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Endless wars, expensive groceries, extreme weather -- those are just some of the issues in the E section of our index of things we'd prefer to have skipped in 2024. [...]

Byline: SANDRA E. MARTIN; Staff The Globe and Mail's Standards t Editor Sandra E. Martin provides A insight into the newsroom practices s and processes that guide our p coverage. [...]

Byline: Elahe Izadi A group of D.C. journalists who worked at a local news site that was abruptly shuttered by NPR affiliate WAMU earlier this year are launching their own [...]

Byline: SANDRA E. MARTIN; Staff STANDARDS EDITOR When a major news event happens anywhere in the world, wire services are usually the first on the scene. You'll recognize many of [...]

Byline: SIMON HOUPT; Staff When my Globe and Mail colleagues reported early Wednesday morning that five former members of Canada's 2018 world junior hockey team were told to surrender to [...]

Byline: MARK MACKINNON; Staff IZYUM, UKRAINE -- As a reporter, Anastasiya Garagulya understood that the news being published and broadcast in her city by the Russian occupation authorities was propaganda. [...]

Byline: ARUNA DUTT, BARRY HERTZ If you haven't been paying careful attention to pop culture this year, hey, we understand. But now is the perfect time for The Globe and [...]

Byline: Elahe Izadi The Boston Globe has joined a handful of newsrooms around the country doing something once unthinkable: changing old articles because they are ruining a person's life. The [...]

Byline: David Von Drehle Could it be a civic duty to tune out the news? Journalist Oliver Burkeman floats this provocative idea in a recent essay published in the Guardian [...]

Byline: Hamza Shaban Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Monday that Facebook users will start to see more local news stories in their News Feed. The announcement marks the third major [...]

Byline: Elisabeth Joy LaMotte Recently, one of the couples I work with as a therapist in Washington came to me with a new concern. The couple (let's call them Sally [...]

Byline: Keith Blackman As a Washington, D.C.-based public relations professional, I handle a daily mix of public affairs and crisis situations. It's my job to advise clients on how to [...]

Byline: Kate Milford and Fran Wilde In fiction, dystopias come and go, but magic and monsters are forever. During times of real-world upheaval, tales of fantasy can provide a useful [...]

Byline: Caitlin Dewey On June 4, the satirical news site the Science Post published a block of 'lorem ipsum' text under a frightening headline: 'Study: 70% of Facebook users only [...]

When we comment on news stories, most of us hope to say something about the topic at hand -- even (or maybe especially) if it's that the author got it [...]

Byline: Sarah Maraniss Vander Schaaff I was nearly 8 years old when an Air Florida Boeing 737-200 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River on [...]

WE find it easier, in these confused times, to admire physical bravery than moral courage -- the courage of the life of the mind, or of public figures. A man [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Weise, @eweise, USA TODAY Turn off the TV. That's the most important advice for parents from child mental health experts in the wake of the Boston bombings. 'Young [...]

Sports, despite the occasional tie and the persistent attempts to award every child a medal in American primary schools, still boils down to winners and losers. There seemed to be [...]

THE NEW YORK TIMES'S two-partseries on the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community two weeks ago was an eye-opener, exploring the plight of child sexual abuse victims and their advocates as they struggled [...]

THOSE WEREN'T JUST tank lights leaving the desert behind. That was the darkness of a nearly nine-year war made visible. The soldiers moved through the sandstorms, and landed back home [...]

Byline: KELLI KORDUCKI THE ACTION 1. Mississauga Hamilton resident Abrahaam Benmoise has been charged in an RCMP seizure of approximately 100,000 fake Viagra and Cialis pills, as well as $6-million [...]

While people debated whether Web sites like Twitter were important in organizing protests in Tunisia and Egypt, Andy Carvin was organizing information about the protests in an innovative way. Mr. [...]

Vancouver, British Columbia When people ask me, an American expat, what it's like living in Canada, I tell them, ''It's kind of like living in the States, if the States [...]

Byline: From The Sports Xchange Arizona: RHP Rodrigo Lopez has given up 23 home runs, which led the major leagues through Sunday. RHP Dan Haren (21) was tied for second [...]

Byline: ROY MACGREGOR THIS COUNTRY / JOIN THE CONVERSATION on globeandmail.com Fear sure ain't what it used to be. North Korea's threat to 'wipe the United States off the map' [...]

Byline: KAREN VON HAHN; kvonhahn@globeandmail.com I'm lucky to have the best job around. One reason I know it is that everyone else wants to do it. Whenever I bump into [...]

Byline: JIM BROWN; The Canadian Press OTTAWA -- From terrorism to tasers, from pensions to the perils of solitary policing, the RCMP have been squarely in the public eye for [...]