2025 in review: The biggest stories from Boston and around Massachusetts
As we wrap up 2025, the journalists at GBH News have been reflecting on the headlines that defined the year.
Meet three authors who wrote some of the most banned books in America
Jodi Picoult, Maia Kobabe and Sandra Cisneros have each written books that have been challenged and banned throughout the country.
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Mass. party heads spar on ethics of public tips to ICE
Steve Kerrigan and Amy Carnevale had starkly different takes on BU junior Zac Segal’s purported behavior and the response it's elicited. -
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International student enrollment falls sharply in US, early data show
A new report released Monday indicates first-year foreign enrollment this fall is down 17%. -
A sitdown with Mass. Senate president: Spilka wants to ‘be bold’ on housing
Sen. Karen Spilka checked in on her legislative priorities, transparency and the state’s response to the Trump administration. -
USDA worker appeals firing for talking to press about food assistance during shutdown
Ellen Mei is challenging a termination she says violates her First Amendment rights.
GBH News podcasts
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Scratch & Win
Never in American history has it been so easy to gamble legally. -
College Uncovered
GBH News in collaboration with The Hechinger Report, goes behind the scenes to show you how higher education really works. -
What Is Owed?
Boston has begun to wrestle with the notion of paying reparations to Black people to make up for 400 years of enslavement and economic exclusion. -
The Big Dig Podcast
This Peabody Award–winning podcast dives into the cynicism that hangs over the topic of American infrastructure. No project embodies that cynicism quite like ‘The Big Dig.’
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