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As you spend more time around Boston, the Charles River infuses into your consciousness, writes Fred Hewett, who's lived within a mile of the river for more than 40 years. The Charles can make the city yours, he writes.
There’s been a lot of news in the last 10 years. Cognoscenti has tried to hold space for the personal, the very human, even in -- maybe especially in -- times or events that feel too big to put into words.
Highlights from the year that was on Cognoscenti: the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the tumultuous Trump era draws to a close, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a racial reckoning roils the U.S. and President-elect Joe Biden. (Getty and AP Images) We wrongly presumed last January that the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump would be the biggest news story of the year. Clearly, 2020 had other ideas. In the 450 pieces we published this year, we covered a national reckoning on race, a presidential primary season and general election, a warming climate, a Supreme Court vacancy, an immigrati...