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Barbara Lee has ­wagered her fortune on building the ICA and getting a woman elected to the White House. Will this finally be her year?

Cambridge’s Mindy Kaling on ethnic white people, weather denial, and smelling Matt Damon.

The untold story of how Van Morrison fled record-industry thugs, hid out in Boston, and wrote one of rock’s greatest albums.

Under the Golden Dome, House Speaker Robert DeLeo is consolidating power the old-fashioned way, while new Senate President Stan Rosenberg is practically giving it away in the halls. Will they drive each other nuts?

With his new restaurant, Strip, bon vivant Nick Varano is taking his fabulous show straight into the heart of Boston.

Elizabeth Warren swears she’s not running for president. That may be true, but she’s sure doing a terrible job of it. The war for the soul of the Democratic Party is about to begin—right in our backyard.

A legendary drug dealer makes a play for the corporate-speaking racket.

She’s young, black, female, gay—and ready for her mug shot. Meet the new face of Boston’s civil rights movement.

We spent the day with the president of the Museum of Science as he threw one of his no-holds-barred dinner parties and shared a grand vision for turning the museum into a global food hub.

How the craft-beer movement abandoned Jim Koch (and his beloved Sam Adams).

So says journalist Russ Baker, who thinks we’ve got the marathon bombings all wrong.

What do you do when you’re over 80 and still at the top of your game? If you’re the famed naturalist E. O. Wilson, you discover something you’ve never had before: a circle of friends.

*Paris Wallace claims that his Boston-based startup Ovuline has helped thousands of women conceive with the help of its fertility app. And I want to be next.

How developer Steven Samuels transformed the Fenway from a dump into a destination.

Rodney Brooks has spent his life creating intelligent machines that do our bidding. Some people, however, worry that robots like his will eventually supplant the human workforce. He has a different fear: that in the future, there won’t be enough robots.