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
N.H. woman beats the odds in arm wrestling
By Thomas Farragher , Globe Columnist
What happened one day at the Cornish Fair has led a 53-year-old New Hampshire native around the world and to the top of the arm-wrestling world.
THOMAS FARRAGHER
‘There have always been great whites down here, just not this close to the shore’
By Thomas Farragher , Globe Columnist
On the beaches along the outer Cape, this summer of the shark has seized attention and captured imagination like something out of a Steven Spielberg movie.
THOMAS FARRAGHER
It’s corn season, and the taste couldn’t be sweeter
By Thomas Farragher , Globe Columnist
Cars are crowding farmstand parking lots, and corn is being shucked, boiled, buttered and — alongside cold beers and lobster rolls — devoured at barbecues and beachside bungalows.
Thomas Farragher
Sleep, the final frontier: This guy studies it. Here’s what he has to say
By Thomas Farragher , Globe Columnist
Charles Czeisler has traveled the world in search of data about how we sleep, why we sleep, how long we sleep and how well. And there are surprises everywhere.