Associate editor and columnist
Thomas Farragher is a Globe columnist and associate editor. He shared the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for public service for the Globe Spotlight Team’s coverage of the clergy sexual abuse crisis. He spent eight years, from 2006 to 2014, as editor of the Spotlight Team. His columns appears regularly in the Globe.
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THOMAS FARRAGHER
Reclaiming a culture, reclaiming a life
By Thomas Farragher , Globe Columnist
A new documentary offers a look at how Penobscot Native Americans were subject to “cultural genocide.”
THOMAS FARRAGHER
Forty years on the front lines of New England-style of democracy
By Thomas Farragher , Globe Columnist
At the center of town meetings each spring are moderators like Everett Poole, democracy’s traffic cops, who try to keep the debate moving and fruitlessly attempt to keep the local gadflies in check.
THOMAS FARRAGHER
‘Failure is not an option’: A young couple is going all in on their dream of a maple syrup farm in Vt.
By Thomas Farragher , Globe Columnist
A young couple in Vermont has gone all in as they try to run their maple syrup farm. It’s a labor of love — with an emphasis on labor.
Thomas Farragher
Flames vs. the philosopher: It was no match
By Thomas Farragher , Globe Columnist
“Plato would say that when you’re up against a problem, you have to face it squarely,’’ says Bill Quill, 78.