain inflammatory proteins IL-1β and IL-6.","The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666667726003491\"\u003estudy\u003c/a\u003e, in collaboration with the Tufts University School of Medicine, published in the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology, was conducted among people living within 200 meters of Interstate 93 in Massachusetts, just north of Boston. This demographicâs exposure to ultrafine particulate matter is much higher than average in the U.S.","Brugge instead found that inflammatory levels dropped in just a small subset of people who had a lot of belly fat â âabdominal fat, at an excess amount,â he said.","âThere was a benefit on blood pressure, but only for people who had elevated blood pressure, and there was also a benefit on cognitive function, but only for people who were age 40 and older,â he said. âSo the bottom line message that's emerging, in my opinion, is that there are vulnerable subgroups that benefit much more from these air purifiers than more generally young, healthy populations.â","Among this group, High-Efficiency Particulate Air filters reduced concentrations of the protein by nearly a quarter, significant because airborne pollution is linked with diabetes, fatty liver and heart disease.","The other unexpected finding was that people who had elevated Body Mass Index showed no benefit in inflammatory levels from HEPA filters.","âIt was only people who had excess belly fat [visceral fat] that had a benefit from the air purifiers,â Brugge said.","Obesity medicine specialists like Dr. Wajahat Mehal, director of the Yale Weight Loss Program and professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, have long known that higher fat around the abdomen is associated with higher inflammation.","âThe two are very closely associated,â he said. âBut it was not clear whether the inflammation that occurs in these people is entirely intrinsic or whether there are external factors, and this clearly seems to identify an external factor, which is very important because obviously you could potentially remove the external factor as opposed to an intrinsic process. So it clearly opens the door for some types of intervention.â","But the team could have, at the outset, compared people with truncal or visceral fat with those that did not have it, Mehal said.","âIt's much more rigorous to have the idea ahead of time rather than find an association after the study has been completed,â he said.","Dr. Devika Umashanker, who practices bariatric medicine at the Hartford HealthCare Comprehensive Weight Management Program, also weighed in on the findings, urging further research.","âThis is an interesting study. However, IL-1β is one of several pro-inflammatory cytokines associated with metabolic disease and a higher waist circumference,â she said. âAlthough this association is important to re
1cognize, further research is needed to better understand the relationship between HEPA filtration and the health risks associated with greater waist circumference.â","Commercial air purifiers can be expensive â over $500. Another study is underway to find out whether a cheaper, homemade air filter for around $65 works just as well. Brugge, under a collaboration with Tufts, is beginning a clinical trial in Hartford and Boston.","____","\u003cem\u003eThis story is a production of the New England News Collaborative. It was originally \u003ca href=\"https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-09-23/study-hepa-filters-lower-inflammation-in-people-with-more-visceral-fat\"\u003epublished\u003c/a\u003e by Connecticut Public.\u003c/em\u003e"],"enhanced":false,"seriesMeta":null,"iframeHero":null,"postType":"post","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinks":[{"id":288684,"url":"https://www.wbur.org/npr/1180750232/canadian-wildfire-smoke-bad-air-quality-safety","prefix":"","title":"How to protect yourself from poor air quality","index":1},{"id":288685,"url":"https://www.wbur.org/npr/1174308607/5-ways-to-improve-your-indoor-air-quality","prefix":"","title":"Improve the indoor air quality in your home","index":2}],"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":"","broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":0,"itunesSeason":0,"itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"socialTease":null,"volume":3,"enableRecirculation":true,"suppressAudio":false,"hideArchiveMsg":false,"disableAds":"enabled","audioDatetime":null,"taxonomy":[{"id":5691,"type":"tag","name":"New England News Collaborative","description":"","slug":"new-england-news-collaborative-stories","series":false,"global":false,"count":894,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":73,"type":"category","name":"News","description":"","slug":"news","series":false,"global":false,"count":79561,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":61,"type":"category","name":"Boston","description":"","slug":"boston","series":false,"global":false,"count":63368,"hide":false,"primary":false},{"id":76,"type":"category","name":"Science","description":"","slug":"science","series":false,"global":false,"count":4947,"hide":false,"primary":false},{"id":69,"type":"category","name":"Health","description":"","slug":"health","series":false,"global":false,"count":21670,"hide":false,"primary":false}],"audio":[],"embedMeta":null,"images":[{"type":"featured","url":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/Los_Angeles_Wildfires_Contamination_25348194759026.jpg","width":1024,"height":683,"title":"Los Angeles Wildfires Contamination","caption":"Two air purifiers sit in the living room of Judy Carter's home that survived the Eaton Fire, Dec. 2, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (Jae C. Hong, AP)","description":"Two air purifiers sit in the living room of Judy Carter's home that survived the Eaton Fire, Dec. 2, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (Jae C. Hong, AP)","alttext":"Two air purifiers sit in the living room of Judy Carter's home that survived the Eaton Fire, Dec. 2, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (Jae C. Hong, AP)","index":0,"bgPosition":null,"sizes":{"medium":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/Los_Angeles_Wildfires_Contamination_25348194759026-400x267.jpg","width":400,"height":267},"large":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/Los_Angeles_Wildfires_Contamination_25348194759026-1000x667.jpg","width":1000,"height":667},"thumbnail":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/Los_Angeles_Wildfires_Contamination_25348194759026-200x200.jpg","width":200,"height":200},"medium_large":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/Los_Angeles_Wildfires_Contamination_25348194759026-768x512.jpg","width":768,"height":512},"square":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/Los_Angeles_Wildfires_Contamination_25348194759026-600x600.jpg","width":600,"height":600},"full":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/Los_Angeles_Wildfires_Contamination_25348194759026.jpg","width":1024,"height":683}}}],"index":5,"editorCreated":true,"isAd":false,"videos":[]},{"guid":"9031983b-7b9e-4f9b-b5d2-d44216effe6c","id":1119034,"channel":"WBUR News","fullChannel":null,"channelType":"section","channelID":3,"program":null,"channelURL":"/news","wordpressSlug":"healey-gas-tax-suspension-minogue-next-steps","wordpressID":1119034,"source":"news","headline":"So, what's next for Gov. Healey's two-month gas tax suspension proposal?","subhead":null,"newsSection":null,"publishDate":"2026-09-23 06:50:27","updatedDate":"","relativeURL":"/news/2026/09/23/healey-gas-tax-suspension-minogue-next-steps","apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/stories?date=2026-09-23\u0026slug=healey-gas-tax-suspension-minogue-next-steps\u0026sources=news","externalURL":"","shortLink":"https://wbur.fm/4
16FC7FL","miniExcerpt":"","excerpt":"Gov. Maura Healey's proposal to suspend Massachusetts' gas tax for two months needs approval from the State House. And fellow Democratic leaders there aren't exactly lining up behind the idea.","bylines":[{"name":"Nik DeCosta-Klipa","nameLastFirst":"DeCosta-Klipa, Nik","slug":"nik-decosta-klipa","wordpressID":747297,"title":"Senior Editor, Newsletters","type":"newsroom","channels":["news"],"thumbnail":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2022/01/nik-decosta-klipa-new-hs-600x600.jpg","photo":{"url":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2022/01/nik-decosta-klipa-new-hs.jpg","width":1694,"height":1694,"title":"nik-decosta-klipa-new-hs","caption":"Nik DeCosta-Klipa","description":"Nik DeCosta-Klipa","alttext":"Nik DeCosta-Klipa","index":0,"bgPosition":null,"sizes":{"medium":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2022/01/nik-decosta-klipa-new-hs-400x400.jpg","width":400,"height":400},"large":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2022/01/nik-decosta-klipa-new-hs-1000x1000.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000},"thumbnail":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2022/01/nik-decosta-klipa-new-hs-200x200.jpg","width":200,"height":200},"medium_large":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2022/01/nik-decosta-klipa-new-hs-768x768.jpg","width":768,"height":768},"square":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2022/01/nik-decosta-klipa-new-hs-600x600.jpg","width":600,"height":600},"1536x1536":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2022/01/nik-decosta-klipa-new-hs-1536x1536.jpg","width":1536,"height":1536},"full":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2022/01/nik-decosta-klipa-new-hs.jpg","width":1694,"height":1694}}},"relativeURL":"/inside/staff/nik-decosta-klipa","apiURL":"https://api.wbur.org/people/nik-decosta-klipa","organization":"wbur","shortBio":"Nik DeCosta-Klipa is a senior editor for newsletters at WBUR. ","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"website":null,"email":"[email protected]","content":null,"embedMeta":null}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":"Boston's Morning Newsletter","superTitleURL":"/tag/wbur-today-newsletter","content":["\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEditor's Note:\u003c/strong\u003e This is an excerpt from WBUR's daily morning newsletter, WBUR Today. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/wburtoday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003esign up here\u003c/a\u003e. \u003c/em\u003e","\u003chr /\u003e","Rodent experts are gathering downtown today for the start of the second-ever National Urban Rat Summit. WBUR's Eve Zuckoff reports the two-day conference in Boston will focus on the latest research into rodenticides, rat birth control, trash management and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/03/28/rats-boston-massachusetts-infestation-trash-prevention\"\u003eother rat mitigation efforts\u003c/a\u003e. Boston officials also plan to show off some of their more experimental initiatives, like thermal cameras, detection dogs and high-frequency microphones. (If you want, you can sign up to \u003ca href=\"https://www.boston.gov/government/cabinets/operations-cabinet/2026-national-urban-rat-summit#summit-details\"\u003ewatch the summit via Zoom here\u003c/a\u003e.)","But first, the news:","\u003cstrong\u003eGassed up? \u003c/strong\u003eWith gas prices at \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/09/22/massachusetts-gas-prices-seasonal-high-middle-east-conflict\"\u003eall-time seasonal highs\u003c/a\u003e due to the war in Iran, Gov. Maura Healey is proposing something she and fellow Democratic leaders at the State House have previously been pretty skeptical about: suspending the gas tax. \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/09/22/healey-proposes-gas-tax-holiday-after-gop-challenger-pushes-election-year-proposal\"\u003eAs WBUR's Gin Dumcius reports\u003c/a\u003e, Healey announced yesterday that she will file a bill to temporarily pause Massachusetts' 24-cents-per-gallon gas tax for two months. She blamed President Trump's war with Iran for raising costs on commuters and people who drive for their job. And her proposal would require gas stations to pass the savings onto customers. But can the proposal itself pass the State House? That part remains unclear.","\u003cul\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eWhat are State House leaders saying? House Speaker Ron Mariano had put out a statement Monday calling a gas tax suspension \"fiscally irresponsible,\" in response to Republican gubernatorial nominee Mike Minogue's earlier proposal. And he stood by that statement after Healey's proposal, too. \"Historically, the Legislature has chosen not to suspend the gas tax because it would limit our ability to fund critical infrastru
1cture projects while doing little to alleviate costs for residents,\" Mariano said. Senate President Karen Spilka, however, seemed a little more open to the idea. In a statement, Spilka said Healey \"has pulled every lever at her disposal\" to try to shield Bay Staters from rising costs due to the war and pledged to at least review the legislation.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eHow would Healey pay for it? Healey's office estimates that her proposal would cost the state â or save drivers â $120 million. The proposal would use \"unbudgeted\" funds from the state's surtax on incomes over $1 million (which continues to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/07/22/massachusetts-wealthier-households-revenue-rich-taxes\"\u003ebring in more money than expected\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eHow is this different from what Minogue proposed? While Healey's proposed gas tax suspension has a two-month time limit, Minogue's wants a more permanent policy. His \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/09/11/mike-minogue-gop-governor-policy-blueprint\"\u003eplatform\u003c/a\u003e includes suspending the gas tax whenever it's above $4 a gallon and working \"towards the long-term elimination\" of the tax. \"It's only for two months because she's going to push everything to right after the election and go back to over-taxing our people,\" Minogue said Tuesday of Healey's plan.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eWhat's next: Healey plans to formally file her proposal to the State House as part of a closeout supplemental budget bill this fall.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003eMeanwhile: \u003c/strong\u003eHealey \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Ddl3jZPxGiD/\"\u003ebacked another ballot campaign\u003c/a\u003e yesterday: Question 7. If passed, the ballot question would override local zoning to allow single-family homes to be built by right statewide on residentially zoned lots that are at least 5,000 square feet (or around an eighth of an acre) and have at least a 50-foot border with the street and access to public sewer and water service. Healey said the initiative would make it easier to build starter homes across the state. (Experts \u003ca href=\"https://tufts.app.box.com/v/cSPA-Q7-2026\"\u003eestimate\u003c/a\u003e it would lead to somewhere between 350 to 1,200 new homes being built per year.) \"By opening doors to first-time homeowners, weâll help more young people afford to stay in Massachusetts and build their future here,\" she said in a statement.","\u003cul\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eThe endorsement came after Healey officially \u003ca href=\"https://www.telegram.com/story/news/politics/2026/09/21/massachusetts-governor-healey-rally-question-9-gun-control-question/91871062007/\"\u003ebacked\u003c/a\u003e the Yes on 9 campaign over the weekend to uphold the gun law she signed in 2024. She has also \u003ca href=\"https://commonwealthbeacon.org/ballot-questions/healey-throws-support-behind-conservation-ballot-question/\"\u003eendorsed\u003c/a\u003e Question 6, though her budgetwriters are \u003ca href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/17/metro/healey-question-6-endorsement-budget-office?s_campaign=8315:varf\"\u003ea little more wary.\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003eReading between the (train) lines: \u003c/strong\u003eThe MBTA is planning to spend about $5 million a month from April 2027 through March 2029 on shuttle bus service â a signal the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/08/05/mbta-green-line-closure-august-phil-eng\"\u003esubway line closures we've endured this summer\u003c/a\u003e aren't ending anytime soon. Those plans were revealed in a request for proposals that T recently sent out to shuttle bus vendors, State House News Service \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/09/22/mbta-shuttle-buses-rfp-contract-closures\"\u003ereports.\u003c/a\u003e","\u003cul\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eHeads up: The next big disruption begins this Saturday. The Green Line's downtown tunnel will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.mbta.com/news/2026-09-18/mbta-continues-modernizing-and-investing-improve-reliability-accessibility-and-more\"\u003eclosed for nine days\u003c/a\u003e (Sept. 26 to Oct. 4) between North Station and Kenmore, as will the line's southern E branch and part of the B branch. (An identical closure is planned over Halloween weekend, too.) 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Thatâs two percentage points lower than in 2025.","In math, 41% of students in the third to eighth grades met the state standard, which is the same as last year.","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"flourish\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","The latest scores are still lower than they were before the pandemic. In 2019, 52% of students in those grade years met the state benchmark for English language arts and 49% met benchmarks in math. The state did not administer the MCAS in 2020 due to the pandemic.","State education officials said 14 school districts this year \"returned to or exceeded their pre-pandemic performance\" in both subject areas.","Among high schoolers, 45% of 10th graders met the stateâs expectations in English language arts, compared with 51% of 10th graders a year ago. Math results also dipped slightly, to 44% from 45% the prior year.","Pre-pandemic, 61% of 10th graders reached the state standard in English language arts and 59% in math.","Science exams are also given to fifth, eighth and 10th graders: middle schoolers had the lowest percentage of students meeting expectations, at 39%, but thatâs still two percentage points higher than last year. Elementary students performed slightly worse than last year, scoring 43%. And for high schoolers, 41% demonstrated science proficiency, which is five percentage points down from a year ago.","Voters in 2024 eliminated the use of MCAS as a graduation requirement, so the results of this year's exams won't keep any students from their diplomas. Rob Curtin, deputy commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, pushed back against the idea that, with lower stakes, high schoolers' lower scores are due to a lack of motivation.","âI wouldnât say that it was necessarily that they werenât trying,â Curtin said. ââAs you have less students meeting our standards through eighth grade, it is logical that they're going to struggle also as we go up to high school.â","Some education policy analysts said itâs important to take a look at the bigger picture.","âWhat weâre seeing here is some fairly typical year to year fluctuations,â said Jack Schneider, director of the UMass Amherst Center for Education Policy. âThe real underlying theme is we experienced a global pandemic in 2020 that sent a shock through the system, and the system is essentially still recovering from it.â","MCAS is âjust one indicator of what students know and can do,â Schneider said, and the declines in results this year may reflect reduced pressure on schools to boost student test scores.","ââI don't think we should conclude that ⦠students are learning less,â he said. ââSome of this can be driven by a decline in emphasis on the high-stakes nature of test-based accountability.â","State education officials said there are efforts underway to chisel out a more comprehensive criteria of what a high school diploma should reflect. Martinez highlighted the stateâs \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/06/26/early-literacy-reading-legislation-massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003erecently passed literacy law\u003c/a\u003e, early college investments and proposed new high school \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/06/17/mass-high-school-graduation-requirements-testing-mcas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003egraduation requirements\u003c/a\u003e that include, among other things, project-based assessments, college prep curriculum for all students and end of course tests.","The commissioner said he hopes these things combined will ânot only reverse this (MCAS) trend but also strengthen ⦠the position we have now.â","A statewide council proposed new high school graduation requirements \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/12/01/massachuesetts-graduation-high-school-tests-mcas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ein late 2025\u003c/a\u003e but there hasn't been any legislative action to implement some of these proposals.","The proposed end-of-course exams have been most polarizing, generating dissent from the Massachusetts Teachers Association â the main backer of the 2024 ballot measure to eliminate the MCAS graduation requirement â which argues itâs a duplicate of a high-stakes MCAS.","Business and education advocates issued a joint statement Tuesday urging the Healey administration to push for such tests in light of this yearâs downward MCAS results.","âAt a time when large numbers of students are not meeting statewide academic expectations, Massachusetts should be strengthening, not weakening, the academic standards attached to a high school diploma,â the statement read."],"enhanced":false,"seriesMeta":null,"iframeHero":null,"postType":"post","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinks":[{"id":288625,"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/09/29/mass-mcas-scores-not-pre-pandemic-levels","prefix":"","title":"MCAS scores still not back to pre-pandemic levels","index":1}],"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":"","broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":0,"itunesSeason":0,"itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"socialTease":null,"volume":3,"enableRecirculation":true,"suppressAudio":false,"hideArchiveMsg":false,"disableAds":"enabled","audioDatetime":null,"taxonomy":[{"id":66,"type":"category","name":"Education","description":"","slug":"education","series":false,"global":false,"count":7604,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":73,"type":"category","name":"News","description":"","slug":"news","series":false,"global":false,"count":79561,"hide":false,"primary":false},{"id":61,"type":"category","name":"Boston","description":"","slug":"boston","series":false,"global":false,"count":63368,"hide":false,"primary":false}],"audio":[],"embedMeta":{"embed-1":{"id":1,"parentID":1118848,"type":"flourish","attributes":{"id":"30320487"},"body":"","placeholder":"\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"flourish\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e"}},"images":[{"type":"featured","url":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2
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1aturday, the line-up includes Westwater, anarcho-indie-punk musician Evan Greer, rapper Oompa, vocalist and songwriter Anju, rapper Cliff Notez and more. There will be DJ sets, dog-themed games, movie screenings, a âbondfire,â birthday cake and other surprises. Tickets are pay-what-you-can, and donations can be made at \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-juniper-get-back-on-all-four-paws?attribution_id=sl:5fcd9824-a53d-400c-b9f2-0423ceb6e6b0\u0026lang=en_US\u0026ts=1785121800\u0026utm_campaign=man_ss_icons\u0026utm_content=amp20_t1\u0026utm_medium=customer\u0026utm_source=copy_link\"\u003ethis website\u003c/a\u003e.","\u003cspan data-index=\"3\" data-type=\"instagram\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","\u003chr /\u003e","\u003ch2\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.cacheinmedford.org/mystic-river-celebration/\"\u003eMystic River Celebration\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eSaturday, Sept. 26\u003c/h3\u003e","Come to the Condon Shell in Medford for a celebration of the Mystic River, a day of live performances and an opportunity to meet artists, snack on savory bites and participate in other family-friendly activities. Musical guests and stage acts include singer-songwriters Lisa Bastoni and Tim Kelly, as well as the Tufts Bhangra Dance Troupe and indie pop-rock band The Daylilies. Artist Bella Stercula showcases stained glass and ceramic mosaics, while Elif Ozkefeli will sell Indigenous ceramic housewares. Glimmer Small Batch Cookies offers sweet baked goods, and Revelry Food Truck will dish up New Orleans cuisine. Visitors are also welcome to create tile mosaic stepping stones that will be contributed to a new garden at Arts Collaborative Medford, and there will be face painting for kids. The festival runs noon-4 p.m. and is free.","\u003cspan data-index=\"4\" data-type=\"instagram\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","\u003chr /\u003e","\u003ch2\u003e'\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-sufis-nightingale-musical-tickets-1990983868346\"\u003eThe Sufi's Nightingale Musical\u003c/a\u003e'\u003c/h2\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eSaturday, Sept. 26-Sunday, Sept. 27\u003c/h3\u003e","Sarbpreet Singhâs bestselling novel âThe Sufiâs Nightingaleâ has been adapted into a musical, also written and composed by Singh. This free production takes place at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester, and tells the queer-positive narrative of âthe extraordinary spiritual metamorphosis of Shah Hussain, a 16th-century scholar who turns away from a rigid seminary to become the celebrated âKing of the Malamati Sufisâ in medieval Lahore.â A live music ensemble performs Singhâs compositions, which are based on Ragas, the âfoundational melodic framework of Indian classical music, while Singhâs work also draws from 16th-century spiritual poetry. The show also features stunning choreography by Bharatanatyam dancer Juhi Chaudhary. The Saturday performance takes place at 5 p.m., while the Sunday show starts at 2 p.m.","\u003cspan data-index=\"5\" data-type=\"instagram\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e"],"enhanced":false,"seriesMeta":null,"iframeHero":null,"postType":"post","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinks":[],"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":"","broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":0,"itunesSeason":0,"itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"socialTease":"From a festival near the Mystic River to a touring production of \"Wicked,\" this weekend is full of joyful events.","volume":3,"enableRecirculation":true,"suppressAudio":false,"hideArchiveMsg":false,"disableAds":"enabled","audioDatetime":null,"taxonomy":[{"id":4597,"type":"tag","name":"The ARTery's Weekend Preview","description":"","slug":"weekend-preview","series":false,"global":false,"count":476,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":6019,"type":"tag","name":"Field Guide to Boston","description":"","slug":"boston-massachusetts-neighborhood-field-guide","series":false,"global":true,"count":732,"hide":false,"primary":false},{"id":60,"type":"category","name":"Arts","description":"","slug":"arts","series":false,"global":false,"count":14850,"hide":false,"primary":true}],"audio":[],"embedMeta":{"embed-1":{"id":1,"parentID":1118645,"type":"caption","attributes":{"id":"attachment_1118680","align":"alignnone","width":"1000","alttext":"Claudia Bennett as Glinda and Aline Mayagoitia as Elphaba in the North American tour of \u0026quot;Wicked.\u0026quot; (Courtesy Joan Marcus)","caption":"Claudia Bennett as Glinda and Aline Mayagoitia as Elphaba in the North American tour of \"Wicked.\" (Courtesy Joan Marcus)","imageSizes":{"medium":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2
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1cent trip, Knotek analyzed data from two receivers in the Bay. They showed some familiar faces were still hanging around.","âSo that shark that we also tagged last year on Sept. 5 has also been right over here within, like, the last half hour,â Knotek said. âSo the shark's moving around a little bit, but they are here.â","\u003cspan data-index=\"4\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Some researchers up and down the East Coast use the same tech, which allows them to share data about the sharksâ habits. It also lets them share information about threats, be it from fishing, habitat loss or climate change. The International Union for Conservation of Nature\u003ca href=\"https://iucn.org/press-release/202412/third-sharks-rays-and-chimaeras-are-threatened-extinction-new-report-narrows\"\u003e estimates a third of shark species \u003c/a\u003eglobally are at risk for extinction.","With ocean water warming due to climate change, we may see more of them in the coming decades.. The sharks canât regulate their own body temperature, so they depen
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1s.â)","âPrimetimeâ is a mordantly amusing, significantly less thoughtful spin on the material, highlighted by a spectacularly entertaining Pattinson performance that in no way resembles Hansen, nor any other human being on the planet. Photographed as if he were the monster in a 1930s horror movie, the amoral huckster is all sweaty close-ups and rictus showbiz smiles. Pattinson is our reigning king of silly voices, and his Hansen always seems to be auditioning various, contradictory affectations in the course of his everyday speech. Heâs a hoot to watch, even if Iâm not sure what the movie is trying to get at by turning the blandly sinister, self-righteous smoothie into a bundle of nerves who spends the picture seething at every perceived slight.","The great Merritt Wever has a disappointingly stock role as Hansenâs ruthless producer, with Matthew Maher and Liberty Tree Mall \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmFuVCfBdAI\"\u003echanteuse\u003c/a\u003e Phoebe Bridgers filling out the Perverted Justice crew. The only glimmer of humanity is brought by Skyler Gisondo as âDecoy Danâ â a young, aspiring actor dangled by the âDatelineâ crew as bait. This industrious and achingly naïve kid isnât ready for the psychological toll of these so-called improvisation exercises. His scenes with Pattinson are staged as if the older man is grooming him. Director Oppenheim sets up a lot of visual parallels like that between Hansen and the predators, sometimes wading into unfair insinuations, as when the reporterâs extramarital affair with a 30-year-old woman is presented as somehow equivalent to pedophilia. (It takes a lot to get me to defend Chris Hansen, but câmon guys.)","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Itâs a lurid-looking picture, shot in smeary, low-light digital video and printed onto 16mm film stock in post-production to further rough up the image. A lot of pores and pixels here. Any hyper-stylized indictment of tabloid TV canât help but call to mind Oliver Stoneâs âNatural Born Killers,â and I also kept thinking of Stoneâs underrated adaptation of Eric Bogosianâs âTalk Radio,â another story about Americaâs fascination with freak shows and how pandering to the lowest common denominator rots you from the inside. Yet thereâs a character missing from âPrimetimeâ who I donât think Stone wouldâve let off the hook so easily: the audience. Something like 7 million people tuned in to âTo Catch a Predatorâ every week, but this movie would rather goof on Hansen and his crew as cartoonish, reality TV vampires than bother engaging with why. Thereâs no reckoning with the darkness this show uncorked in the countryâs id, no interest in examining our own complicity in this horror that still reverberates through our pedophilia-obsessed culture today.","The Dubya era was an ugly time for American entertainment, and early in âPrimetimeâ it looks like Oppenheim and screenwriter Ajon Singh are going to tie âTo Catch a Predatorâ in with the Iraq War and the bullying moral certainty that characterized those bloodthirsty, post-9/11 years. (TV was especially rough then. You could flip between pervert busts on âDatelineâ and watching people get tortured for the greater good on â24.â) But aside from AOL Instant Messenger screens and some stock footage of Saddamâs statue falling, thereâs not much in the way of period context. This might have something to do with the fact that the director was only 10 years old when the events of the film took place, but it feels like a movie made from a safe distance. âPrimetimeâ skates along its sordid storyâs surfaces with the glib incuriosity of the young.","\u003cspan data-index=\"3\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","The movie is too smug to truly unsettle, yukking it up with stunt-casting cameos like the little kid from âJerry Maguireâ putting Cool Whip on his genitals or âBill and Tedâ legend Alex Winter as the doomed district attorney. (There are multiple levels to that in-joke, as Winter now directs excellent documentaries about ways in which the internet is being used to predatory ends.) Weirdest of all is former NBC head Jeff Zucker playing himself. I canât pretend to understand how a CEOâs mind works, but does he think he did a good job here? Is Zucker so proud of enabling âconduct so outrageous and extreme that no civilized society should tolerate itâ that he wanted to reenact it for posterity in a major motion picture?","Anyway, I doubt he was as involved with âTo Catch a Predatorâ as the mov
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Some people hold out for that brief, blinding flash of electric red, while others prefer a slow, subtle burn of deep ochres and fiery oranges stretching late into the autumn.","Itâs also an inherently sporadic process. Walking through southern New England in late September, the vast majority of the tree canopy is still a deep, stubborn green. But every now and then, a single, rogue red maple is visible in a neighborhood or along a wetland completely ablaze with vibrant color.","So, what can we expect as the season unfolds across our region? Letâs dive into the science, the lingering impacts of past seasons and the outlook for autumn.","\u003ch3\u003eThe recipe for vibrant color\u003c/h3\u003e","To understand how this season will play out, it helps to look at the chemistry happening inside the leaf.","Throughout late spring and summer, leaves are packed with chlorophyll, the pigment that absorbs sunlight, feeds the tree and gives leaves their deep green color. As daylight hours shrink in September, trees stop producing chlorophyll. As that green fades away, pigments that were hidden all summer long, carotenoids (yellows and oranges), finally get their moment to shine.","The brilliant, show-stopping reds and purples come from a different compound called anthocyanin. Trees produce anthocyanin in early autumn when warm, bright, sunny days trap sugars inside the leaf, and cool, crisp nights lock those sugars in place.","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"youtube\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eHow Mother Nature sets the stage\u003c/h3\u003e","Last yearâs foliage \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/10/14/drought-leaf-peeping-new-england-foliage-dry\"\u003efelt a bit underwhelming\u003c/a\u003e: dull colors, early leaf drop and heavy tree stress. Fortunately, the foundation for this season was laid by a great atmospheric turnaround over the last winter and spring.","\u003col\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA classic winter:\u003c/strong\u003e The winter of 2025â26 brought persistent, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/03/12/boston-winter-2025-2026-data-snow-cold\"\u003eold-school\" cold and snow\u003c/a\u003e. Snow arrived early up north and stayed put, locking vital moisture into a deep snowpack.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe spring thaw:\u003c/strong\u003e When March arrived, that massive snowpack melted gradually into thawing soils. Combined with timely spring rains, the ground received a deep, refreshing recharge right when root systems were waking up for leaf-out.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSummer top-offs:\u003c/strong\u003e Aside from some lingering groundwater deficits, timely summer downpours helped erase much of the severe drought conditions across New England.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ol\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eThe pace: A slightly slower progression\u003c/h3\u003e","While the color quality should be significantly better than last year, the pace of the color shift may be a bit slower and drawn out.","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","The typical progression of peak foliage follows a
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1d myself stuck at home instead, heartbroken, my imagined portrait of that day blown up due to a tough tumble down some stairs. With out-of-state drop-off just around the corner, I slipped, fell and fractured my right hip in multiple spots. On crutches for at least six weeks, I was out of pocket and not able to fly, and in a considerable amount of pain most of the day.","Fracturing my right hip was not on my summer checklist; in fact, I have already given that troublemaker of a hip way too much of my time and energy, more so than your average mid-life gal. Back in 2019, I had a hip replacement at the age of 43, a young inductee into that particular club. Years of cancer treatment had done a number on my bones. After experiencing some intense pain in my hip, my doctors diagnosed me with avascular necrosis and recommended a brand spanking new one. The recovery process was not easy; it took months to get back to normal. Iâm a runner, and I love walking my dog. Having to learn to walk again was difficult and required time, patience and gentleness with myself. Even just a few weeks off your bones can really set your body back.","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","That gentleness, however, was something I was short on this time. I felt I was getting robbed of a very special experience, dropping my oldest child off at college. He wasnât going around the corner, either, but to Colorado â 1,985 miles away from Boston, to be exact. He is an outdoors dude and always has been. I was excited for him to explore the mountains just off campus, and I knew he would love it there. I was thrilled he would get to know another part of our country so deeply. Still, it hurtâin more ways than one â to not be able to share in that first launch from the nest.","I share my sonâs love for the outdoors, and I spent a considerable chunk of my recovery watching birds. One pair that made a visit to my patio was a mother and son \u003ca href=\"https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Towhee/overview\"\u003etowhee pair\u003c/a\u003e. They were adorable together: chirping, hopping and snacking on seeds. I watched as the mother placed little bits of seed into the babyâs little mouth. In the distance, I could hear the distinct âdrink your teaâ song that the male towhee sings. Apparently, they help with feeding and stay near the family while the chick is young, and they have the cutest song. I didnât see the dad, but he was close by, his little song filling the air.","As I watched this little duo, I was thinking about how that âfeeding my babyâ stage is long gone. Sure, when Iâm not hobbling around on crutches, I love cooking for my family. But my son can quite literally feed himself, and often does with late-night microwave snacks. He was about to start his first meal plan and figure out how to get three meals a day. I knew he was good to go. Heâs no fledgling towhee.","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","And yet, as I heard the âdrink your teaâ song again, I began to wonder, is this advice that Iâm getting from a random bird? Am I imagining things in my housebound state, or paying attention to the natural world on a deeper level? Should I just accept my broken hip situation, and drink a literal cup of tea? I realized that since I fell, I had abandoned my nightly tea ritual. Remembering how a wave of calm comes over me with a cup of tea, I asked my husband to brew me one. I gave a nod of thanks to the little bird, warbling away.","A few days passed, and the bird family didnât show up. There was a big storm. I didnât see them after that. I wondered if the chick grew up and they moved on, or where they ventured. They had their own lives to lead, I supposed. But because of them, I remembered my little tea ritual that was so nurturing, and I realized â hey, my son was going to be fine. He didnât need me to hang those posters. He could get to class, feed himself and heâs good at making friends. Heâs a kind, funny guy with a generous smile, and everyone who meets him feels better having done so. He makes me very proud. I knew Iâd miss him very much, but just as I had my rituals at home, heâd create new ones for himself. Heâd ground himself in his new home.","Still, when I get the green light and can travel, you better believe Iâm flying straight to Colorado. I canât count down the days because theyâre a moving target. I might need surgery if these fractures donât heal, and itâs a complicated break with the replacement hardware. But I can picture myself now, hiking with him in the mountains just off campus, crutches gathering dust in a closet somewhere.","In the meantime, Iâll drink my tea and remind my son to wear those shower shoes, and patiently plan our hikes, until we can be together again.","\u003cspan data-index=\"3\" data-type=\"newsletter\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e"],"enhanced":false,"seriesMeta":null,"iframeHero":null,"postType":"post","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinks":[{"id":288640,"url":"https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2025/08/22/college-dropoff-empty-nest-back-to-school-diana-renn","prefix":"Diana Renn:","title":"My kidâs heading to college â and all I can talk about is laundry","index":1},{"id":288641,"url":"https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2026/03/26/bird-feeder-young-adult-cancer-survivor-madison-chapman","prefix":"Madison Chapman:","title":"After cancer, no place felt like home. 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1similar rule.","The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released an\u003ca href=\"https://www.doe.mass.edu/edtech/ai/ai-guidance-qrg.pdf\"\u003e AI guidance framework\u003c/a\u003e last year. But itâs up to individual districts to shape specifics.","That means some districts have more clearly defined rules to help students, parents and teachers understand what is and isnât allowed â or when to seek permission first.","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","A Lexington Public Schools \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/13cPksamfAvphVauUlyfnVYRnlf6Q-FVoxCX0FRdZAQE/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.ru1np8fgo3k\"\u003erubric\u003c/a\u003e specifies students can use AI for âpersonalized tutoring,â like explaining a complex topic, or to organize their notes. But they canât use AI-derived facts in a report without verifying them with a primary source.","Medfield, too, has a \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wjZRCVO80JeIT8KpmQVfor5M0WhJ5b4Cc6qeQwfkSAc/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.e2xc3fkvpp9x\"\u003elist of restricted uses\u003c/a\u003e: students can't use AI to write a self-reflection or to come up with topic ideas versus independently brainstorming. Students also canât use AI to develop or expand on arguments in their writing without first seeking permission from a teacher.","But how can a teacher know if a student is improperly relying on AI in their writing? That requires \"vigilance,\" Marsden said.","âOne of the great things is that we do have fairly small class sizes, and our teachers get to know the style of student writing, and they're pretty clear on what that looks like,â he said.","Hingham school districtâs alleged vague rules about AI-assisted work prompted a high schooler \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/10/17/hingham-artificial-intelligence-history-project-lawsuit\"\u003eto sue\u003c/a\u003e the district two years ago, after a teacher gave him a failing grade for using AI in a research project. He received detention and was excluded from the National Honor Society. A judge \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.275605/gov.uscourts.mad.275605.30.0_4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003edenied\u003c/a\u003e a preliminary injunction, reasoning that âschool officials are entitled to a great degree of deference, including in their disciplinary decisions.â The family later dropped the federal suit.","Hingham today has \u003ca href=\"https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/4900/Hps/85542e0f-dc91-4842-bec4-34c4b8f933d0/--_Hingham_Public_Schools_AI_Guide__Student_.pdf?disposition=inline\"\u003eAI guidance\u003c/a\u003e that specifies that students need to cite AI if they used it âto generate ideas or edit a small section of student work.â","The fast-changing landscape around the technology means guidelines will evolve.","âWe have it on our policy agenda again for the third year in a row to update it because just everything's moving so quickly,â Newton superintendent Anna Nolin said.","In Newton, teachers use AI detectors to try and determine if students are committing plagiarism, she added.","Some districts without a policy said itâs a priority this year to formulate one.","Framingham superintendent Robert Tremblay said that guidance will include input from staff, students and the community.","Matt Bach, president of state teachersâ union Massachusetts Teachers Association, told WBUR he thinks districts should exercise ââcritical and careful analysisâ before rushing to pass any new technology guidance.","âWeâre excited that New York City has taken a step in what we think is the direction of seriously examining the impact of this on our classrooms and on our students and on our craft,â he said.","WBUR filed public records requests or reached out to a dozen school districts about their AI policies. Springfield, Milton and Brookline did not respond, or asked for more time to respond.","Brookline High School senior William Koyfman said heâs unaware of any schoolwide policy but that âitâs the express permission of the teacher.â","âSome teachers who are anti-AI will reject it completely, and other teachers who are more pro-AI or more willing to experiment will assign you work to do with AI,â he said.","Sharon High School sophomore Raymond Liu said in his school, âdifferent teachers have different opinions and policies.â","âMy generation is growing up with AI, and [itâs] going to be a big part of our education, our daily lives, and eventually our jobs,â Liu said via email. âIf weâre going to be using it in the future anyway, I would rather learn how to use it well and responsibly while Iâm still in school.â","Sharon school officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.","\u003ch3\u003eBoston's plan for AI fluency\u003c/h3\u003e","Training teachers to better understand how AI technology works is one way Boston is trying to make its teachers and students more responsible users.","This year the district launched a teacher training program, backed by a million-dollar \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/03/26/boston-public-schools-ai-literacy\"\u003eindividual philanthropic donation\u003c/a\u003e to BPS. Itâs part of a new \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/bostonpublicschools.org/bps-ai-hub/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003edistrict policy\u003c/a\u003e to instill more foundational knowledge in AI to students at all grade levels.","During a weeklong workshop at the district's central building in Roxbury in late August, two dozen teachers from middle and high schools in Boston listened to presentations and participated in small group discussion.","Papering the wall behind them was an illustration of the brainstorming at work. \"What's getting automated?\" was the prompt.","\"Critical thinking and problem solving.\" \"In depth research.\" \"All writing,\" the teachers had written on Post-it notes.","Josiah Quincy Upper School math teacher Kristina Danahy said she sought out the training because she wants to help her students better navigate a world dominated by technology.","ââIt's become, like, really critical for our students to have AI literacy instead of us just saying, âWell, let's ban that,â â like cell phones, she said.","Kim Taylor Knight, a dance and theater arts teacher at Curley K-8 School in Jamaica Plain, said she approaches AI with some skepticism but âalso some curiosity.â","âI think my biggest takeaway is that we're all on the edge of being a little frightened of the future,â she said.","The teachers will have the opportunity to pilot AI-assisted projects in their classrooms this year.","Massachusetts has \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/06/17/mass-high-school-graduation-requirements-testing-mcas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eproposed\u003c/a\u003e making all high schoolers demonstrate knowledge of responsible AI use in order to graduate. 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1ay past us, keeping coastal impacts, raw breezes and periodic rain in the forecast straight through the weekend before gradually lifting out on Monday.","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Here is the breakdown of the threats, timing and where the uncertainties lie.","\u003ch3\u003eTimeline\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cul\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFriday:\u003c/strong\u003e Most of the day may actually end up dry for much of southerern New England, though it will feel raw and breezy. Rain chances begin to ramp up over the Cape and Islands during the afternoon with some showers likely in eastern Massachusetts by evening\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFriday night into Saturday:\u003c/strong\u003e Energy pinwheeling around the storm pushes rain inland across eastern and central Massachusetts. Saturday is the height of the storm\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSunday:\u003c/strong\u003e The slow-spinning storm sits just off our coast, keeping clouds, pockets of rain and damp conditions locked in.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMonday:\u003c/strong\u003e The system finally begins to pull northeast, bringing a gradual end to the rain and improving conditions slowly from west to east.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eRain expectations\u003c/h3\u003e","Because the storm center's exact path is still TBD, rainfall totals will vary wildly depending on how far west the rain bands back up toward the coast.","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","\u003cul\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEastern Massachusetts, South Shore and the Cape:\u003c/strong\u003e This region sits closest to the storm's moisture. Expect \u003cstrong\u003e2 to 4 inches of rain,\u003c/strong\u003e with isolated higher amounts under heavier bands. This will create poor drainage street flooding and standing water.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInterior southern and central New England:\u003c/strong\u003e Looking like a solid \u003cstrong\u003e1- to 2-inch\u003c/strong\u003e rain event.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNorthern and western New England:\u003c/strong\u003e The farther north and inland you go, the more removed you are from the system.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eCoastal and marine hazards\u003c/h3\u003e","Regardless of where the heaviest rain sets up, the coastal marine impacts are locked in.","A powerful pressure gradient between strong Canadian high pressure to our north and the low to our south will act like an atmospheric funnel, driving relentless north-northeast winds straight off the Atlantic.","\u003ch3\u003eRipping winds and outage risks\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cul\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInland and western Massachusetts:\u003c/strong\u003e Breezy with gusts around 20â30 mph.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBoston, metro west and North Shore:\u003c/strong\u003e Gusts ramping up to \u003cstrong\u003e35â45 mph\u003c/strong\u003e Saturday into Saturday night, isolated outages possible.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCape Cod and the Islands:\u003c/strong\u003e Peak gusts of \u003cstrong\u003e50 to 60 mph\u003c/strong\u003e are likely Saturday evening, creating pockets of wind damage and power outages.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","\u003cspan data-index=\"3\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eDangerous seas and full moon high tides\u003c/h3\u003e","Persistent, long-fetch northeast winds will build large wave action over the Atlantic:","\u003cul\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOffshore seas:\u003c/strong\u003e Ramping up to \u003cstrong\u003e15 to 20 feet\u003c/strong\u003e on Friday and Saturday - creating life-threatening conditions for the marine community.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear-shore waves:\u003c/strong\u003e Building to \u003cstrong\u003e10 to 12 feet\u003c/strong\u003e along east-facing beaches (like the Outer Cape and South Shore).\u
1003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCoastal flooding and erosion:\u003c/strong\u003e The storm coincides with the Full Harvest Moon on Saturday, elevating astronomical high tides. Expect pounding surf, minor coastal flooding, and localized beach erosion over multiple tide cycles from Friday night potentially through Sunday.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eThe bottom line for your weekend plans\u003c/h3\u003e","With high temperatures stuck in the upper 50s to around 60 and a biting northeast wind, it is going to feel decidedly raw outside.","For anyone with outdoor events, sports or gatherings planned for Saturday or Sunday, now is the time to look at indoor backup options or build flexibility into your schedule. Fine-scale details, like exactly when the heaviest bands move through, will get ironed out over the next 24 to 48 hours.","\u003cem\u003eBe sure to monitor the very latest on the free \u003ca href=\"http://app.1degreeoutside.com/\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1DegreeOutside app\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e.\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e"],"enhanced":false,"seriesMeta":null,"iframeHero":null,"postType":"post","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinks":[{"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/09/21/astronomical-fall-cool-weather-storm-incoming","title":"Fall arrives with cool air and a high-impact marine storm brewing","prefix":""},{"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/09/22/new-englands-fall-foliage-forecast-2026-boston","title":"What to expect for New Englandâs fall foliage season in 2026","prefix":""}],"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":"","broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":0,"itunesSeason":0,"itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"socialTease":null,"volume":3,"enableRecirculation":true,"suppressAudio":false,"hideArchiveMsg":false,"disableAds":"enabled","audioDatetime":null,"taxonomy":[{"id":202,"type":"tag","name":"Weather","description":"","slug":"weather","series":false,"global":true,"count":2284,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":61,"type":"category","name":"Boston","description":"","slug":"boston","series":false,"global":false,"count":63368,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":73,"type":"category","name":"News","description":"","slug":"news","series":false,"global":false,"count":79561,"hide":false,"primary":false}],"audio":[],"embedMeta":{"embed-1":{"id":1,"parentID":1119196,"type":"caption","attributes":{"id":"attachment_1119222","align":"alignnone","width":"1000","alttext":"The predicted radar for Saturday, Sept. 26, at 10:30 a.m.(Danielle Noyes/1DegreeOutside)","caption":"The predicted radar for Saturday, Sept. 26, at 10:30 a.m.(Danielle Noyes/1DegreeOutside)","imageSizes":{"medium":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/2-400x217.jpg","width":400,"height":217},"large":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/2-1000x542.jpg","width":1000,"height":542},"thumbnail":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/2-200x200.jpg","width":200,"height":200},"medium_large":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/2-768x417.jpg","width":768,"height":417},"square":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/2-600x600.jpg","width":600,"height":600},"1536x1536":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/2-1536x833.jpg","width":1536,"height":833},"full":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/2.jpg","width":1884,"height":1022}}},"body":"\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-1119222\" src=\"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/2-1000x542.jpg\" alt=\"The predicted radar for Saturday, Sept. 26, at 10:30 a.m.(Danielle Noyes/1DegreeOutside)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"542\" /\u003e","placeholder":"\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e"},"embed-2":{"id":2,"parentID":1119196,"type":"caption","attributes":{"id":"attachment_1119220","align":"alignnone","width":"1000","alttext":"Predicted precipitation totals as of Wednesday morning for the weekend storm. (Danielle Noyes/1DegreeOutside)","caption":"Predicted precipitation totals as of Wednesday morning for the weekend storm. (Danielle Noyes/1DegreeOutside)","imageSizes":{"medium":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2
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1steady march from north to south and high elevation to low elevation:","\u003cul\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLate September:\u003c/strong\u003e Far northern Maine, the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and New Hampshire's White Mountains.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEarly to mid-October:\u003c/strong\u003e Central New England, the Berkshires and northern Massachusetts.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLate October to early November:\u003c/strong\u003e Boston, the South Coast, Cape Cod and coastal Connecticut.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","Because long-range temperature patterns suggest a lack of major, early-season Arctic air outbreaks pushing down from Canada, the cooling trend will likely be more gradual. That means rather than an abrupt, overnight \"pop\" of color, southern New England is setting up for a lingering, steady wave of autumn hues.","\u003ch3\u003eThe bottom line\u003c/h3\u003e","If you're seeing a lot of green in your local neighborhood parks \u0026mdash; that's totally normal. Because urban heat islands and coastal ocean breezes tend to hold onto warmth a bit longer, Boston, the inner suburbs and the South Coast are traditionally the last to turn, usually hitting their peak color between mid-to-late October and stretching into early November.","\u003cspan data-index=\"3\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","If youâre looking to catch early color over the next couple of weeks, you'll want to head north, where color is already popping and peak hues are likely in the coming couple of weeks.","Overall, with hydrated soils, healthier trees and a favorable weather pattern ahead, this autumn is shaping up to be a vast improvement over last year. Keep an eye out for those crisp, sunny days and cool nights in October especially \u0026mdash; thatâs Mother Natureâs green light for the red maples in the Boston Public Garden and Arnold Arboretum to put on their show.","\u003cspan data-index=\"4\" data-type=\"newsletter\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e"],"enhanced":false,"seriesMeta":null,"iframeHero":null,"postType":"post","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinks":[{"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/09/06/massachusetts-autumn-weather-new-england-things-to-do-events","title":"The air and apples are crisp: What to know about fall in Boston","prefix":""}],"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":"","broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":0,"itunesSeason":0,"itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"socialTease":null,"volume":3,"enableRecirculation":true,"suppressAudio":false,"hideArchiveMsg":false,"disableAds":"enabled","audioDatetime":null,"taxonomy":[{"id":202,"type":"tag","name":"Weather","description":"","slug":"weather","series":false,"global":true,"count":2284,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":73,"type":"category","name":"News","description":"","slug":"news","series":false,"global":false,"count":79561,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":61,"type":"category","name":"Boston","description":"","slug":"boston","series":false,"global":false,"count":63368,"hide":false,"primary":false}],"audio":[],"embedMeta":{"embed-1":{"id":1,"parentID":1118845,"type":"youtube","attributes":{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJhMzyw7eM8"},"body":"","placeholder":"\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"youtube\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e"},"embed-2":{"id":2,"parentID":1118845,"type":"caption","attributes":{"id":"attachment_1118874","align":"alignnone","width":"1000","alttext":"A map of when average peak fall foliage arrives. (Danielle Noyes/1DegreeOutside)","caption":"A map of when average peak fall foliage arrives. (Danielle Noyes/1DegreeOutside)","imageSizes":{"medium":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/1-7-400x216.jpg","width":400,"height":216},"large":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/1-7-1000x540.jpg","width":1000,"height":540},"thumbnail":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/1-7-200x200.jpg","width":200,"height":200},"medium_large":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/1-7-768x415.jpg","width":768,"height":415}
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Barely skirting entrapment laws, the networkâs news division teamed with a grassroots vigilante group called Perverted Justice who posed as kids talking dirty online and lured potential pedophiles to houses where theyâd be apprehended by local law enforcement â but not before being interviewed by the grandstanding Hansen.","It all came crashing down in 2006 when one of the targets â a Texas prosecutor â shot himself in front of a âDatelineâ camera crew that had entered his home alongside a SWAT team. The following year, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-suicide-victims-family-can-sue-nbc/\"\u003efederal judge said\u003c/a\u003e that NBC had âengaged in conduct so outrageous and extreme that no civilized society should tolerate it.â The network halted production and moved their lucrative repeats of the program to marathon airings on MSNBC. It felt like it was always on.","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Director David Ositâs powerful 2025 documentary âPredatorsâ wrestled with the showâs legacy and the even ickier copycat efforts that thrive online today. The filmmaker, himself a survivor of child sexual abuse, explored how
1watching Hansenâs sting operations as a little boy was both cathartic and retraumatizing for him, questioning how much of our shared humanity is lost when such sickening crimes are packaged as entertainment. (Reviewing âPredatorsâ at last yearâs Independent Film Festival Boston, I \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/04/17/2025-independent-film-festival-boston-preview\"\u003ewrote\u003c/a\u003e that âHansen comes off as the most disgusting person onscreen, and thatâs saying something for a movie full of child molesters.â)","âPrimetimeâ is a mordantly amusing, significantly less thoughtful spin on the material, highlighted by a spectacularly entertaining Pattinson performance that in no way resembles Hansen, nor any other human being on the planet. Photographed as if he were the monster in a 1930s horror movie, the amoral huckster is all sweaty close-ups and rictus showbiz smiles. Pattinson is our reigning king of silly voices, and his Hansen always seems to be auditioning various, contradictory affectations in the course of his everyday speech. Heâs a hoot to watch, even if Iâm not sure what the movie is trying to get at by turning the blandly sinister, self-righteous smoothie into a bundle of nerves who spends the picture seething at every perceived slight.","The great Merritt Wever has a disappointingly stock role as Hansenâs ruthless producer, with Matthew Maher and Liberty Tree Mall \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmFuVCfBdAI\"\u003echanteuse\u003c/a\u003e Phoebe Bridgers filling out the Perverted Justice crew. The only glimmer of humanity is brought by Skyler Gisondo as âDecoy Danâ â a young, aspiring actor dangled by the âDatelineâ crew as bait. This industrious and achingly naïve kid isnât ready for the psychological toll of these so-called improvisation exercises. His scenes with Pattinson are staged as if the older man is grooming him. Director Oppenheim sets up a lot of visual parallels like that between Hansen and the predators, sometimes wading into unfair insinuations, as when the reporterâs extramarital affair with a 30-year-old woman is presented as somehow equivalent to pedophilia. (It takes a lot to get me to defend Chris Hansen, but câmon guys.)","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Itâs a lurid-looking picture, shot in smeary, low-light digital video and printed onto 16mm film stock in post-production to further rough up the image. A lot of pores and pixels here. Any hyper-stylized indictment of tabloid TV canât help but call to mind Oliver Stoneâs âNatural Born Killers,â and I also kept thinking of Stoneâs underrated adaptation of Eric Bogosianâs âTalk Radio,â another story about Americaâs fascination with freak shows and how pandering to the lowest common denominator rots you from the inside. Yet thereâs a character missing from âPrimetimeâ who I donât think Stone wouldâve let off the hook so easily: the audience. Something like 7 million people tuned in to âTo Catch a Predatorâ every week, but this movie would rather goof on Hansen and his crew as cartoonish, reality TV vampires than bother engaging with why. Thereâs no reckoning with the darkness this show uncorked in the countryâs id, no interest in examining our own complicity in this horror that still reverberates through our pedophilia-obsessed culture today.","The Dubya era was an ugly time for American entertainment, and early in âPrimetimeâ it looks like Oppenheim and screenwriter Ajon Singh are going to tie âTo Catch a Predatorâ in with the Iraq War and the bullying moral certainty that characterized those bloodthirsty, post-9/11 years. (TV was especially rough then. You could flip between pervert busts on âDatelineâ and watching people get tortured for the greater good on â24.â) But aside from AOL Instant Messenger screens and some stock footage of Saddamâs statue falling, thereâs not much in the way of period context. This might have something to do with the fact that the director was only 10 years old when the events of the film took place, but it feels like a movie made from a safe distance. âPrimetimeâ skates along its sordid storyâs surfaces with the glib incuriosity of the young.","\u003cspan data-index=\"3\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","The movie is too smug to truly unsettle, yukking it up with stunt-casting cameos like the little kid from âJerry Maguireâ putting Cool Whip on his genitals or âBill and Tedâ legend Alex Winter as the doomed district attorney. (There are multiple levels to that in-joke, as Winter now directs excellent documentaries about ways in which the internet is being used to predatory ends.) Weirdest of all is former NBC head Jeff Zucker playing himself. I canât pretend to understand how a CEOâs mind works, but does he think he did a good job here? Is Zucker so proud of enabling âconduct so outrageous and extreme that no civilized society should tolerate itâ that he wanted to reenact it for posterity in a major motion picture?","Anyway, I doubt he was as involved with âTo Catch a Predatorâ as the mov
1ie makes it appear. At the time, Zucker had his hands full with his own pet project, a reality show called âThe Apprentice.â Luckily, no harm came from that one.","\u003chr /\u003e","\u003cem\u003eâPrimetimeâ opens in \u003ca href=\"https://app.a24films.com/ticketing/primetime/551\"\u003etheaters\u003c/a\u003e on Thursday, Sept. 24.\u003c/em\u003e"],"enhanced":false,"seriesMeta":null,"iframeHero":null,"postType":"post","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinks":[{"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/08/26/2026-fall-greater-boston-film-festivals","title":"11 Greater Boston film festivals to check out this fall","prefix":""},{"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/09/16/padraic-mckinley-the-weight-film-review","title":"Depression-era gold heist thriller 'The Weight' is a good picture","prefix":""},{"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/09/10/practical-magic-2-review","title":"'Practical Magic 2' steers away from everything enjoyable about the first film","prefix":""}],"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":"","broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":0,"itunesSeason":0,"itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"socialTease":null,"volume":3,"enableRecirculation":true,"suppressAudio":false,"hideArchiveMsg":false,"disableAds":"enabled","audioDatetime":null,"taxonomy":[{"id":83,"type":"tag","name":"Film/TV","description":"","slug":"screens","series":false,"global":false,"count":1340,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":60,"type":"category","name":"Arts","description":"","slug":"arts","series":false,"global":false,"count":14850,"hide":false,"primary":true}],"audio":[],"embedMeta":{"embed-1":{"id":1,"parentID":1118844,"type":"caption","attributes":{"id":"attachment_1118850","align":"alignnone","width":"2048","alttext":"Robert Pattinson in director Lance Oppenheimâs \u0026quot;Primetime.\u0026quot; (Courtesy A24)","caption":"Robert Pattinson in director Lance Oppenheimâs \"Primetime.\" (Courtesy A24)","imageSizes":{"medium":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/Primetime_rec709_g24_150_uhd_2398_20_20_51_lp_20260827.01_26_14_04.Still003-400x225.jpg","width":400,"height":225},"large":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/Primetime_rec709_g24_150_uhd_2398_20_20_51_lp_20260827.01_26_14_04.Still003-1000x563.jpg","width":1000,"height":563},"thumbnail":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/Primetime_rec709_g24_150_uhd_2398_20_20_51_lp_20260827.01_26_14_04.Still003-200x200.jpg","width":200,"height":200},"medium_large":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/Primetime_rec709_g24_150_uhd_2398_20_20_51_lp_20260827.01_26_14_04.Still003-768x432.jpg","width":768,"height":432},"square":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/Primetime_rec709_g24_150_uhd_2398_20_20_51_lp_20260827.01_26_14_04.Still003-600x600.jpg","width":600,"height":600},"breakout":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/Primetime_rec709_g24_150_uhd_2398_20_20_51_lp_20260827.01_26_14_04.Still003-2048x1152.jpg","width":2048,"height":1152},"superbreakout":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/Primetime_rec709_g24_150_uhd_2398_20_20_51_lp_20260827.01_26_14_04.Still003-2560x1440.jpg","width":2560,"height":1440},"1536x1536":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/Primetime_rec709_g24_150_uhd_2398_20_20_51_lp_20260827.01_26_14_04.Still003-1536x864.jpg","width":1536,"height":864},"full":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/Primetime_rec709_g24_150_uhd_2398_20_20_51_lp_20260827.01_26_14_04.Still003-scaled.jpg","width":3000,"height":1688}}},"body":"\u003cimg class=\"size-breakout wp-image-1118850\" src=\"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/Primetime_rec709_g24_150_uhd_2398_20_20_51_lp_20260827.01_26_14_04.Still003-2048x1152.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Pattinson in director Lance Oppenheimâs \u0026quot;Primetime.\u0026quot; (Courtesy A24)\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" /\u003e","placeholder":"\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e"},"embed-2":{"id":2,"parentID":1118844,"type":"caption","attributes":{"id":"attachment_1118856","align":"alignnone","width":"2048","alttext":"Skyler Gisondo in director Lance Oppenheimâs \u0026quot;Primetime.\u0026quot; (Courtesy A24)","caption":"Skyler Gisondo in director Lance Oppenheimâs \"Primetime.\" (Courtesy A24)","imageSizes":{"medium":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2
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But Democrats hope to convince voters otherwise in the final six weeks of the fall election campaign.","bylines":[{"name":"Kevin Miller, Maine Public","slug":null,"wordpressID":null,"content":null,"apiURL":null,"relativeURL":null,"organization":"wbur","embedMeta":null,"shortBio":"","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"title":"","type":null,"channels":null,"photo":null,"website":null,"email":null,"nameLastFirst":null,"thumbnail":null}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":null,"superTitleURL":null,"content":["Democrats in Maine are accusing Republican Sen. Susan Collins of \"corruption\" following an investigative report in ProPublica suggesting she steered federal dollars toward a contractor who contributed heavily to her 2020 reelection campaign.","Collins' office as well as FBI officials called the allegations false, saying lengthy federal investigations demonstrated that neither the senator nor her staff committed any wrongdoing.","The major player in \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2026-09-22/the-fbi-anti-corruption-squad-was-circling-susan-collins-until-trump-got-in-the-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ethe ProPublica article\u003c/a\u003e, Martin Kao, is already serving several years in prison for money laundering, bank fraud and defrauding the federal government. Kao pleaded guilty in 2022 to illegally funneling more than $150,000 to a super PAC supporting Collins through a shell company set up to hide the money's true source.","But the investigative news organization reported that Kao subsequently told federal investigators that he had orchestrated a \"pay-to-play\" scheme in which he, his associates or his company donated to members of Congress and, in return, received lucrative federal contracts for their firm, Navatek.","ProPublica described Collins as Navatek's \"most important patron\" and that \"the senator's office steered government contracts worth millions toward the company while her campaign was pumping Kao and his network for donations.\" At the time, Collins was the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, which she now chairs. One example of a federally Navatek project was a 3D-printed boat â funded with $8 million from the Navy â that was produced by a University of Maine engineering center.","âThis is corruption of the highest order,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/07/24/troy-jackson-platner-maine-senate-collins\"\u003eTroy Jackson\u003c/a\u003e, Collins' Democratic opponent this November, said in a statement. \"Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, and then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time and has rubber-stamped his agenda to hurt Maine.\"","According to ProPublica, federal agents believed they had enough evidence in 2024 based on Kao's statements and documents to launch a broader bribery probe into Collins and other members of Congress. But President Donald Trump largely dismantled the public corruption investigative teams at the FBI and the Department of Justice after retaking office in 2025. And \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susan-collins-navatek-campaign-donations-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eaccording to ProPublica\u003c/a\u003e, the two investigators pushing for a bribery probe were either fired or pushed out by the Trump administration as part of a purge of agents who helped with previous investigations into Trump or other public officials.","\"We deserve answers about every contract and every conversation that Collins and her team facilitated on the backs of taxpayers,\" said Jackson, a former Maine Senate president. \"The jig is up.\"","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Collins' office fiercely refuted the allegations in the article, saying her offices fully cooperated
1with FBI and DOJ investigations into Navatek during the Biden administration.","âThe seven-year-old allegations made against Senator Collins and her staff in this piece are categorically false,\" Annie Clark, deputy chief of staff for Collins, said in \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://x.com/annieclark25/status/2102418037857022067\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ea statement \u003c/a\u003eon Tuesday. \"There have never been any allegations of wrongdoing by the Collins for Senator campaign, and the campaign was never the target of the FBI investigation. ProPublica took the word of someone who pled guilty to five counts of money laundering, three counts of wire fraud, one count of bank fraud, and making false submissions to the FEC.\"","Clark accused Kao of making \"outlandish charges about the Collins office\" in an effort to deflect blame for his own crimes just prior to sentencing but that his hefty jail time showed neither the FBI nor the judge believed him.","An FBI spokesman told ProPublica that the agency found no evidence implicating Collins or her campaign staff during its investigation, adding \"any suggestion otherwise is totally false.\"","Collins has made her ability to bring federal money back to Maine a\u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/npr/nx-s1-5823448/susan-collins-maine-senate-graham-platner\"\u003e pivotal part of her campaign\u003c/a\u003e as she seeks a sixth term. Her seat is a top priority for both parties because Collins is the only Republican seeking reelection in a state that voted for Democrat Kamala Harris over Trump during the 2024 presidential election.","The two parties and their deep-pocketed political allies are expected to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the race, which could be key to which party controls the Senate next year.","____","\u003cem\u003eThis story is a production of the New England News Collaborative. It was originally \u003ca href=\"https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2026-09-22/democrats-accuse-susan-collins-of-corruption-following-report-on-alleged-pay-to-play-scheme\"\u003epublished\u003c/a\u003e by Maine Public.\u003c/em\u003e"],"enhanced":false,"seriesMeta":null,"iframeHero":null,"postType":"post","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinks":[{"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/07/24/troy-jackson-platner-maine-senate-collins","title":"With Platner out of Maine Senate race, can an Allagash logger take on Collins?","prefix":""},{"url":"https://www.wbur.org/npr/nx-s1-5823448/susan-collins-maine-senate-graham-platner","title":"Susan Collins brings federal dollars to Maine. She's hoping that's worth it to voters","prefix":""}],"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":"","broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":0,"itunesSeason":0,"itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"socialTease":null,"volume":3,"enableRecirculation":true,"suppressAudio":false,"hideArchiveMsg":false,"disableAds":"enabled","audioDatetime":null,"taxonomy":[{"id":5691,"type":"tag","name":"New England News Collaborative","description":"","slug":"new-england-news-collaborative-stories","series":false,"global":false,"count":894,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":73,"type":"category","name":"News","description":"","slug":"news","series":false,"global":false,"count":79561,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":75,"type":"category","name":"Politics","description":"","slug":"politics","series":false,"global":false,"count":35866,"hide":false,"primary":false}],"audio":[],"embedMeta":{"embed-1":{"id":1,"parentID":1119157,"type":"caption","attributes":{"id":"attachment_1119159","align":"alignnone","width":"1000","alttext":"Troy Jackson, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks at the Maine Democratic Nominating Convention, Saturday, July 25, 2026, in Bangor, Maine. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP, File)","caption":"Troy Jackson, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks at the Maine Democratic Nominating Convention, Saturday, July 25, 2026, in Bangor, Maine. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP, File)","imageSizes":{"medium":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2
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Susan Collins arrives at the Capitol Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP, File)","caption":"Sen. Susan Collins arrives at the Capitol Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP, File)","description":"Sen. Susan Collins arrives at the Capitol Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP, File)","alttext":"Sen. Susan Collins arrives at the Capitol Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (J. 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Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connection with the same incident. They have claimed the child's removal from their home is linked to their gender transition.","bylines":[{"name":"Martha Bebinger","nameLastFirst":"Bebinger, Martha","slug":"martha-bebinger","wordpressID":842,"title":"Correspondent","type":"newsroom","channels":["news"],"thumbnail":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2
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But court records paint a different picture.","The case puts another family squarely in the middle of the cultural, political and religious debate over transgender rights. On Thursday, the Trump administration announced the Department of Education is launching an investigation into the school district.","Court filings and statements from school officials suggest the child was removed from the parentsâ custody following allegations of a violent incident. Yet Joseph and Arlene Kutzko, who first told their side of the story on a Fox News podcast posted Sept. 13, have sought to focus attention on the issue of parental rights.","On that podcast, the parents pleaded for the return of their child, who is currently in the custody of the Department of Children and Families (DCF), and said theyâre trying to prevent the state from helping the teenager start gender transition medications.","âThe most important thing is to bring her back to our family,â Joseph Kutzko told the podcast host. âBut a shorter term goal is to prevent them from giving her testosterone.â","The case was reported to the state in early 2025. Both parents were charged in connection with an incident at the familyâs Southborough home in late January of that year, according to court documents. WBUR is not identifying the teenager, who is a minor.","Joseph Kutzko was accused of punching and threatening his then-15-year-old child at the family home on Jan. 28, 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2
1026/09/joseph-kutzko-statement-of-facts-redacted-3.pdf\"\u003erecords\u003c/a\u003e from Westborough District Court show. A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim âfor not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,â according to court records.","Kutzko was arrested the next day and pleaded not guilty. In setting bail, the judge referred to three prior restraining orders against Kutzko, one of which is permanent. She did not say whether any are tied to this case.","The childâs mother, Arlene Kutzko, was charged with witness intimidation after allegedly pressuring the child to âtell the school that [the child] was exaggerating and being stupid.â","âArlene stated that if you solve this tomorrow everything will be okay and we will not get angry,â \u003ca href=\"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/arlene-kutzko-statement-of-facts-redacted.pdf\"\u003ethe detective wrote\u003c/a\u003e.","Nearly a year later, in December 2025, a judge committed to dismissing the charges against Joseph Kutzko if he met \u003ca href=\"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/joseph-kutzko-pretrial-conditions-redacted.pdf\"\u003ecertain conditions\u003c/a\u003e, including taking an anger management class, staying away from his child and abiding by a restraining order. Arlene Kutzko also agreed to stay away from the victim and abide by a restraining order. The \u003ca href=\"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/09/arlene-kutzko-pretrial-probation-conditions-redacted.pdf\"\u003econditions\u003c/a\u003e for both parents remain in place until this December.","In a recording of the December 2025 court hearing, a prosecutor said the Kutzkosâ child agreed with this resolution because âa lifetime restraining orderâ had been granted by the Marlborough District Court. That court said it could not disclose the reasons for or terms of that restraining order but did confirm that there is an active order in effect for both parents.","Neither the Kutzkos nor their attorney have responded to requests to clarify or comment on the court proceedings.","An attorney for the Kutzkos said on the same Fox podcast that there was no supporting evidence for physical or sexual abuse allegations and that the child was assisted by an âunknownâ adult to file the requests for restraining orders.","âThe only thing that's left is an allegation of neglect that has never been described,â said Vernadette Broyles, president of the Child \u0026amp; Parental Rights Campaign, a group helping parents fight policies that support transgender rights. âThe only thing that we can surmise with the neglect [charge] is that they are refusing to transition their daughter.â","Some of the court records are sealed or have been impounded because they involve a juvenile.","A spokesperson for DCF would not comment on the case except to say that lack of support for a gender transition would not be a reason to remove a child from their home. A spokesman for the Kutzkos said they are too distressed to engage in more interviews. They have not responded to written questions about what happened the day before their child was taken into state custody. They have said they have not had any contact with their teen, who is now 17, since early 2025.","The parents also blame Algonquin Regional High School in Northborough for aiding the âsecret transitioningâ of their child. The parents say the school let the child change the name and pronouns used while at school without telling the family. Thatâs \u003ca href=\"https://www.doe.mass.edu/sfs/lgbtq/genderidentity.html\"\u003elegal\u003c/a\u003e in Massachusetts and has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-parental-rights-child-gender-transition-massaschusetts/\"\u003esupported by federal courts\u003c/a\u003e in a different case.","âThey exposed our daughter to teachings on LGTBQ,â Joseph Kutzko said on the Fox News podcast, âand topics that conflict with our Catholic beliefs about human dignity, creation as male and female in Catholic teaching.â","Superintendent of the Northborough and Southborough public schools Gregory Martineau rejected the notion that there was any secret counseling.","âOur school district aggressively and unequivocally denies the claims made by the two individuals,â he said in a written statement.","President Trumpâs Department of Education on Thursday said the Student Privacy Policy Office is now investigating whether the school district violated any laws.","âParents have a right to know what is happening with their children at school, particularly when it concerns deeply personal matters involving their health and well-being,â Frank Miller, director of the Student Privacy Policy Office, said in the press release. âThese egregious allegations are not an isolated problem. Families deserve answers and SPPO will thoroughly investigate reports like this and hold any educational institution that violates federal law accountable.â","Gov. Maura Healey is also dis
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Maura Healey on Tuesday proposed a two-month suspension of the stateâs 24-cent-per-gallon gas tax.","Healey, who was previously skeptical of a gas tax holiday, said her proposal has a $120 million price tag, but it would be covered by surplus revenue from the stateâs so-called millionaires tax.","âThis will offer some relief to people, for Massachusetts families driving to work and school every day, to our drivers and truckers out on the road to our Uber/Lyft [drivers],â she said.","Healey is expected to include the proposal in a spending bill she plans to file this week. It would still need the approval of legislative leaders, including one who this week called such a suspension âfiscally irresponsible.â","Healeyâs push comes after her GOP challenger, Michael Minogue, floated a similar tax pause in TV ads airing across the state. Minogue wants to suspend the gas tax anytime the cost goes above $4 a gallon. He also backs the complete elimination of the tax.","Minogue said Healeyâs proposal doesnât go far enough, and itâs tied to her reelection effort.","âIt's only for two months because she's gonna push everything to right after the election and go back to overtaxing our people,â he told reporters outside the State House.","Healey, a Democrat, defended her proposal.","âLet's distinguish what Mike Minogue is doing versus what I'm doing, OK? It's easy to spend millions on glitzy ads and stand at a pump and say to people in Massachusetts, âI'm gonna stop the gas tax.â \" she said. \"It's another thing to actually be a governor and do what governors have the power to do.â","Either proposal would need support from the Democrat-dominated state Leg
1islature before it can be implemented.","Responding to Minogueâs pitch on Monday, House Speaker Ron Mariano called a suspension âfiscally irresponsible.â He said lawmakers havenât suspended the gas tax because it would limit funding for infrastructure projects while doing little to ease the cost of living.","âAs gas prices continue to skyrocket as a result of Trumpâs reckless war with Iran, Mike Minogueâs proposal to suspend the gas tax is nothing more than a desperate attempt to distract voters from the source of the problem,â Mariano said.","Less than 24 hours later, Healey also cited the war in Iran, but pressed ahead with her own bid for a gas tax holiday.","âThis will not cause us any fiscal harm, and it also will not jeopardize any funding that is going towards transportation or important infrastructure projects,â she said.","Healey balked when asked by a reporter if this move was tied to her reelection campaign.","ââI'm doing this because I've watched for weeks as the price at the pump has gone up, and the price of everything has gone up in this country and in Massachusetts because of Donald Trump,â she said.","Tapping funding from the millionaire's tax may not be a constitutional slam dunk, according to Pete Wilson, senior policy director for the advocacy group Transportation for Massachusetts. The tax on household income above $1.1 million was approved by voters in 2022 as an amendment to the state constitution. Its supporters pitched it as a way to boost state transportation and education spending.","He told WBUR that deploying surplus funds for a gas tax holiday would amount to a disinvestment in transportation.","âObviously affordability is a huge issue for every household in Massachusetts,â he said. âBut this is an incentive for people to drive more, to increase emissions, and also doesn't actually get to the root of the problem, which is a statewide connected transportation system that gives people options when they leave their household every day, whether it's transit, biking, walking or driving.â"],"enhanced":false,"seriesMeta":null,"iframeHero":null,"postType":"post","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinks":[{"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/09/22/massachusetts-gas-prices-seasonal-high-middle-east-conflict","title":"Mass. gas prices hit seasonal high due to ongoing Middle East conflict","prefix":""},{"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/09/11/massachusetts-governors-race-minogue-blueprint-healey-police-endorsement","title":"Massachusetts governor's race ramps up with a policy 'blueprint' and police union endorsements","prefix":""},{"url":"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/08/28/melissa-hoffer-climate-chief-steps-down-healey","title":"State's first climate chief leaving Healey administration","prefix":""}],"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":"","broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":0,"itunesSeason":0,"itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"socialTease":null,"volume":3,"enableRecirculation":true,"suppressAudio":false,"hideArchiveMsg":false,"disableAds":"enabled","audioDatetime":null,"taxonomy":[{"id":75,"type":"category","name":"Politics","description":"","slug":"politics","series":false,"global":false,"count":35866,"hide":false,"primary":true}],"audio":[],"embedMeta":null,"images":[{"type":"standard","bgPosition":null,"url":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/07/healey-crop.jpg","width":3000,"height":1999,"title":"Gov. Maura Healey speaks during a press conference at the State House Wednesday. (State House News Service photo)","caption":"Gov. Maura Healey speaks during a press conference at the State House Wednesday. (State House News Service photo)","description":"Gov. Maura Healey speaks during a press conference at the State House. (State House News Service photo)","alttext":"Gov. Maura Healey speaks during a press conference at the State House. (State House News Service photo)","index":0,"sizes":{"medium":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2026/07/healey-crop-400x267.jpg","width":400,"height":267}
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","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"website":null,"email":null,"content":null,"embedMeta":null}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":"Essay","superTitleURL":null,"content":["By the time I made it to the theater this past July, the reports were already in: Parents found âToy Story 5â â\u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260616-toy-story-5-is-the-years-most-traumatic-film-for-parents\"\u003etraumatizing\u003c/a\u003e.â While the franchise has always concerned itself with the fear of irrelevance â the love-worn cowboy replaced by a shiny spaceman; the college-bound adolescent filling bags destined for either âatticâ or âtrashââ in this latest film, that fear manifests itself in a more timely and, to many parents, a more threatening shape: the rectangular screen of a device called âLilyPad.â","What happens when a childâs imaginary play is supplanted by a screen? As a longtime Pixar fan, I was eager to see their handling of this question; as a parent, I was skeptical that they could manage to do so while still achieving any kind of feel-good conclusion. But if âToy Story 5â filled me with a sense of despair, it was not as the parent of one âscreenager,â but rather as the teacher of hundreds of them.","When I began teaching seventh grade English in 2012, my students were early Gen-Z-ers who said, âYolo!â and still knew how to read an analog clock. Smart phones were just becoming widespread among teens and tweens. Today, the digital natives who fill my classroom are bookended, floored and ceilinged with screens. They joyfully quote memes that, like the infamous â6-7!â mean literally nothing, and they struggle to sit through a feature-length film. (At 102 minutes, âToy Story 5â pushes that limit.) Phones are an issue in the classroom, but in my experience, they arenât the primary scourge. Instead, itâs the device we gave them ourselves that threatens daily to undo us: the cursed iPad.","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"instagram\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Iâve been slow to adopt most technological advancements â my friends had to tie me down and force me to create a Facebook page, and I didnât let go of my flip ph
1one until 2021 â so an âI told you soâ from me isnât worth very much. But most of what I feared about iPads did, in my view, come to pass. They do not make students any more likely to complete their homework, despite the apps that allow them to track and access it from home. They do not make students more organized; the handouts once crumpled in the bottoms of backpacks are now invisible data in a cloud, as good as gone. The seemingly equalizing act of giving every child their own device loses its beneficence when children bring those devices home, and families with unequal time, means and technological expertise find themselves in the position of managing them.","âYou can take today to figure out how to use it,â the âToy Story 5â mom says while 8-year-old Bonnieâs eyes grow large in the glow of her new screen, ââ¦but tomorrow we'll start having some strict blahâ¦blahâ¦blahâ¦â We have some strict âblah blah blahâ at my school, too. It doesnât really help. âScreens downâ is the shared language for when itâs time for students to direct their attention outwardâbut no sooner are the screens down than one pops up again. Then another. âJack, screen down, please.â âMaya, screen down, please.â Itâs a daily whack-a-mole.","Apparently I confiscate them often enough to have a go-to line, which I didnât realize until a student quoted it to me: ââ¦And thatâs mine now.â","From the beginning of our training, teachers receive the message that if we are âengagingâ enough to students, then it will solve all our management problems. But what journal prompt is engaging enough to compete with âCookie Clickerâ? What book discussion could be as absorbing as that game with the little blue snake?","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Recent studies suggest that the infiltration of technology into the classroom has \u003ca href=\"https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000385723\"\u003eharmed, rather than helped\u003c/a\u003e, the state of education today. And social media, while it makes connection a tap away, has ushered in an era in which both children and adults report new heights of loneliness and \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10129173/\"\u003emental illness\u003c/a\u003e. How does âToy Story 5â address this gigantic cultural dilemma? The toys and the tech team up, of course. They each have their role to play in Bonnieâs childhoodâand the filmâs answer to the yawning chasm of screen-induced isolation is the small pocket of hope that is young Bonnie and (spoiler alert) the friend she finds who still wants to play with toys.","Okay, fine. I had expected as much. What I didnât expect was the comment that toy protagonist Jessie makes at the filmâs low point, when, devastated by her impending obsolescence in the face of Bonnie's new device, she cries out, âI canât do this again! I canât love another kidâ¦just to find out I never mattered.â","Itâs the question that dogs me when Iâm teaching my heart out and see the kid in back who has surreptitiously lifted his screen to play the cupcake game. Or when Iâm reading a girlâs earnest poem and see that, three lines in, when it got hard, she let ChatGPT take over. Does it even matter what Iâm doing here? 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Thatâs two percentage points lower than in 2025.","In math, 41% of students in the third to eighth grades met the state standard, which is the same as last year.","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"flourish\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","The latest scores are still lower than they were before the pandemic. In 2019, 52% of students in those grade years met the state benchmark for English language arts and 49% met benchmarks in math. The state did not administer the MCAS in 2020 due to the pandemic.","State education officials said 14 school districts this year \"returned to or exceeded their pre-pandemic performance\" in both subject areas.","Among high schoolers, 45% of 10th graders met the stateâs expectations in English language arts, compared with 51% of 10th graders a year ago. Math results also dipped slightly, to 44% from 45% the prior year.","Pre-pandemic, 61% of 10th graders reached the state standard in English language arts and 59% in math.","Science exams are also given to fifth, eighth and 10th graders: middle schoolers had the lowest percentage of students meeting expectations, at 39%, but thatâs still two percentage points higher than last year. Elementary students performed slightly worse than last year, scoring 43%. And for high schoolers, 41% demonstrated science proficiency, which is five percentage points down from a year ago.","Voters in 2024 eliminated the use of MCAS as a graduation requirement, so the results of this year's exams won't keep any students from their diplomas. Rob Curtin, deputy commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, pushed back against the idea that, with lower stakes, high schoolers' lower scores are due to a lack of motivation.","âI wouldnât say that it was necessarily that they werenât trying,â Curtin said. ââAs you have less students meeting our standards through eighth grade, it is logical that they're going to struggle also as we go up to high school.â","Some education policy analysts said itâs important to take a look at the bigger picture.","âWhat weâre seeing here is some fairly typical year to year fluctuations,â said Jack Schneider, director of the UMass Amherst Center for Education Policy. âThe real underlying theme is we experienced a global pandemic in 2020 that sent a shock through the system, and the system is essentially still recovering from it.â","MCAS is âjust one indicator of what students know and can do,â Schneider said, and the declines in results this year may reflect reduced pressure on schools to boost student test scores.","ââI don't think we should conclude that ⦠students are learning less,â he said. ââSome of this can be driven by a decline in emphasis on the high-stakes nature of test-based accountability.â","State education officials said there are efforts underway to chisel out a more comprehensive criteria of what a high school diploma should reflect. 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1aturday, the line-up includes Westwater, anarcho-indie-punk musician Evan Greer, rapper Oompa, vocalist and songwriter Anju, rapper Cliff Notez and more. There will be DJ sets, dog-themed games, movie screenings, a âbondfire,â birthday cake and other surprises. Tickets are pay-what-you-can, and donations can be made at \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-juniper-get-back-on-all-four-paws?attribution_id=sl:5fcd9824-a53d-400c-b9f2-0423ceb6e6b0\u0026lang=en_US\u0026ts=1785121800\u0026utm_campaign=man_ss_icons\u0026utm_content=amp20_t1\u0026utm_medium=customer\u0026utm_source=copy_link\"\u003ethis website\u003c/a\u003e.","\u003cspan data-index=\"3\" data-type=\"instagram\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","\u003chr /\u003e","\u003ch2\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.cacheinmedford.org/mystic-river-celebration/\"\u003eMystic River Celebration\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eSaturday, Sept. 26\u003c/h3\u003e","Come to the Condon Shell in Medford for a celebration of the Mystic River, a day of live performances and an opportunity to meet artists, snack on savory bites and participate in other family-friendly activities. Musical guests and stage acts include singer-songwriters Lisa Bastoni and Tim Kelly, as well as the Tufts Bhangra Dance Troupe and indie pop-rock band The Daylilies. Artist Bella Stercula showcases stained glass and ceramic mosaics, while Elif Ozkefeli will sell Indigenous ceramic housewares. Glimmer Small Batch Cookies offers sweet baked goods, and Revelry Food Truck will dish up New Orleans cuisine. Visitors are also welcome to create tile mosaic stepping stones that will be contributed to a new garden at Arts Collaborative Medford, and there will be face painting for kids. The festival runs noon-4 p.m. and is free.","\u003cspan data-index=\"4\" data-type=\"instagram\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","\u003chr /\u003e","\u003ch2\u003e'\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-sufis-nightingale-musical-tickets-1990983868346\"\u003eThe Sufi's Nightingale Musical\u003c/a\u003e'\u003c/h2\u003e","\u003ch3\u003eSaturday, Sept. 26-Sunday, Sept. 27\u003c/h3\u003e","Sarbpreet Singhâs bestselling novel âThe Sufiâs Nightingaleâ has been adapted into a musical, also written and composed by Singh. This free production takes place at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester, and tells the queer-positive narrative of âthe extraordinary spiritual metamorphosis of Shah Hussain, a 16th-century scholar who turns away from a rigid seminary to become the celebrated âKing of the Malamati Sufisâ in medieval Lahore.â A live music ensemble performs Singhâs compositions, which are based on Ragas, the âfoundational melodic framework of Indian classical music, while Singhâs work also draws from 16th-century spiritual poetry. The show also features stunning choreography by Bharatanatyam dancer Juhi Chaudhary. The Saturday performance takes place at 5 p.m., while the Sunday show starts at 2 p.m.","\u003cspan data-index=\"5\" data-type=\"instagram\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e"],"enhanced":false,"seriesMeta":null,"iframeHero":null,"postType":"post","isBreaking":false,"isDeveloping":false,"relatedLinks":[],"relatedLinksLabel":"Related:","broadcastType":"","broadcastDate":"","broadcastTime":"","itunesEpType":"","itunesEpNum":0,"itunesSeason":0,"itunesTitle":"","itunesSummary":"","itunesExplicit":false,"socialTease":"From a festival near the Mystic River to a touring production of \"Wicked,\" this weekend is full of joyful events.","volume":3,"enableRecirculation":true,"suppressAudio":false,"hideArchiveMsg":false,"disableAds":"enabled","audioDatetime":null,"taxonomy":[{"id":4597,"type":"tag","name":"The ARTery's Weekend Preview","description":"","slug":"weekend-preview","series":false,"global":false,"count":476,"hide":false,"primary":true},{"id":6019,"type":"tag","name":"Field Guide to Boston","description":"","slug":"boston-massachusetts-neighborhood-field-guide","series":false,"global":true,"count":732,"hide":false,"primary":false},{"id":60,"type":"category","name":"Arts","description":"","slug":"arts","series":false,"global":false,"count":14850,"hide":false,"primary":true}],"audio":[],"embedMeta":{"embed-1":{"id":1,"parentID":1118645,"type":"caption","attributes":{"id":"attachment_1118680","align":"alignnone","width":"1000","alttext":"Claudia Bennett as Glinda and Aline Mayagoitia as Elphaba in the North American tour of \u0026quot;Wicked.\u0026quot; (Courtesy Joan Marcus)","caption":"Claudia Bennett as Glinda and Aline Mayagoitia as Elphaba in the North American tour of \"Wicked.\" (Courtesy Joan Marcus)","imageSizes":{"medium":{"file":"https://media.wbur.org/wp/2
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You can listen to the full, unedited broadcast here:\u003c/em\u003e","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"audio\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003ePart IÂ Â \u003c/strong\u003e","MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI:","Last week, I asked if you'd be willing to share your stories of family estrangement. Maia Goodall is in Boston, Massachusetts. She and her mother haven't had contact in decades.","\u003cem\u003eMAIA GOODALL [TAPE]: I have not spoken to my mother in about 20 years. She wrote me an email and told me that I was never there for her and that she was no longer going to go out of her way for me, and I said, \"This sounds like something we should talk about,\" and she told me that that was all she had to say. There were a lot of people in my life telling me that because she's your mother, you have to give her grace or whatever. I've realized that her toxicity and her narcissism was not worth having a relationship with her. \u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: By the way, as I've said before, and I want to say it again, I'm always grateful to you listeners when you share your stories with us, especially when they're deeply personal like that and sometimes even still very painful.","Well, Maia's story contains the entire spectrum of how family estrangement is and has been perceived over time. There's the ancient blood is thicker than water view, where people, as you heard, were advising Maia that she had an obligation, and that's the key word here, an obligation to give her mother grace.","Then there's the modern therapy-inflected view about protecting one's self from toxicity, about estrangement as an act of self-care. In her new book, Families We Lose: A New Explanation for Family Estrangement, sociologist Rin Reczek says both ends of that spectrum are wrong, and to then understand why people cut ties with families, perhaps we need to cast a glance not within specific families, but somewhere else entirely.","And Rin Reczek joins us now from Columbus, Ohio, where she's a sociology professor and co-director at the Center for Aging Families at The Ohio State University. Professor Reczek, welcome to On Point.","RIN RECZEK: Thank you for having me.","CHAKRABARTI: First of all, I would actually like to ask you what inspired you to write this book now, since family estrangement, I guess, in, in some way, shape, or form is kind of almost as old as families themselves?","RECZEK: That's right. I've been studying families for about 20 years. And I really like to take a demographic approach to families, so that is understanding these big picture trends and family changes, as well as the personal side of family. So I do lots of interviews with people in their family lives.","My first book, \"Families We Keep,\" was actually about why and how people stay in family relationships, and I interviewed adult children and their parents about the challenges that they face in their family lives and how they navigate those challenges. Even in the face of some of the things that I talk about in this second book, \"Families We Lose,\" you know, people decided they wanted to stay in these relationships, and they did a lot of effort, work, labor to do so.","But in the course of doing research for that book, I talked to a couple people who had periods of estrangement, and I was so curious about that topic. I went and looked at the research on family estrangement, and I was so surprised to find very little on this topic that was really what I would consider research-based.","And so the, I just felt like it was my responsibility to dive into this topic to better understand what's going on with family estrangement.","CHAKRBARTI: Hmm. Interesting because a couple things you said there caught my attention. One is that there was very little data. implying that is family estrangement common enough that there's a critical mass of this happening to people where you can actually somehow form a, a robust data set around it?","RECZEK: It absolutely is common enough but the issue is that it is such a highly stigmatized event that really it has gone undercover. So I think this is one of the issues in the kind of public conversation that we're having is, wow, we're hearing so much more about it now. It must be increasing.","But that really, we have no evidence to suggest that that's the case scientifically. This is something that is amongst the most stigmatized family experiences that we can have, and therefore, people just really don't share this information. I think it's really only in the past five years that we see the conversation being brought to the fore.","So we do have some data on this actually, but we had to go digging into existing data sources that didn't ask, \"Are you estranged from a fam
1ily member?\" Instead, what they've been doing is asking, \"Do you have contact? How often do you have contact? What is your relationship like with this family member?\"","And that is how we can start to get a sense of the prevalence of estrangement.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay. So tell me one of the stories of people that you interviewed in order to better understand sort of what the drivers of estrangement are. Pick anyone. I'd love to hear one of those stories.","RECZEK: Sure. Yeah. Well, you know, I start the book with Barbara, and Barbara is an amazing Black woman. I talked to her for hours and I was so grateful for all the people who I talked to, their time and energy and really vulnerability to speak with. Now, Barbara told me a lot about her childhood, and quite harrowing things, to be honest with you, things that I found to be really troublesome.","But, despite all of her childhood experiences with her parents and her sister, who she also ended up being estranged from, it really wasn't her childhood experiences that mattered. What mattered most for Barbara was what was happening in her adulthood. So after Barbara left her parental home, she had her own child, and she married her husband.","The relationship continued to have some issues, and these issues Barbara likened to a lack of mutual respect, a lack of accountability and growth, a lack of attention and intentional connection, and to some degree, a lack of safety. And these really, for the people that I talked to, were what was driving estrangement.","You kind of heard it in that first story that you, Meghna, aired, that like, what do we want from our relationships in adulthood? And I think this is a misnomer of people who are talking about estrangement because, of course, there can be things that happen in childhood that set the stage for the adult relationship with, between parents and children, between adult siblings. But really, I think the, the story is about what's happening when people are adults and they get to mutually decide what the nature of their relationship is, and that's the case for Barbara, who ultimately decided, \"This relationship actually is not allowing me to be the kind of mother that I wanna be.","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","It's causing me so much stress and strain that I can't be a good parent, or I can't be a good spouse or a good friend.\" And Barbara actually, I think many of the people's stories echoed this, she became so invested in the relationship with her husband's family. She went so far as to, have, you know, she ran a family reunion that brought together, like, 100 people from his family.","And so it's not that Barbara doesn't care about the family. She actually cares so much. She really just wanted the kind of family that really worked for her and that is part of her story.","CHAKRABARTI: Can we just stick with Barbara for another few minutes?","RECZEK: Sure.","CHAKRABARTI: Because you're right her story is profoundly affecting, you said harrowing to say the least, right? I mean, since you wrote about it in the book, I do think we should talk about it a little bit more, because it can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. But she grew up in a, an abusive household, right? Yes. I mean, her, her father, she describes her father as, you know, doing things like regularly physically abusing her, throwing lit cigarette butts at her, attacking her when he was violently drunk. And she was just a young girl at this time, sometimes even hiding in the closet with her sister.","RECZEK: Yeah. Yes. And you could imagine hearing this story is devastating to hear that Barbara had to go through this as a young person.","CHAKRABARTI: Yeah and I think the other key part is how did her mother react when either seeing her husband be violent to Barbara and her sister or being confronted by the fact? How did her mother react?","RECZEK: Well, we have to remember that family violence is often a system event, which means that Barbara's mother also experienced family violence from her husband. And so oftentimes it is incredibly challenging for the parent who's also the victim of abuse to step in and prevent that abuse.","And, and this is also true, you know, of other family people I talked to who felt that their parent, who wasn't directly abusive, was an enabler of that abuse. And that can lead to also estrangement later in life when that parent can't accept that they had a role to play in not protecting their child.","CHAKRABARTI: Explain to me more about when the estrangement or the no contact happened it wasn't exclusively Barbara saying, \"Now I have my own family, and I want to create a sense of nurture, love, and safety with my own family that I didn't have with my parents.\" It wasn't just exclusively her that cut off contact.","If I remember correctly, her parents also cut off contact. Is that right?","RECZEK: So there, I think one of the, the things that Barbara's story shows us is that estrangement can be, it can happen multiple times across the course of a relationship. So there may be periods of time where contact just fizzles out, and one person might be initiating that over another, and then they can reenter that relationship.","\u003cspan data-index=\"3\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Some of the survey data, data I have says that about 80% of people actually renegotiate contact later after a period of estrangement. So in Barbara's story, it's really complicated. It's called the cycle of estrangement, in and out of contact c
1an happen very frequently. And to some extent, you know, Barbara actually framed this as, \"Well, sure, ultimately I stopped talking to them, but they also kind of stopped talking to me.\"","And that's true of her sister as well. So I think that there is this, like, who is really the initiator of estrangement is a question that isn't so cut and dry. Often the people I talked to said that they set that boundary and don't want to talk to their family again.","But of course, it could be the case that their family is feeling the same way, and they also effectively went no contact.","CHAKRABARTI: I think this is a really important point, right? Because one of the conventional pieces of wisdom that we receive about family estrangement is that the responsibility for the estrangement is usually heaped on one party.","Yeah. And in your book, in your research, you found that that isn't true. And in Barbara's case, I think one of the first points of disconnect was when she was pregnant with her first child, and her family, her parents refused to even acknowledge the birth of her son.","And then, and you write that her mother gave her the silent treatment every time they saw each other. So that was the beginning of then this, like, much longer period of estrangement. But Professor Reczek, if you can just hang on for a second, there's a lot more in Barbara's story particularly that I wanna ask you about in terms of how does it help us understand the broader dynamics of family estrangement, and we'll do that right when we come back.","\u003cstrong\u003ePART II\u003c/strong\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: And Professor Reczek, so in the first part of Barbara's story, as she related to you, it ultimately ended up in this 15-year-long period of no contact.","What part of that do you think challenges our sort of historical notions of family as the blood is thicker than water belief about family, that family is essential for development, for survival, that it is the fundamental social group that we all have and need permanently in our lives in order to sort of survive as human beings?","RECZEK: Yeah. So one of the things that we wanna think about is the function of families, and it kind of touches on these broader social questions that we have and are having in our society right now, right? Who should do the care for children? Who should be kind of in charge of the moral compass of our society?","\u003cspan data-index=\"4\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","And often family becomes a sort of place where a lot of blame gets placed for the society's ills. When we think about children, of course families are obligated to care for them. Parents are legally bound to them. This is not really a open question here in terms of what is the role of parents in the lives of their children and grandparents and extended kin?","I think where the question kind of comes to play is when everyone in that family unit is an adult, because no longer is a parent charged with caring for a child, and yet we still call somebody their child, right? My mother still calls me her daughter. Still a, a role that is continued into later in the life course, even though the way in which that is enacted is not as legally and socially sort of regulated.","And so one of the things that we kind of have to ask, especially in the modern age where we are sort of asked what kind of lives do we want to have. I know you mentioned sort of the therapeutic component, like self-growth. These kinds of things are really central to our lives today. And so I think what's happening is that we see what used to be this notion of \"we do this no matter what\" has become more of an open question.","\u003cspan data-index=\"5\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","We do this under what conditions? And this really mirrors what I and many sociologists and, and demographers saw in relationship to marriage, right? It used to be that marriage was really a fundamental thing that we all did. It was very uncommon not to get married and have children. And really, and you know, in the late 20th century we see this transition happening, and now marriage is something that we choose to do.","And of course there's lot of heterogeneity there in terms of that choice, but the same kind of transition I think is happening, maybe 30 or 40 years later with the family of origin where what is the role of the family of origin
1in our lives as adulthood is kind of an open question.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay. This is why I find Barbara's story so compelling, because yes, you're right. It's turning into more of an open question about the role of families in adult life. But at the same time, let me just call it, almost evolutionary fundamentals are still strong, right?","Because as you tell her story, she goes through this 15-year period of no contact with her mother, father, and sister. But then out of the blue, her mom calls her with this horrible news that her father's dead. And Barbara has this choice. She has this, this moment where she's like, \"Okay, you guys were terrible to me, like violently terrible to me as a child. My relationship with you is over, period.\" Or she can go back and check, and she chooses the latter. And finds this absolutely stunning scene. Do you wanna recount that for us?","RECZEK: Yes. So Barbara is distraught because she gets this phone call from her mother, who is unable to really explain what's going on, and she goes to her mother and father's home and finds her father deceased in really terrible conditions.","The coroner asks her, like, \"How long has your father been homeless?\" Because of the condition of what he, what she's found.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay, she says \u0026mdash; I'm just gonna say it because the details I think really matter because it helped me try to think through her state of mind, right \u0026mdash; because he's not lying deceased in a bed with his arms neatly crossed over his chest. She says he's on the floor face down, and the carpet is soaked with blood, and he may have been dead for days, right? Yeah. Her mother and sister were too incapacitated, drunk, to even do anything about the her father's death for days.","RECZEK: Yeah, that's right. Imagine walking into that situation when you haven't spoken to any of these people for years. Barbara feels an intense sense of obligation there, and understandably so. This is a traumatic experience. And in some ways she falls back into the role in which she had previously where she's trying to care for the people that she does still love.","CHAKRABARTI: That word came up, right? There is that word, obligation. And what I find so...from externally reading this, I was, like, so surprised, but then I put my- tried to put myself even momentarily in her shoes, and I kind of got it because not only does she feel this obligation, irrational though it may be, to try and help her mother and sister, thereafter, as you said, people fall in and out of estrangement.","She actually tries to reconcile her relationship, right? Â With her sister and mother. Tell me more about that.","\u003cspan data-index=\"6\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","RECZEK: She does. Well, often loss can kind of trigger a renegotiation of ourselves and what our priorities are, and so she says, \"I really love these people still. They're really still important to me, and I want to try to rebuild this relationship.","I want to see if they have grown and if I've grown in a way that allows me to renegotiate and reenter this relationship.\" And she does try. And she stays in relationship for a
1while but ultimately ends up failing in part because they have a blowout fight over something so simple. I think she says it's $5 lunches.","Who's gonna pay? And she realizes that these relationships haven't really changed. And in order, again, to protect her own now family of procreation, her child, and her husband, she feels that she needs to kind of set those boundaries again with her family of origin. And this is really painful for her.","I want to say it, for the people that I talked to, making this choice was not something that they felt really great about. They'd wanted something different. They wanted to have relationships with their families of origin. They care deeply about these people, but ultimately did make that decision in order to protect themselves and the people around them.","CHAKRABARTI: So what did Barbara's attempt to reconcile and reconnect with her family, with her mother and sister, what did that tell you about the sort of lingering unique binds that even in the modern age, and we'll talk about sort of modern conceptions of family in a second, but even in the modern age, it still seems to me that family has a particular definition and, and hold on people for worse or for better, that's different than other kinds of relationships, which is one of the things that makes family estrangement so uniquely painful.","RECZEK: I think that's right. So one of the things that Emma Bosley-Smith and I do in our first book is develop this concept called compulsory kinship, and compulsory kinship is the idea that the family that we're born into and raised by is inherently always a forever family, and this is a ubiquitous cultural norm.","\u003cspan data-index=\"7\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","I think we can see this in, again, that first audio you played with the woman and her mother. The, \"But she's your mother\" \u0026mdash; this is a very common refrain that we have. And I think that this is something that may be being contested in the modern era, but I definitely think that this is still predominant.","So we see with compulsory kinship the notion that the family is hierarchical, that the elders hold power over those who are younger than them. We see that biology remains central, that is blood. The people that you are genetically related to hold power as family, as part of the definition of family. And we see also this notion of the collective over the individual and none of these are inherently bad or worthy of critique, but how they're played out sometimes in the family can cause issues for people who, for example, experience abuse and can't really exit the family in a way that is protective. So compulsory kinship is this guiding force that I think again, is still very dominant in our society.","But I think for the people who estrange, they draw on a different, what we might call a script or a logic to explain how they view the family, and they are kind of rewriting that script of, of what they want their families to look like.","CHAKRABARTI: Professor Reczek, you have to forgive me, okay? Because, what you just said sort of triggered, a little bit of skepticism.","RECZEK: I love that. Wonderful.","CHAKRABARTI: In my mind. And part of it, again, I try to be as transparent as possible with listeners. I grew up in a family who, my parents immigrated from India, so their cultural background in terms of family, and especially their, you know, they're Indians of the Boomer generation were quite different than sort of stereotypical modern Western conceptions of family. So when you said, you know, there's this perception that elders have power over younger members of the family, I was like, \"Well, yeah.\" Mm-hmm. And, and that is, that just makes sense to me. It makes biological sense.","It is the way it should be, and when children are young it's physical, mental, spiritual, emotional power. But then also when we become adult children, there's still that emotional power that parents have, again, for better or for worse, over adult children. But I'm just thinking to myself, in cases where it, we're not talking about neglect or abuse, like what's wrong with that?","Why is it that in Western societies somehow that becomes something distasteful that your parents may always have a form of emotional power over you. I'm not necessarily sure I ever wanted to see myself as equal to my parents.","RECZEK: I think that is such a wonderful counter because I think many people would agree with you. I don't necessarily think, and I'm certainly not arguing that is wrong in any way. I think what I'm maybe tr
1ying to point out in the book and from the stories that I heard is that that isn't necessarily the only way to do family, and that others might desire and feel empowered to do it a different way.","\u003cspan data-index=\"8\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","So I think in an ideal world, right, that family formation works quite well and can be quite effective for taking care of each other and which is what we want families to do. We want families to be healthy, to care for one another, and to be a source of support and love. But when that doesn't happen, then some of these more insidious aspects of compulsory kinship can really rear their head in quite problematic ways. And so making it be the forced way everyone does family, I think that's where we see that, that concept kind of come to its edge.","CHAKRABARTI: And I, and I will say, I frequently actually enjoy arguing against myself. But, I will say that in non-Western cultures, this sort of continual emotional hierarchy in families has also been used as a tool to do things like hide abuse, right?","RECZEK: Yes, it can. Yeah. That's exactly right, and I will say, I mean, just to mention I interviewed, I think maybe, like, a third of the people I interviewed were second generation or third generation immigrant.","CHAKRABARTI: Ah, interesting.","RECZEK: And I will tell you, what you just mentioned is so common, for people to be really actually quite, quite loving towards the way that their parents prioritize the family and, and the family culture. But it was often very challenging for some of the adults that I talked to reconcile that with their own needs.","And so especially for immigrant families, I felt that that was a really strong tension that they were trying to reconcile and didn't always find a way to do that.","CHAKRABARTI: Or the needs that their second and third generation American children present.","RECZEK: Oh, precisely. Precisely. Yes in some ways you have this culture clash of what is family, what does it look et cetera.","CHAKRABARTI: So let me actually turn back to the people who matter, and that's our listeners, and, and give them some voice here again, because we did have quite a few people share their thoughts and experiences with family estrangement. So this is Ben Tankus. He's in Portland, Oregon. He describes his family as being disconnected, but he also thinks there is something about family relationships that makes them distinct from others.","\u003cem\u003eBEN TANKUS [TAPE]: The familial ties, in my perspective, it's a love that Nobody else can replicate the love of a father, the love of a sibling, but it's also a hurt that n- nobody else can replicate if things go wrong. \u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: And here is Ellen Jacobs in Bellingham, Massachusetts. She has a family estrangement. Her brother is the one who has stopped talking to her.","\u003cem\u003eELLEN JACOBS [TAPE]: My brother told me about 10 years ago that he never wanted to talk to me again for the rest of his life. The reason was my mother's decline with dementia over about seven, eight years. He was the main care provider being on the East Coast. It was difficult to help, so he was very bitter. Never talked to me about it and just said he was healthier, never talking to me again.\u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: Okay. So Professor Reczek, the willingness, again, and I just want to reiterate, I'm grateful that people are willing to share these stories, but I'm also always kind of a little bit surprised that folks are willing to talk about something so personal and, and painful. But as you said earlier, like in the past five years, there seems to be a much more public conversation around family estrangement.","And part of that public conversation is people in the media, even experts in your field of sociology saying that we're going through an epidemic of family estrangement. Are we?","RECZEK: Yeah. First of all, let me just say, like hearing Ellen's voice and the pain in her voice I really feel so empathetic and sad for people who are especially feeling like they're on the receiving end of estrangement, and I
1just really want to say that because I think I'm going to talk about it really sociologically here and take a distant step from it, but I, I do feel the pain of the people experiencing that, and this is a really important topic that I'm so grateful that you're speaking of, Meghna.","So when we think about estrangement, though, on this demographic level of an epidemic, I find that quite problematic. And there's a couple of reasons. When we started the show, we talked about the prevalence and, like, how common it is, and it really wasn't. Karl Pillemer, who has a book that came out in 2020, was one of the first people to try to track as this sort of estrangement, are you estranged or not?","\u003cspan data-index=\"9\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","He found that about 10% of people reported estrangement between parents and a child with estrangement. I found with my colleagues that about 6% of mothers and about 26% of fathers report periods of estrangement, that's ever estranged over a 10-year period. And then YouGov has some stats that show similar statistics, right?","So we see that this is happening. I would say between-","CHAKRABARTI: But we have no baseline, right? I mean, how-","RECZEK: We have no baseline. Yeah. Yes. You got it. So, so that's part of the issue. We do not have a comparison, this is, like, the current moment, and I'm actually working on some some data with Mieke Beth Thomeer to try to look at past cohorts.","We have data on them about their level of contact with adult children, so these are parents across the greatest generation, the baby boomer cohorts, which there are three of them and moving forward in time to try to see if estrangement has increased.","\u003cstrong\u003e PART III\u003c/strong\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: Rin Reczek joins us today. She's author of \"Families We Lose: A New Explanation for Family Estrangement.\" And Professor Reczek, before the break, you were talking about the, the loose data that we've had historically about how much family estrangement is actually going on, and you had mentioned Karl Pillemer and a survey that he did. I've found that page once again in your book, and upon reacquainting myself with this survey, now all of a sudden I have a bunch of questions about it.","RECZEK: Okay. I'll do my best.","CHAKRABARTI: Because he surveyed, what, 1,300 Americans over the age of 18, and the question that he asked is very interesting to me.","He asks, \"Do you have any family members, i.e., parents, grandparents, siblings, children, uncles, aunts, cousins, or other relatives?\" So any family members quite a few branches away on the family tree from whom you are currently estranged, meaning you have no contact. And so you, you, you quoted this number earlier that he found from this question that 27% of people surveyed said, yes, they were estranged from a, from a relative, which is actually I think quite a shocking number, right? Because that's more than one in four. Yeah. But then when you look at, okay, the closer you get in the family tree, only 10% said they were estranged from a parent or a child, 8% from a sibling.","RECZEK: That's right.","CHAKRABARTI: So what does that tell you?","RECZEK: Yeah. So okay, so there's a few things. One, his is like an identity, right? \"I'm estranged.\" And I think that's a really important distinction between some of my survey work, which is contact, so that's, that's a different measure. But his work is actually replicated by a YouGov survey that s- finds something very similar, about 26% of people report estrangement from a family member.","But, in the United States, we tend to","CHAKRABARTI: I'm so sorry. Yeah. YouGov, I just have to ask 'cause I, I really... We quote YouGov quite a bit on this show. Yeah. And every time we do this I'm kinda like, \"Ugh, should we?\"","RECZEK: I know. Because. Yeah, that's okay. No, it's not peer reviewed, so that's part of the issue that I have. I don't typically use that data. But they do, they use ACS, which is a, a, a survey that's validated by the government. You know, they do statistical techniques that I think are pretty valid, but again, they're not they're not going through peer review, so that's important.","So it's just one more data point of many that I think we're kind of building what is the prevalence rate, and how, how often is this happening? Because I think for my data that I use, so this is a data set that's been long-going. It started in 1979, and it's followed people across their entire life course.","They're about, I don't know, 60 now. And so they, in this data set, they follow these people, and when they have adult children that reach the age of 18, they start asking the children about their relationship with their parent. And so we're tracking them across a 10-year period from the time the child is about, about 18 until probably about 30, and then we're able to see who is going no contact, how long is that no contact, and do they go back in contact?","And so I feel really good about that, that data set to, to kind of track estrangement prevalence. But we need more data, so, so we need more people who are looking at estrangement. And again, as we mentioned before the break, we really need historical data. So we need to look at people who, again, are in the greatest generation, look at their relationships with their adult children at the time that they, you know, at the appropriate time that we would look at them, to compare across cohorts, and that's really what the next stage of research needs to do.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay. So that data set has yet to be gathered. Point taken. But I'm wondering if we have existing means of comparing these American numbers to other countries, whether they be, white Western or, obviously non-Western from very different cultures and traditions.","And the reason why I ask that is something that you had mentioned earlier, that right now in the public discourse over family estrangement, there are a lot of people who are saying they believe estrangement is increasing in prevalence because of a particular American illness of rampant individualism, right?","Of putting the individua over family. And I'm just wondering how can we come to that conclusion? Do we know if family estrangement is on a similar level in other countries? I mean, I feel like some assertions are being made without context.","RECZEK: Without doubt. Now, I wanna say two things. First, the only data that I feel strongly is well-replicated is the German data set that finds very similar prevalence rates to what we find in our U.S. study. So about 20% of dads and about 9% of moms experience a period of estrangement. But what I wanna say is that often when we hear the sort of blame game around the individualistic society as it relates to people's personal decisions in the family realm, I often think that that is a really interesting mirror into what's happening in society more broadly.","Because we hear this kind of what I might call a family panic over and over again if we look at history. So we look back at the divorce, what we might call the divorce epidemic, right? We look back at the people not having children epidemic. These are things that we see used in our kind of lexicon to kind of bring attention to what is considered a social problem.","And I would say that there really isn't strong evidence that this is a growing social problem. And let me just say why I think that might not be the case. Now, it could be, and I want to find data that shows it is, but right now we don't have data that shows it is, and the data that I see being used is therapists saying they're seeing more estrangement in their practice.","Well, as you know, therapy has increased drastically in the United States over the last 10 years. So that makes sense to me. Like, people are maybe more likely to go to therapy for this issue. The social media landscape, we know, is an echo chamber, so certain people are very visible in social media talking about family estrangement It could also be that family estrangement means
1something different today than it did even 50 years ago. So I talk about this in the book. People have far fewer children. So let's say my grandmother had nine siblings. If, you know, if one of them moved away and really didn't talk to the rest of the family, we might count them as estranged, but the salience of that estrangement might be quite different than if you only have two kids and one of them moves away and doesn't talk to you any longer. And so I think that when we're, like, looking at the, the broader view of family estrangement change, we have to really take into account these other factors. For example, Karen Fingerman has a great study that looks at how often young adults talk to their parents.","They talk to them more than they have in any recent history, so today. So that means that there's an expectation that we're in constant contact with our family of origin. And so when someone leaves that family of origin or stops contact, it can feel extremely monumental.","\u003cspan data-index=\"10\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: You know, I was thinking, what, do you, so you said your grandmother had nine siblings or nine children?","RECZEK: Yes, nine siblings. Nine siblings.","CHAKRABRTI: Yes. Okay. Yes. Oh, actually, my father was one of nine also. Yeah. And, but I, though I do take a little bit of an issue with you saying that maybe if you have more kids and one of them becomes estranged it's less salient than if you have two kids. Because, I, I don't know. Yeah. I think parents, a mother's love is usually, hopefully, pretty equal across her children.","RECZEK: Oh, that's interesting. I understand your point. I understand your point. Jill Suitor has some great work that shows actually there is parental favoritism among children, but that's not really, I think what maybe I can clarify it. Your question offers me a opportunity to clarify that. What I mean is the amount of time that you would spend with each child is diminished the more children you have. And so if you have two children, you would you would be spending a lot more time with those two children than if you have nine children.","It's just sort of like a numbers game. It's not that it wouldn't matter to you. It maybe wouldn't have as strong an impact on your daily experience. Maybe I can put it in those terms.","CHAKRABARTI: No, that, that makes perfect sense, right? Like, the, in that, in that sense of salience and the sort of hyper presence of a smaller number of people. No, point well taken. I should never try and get in an argument with a sociologist.","RECZEK: No, I love it, though. It really speaks to the need to clarify something.","CHAKRABARTI: Oh, I wanted to ask you about social media for a second here because I think it's not only an echo chamber.","It's a mutating echo chamber. Because the algorithms are designed to put in front of us the things that produce greatest emotional response, greatest, quote-unquote, engagement. So in that in that sense, I think it can actually really warp what we perceive to be as reality, and in turn, something that may be completely unchanged, right, in terms of prevalence of family estrangement.","But since it's much more in our feeds now we are naturally given to thinking it's happening a lot more. And not only that, but I feel like on social media, you get the most extreme of stories. And plus there's all this, there's also this
1sort of like health, self-help subgenre of family estrangement, which is kind of strange to me. But your thoughts about that?","RECZEK: Well, I think you nailed it exactly. So I think when we're asking ourselves about the prevalence, that is the fundamental question. This social media and is not the place that we need to look for increasing prevalence or even, you know, articulating an epidemic.","Now, the question of whether social media matters in the estrangement conversation is a different one, and I think it absolutely does. One of the things it does is give language to things. So I mean, the, again, I keep going back to that first caller that talked about her the sort of narcissism, I think she used that word.","I heard that a lot, and I see that a lot on social media. This is a technical term that's been kind of co-opted by the public to help explain behavior. Now, when people use that term, I do not personally think they're giving a clinical assessment of a narcissist.","But what they're doing is trying to explain behavior through technical or therapeutic discourses. So I think some of that can get spread through social media, and I do see that happening as a way to kind of start to talk about family estrangement. But I don't think we can use that as a good indicator of the prevalence.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay. Well, let's, let's pursue this a little bit more, because even just in the examples that we have brought to the show today, starting off with Barbara from your boo, only a monster would would see that her reasons for estranging from her family were anything other than utterly justified, right?","In cases of abuse of whatever kind, it makes perfect sense that a person does not want, especially when they have their own agency as an adult, to be part of that. Okay. But then there's also other examples. I mean, some of the listeners who shared their stories with us, there was Ellen, who said, well, her brother is estranged from her now because she was unable to help in the care of her parents when they were elderly.","You know, I know you know of, there's many stories out there of people saying, \"Well, I didn't feel supported by a sibling or a parent or whatnot.\" Or in the case of our first listener, whose mother felt like the child, the adult child wasn't there enough for her. To me, this does force the question about what our expectations are of family in terms of support and nurturing for us, and whether or not our expectations have actually become unreal, unrealistically high.","RECZEK: Yeah. You raise a point that I think remains to be discussed in the public conversation, and I don't have the answer for that. I think what I can point to is the sort of what we might call the democratization of intimate relationships that really, as I mentioned before, began in the 1960s and '70s.","And some of the things I hear from people who feel blindsided by estrangement are very similar to some of the conversations that people have in the context of divorce or dissolution, where they feel like, \"I thought this was going fine, and, and I found out this person was really unhappy with me and wanted a divorce.\"","And I think that that shows some kind of disconnect, and I really hope my book is helpful in bridging that disconnect. I don't want people to be disconnected. Ultimately, there's something going on in the family that needs help and assistance. There's something that is not quite working, and we can actually kind of prevent estrangement by taking a deeper look at what is that disconnect, and how can we get on the same page?","CHAKRABARTI: Yeah. Okay, hold that thought, because that's kind of where I wanna wrap up the show. But, we have two more listeners who've been brave enough to share their stories with us. This is Sarah, and here's what she had to say.","\u003cem\u003eSARAH [TAPE]: I have estrangements that have gone on for years because of the dysfunction in my family, but that said, I feel like I did it as a form of protection so I could create my own healthy, safe life, and which has been a success for me. \u003c/em\u003e","And this last one is Mackie Buck, who's in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and she says her estrangement from her family was a saving grace for her, and it's something she needs until she won't need it anymore.","\u003cem\u003eMACKIE BUCK: It was necessary at the beginning. I needed estrangement to fully register how many of my siblings somehow thought I was in the wrong for talking about how my brother molested my son. I needed it to supp
1ort my son. I needed it to keep from drinking too much. I needed it to quiet the searing pain that lived in my body. I needed it to keep my sanity. And now a decade or so has passed. Bit by bit, I have been able to open the door to some siblings who have come knocking. I will need estrangement for as long as I need it. \u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: So Professor Reczek, this is where I wanted to end, because I think that one of the big takeaways from your book is that family estrangement isn't just something that happens out of the blue and is also a permanent state of being, right?","I mean, you talk about it as kind of a last resort when other methods to repair whatever's broken within the family have failed. And then also going back to Barbara's example, it's not always permanent. It's temporary. So, so in that sense, how is it that you think we should change our understanding of what estrangement actually is?","RECZEK: Yeah, that's right. So I think about this in terms of, a tree can only be uprooted if its roots are weak, right? And so with the exception of gale force winds, typically we see healthy trees survive, right? And so when I'm thinking about family estrangement, it is the felled tree. But if we can support the roots of the tree to start earlier to kind of support family relationships and build the kind of relationships that people desire in adulthood, then that is the key. So when we're thinking about family estrangement, I have, again, so much sympathy for people experiencing this, and that is kind of, I think, that we have great work that can be done to help people who are coping with family estrangement, especially if they feel that they are in control of it.","But ultimately, we need to start a lot earlier in family life to diagnose the problems that are causing family estrangement, and we know a lot of what those are. When people become adults, they are feeling agentic to be able to form their own families and create families in the way that they choose, and that was a lot of the stories that I heard.","There was a lot of loss. People missed their parents or their siblings, but that they felt like, like your last caller, Macky, they really needed to protect themselves in order to live the life that they desired.","CHAKRABARTI: We have one minute left, professor, and I've heard repeatedly, both in the stories of, from our listeners and in your book, that it's not that people are giving up on the idea of family at all. Not at all. It's that the family that they were born into may not have worked for them, but they're trying to create the family that they've always desired in their own new biological family, say, with their own kids. Yeah. But we all make our mistakes, though, don't we?","RECZEK: We do, and I think that it's so important. I love Macky's kind of approach. 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1shield Bay Staters from rising costs due to the war and pledged to at least review the legislation.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eHow would Healey pay for it? Healey's office estimates that her proposal would cost the state â or save drivers â $120 million. The proposal would use \"unbudgeted\" funds from the state's surtax on incomes over $1 million (which continues to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/07/22/massachusetts-wealthier-households-revenue-rich-taxes\"\u003ebring in more money than expected\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eHow is this different from what Minogue proposed? While Healey's proposed gas tax suspension has a two-month time limit, Minogue's wants a more permanent policy. His \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/09/11/mike-minogue-gop-governor-policy-blueprint\"\u003eplatform\u003c/a\u003e includes suspending the gas tax whenever it's above $4 a gallon and working \"towards the long-term elimination\" of the tax. \"It's only for two months because she's going to push everything to right after the election and go back to over-taxing our people,\" Minogue said Tuesday of Healey's plan.\u003c/li\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eWhat's next: Healey plans to formally file her proposal to the State House as part of a closeout supplemental budget bill this fall.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003eMeanwhile: \u003c/strong\u003eHealey \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Ddl3jZPxGiD/\"\u003ebacked another ballot campaign\u003c/a\u003e yesterday: Question 7. If passed, the ballot question would override local zoning to allow single-family homes to be built by right statewide on residentially zoned lots that are at least 5,000 square feet (or around an eighth of an acre) and have at least a 50-foot border with the street and access to public sewer and water service. Healey said the initiative would make it easier to build starter homes across the state. (Experts \u003ca href=\"https://tufts.app.box.com/v/cSPA-Q7-2026\"\u003eestimate\u003c/a\u003e it would lead to somewhere between 350 to 1,200 new homes being built per year.) \"By opening doors to first-time homeowners, weâll help more young people afford to stay in Massachusetts and build their future here,\" she said in a statement.","\u003cul\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eThe endorsement came after Healey officially \u003ca href=\"https://www.telegram.com/story/news/politics/2026/09/21/massachusetts-governor-healey-rally-question-9-gun-control-question/91871062007/\"\u003ebacked\u003c/a\u003e the Yes on 9 campaign over the weekend to uphold the gun law she signed in 2024. She has also \u003ca href=\"https://commonwealthbeacon.org/ballot-questions/healey-throws-support-behind-conservation-ballot-question/\"\u003eendorsed\u003c/a\u003e Question 6, though her budgetwriters are \u003ca href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/17/metro/healey-question-6-endorsement-budget-office?s_campaign=8315:varf\"\u003ea little more wary.\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003eReading between the (train) lines: \u003c/strong\u003eThe MBTA is planning to spend about $5 million a month from April 2027 through March 2029 on shuttle bus service â a signal the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/08/05/mbta-green-line-closure-august-phil-eng\"\u003esubway line closures we've endured this summer\u003c/a\u003e aren't ending anytime soon. Those plans were revealed in a request for proposals that T recently sent out to shuttle bus vendors, State House News Service \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/09/22/mbta-shuttle-buses-rfp-contract-closures\"\u003ereports.\u003c/a\u003e","\u003cul\u003e \t\u003cli\u003eHeads up: The next big disruption begins this Saturday. The Green Line's downtown tunnel will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.mbta.com/news/2026-09-18/mbta-continues-modernizing-and-investing-improve-reliability-accessibility-and-more\"\u003eclosed for nine days\u003c/a\u003e (Sept. 26 to Oct. 4) between North Station and Kenmore, as will the line's southern E branch and part of the B branch. (An identical closure is planned over Halloween weekend, too.) Read up on the shuttle bus plans \u003ca href=\"https://www.mbta.com/news/2026-09-18/mbta-continues-modernizing-and-investing-improve-reliability-accessibility-and-more?utm_source=sfmc\u0026utm_medium=email\u0026utm_campaign=WBURToday_Editorial_092326\u0026utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mbta.com%2fnews%2f2026-09-18%2fmbta-continues-modernizing-and-investing-improve-reliability-accessibility-and-more\u0026utm_id=233057\u0026sfmc_id=16928552#:~:text=Green%20Line%20service%20will%20be%20suspended%20between%E2%80%AFGovernment%20Center%20and%20Babcock%20Street%E2%80%AFon%20the%20B%20branch%2C%E2%80%AFGovernment%20Center%20and%20Kenmore%20on%20the%20C%20branch%2C%20North%20Station%20and%20Kenmore%20on%20the%20D%20branch%2C%20and%E2%80%AFHeath%20Street%E2%80%AFand%20North%20Station%20on%20the%20E%20Branch%20during%20the%20following%2
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1n Point.","bluesky":null,"facebook":null,"website":null,"email":"[email protected]","content":null,"embedMeta":null}],"nprID":null,"nprTranscriptID":null,"nprURL":null,"dateline":"","superTitle":null,"superTitleURL":null,"content":["153 million U.S. drivers' licenses were hacked and put up for sale on the Dark Web. That's more than half of all licensed drivers. How that happened and what it says about who's doing what with our data.","\u003ch3\u003eGuests\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003eAlan Butler,\u003c/strong\u003e executive director and president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.","\u003cstrong\u003eEdgar Whitley,\u003c/strong\u003e professor in practice (Information Systems) at the London School of Economics and Political Science.","\u003ch3\u003eAlso Featured\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003eJames Lee,\u003c/strong\u003e president, Identity Theft Resource Center.","____","\u003ch1\u003eTranscript of Full Broadcast\u003c/h1\u003e","\u003cem\u003eThe version of our broadcast available at the top of this page and via podcast apps is a condensed version of the full show. You can listen to the full, unedited broadcast here:\u003c/em\u003e","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"audio\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","\u003cstrong\u003ePart IÂ Â \u003c/strong\u003e","MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: By now, and this is sad to say, most of us are used to hearing about large-scale data breaches of our personal information, and these go way back. Anyone remember back in 2013 when someone hacked three billion Yahoo accounts? Or in 2017, the credit rating agency Equifax discovered a data breach that revealed almost every identifying piece of information for 148 million people, including Social Security numbers, home addresses, dates of birth, driver's license numbers.","In fact, I still have a credit check freeze in place with Equifax because of that. Or in 2021, more than 500 million Facebook users around the world got hacked. In 2024, a company called National Data, which does background checks, finally disclosed that some 2.9 billion pieces of information, including 900 million Social Security numbers, had been stolen from its servers.","Also in 2024, Change Health, part of United Healthcare Group, discovered that hackers gained access to medical records and other sensitive information for one 197 million people. And those are just a few, and only U.S.-based ones. When you consider global data breaches, the list goes on and on and includes billions of more pieces of stolen information.","Multiple billions. Which is why last month when James Lee, president of the Identity Theft Resource Center, when he learned of the latest major data breach, once again, it's sad to say, but at first, he didn't really give it a second thought.","\u003cem\u003eJAMES LEE: When I first saw the post that Brian Krebs put out, I was like, \"Oh that's typical.\"\u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: Brian Krebs is an independent security reporter, and he'd reported some unusual activity on a Russian cybercrime forum called Exploit. Someone was attempting to sell a huge number of North American identity documents, and again, this didn't really surprise James Lee because he already knew that driver's license information had been stolen from a company called Assurance America back in July.","But then James took a closer look at Brian Krebs's report.","\u003cem\u003eLEE: I read it and realized it wasn't just the data from driver's licenses and some other kinds of credentials. It was the actual images. Then I went, \"Hold on. This is a big deal,\" because that fundamentally changes the dynamics of this kind of data breach.\u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: A dark web group or service was offering to sell actual scans of more than 153 million driver's licenses from the United States and Canada, as well as more than 10 million ID cards, travel documents, and medical cards. Now, the group is called NEXUS, and it said it had full scans of these documents. That includes copies of the front and back of driver's licenses, not just the data on the licenses, and the scans included
1security features intended to deter counterfeiting, things like scatter plots and the barcodes from the back of the driver's licenses.","James Lee says that means people who buy the scans could conceivably create full replicas of your government-issued ID, replicas that James says will be good enough to fool people and fool machines.","\u003cem\u003eLEE: Now, you've got the full image of the driver's license and these other credentials, and that's just gonna make it that much easier, especially given the ability of AI to create these kind of documents very quickly and very accurately.\u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: And James says that obviously that opens the floodgates to massive potential fraud.","\u003cem\u003eLEE: I can use that to open up some kinds of benefits that are automatically available to people at state and local governments. I can apply for things like small business loans. I can apply for unemployment benefits. I can apply for anything online.\u003c/em\u003e","\u003cem\u003eThat is a very common kind of identity verification today. \u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: NEXUS went dark after Brian Krebs's initial post, but that doesn't mean they're not going to put that stuff back on the dark web. Krebs had already found his own driver's license in the database when he wrote his initial report. He also found his mom's driver's license and a bunch of friends.","Now, 153 million driver's licenses were up for sale. That's more than half of all licensed drivers in this country, which means that really no one was immune. Even Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's license was up for grabs. Nexus was selling scans of Hegseth's license for 100 bucks. So how did this happen?","Is it a new frontier in identity theft? How can people protect themselves? And why do these huge hacks keep happening to third-party companies that most of us know almost nothing about? Let's turn to Alan Butler. He's executive director and president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He joins us from Washington.","Alan, welcome to On Point.","ALAN BUTLER: Thanks for having me, Meghna.","CHAKRABARTI: So first of all, give us your assessment on what James Lee says, that this was a kind of a categorically different kind of data breach. Do you agree or disagree?","BUTLER: I agree. I think that the breach of the images and like forensic-level detail of identity documents is a fundamentally different thing than most of the breaches that most of us hear about every day.","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: Now let's talk about the forensic-level part, because people might be thinking it's still not going to be possible for folks to make like a physical plastic replica of a driver's license from a scan. But that's not really the issue here, right? Because I was thinking just the other day when I had to verify my identity literally with a car rental company, I just had to send them a picture of the front and back of my driver's license, and that was good enough.","So that's the kind of fraud we're talking about?","BUTLER: That's right. I think that there's probably more sophisticated forms of fraud that can be done with the type of data that was obtained here, but I think in the most instances, just like you said, companies are asking for a copy. Sometimes it can just be a simple image that someone could capture from their phone of your driver's license, and that's enough to enable a whole bunch of forms of identity theft.","And I think there's other significant risks of this breach as well.","CHAKRABARTI: Car rental seems to be the most benign of them all. Could you conceivably apply for loans online with this kind of info?","BUTLER: I think there's major risk of new account fraud, and if you think about combining this data with AI tools, as James mentioned you can synthesize already synthesized voice, synthesized images, or even potentially video, even if there was some form of live verification to go along with the license.","And I think that another set of risks that goes beyond identity theft is the identification risks to vulnerable communities. The posting of these pictures and licenses puts so many different folks at risk. Think about survivors of domestic abuse who are trying to escape abusive partners or people in witness protection who have had to adopt new identities, but now you have their face images posted with these identity documents.","\u003cspan data-index=\"3\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","We already talked about military undercover. There's I think so much abuse that is enabled by this hack.","CHAKRABARTI: Yeah. And I guess you're getting to the really critical point here is that short of plastic surgery unlike a password, which you can change, you can't really change your face.","BUTLER: That's exactly right. I think the loss of access, and that's part of what the level of detail in this breach puts at risk, right? Is that these IDs, because of Real ID standards, have facial recognition compatible detailed images in them. And that we've already seen instances with companies scraping, for example, facial images to build these databases and doing cross-matching now with this I think really opens it up to abuse.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay. So let's talk a little bit more, Alan, about exactly how this happened because again, in not in all of the headline grabbing data breaches that I listed at the beginning, not third-party weak points weren't in all of them, but it's a re
1curring feature in these huge large scale breaches.","Now, from what I understand from Krebs' original reporting that the weak point here was an identity verification platform, a company called IDScan.net. They're based in Louisiana, and their entire business is to provide ID fraud protection, or excuse me, prevention. They do age and identity verification services, mobile ID scanners, things like that, and they work with fintech, gaming, education, transportation, hospitality, law enforcement, retail security.","They've got, what, I'm looking here, 20,000 locations across the United States. 21 million verifications go through this company every month according to the company itself. One would think that given the nature of their business, this would be a place where it would work overtime to keep the data that they're handling secure, right?","BUTLER: You would certainly think so, but I think the problem is that companies aren't adequately incentivized under our current legal and regulatory system to not only
1invest in security to protect the information they collect, but really to limit the amount of information they collect to only what they need and only keep it for as long as they need it.","CHAKRABARTI: Do we know ... I don't know if you know any more about IDscan.net?","BUTLER: Not more than what was collected in Krebs' initial reporting. But I think it's unfortunately, as you noted, a trend that is all too common, where there's a weak point in the chain of custody of our data, and hackers will find the weakest point and try to exploit it.","And that's why we really need a much more robust and strong, both legal and technical protections for data that's collected and, in most instances, for the most sensitive data to not store that data whenever possible.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay. We're gonna get to the point that you made about if companies aren't, in your view, adequately incentivized to really do everything they can to, keep one step ahead of hackers in the cybersecurity arms race.","But I do wanna note that the FBI is actually investigating this data breach. They have an official investigation going on. Also, sidebar, some of the driver's licenses in the hack apparently belong to FBI agents. Do you think that an FBI investigation can bear fruit, Alan, or is it too little too late?","BUTLER: I think that it's really hard to put the genie back in the bottle. When you have 150 million driver's licenses posted on the dark web, probably already purchased or obtained by other folks, chasing that down is immeasurably harder than trying to prevent it in the first place.","And I think that one thing that really struck me in the reporting was the note at the end of the reporting about the response from IDscan.net, which is that they're offering credit protection services, right? Credit protection services do not in any way compensate individuals from the loss of their driver's license, given the nature of the risks that they face.","\u003cspan data-index=\"4\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Credit protection services only address a small sliver of the problems that are created by this breach.","\u003cstrong\u003ePart II\u003c/strong\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: By the way just as a side note, Alan, I'm just looking back at Brian Krebs's report here. IDScan.net's own documentation shows that it's not just a sort of a visual image that their machines scan.","They also scan in infrared and ultraviolet light. And I think that's one of the things that captures then all the sort of anti-counterfeiting technology, right?","BUTLER: Exactly.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay. So tell me, what are the justifications that these third-party companies give for not just doing sort of an instantaneous scan, verifying the document and then deleting the information?","Why do they keep them in these databases which turn out to repeatedly be the kind of weak points in, in the cybersecurity networks around the world?","BUTLER: I think you really rarely hear any meaningful justification for retaining that sort of data that can, as far as we can see, only do harm in keeping it other than a cost, right?","Like maybe it feels slightly more expensive to them upfront to build the system in a different way, but that's why you need to impose costs on the back end if when these things happen. But I think also there's a risk that a lot of companies see data as value to them, right? And they're thinking to themselves down the line, \"Oh, maybe we'll ... maybe this data will be something we can train on and use on, to do more research or to potentially sell down the line as a valuable asset.\" And I think that's really, showing an inadequacy in the legal restrictions and protections on this data.","CHAKRABARTI: Can you tell me more about that, Alan?","Because right now sticking with driver's licenses, even though there was actually also other kinds of IDs that were in part of this hack, but driver's license images, I'm gonna presume that right now, legally, you are not allowed to sell them.","BUTLER: I certainly hope not, but I think it depends unfortunately on exactly how the law is written in terms of what data these companies have.","And one trend that we've seen alarmingly in a number of other sectors is when a company, let's say, goes bankrupt, one of their most valuable assets is their data. And bankruptcy sales can create ways to essentially extract the value from data even if technically the law prohibits, would prohibit its sale to a third party.","But I think there's just too many instances nowadays where companies, again, see data as value and don't see their main necessarily even business model as being selling, a service that incorporates security and privacy, but part of their business model is amassing more and more data.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay. So I wanna hold onto that thought and come back to it, because if we're talking about incentives and how to use sort of the lever of the law to incentivize companies in the right direction, we'll keep that in mind. But right now, you said a little earlier that there's no incentive to really be as vigilant as possible.","Now, and I'm sure that companies in the industry would say, \"That's just not true. If we cannot be trustworthy with the information or the IDs that are given to us, then we will simply have no business model that any other company would want to engage with.\" What's your response to that?","BUTLER: I think that the proof is in the pudding here, in that if you were properly incentivized, then you wouldn't let this happen, right?","And whatever mechanism it takes for you to not let this happen, whether it's to impose additional technical and procedural safeguards, physical safeguards on your data systems, or whether it is to collect and store less of the data, you would find a way if you were adequately incentivized.","The amount of harm that's done by allowing 150 million digital ID scans like this to be breached is so massively out of proportion to the cost of engineering a better system that there's just no way that these companies are adequately incentivized if this is happening.","CHAKRABARTI: But so tell me more, though, because I think one thing that I've heard a lot in the public discourse around major hacks like this is that ... and I used this phrase actually myself earlier in the show, which is, it's just a hacker's arms race right now. That every time cybersecurity, the white hats they take a step forward and they make systems more secure, the black hats come in and they're like, \"Nope, we found a way around this,\" and that because it's this constant arms race, that it's just a matter of time before any one particular company falls prey to a major data breach like this.","Your thoughts on that?","BUTLER: I think when you get into the details of how companies incorporate best cybersecurity practices I think that there are, yes, a company could be breached. I think the question is, if a company is breached, what happens, right? Does the breach immediately give access to their most sensitive troves of data?","How are those data segmented? How are they limiting access of different roles? Not all breaches are created alike, and n
1ot all companies that suffer a breach are turning over access to the most sensitive data that they hold.","\u003cspan data-index=\"5\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: By the way, with IDscan.net I think at this point in time they still haven't actually ... I'm looking back at their public releases for this month. They still haven't said how this happened, and maybe they never will because I suppose that would just invite other hackers to try again. They just have said that they have determined that an unauthorized third party may have accessed and/or copied certain customer information, quote, \"Stored within their accounts on the IDscan.net cloud.\"","Does the cloud part bear special scrutiny, or is that kinda irrelevant these days, Alan?","BUTLER: I think it is relevant but common, right? So storing data in cloud services is pretty routine for all many different types of vendors right now, and the question is how is it stored and, again, what are you storing?","Because back to your earlier question, why in the world is this company storing these highly detailed images when all they're doing is doing, supposedly is doing an upfront, verification step? I think that really undercuts any future claims they make about how reasonable this was.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay, one last question about the status quo right now around incentives and regulation, Alan. Because as I mentioned earlier, the FBI is doing an investigation. IDscan.net's doing their own internal investigation. But are there any, I was gonna say sort of criminal punishments or charges that could be levied against a company if they are found that their security systems simply were inadequate to prevent a breach?","BUTLER: Yeah, that's a great question. I'm not sure. Offhand I can't think of specific criminal charges that the FBI has brought against a company that is breached, but I do think it really depends on exactly what happened and whether something could rise to the level of criminal negligence.","But I think that they're frequently in discussing, future potential what the law should look like question of accountability and remedies is really central.","CHAKRABARTI: And this is getting to an interesting question. What does negligence look like? What does criminal negligence look like in these cases?","Because, I very much believe the line of thinking that a company like IDscan.net is the victim, right? It's one of the victims of this data breach, of this hack. But on the other hand, there is a certain minimal level of vigilance that we would expect from a company that's handling such sensitive data.","So maybe we can talk about better ways to define what negligence is in cases of data breaches a little later in the show.","CHAKRABARTI: But Alan, hang on here for a second because I want to now bring Edgar Whitley into the conversation. He's a professor in practice of information systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and he's spent decades examining how governments and societies navigate these complexities of digital identity, data, and trust.","Professor Whitley, welcome to On Point.","CHAKRABARTI: Thank you. Can you first give me just your broad thoughts on this specific hack that happened with IDscan.net?","Your thoughts of it. Is it categorically different from others? You heard what Alan Butler had to say.","EDGAR WHITLEY: Yeah, I think the kind of distinguishing feature of this particular breach is the inclusion of the images.","So this is not just your email address, your date of birth, your Social Security number, but I think the really interesting additional element is the image and also the fact that in a large number of cases, these were images of Real ID approved driving driver's licenses.","So the photograph that would be on, that was being stored and that's then been leaked is a really high-quality photograph. So in the UK when you apply for a passport, you have to have a clear background for your photo. You're not allowed to smile. There's a whole load of things that make the image as high a quality as possible.","And the breach now reveals that the hackers and anybody who's bought the data from them has a database of really high-quality, government-standard approved images of millions and millions of U.S. and Canadian drivers.","\u003cspan data-index=\"6\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: Okay. So in the UK, Professor Whitley you have been active.","You've given evidence to the Home Affairs Committee on, I think it's the current government's plan to roll out a digital identity system. Can you tell us a little bit about that?","WHITLEY: Yeah. So it's the current government, but the plans have changed ... because we've just got a new prime minister. ... So in the UK, like in the U.S., we don't currently have a national ID card, as is common in many European countries.","We still obviously have to do a lot of things online, and there had been proposals a year and a half ago, two years ago now to have a government-issued ID and to make it mandatory for everybody to have one. And so the parliamentary inquiry w
1as exploring what the issues around the way that the government was making those particular proposals.","Then after Keir Starmer stepped down and Andy Burnham took over as Prime Minister, and I know he's in New York at the UN today, one of the first things he said was to scrap that current plan for a government issued ID essentially because there was so many other things that the government wanted to do, that something that was unpopular, that would be a longer term change, that would be relatively costly for different government departments to implement and to adjust their systems to.","He decided that was one fight that he wasn't prepared to have right now, so he scrapped that version of the proposals.","CHAKRABARTI: Actually, Professor may I just jump in here for a second? Because this is a very important point. In the government's attempt to come up with a new ID system that would ostensibly be more secure, it was supposed to be a government issued digital ID.","I'm seeing here, this is reporting from the Electronic Frontier Foundation that some 3 million Britons signed a petition calling for an end to those plans. That's the debate, that's the controversy you're talking about, and civil society organizations also rallied against the plan. Obviously, the deep concern was regarding that would allow the government to possibly intrude on civil liberties of people in the UK, and that seems like actually quite a justifiable concern.","WHITLEY: Yeah. As I say, there was a large number of that petition with nearly 3 million. The government inquiry that I gave evidence to had a very large number of written submissions just from citizens concerned about the proposal.","Apparently it wasn't the largest number of submissions. The assisted dying bill in the UK got more submissions because even more people were worried about that, but it was number two in terms of issues that were of concern. And the big issue with many of those concerns was, okay, government issuing you a credential rather than a private company issuing you a credential is a political choice.","But it was also a question, if you're gonna put a photo on there, where is that photo going to be stored? How is that photo going to be used? Can you be sure that the government can keep the photographs of all of the people who've been issued with one of these IDs secure? And then there were reports that possibly some of the software developers who were onboarded to help develop that system hadn't necessarily done the full security checking, and they potentially had access to all of the systems and et cetera, et cetera.","So there's unease at various levels across society about the proposals.","CHAKRABARTI: Tell me if I'm using this British idiom incorrectly, but it seems like everything went pear-shaped.","WHITLEY: Yes.","CHAKRABARTI: But so you actually, you anticipated the question I was gonna ask, which is, okay, if just the civil liberties question aside, that's for another show, which we'll come back to, I'm sure, sometime in the future. But the data security side, it seems like the concern was there's no guarantee that just because it was a government-issued, a federal nationally issued government ID for every person in the UK, even though this isn't happening, that they would manage to keep that data any more secure than, here in the United States ID, the company, IDScan.net was able to keep things secure. That seems like a very fair and kind of cogent criticism.","WHITLEY: There's an argument that public sector is lots of government systems are effectively parts of the critical national infrastructure. We, like the U.S., have a national cybersecurity center who spend a lot of time worrying about these kinds of things.","And so key systems, tax records, health records, are pretty, pretty secure. Nobody's going to say that they are perfectly secure. But to be fair, there is an argument that says governments should have the capability of keeping that data pretty secure. I think the really interesting thing, case for this one was, okay, you get a private company to do the checking.","This is not the issuing of the cards. This is the checking of the cards. But as Alan was saying, why do they need to keep a record ... of every card that they check? And that's the possibility of seeing all of that data ... that you could then sell, particularly if you go bust.","I like the metaphor of, don't see data as oil, but see data as asbestos, and we have good processes in organizations. If you've got a whole load of asbestos in your organization, you really manage it and keep it carefully clean and stuff like that. And so the really big question is why were they ... so you get a private company to do your ID checks, to check that this person is who they claim to be, et cetera, et cetera, but why are they storing all of the data? And why are they storing all of the data, it would seem, in essentially one system? Which, once you've hacked, you've got access to all of them.","\u003cstrong\u003ePart III\u003c/strong\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: Alan, I just wanted to hear your thoughts on what Professor Whitley w
1as saying a little bit earlier about the UK government had considered doing some kind of national ID, but in a sense, some of the very same security concerns popped up there that do with private companies here.","How would we plausibly move forward?","BUTLER: Sure, yeah. I think that the experience in the UK really underscores the fact that when it comes to identification, we really need to think bigger and differently, right? We can't just simply carry forward systems designed for old sort of like physical federated IDs issued by state or municipal governments and say, \"We'll just turn these things digital,\" with all their existing flaws, right?","I think if we're going to do ID and identification in a digital context, we need to take advantage of the advances in privacy and security technology that have been made over the last decades and really make those systems work better for both privacy and security, which I really do think go hand-in-hand.","And I think that it is possible to have safer, more secure and private identity systems.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay. Before we get to further solutions, I want to ask you both, because we keep coming back to this, why were the question of why was this data stored? Why did why did IDscan.net keep those driver's licenses for an indefinite amount of time?","I'm just trying to think of plausible explanations for it. Maybe they need to go back and occasionally do audits of their own systems, and it's very hard, if not impossible, to audit accounts if they don't have the original the scans. Or maybe they need to do evaluations of how good their scanning system is, and using data they already have is a helpful way to improve those systems.","Professor Whitley your thoughts on that?","WHITLEY: Yeah. So it's clear that organizations will need to do some form of audit, but realistically, you're not going to audit all 150 million records that you have. And even if you do have to have a large sample for your auditing processes as Alan was saying, we do have technological solutions that allow you to store that data in a much more secure way, and ideally not on your main system.","It may be complete, once you've done the check, if you are keeping it, and I still have a big concern about whether you should be keeping it at all. But if you are keeping a record, because you could have a record that just says, \"We checked Edgar's driving license on the 22nd of September, and we got the confirmation that it was all legit.\"","That doesn't mean that we need to keep a copy of the image that we've got. So there's a big kind of process question, but it's also an architecture question about how, what are you collecting, where are you storing it? Even if you acknowledge that you need to have an audit, you can still do much more privacy-friendly audits for those rare occasions when you do need to do that.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay. Hang on, professor. Let's backtrack to something you said just a second ago. There are much better technologies to keep this kind of data secure that these technologies exist right now?","WHITLEY: Yeah. They're not necessarily mass scale. They're not necessarily things that you would want to explain to your grandma how to use because they do get a little bit complicated and a little bit sophisticated.","But we've known for kind of 20-odd years that there are what are known as cryptographic techniques that allow you to prove things about yourself without disclosing almost anything about you. The particular challenge in this case is it seems that some of these checks are not just the data about you, but somebody either explicitly or potentially looks at your face and looks at your document and says, \"Yeah, it's probably the same person,\" even if your photo is 10 years old, et cetera.","And of course, if you did that electronically with a digital camera as you get at passport gates at airports, then you've got that real check. But again, you don't need to store the data. So yeah, there are things available that allow you to prove things about yourself without having to share lots of data and therefore not storing lots of data and therefore not running the risk of that data being leaked in the future.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay so just to clarify, these cryptographic techniques you're talking about are for ID verification or verifying who you are. The cryptographic techniques are not necessarily for keeping stored data more secure.","WHITLEY: But the underlying technology can also store whatever you have ended up keeping so that, again ... so if you have an audit trail of Edgar, 22nd of September, et cetera, you can store that in a way that doesn't reveal that it was Edgar Whitley on the 22nd of September, et cetera, et cetera. So the technologies apply at multiple levels through the process.","CHAKRABARTI: So Alan Butler, let me just briefly turn back to you here, because I gotta ask the obvious question. If better technologies are available, why aren't they in wider use? Or am I being unfair and we're just ... since we talk about this every time there's a single huge data breach, we're ignoring the fact that most of the time maybe our data is more secure than this conversation would let people, would lead people to believe?","BUTLER: I'm going to start by going back to your previous question, which is why did this company specifically store these images? Even though I think in this conversation we all come to the conclusion that that doesn't seem to make any sense and makes everything, puts everything at risk. And I think the simplest answer has to be because no one told them not to.","And I think it's the same answer to the question of why don't we have implement implemented more secure technologies more often? And I think it's because many companies are not required to implement them, right? And the best-case scenario is that the company feels obligated, as you indicated earlier, through their social perception of their business or maybe their vendor agreements upstream to implement stronger standards to meet a certain, security certification level.","But I think when it comes to identity verification Processes specifically, right? Which is where this data is coming from. I think there to the professor's point we need to have more privacy protective processes and identity verification in order to avoid this data really ever existing at all.","I think at this point we look back and we say, \"No one should have 150 million copies of driver's licenses.\" That is by, I think, indication, not a secure practice and not a privacy preserving practice. So how do we get digital verification to work without that happening?","CHAKRABARTI: Yeah, the elegant simplicity of it is undeniable, right?","You can't breach data that doesn't exist on, or stored somewhere on the cloud or on servers. Okay, so Alan and Edgar, hang on here for a second, because I wanna turn back to James Lee, who we heard at the very top of the show. He is the president of the Identity Theft Resource Center, and he had some more thoughts to share with us, particularly that this nation, the United States, is in dire need of new laws around how data breaches are disclosed.","\u003cem\u003eLEE: We built the data breach notification system 20-plus years ago when we were talking about essentially paper documents and information on paper documents.\u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: Okay, so that old notification system was designed for its time, to notify people if a data file, a physical disc, or something like a laptop went missing.","20 years later, who carries around a disc? Our data vulnerability extends everywhere, as we've been talking about, and flows through companies we may not even know have access to our sensitive identifying information.","\u003cem\u003eLEE: The individual whose driver's license was scanned, they don't even know this company exists. \u003c/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd that company has so many images that when it was breached, the state law there says if it's more than 100,000 individuals or it costs more than $100,000 to notify everybody, you don't have to notify them individually. All you have to do is put a notice on your website, which nobody knows to go to, and send a news release to the media in your state.\u003c/em\u003e","\u003cspan data-index=\"7\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: And by the way, the company IDscan.net is based in Louisiana. The original data breach laws were ... pieced together state by state. That's why the state law issue here is really important. And James Lee says they need to be restructured on a national scale.","\u003cem\u003eLEE: So where you live does not determine if you are notified, and if you are notified, what you find about the breach, what was done to protect you. What's done to make sure it doesn't happen again, and then what resources are available to you to protect yourself. \u003c/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt shouldn't matter where you live for those kind of issues to be addressed. \u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: And just like Alan Butler said earlier, James Lee also believes that companies are still reluctant to disclose in a timely manner when they have been compromised. So he'd like to see rules that push companies to inform people quickly and clearly if they're victims of a data breach.","\u003cem\u003eLEE: We also need to revisit in a way that we don't have to wait for somebody to find this information on the dark web, or we don't have to wait for a company to
1necessarily go through a months-long, or in some cases years-long forensic investigation before we find out. We've got to have a different way of looking at this.\u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: And once again, we're living in a world where so much of our lives are online, whether we like it or not. And so for James, that makes this a national security issue, which requires national security level protection.","\u003cem\u003eLEE: Everybody's got to get involved in this and have a very different kind of discussion, or we're going to keep seeing what we have seen for the last several years, and that is the slow but steady escalation every year of more and more data breaches that impact more and more people.\u003c/em\u003e","CHAKRABARTI: That's James Lee. He's president of the Identity Theft Resource Center. So Alan Butler, you've said this a couple of times, and now finally I'm going to let you elaborate. What sort of legal levers or new legal systems could be created to, as you said, incentivize companies to do a much better job to protect our data?","BUTLER: My organization, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, has been advocating for a number of years for a strong privacy and security standard. We commonly refer to these rules as data minimization rules, meaning not only that companies should limit the data they collect, to what is actually necessary to provide the goods and services that they offer, but should also ensure that data is only retained as long as it is needed and that it is secured in the most robust way.","And that, for example, in this context would, I think, go directly to this question of why was it necessary for this company to store copies of these images and technical details of these driver's licenses whereas currently, for example, state attorneys general might have to, or the FBI or the United States might have to investigate whether that was an unfair or deceptive business practice, which is a much, you know, vaguer and less clearly applicable standard, or might have to rely on some of the weaker privacy laws, for example, that require companies to notify users of the data that they collect and the standards that they impose, which really doesn't provide protection.","CHAKRABARTI: So just to be clear about this, would you advocate for, let's say a federal law that would say, \"No matter what company you are out there in the United States, you can scan or, process identifying information in order to do your business, but you cannot store things like driver's licenses, Social Security numbers, address, et cetera\"?","You just simply cannot store them.","BUTLER: I think that there's the two answers to that question. I think first I think we do need more specific regulations in place on impermissibly dangerous data collection and storage practices, and it I think probably would be the case that, for example, storing copies of identity documents, absent very narrow set of circumstances, just shouldn't be permitted.","\u003cspan data-index=\"8\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","But we also need to have a flexible standard that can address future data collection practices that either don't exist or maybe we don't know about.","CHAKRABARTI: Okay. But creating standards for something that doesn't yet exist seems to be a mighty big ask.","BUTLER: It's a challenging thing in the law, and it's not unique to privacy, but I think it is very clearly present every time we're talking about creating or updating a privacy law, is how is this gonna work in five years or 10 years when the world looks very different?","CHAKRABARTI: Okay. I would also say that in the United States, the federal government issuing such a broad new rule or law that would prevent companies from storing certain kinds of data would be met with a great deal of corporate pushback, as they'd see it as the federal government interfering with the process of doing business.","But Edgar Whitley, we only have about 30 seconds left, I'm afraid. What's the one next step that you would recommend to keep data more secure?","WHITLEY: So another way of looking at that problem that doesn't involve states versus the central government is to change or to educate the procurement practices of the companies that are buying these services.","So a smart procurer, a smart a car rental firm might go along and say, \"Are you storing images of the driving licenses that we are asking you to check? If you are, walk away. We're not going to use you as a service.\" So that's another way of changing those kinds of dynamics. 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He was there to catch some sharks.","Once upon a time Boston Harbor was one of the dirtiest ports in America. \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/01/14/boston-harbor-shellfish-safety-consumption\"\u003eBut decades of cleanup\u003c/a\u003e have turned it into an ecological haven for species like the sand tiger shark. By catching and tagging the generally placid fish, scientists hope to understand why theyâre here, where they go, and what it means for them with a rapidly warming North Atlantic.","Knotek and his colleague, \u003ca href=\"https://www.neaq.org/person/emily-jones/\"\u003eEmily Jones\u003c/a\u003e, are both with the aquariumâs Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life. They spend a lot of time in this inlet because young sand tiger sharks spend their summers there too.","âIt's nice and sheltered, there aren't big sharks,â Jones said. âSo it's, like, a safe place where they know they're going to find prey.â","Their team has tagged and tracked juvenile sand tiger sharks in Boston Harbor \u003ca href=\"https://www.neaq.org/sand-tiger-shark-research-in-boston-harbor/\"\u003efor almost a decade\u003c/a\u003e. Their research shows the same sharks come back year after year as the weather warms.","âYou have this harbor that was at one point considered one of the dirtiest harbors in the U.S., and now these sharks are choosing to use this harbor for their summertime nursery ground,â Knotek said.","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"tiktok\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Itâs a remarkable comeback story for a species that was once chronically overfished, with their population dropping by more than 70% along the East Coast, according to Knotek. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists sand tiger sharks as \u003ca href=\"https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/3854/232113997\"\u003ecritically endangered \u003c/a\u003eon a global scale.","Federal and state regulations banned the fishing of these animals, starting in the late â90s.","âFor the better part of two decades, they've had these protections, and we're starting to see recovery in their numbers,â Knotek said.","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Each trip, the team baits their rods with frozen pogies and casts them out in hopes of catching a shark. Pogies are a favorite food for sand tiger sharks.","This bait is usually enough to land one, but if not, the team puts on music for luck. Knotek says their current list of favorites are Jimmy Buffet, the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack and anything by Taylor Swift.","âTheyâre absolutely Swifties, fun fact,â Knotek said.","Once a shark is hooked, they bring it on deck, put it in a cooler and flip it on his back. That puts the shark into a sort of trance, called tonic immobility. The scientists then make a small incision in its belly and insert an acoustic transmitter, which allows the team to track the sharks they tag.","âSo the same idea as your E-ZPass transponder in your car, and as soon as they swim by one of these receivers, the receiver detects that ping, it records which animal was there and what time it was,â he said.","\u003cspan data-index=\"3\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Since 2023, the project has tagged about two dozen sharks, including four new juveniles this year. The New England Aquarium monitors about a dozen receivers in the harbor that track the sharks. All that data helps scientists figure out the best ways to support the sharks.","On a re
1cent trip, Knotek analyzed data from two receivers in the Bay. They showed some familiar faces were still hanging around.","âSo that shark that we also tagged last year on Sept. 5 has also been right over here within, like, the last half hour,â Knotek said. âSo the shark's moving around a little bit, but they are here.â","\u003cspan data-index=\"4\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Some researchers up and down the East Coast use the same tech, which allows them to share data about the sharksâ habits. It also lets them share information about threats, be it from fishing, habitat loss or climate change. The International Union for Conservation of Nature\u003ca href=\"https://iucn.org/press-release/202412/third-sharks-rays-and-chimaeras-are-threatened-extinction-new-report-narrows\"\u003e estimates a third of shark species \u003c/a\u003eglobally are at risk for extinction.","With ocean water warming due to climate change, we may see more of them in the coming decades.. The sharks canât regulate their own body temperature, so they depen
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1ing students and teachers to interpret, on their own, when and how to use AI.","That town-by-town approach reflects the patchwork nature of AI guidance as the technology rapidly evolves and affects learning, putting K-12 leaders on alert.","âInstead of locking it down, which we donât think is the right idea, we work in concert with the staff and the students to allow them to be able to use AI in an appropriate manner,â Medfield Superintendent Jeff Marsden said.","Districts in Massachusetts are taking a different approach than in New York City and Los Angeles, the countryâs two largest school systems. Both instituted a blanket \u003ca href=\"https://www.k12dive.com/news/lausd-restricts-all-students-from-using-ai-tools/829612/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003epause\u003c/a\u003e on most AI use this school year â up to grade 8 in New York and for all students in LA â to give officials time to examine its impacts.","Nationwide, nearly one in five kids ages 9 to 17 say they use AI for school on a daily basis, with ChatGPT their leading tool. Thatâs according to a\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/research/report/2026-ai-use-by-tweens-and-teens-1.pdf\"\u003e March 2026 poll\u003c/a\u003e by technology research nonprofit Common Sense Media.","Yet half of students polled said they werenât taught by their schools or teachers whether the AI information they receive is accurate.","ââKids need to know about voice clones and deepfakes and plagiarism, oh my God, the list goes on and on,â said Jeffrey Riley, former state education commissioner. Heâs the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://dayofai.org/about-us\"\u003eDay of AI\u003c/a\u003e, a nonprofit launched out of MIT that trains teaching professionals to become more literate in AI systems.","ââWe need to teach kids so that they're, like, healthy skeptics of this technology, that they mistrust and verify the information they're getting from it,â Riley said.","Districts are putting up some barriers: Boston, for one, \u003ca href=\"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1780583065/bostonpublicschoolsorg/yhsjmxu6nync43bayfbn/BPSFAQsonAI.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eblocks\u003c/a\u003e ChatGPT for all students on district school networks, though it's approved Google Gemini for use by teenage students. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpsd.us/administration/information-communication-technology-services/generative-ai-guidance\"\u003eCambridge Public Schools\u003c/a\u003e follows a similar rule.","The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released an\u003ca href=\"https://www.doe.mass.edu/edtech/ai/ai-guidance-qrg.pdf\"\u003e AI guidance framework\u003c/a\u003e last year. But itâs up to individual districts to shape specifics.","That means some districts have more clearly defined rules to help students, parents and teachers understand what is and isnât allowed â or when to seek permission first.","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","A Lexington Public Schools \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/13cPksamfAvphVauUlyfnVYRnlf6Q-FVoxCX0FRdZAQE/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.ru1np8fgo3k\"\u003erubric\u003c/a\u003e specifies students can use AI for âpersonalized tutoring,â like explaining a complex topic, or to organize their notes. But they canât use AI-derived facts in a report without verifying them with a primary source.","Medfield, too, has a \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wjZRCVO80JeIT8KpmQVfor5M0WhJ5b4Cc6qeQwfkSAc/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.e2xc3fkvpp9x\"\u003elist of restricted uses\u003c/a\u003e: students can't use AI to write a self-reflection or to come up with topic ideas versus independently brainstorming. Students also canât use AI to develop or expand on arguments in their writing without first seeking permission from a teacher.","But how can a teacher know if a student is improperly relying on AI in their writing? That requires \"vigilance,\" Marsden said.","âOne of the great things is that we do have fairly small class sizes, and our teachers get to know the style of student writing, and they're pretty clear on what that looks like,â he said.","Hingham school districtâs alleged vague rules about AI-assisted work prompted a high schooler \u
1003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/10/17/hingham-artificial-intelligence-history-project-lawsuit\"\u003eto sue\u003c/a\u003e the district two years ago, after a teacher gave him a failing grade for using AI in a research project. He received detention and was excluded from the National Honor Society. A judge \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.275605/gov.uscourts.mad.275605.30.0_4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003edenied\u003c/a\u003e a preliminary injunction, reasoning that âschool officials are entitled to a great degree of deference, including in their disciplinary decisions.â The family later dropped the federal suit.","Hingham today has \u003ca href=\"https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/4900/Hps/85542e0f-dc91-4842-bec4-34c4b8f933d0/--_Hingham_Public_Schools_AI_Guide__Student_.pdf?disposition=inline\"\u003eAI guidance\u003c/a\u003e that specifies that students need to cite AI if they used it âto generate ideas or edit a small section of student work.â","The fast-changing landscape around the technology means guidelines will evolve.","âWe have it on our policy agenda again for the third year in a row to update it because just everything's moving so quickly,â Newton superintendent Anna Nolin said.","In Newton, teachers use AI detectors to try and determine if students are committing plagiarism, she added.","Some districts without a policy said itâs a priority this year to formulate one.","Framingham superintendent Robert Tremblay said that guidance will include input from staff, students and the community.","Matt Bach, president of state teachersâ union Massachusetts Teachers Association, told WBUR he thinks districts should exercise ââcritical and careful analysisâ before rushing to pass any new technology guidance.","âWeâre excited that New York City has taken a step in what we think is the direction of seriously examining the impact of this on our classrooms and on our students and on our craft,â he said.","WBUR filed public records requests or reached out to a dozen school districts about their AI policies. Springfield, Milton and Brookline did not respond, or asked for more time to respond.","Brookline High School senior William Koyfman said heâs unaware of any schoolwide policy but that âitâs the express permission of the teacher.â","âSome teachers who are anti-AI will reject it completely, and other teachers who are more pro-AI or more willing to experiment will assign you work to do with AI,â he said.","Sharon High School sophomore Raymond Liu said in his school, âdifferent teachers have different opinions and policies.â","âMy generation is growing up with AI, and [itâs] going to be a big part of our education, our daily lives, and eventually our jobs,â Liu said via email. âIf weâre going to be using it in the future anyway, I would rather learn how to use it well and responsibly while Iâm still in school.â","Sharon school officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.","\u003ch3\u003eBoston's plan for AI fluency\u003c/h3\u003e","Training teachers to better understand how AI technology works is one way Boston is trying to make its teachers and students more responsible users.","This year the district launched a teacher training program, backed by a million-dollar \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/03/26/boston-public-schools-ai-literacy\"\u003eindividual philanthropic donation\u003c/a\u003e to BPS. Itâs part of a new \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/bostonpublicschools.org/bps-ai-hub/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003edistrict policy\u003c/a\u003e to instill more foundational knowledge in AI to students at all grade levels.","During a weeklong workshop at the district's central building in Roxbury in late August, two dozen teachers from middle and high schools in Boston listened to presentations and participated in small group discussion.","Papering the wall behind them was an illustration of the brainstorming at work. \"What's getting automated?\" was the prompt.","\"Critical thinking and problem solving.\" \"In depth research.\" \"All writing,\" the teachers had written on Post-it notes.","Josiah Quincy Upper School math teacher Kristina Danahy said she sought out the training because she wants to help her students better navigate a world dominated by technology.","ââIt's become, like, really critical for our students to have AI literacy instead of us just saying, âWell, let's ban that,â â like cell phones, she said.","Kim Taylor Knight, a dance and theater arts teacher at Curley K-8 School in Jamaica Plain, said she approaches AI with some skepticism but âalso some curiosity.â","âI think my biggest takeaway is that we're all on the edge of being a little frightened of the future,â she said.","The teachers will have the opportunity to pilot AI-assisted projects in their classrooms this year.","Massachusetts has \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/06/17/mass-high-school-graduation-requirements-testing-mcas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eproposed\u003c/a\u003e making all high schoolers demonstrate knowledge of responsible AI use in order to graduate. 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Political speech was suppressed under socialist rule in her native China, and her aversion to politics stayed with her when she emigrated.","âWe have a saying in China, âä¸è°æ¿æ²».â That means, âdon't talk about politics,â â Yuan said. âYou can get in trouble.â","Yuan, 55, goes by Susan now. She left Wuhan for the U.S. to pursue a post-doc in biomedical research, a field that then offered few opportunities in China while demand here was high. She even landed a scholarship.","But when her landlady brought Yuan to a local municipal meeting, eager to show the young grad student what American democracy looked like, something changed in Yuan. She was impressed that ordinary people were even aware of government gatherings, let alone that they could attend.","âThat city council meeting really opened my eyes,â Yuan said. âYou can have a chance to speak â directly speak â to those officials.â","Decades later, that first brush with local government would lead Yuan to try her chances at politics, a pathway she couldnât have imagined had she stayed in China.","\u003cspan data-index=\"1\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Yuan is among 175,000 people of Chinese descent who call Massachusetts home, including one in six Quincy residents. For most of U.S. history, Chinese immigrants have journeyed here in hopes of a better life. Their aspirations have varied decade to decade, and person to person. Indeed, ask people in Quincy about the American dream and the answers are as varied as the food options along Hancock and Beale streets.","Interviews with Chinese immigrants spanning multiple generations suggest the allure of the U.S. is being put to the test, amid a torrent of immigration restrictions under President Trump and the emergence of China as the worldâs second-largest economy. But for many, the core draw of America remains strong, whether thatâs for greater wealth, liberty or cultural freedoms that are elusive in China.","____","\u003ch3\u003eThe â80s generation\u003c/h3\u003e","On a re
1cent weekend in a downtown event space in Quincy, seniors in classical Chinese attire acted out the myth of the immortal moon goddess.","The \u003ca href=\"https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/nzDBVQCLt9vSFrr9AMdc5g\"\u003eMid-Autumn Festival\u003c/a\u003e celebration was organized by Frank Poon of the nonprofit âCivic Education Alliance. Poon came to the U.S. during a wave of Chinese immigration in the 1980s. Ronald Reagan was president, Beijing relaxed restrictions on its citizensâ ability to leave the country and the British would agree to transfer Hong Kong to Chinese control.","Poon said he knows success in the U.S. is far from guaranteed â and it often takes a lifetime of struggle.","âWeâre still aiming at the American dream,â Poon said, and that people like him are âwilling to invest all our time, all our effort, to make it come true.â","Looking back, Poon said heâs achieved what brought him to America 43 years ago. For him, that success has been more spiritual than something that can be measured.","âMy American dream is, âI want to have a better life,â â he said. âI do have a better family. I do have opportunity to work with the community, and deep inside, in my heart and soul, I feel good.â","But one attendee of the harvest festival had something to say about a dream deferred.","In 1988, Carol Chu followed her future husband to Boston, with little money and no family here.","âThe United States is such a freedom country,â she said. âI wanted to enjoy all the opportunity â get the chance to be free, live free, speak freely.â","Soon after they settled, however, Chu began to realize those things might be out of reach. She became pregnant, and her husband developed a severe gambling addiction. The worst part was when Chu lost custody of her son.","âI [was] so disappointed when I came here, because my American dream totally has not come true,â she said.","Instead of returning to her country, Chu stayed in the U.S. in order to be with her son, even if she could only see him one hour at a time.","\u003cspan data-index=\"2\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Chu recently retired after 37 years working for the Postal Service, and as the years have brought her closer to her son, she said she is finally happy here. Now that her boy is grown, Chu plans to split her time between China and the U.S.","âI think my duty is done,â she said.","Over the decades since these folks emigrated to the U.S., China has roared forward as an economic titan, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/lifting-800-million-people-out-of-poverty-new-report-looks-at-lessons-from-china-s-experience\"\u003ehundreds of millions\u003c/a\u003e emerging from extreme poverty. For the Chinese youth of today, that adds a new dimension to the decision to leave, whether for the U.S. or anywhere else in the world.","____","\u003ch3\u003eThe next generation\u003c/h3\u003e","\u003cspan data-index=\"3\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","At Quincyâs Wollaston Beach, dozens of Chinese youth spread out on the sand, playing mahjong and practicing the Cantonese language. It was a meetup of the Boston Cantonese Club, and DJ Amanda Lou was spinning pop music under a tent.","The recent Boston University graduate is from Macau, a special administrative region of China ruled by the Portuguese until 1999. She spoke about the American ideal more in terms of culture than economic opportunities or political freedom. For her and many other Chinese graduates, Lou said, the exposure to freedom and different lifestyles is a strong motivation to stay.","âIn Boston, I can just wear whatever I want, right? I can wear a tank top, shorts, walk outside â nothing will change,\" she said. \"No one's going to stare at you.\"","At 23, Lou is ready to make a life in Boston. But remaining in the U.S. has never been a certainty for international students. It depends on factors like finding an employer to sponsor a visa petition. And with the current administration looking to add \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/06/09/nx-s1-5851474/federal-judge-fee-h1b-visa\"\u003emassive fees\u003c/a\u003e for foreign worker visas â and to \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-changes-process-for-awarding-h-1b-work-visas-to-better-protect-american-workers\"\u003efavor\u003c/a\u003e âhigher-skilled and higher-paidâ applicants â big challenges loom for people like Lou.","âWhat happens if I don't find an employer who's willing to sponsor me?â she said. âEven if they do, what happens if I get fired or something? Definitely very stressful.â","\u003cspan data-index=\"4\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Lou hopes to open a jazz bar in Boston one day, but if America is out of reach, sheâll have to bring her dreams elsewhere.","This kind of uncertainty is well-known to Vincent Lau, an immigration attorney in Boston. Much of his work involves helping American companies secure work visas. Lau said the traditional legal routes still exist, but they have increasingly narrowed under President Trump.","Among an array of measures to tighten rules on student immigration, Lau said consular officers now hold greater discretion to deny visa petitions, making it more difficult to advise parents on the wisdom of sending their kids to the U.S.","âApplying for the visas at the consulates has become much more challenging for Chinese citizens in general,â Lau said, âespecially for students.â","On top of that, the administration is cutting research funding and suing elite universities, which Lau said have long been reliable paths to success in America. The administration has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/international-students-visas-trump-guidance-social-media-a1f5180ce83560aff66dd65534906697\"\u003ethreatened\u003c/a\u003e to revoke visas for some Chinese students, and it \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05/22/harvard-university-loses-student-and-exchange-visitor-program-certification-pro\"\u003eaccused\u003c/a\u003e Harvard of collaborating with the Chinese Communist Party.","Lau said the draw to study and live in the U.S. remains strong, but those policies are taking a toll.","âWhen [universities] are not being backed by the government, when they are being attacked by the government, it's not a quote-unquote, safe place,â Lau said. âIt's not a place where people want to go.â","The impetus to immigrate has also changed as Chinese universities rise in global rankings. More Chinese youth are pursuing their studies in China. At the same time, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.economist.com/china/2026/08/06/why-ever-fewer-young-chinese-study-abroad\"\u003eincreasing number\u003c/a\u003e of students are returning home after graduating overseas.","But for Boston Cantonese Club organizer Alex Ng, China is no promised land. Ng said the Chinese tech economy suffers from a \"race to the bottom\" mentality, more driven by the search for rock bottom prices than by innovation. Ng said competition for jobs is fiercer in China than in the U.S., and that's especially hard for college grads.","âThere are a lot of scientific and technology breakthroughs in China. I'm not discounting that,â said Ng, who holds a masterâs in electrical engineering from MIT. âBut on the other side, a lot of people graduate from college, they just cannot get a job.â","\u003cspan data-index=\"5\" data-type=\"caption\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Born in Hong Kong, Ng moved to Boston from Toronto four years ago. He considers himself lucky that he got his work visa when Joe Biden was president; he worries his peers will now have a harder time.","Ng has yet to achieve his goals of getting married and starting a business. But among his options â and for all this countryâs imperfections â Ng said the United States is the place to be. The prestige of the American dream persists, even for a Chinese immigrant who grew up just north of the border.","âFirst of all, we don't have any Canadian dream,â Ng said with a laugh. âBut in Canada, we always heard of the term American dream.â","While many immigrants, like Ng, feel that dream is still a thing, others caution that in one principle area, America could be slipping.","____","\u003ch3\u003e'Liberty is precious'\u003c/h3\u003e","Sitting outside a Quincy church where tw
1o U.S. presidents are interred, Susan Yuan reflected on her path to politics.","After eight years doing research at the University of Vermont and Dartmouth College, she decided to leave academia. She moved to Quincy, and eventually took a job at the Quincy public library.","Soon news out of City Hall started to get under her skin. The council approved a 79% pay hike for the mayor in 2024, and Yuan helped organize a ballot petition to reverse the raise. She was a city employee at the time, and people asked her if she feared retaliation.","âThis is America. People should have a right to speak and to petition,â Yuan said. âThat's what I learned when I came to U.S.â","\u003cspan data-index=\"6\" data-type=\"pullquote\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003e","Yuanâs experience with grassroots activism led her to run for Quincy councilor-at-large. She considered herself a longshot. But she became part of an anti-incumbent wave in the city, and in January, she was sworn in alongside five other new councilors promising to bring change to the city.","âHonestly, I never planned to become a public official,â she said. âAnd I don't think that could happen if I'm still in China. So, by that sense, it is a kind of American dream, even though I never dreamed about it.â","But Yuan said she worries the U.S. is showing signs of the authoritarianism she left behind.","At the Sept. 8 meeting of the Quincy City Council, dozens of residents showed up to protest the police department's use of Flock Safetyâs automated license plate reader cameras. The technology has received pushback from around the country following allegations of misuse by officers, as well as fears the data could be used for immigration enforcement.","Yuan was the first councilor at the meeting to express concern over what she described as a lack of transparency by the city.","âAs an immigrant who came from a country in a centralized government, I want to tell you, liberty is precious,â she told the council. âAs John Adams said, âLiberty once lost is lost forever.â \"","Yuanâs proposal â to hold a hearing on the cityâs use of Flock cameras â passed unanimously.","In an interview, Yuan said she experienced mass surveillance during recent visits to China, with cameras watching from all angles. 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Could advances in DNA analysis finally answer one of the most debated questions in American history: whether Jefferson fathered the children of Sally Hemings, the woman he enslaved?","In âHistory by a Hair: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings \u0026amp; Solving a 200-Year-Old-Mystery,â Smithsonian scholar Richard Kurin tells the story behind this groundbreaking research and what it reveals about Jefferson, the Hemings family and the power of science to illuminate the past. 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