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Bold Types is our weekly roundup of movers and shakers on Boston's business scene.

We published hundreds of essays and commentaries in 2023. These are the pieces that attracted the most readers, and took up the most space in our hearts and brains.

Through the decades, Dukakis has been a steady, spirited presence in policy circles, encouraging new generations of students to pursue public careers; advocating for causes large and small.

Bold Types is our weekly roundup of the movers and shakers on Boston's business scene.

Geri Denterlein's husband Jack Thomas spent his final days much the same way he spent most days in their 34-year relationship: reading, writing, collecting recipes, gardening and planning ahead. "It was my life that changed," Geri writes.

Massachusetts has lost an invaluable policy strategist, mentor, and mensch.

In a remarkable essay that he wrote for the Boston Globe’s Sunday magazine in July 2021 announcing that his doctors had told him he had but a few months to live, Jack Thomas took stock of his life with a grace that defied the reality behind the accounting. He did what the King told Alice in Wonderland about telling a story: “Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to