“I’ve always wanted to be older,” said 19-year-old Ella Mae Dixon, the cabaret singer who grew up in Wellfleet, in a recent story. “I can’t explain it.” Jennifer Senior writes […]

Is going to town meeting a waste of time? Is our peculiar brand of local government really an exercise in pure democracy, as we are often told, or is the […]

Our friend and mentor Robert Kuttner wrote this week in the American Prospect about the death on March 28 of Margot Stern Strom, the Brookline teacher who in 1975 created […]

Writing on the editorial page of the New York Times on Monday this week, three humanist technology researchers delivered this prediction: artificial intelligence (A.I.) is probably going to destroy humanity […]

Town meetings are coming, and we are wondering how local citizens and governments will navigate hot-button issues this year. At last spring’s town meeting in Truro, a proposed change in […]

Words matter. They can be used to hide the truth or to reveal it. The Provincetown Select Board gave us a fine example of the latter this week. One month […]

Walking to our office in Whalers Wharf the other day, I passed by a busker outside Marine Specialties playing the guitar and singing an old Beatles song: “What would you […]

The Truro Health Dept. threatened in 2019 to close down the Truro Motor Inn where 50 people, including several children, were living in overcrowded motel rooms. Electric service designed for […]

A lot of us live on Outer Cape Cod because someone drew us here. My sister, Harriet Miller, was the one who got us to Wellfleet. She served on the […]

The indispensable historian Heather Cox Richardson wrote this week in her “Letters From an American” about the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on […]

“By the early years of the twenty-first century, police had become a normal presence in sites ranging from mental health agencies to hospital emergency rooms to schools to welfare offices,” […]

Unexpected connections here often take the form of discovering who is related to whom — that the furniture maker who lives down the road is the cousin of the guy […]

“All authority implies an extreme reluctance to admit past error,” wrote British novelist Patrick O’Brian in The Letter of Marque. O’Brian was writing about the Royal Navy, but the truth […]

Is the Outer Cape a good place for children to grow up? I’ve always thought so. The natural beauty that has inspired so many artists and writers — the sea, […]

“The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” This crack is attributed to Mr. Dooley, a dyspeptic Irish bartender who was the invention of […]