Hiawatha Bray

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Hiawatha Bray

But what if you’re after something deeper? Say you want to know more about Project 2025, the famous, or notorious, master plan drawn up for the Trump administration by the right-wing Heritage Foundation. When I typed “tell me about Project 2025″ into Google, I got a respectable list of useful websites, including a Wikipedia article, a critique from the American Civil Liberties Union and a link to Project 2025 itself. Not bad.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Hiawatha Bray

It’s official — the Trump administration has signed off on a new 25 percent tariff on imported cars and car parts. And that means already high car prices are destined to go even higher. But not just yet. The tariffs don’t apply to vehicles already on dealer lots, and the supply of these pre-tariff vehicles will last for a month or more, depending on the make and model. So for people in the market for a new car at a good price, the clock is ticking. How much sooner? That depends.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Hiawatha Bray

Through a stroke of exceptional carelessness, President Trump’s top deputies got caught this week discussing sensitive military operations via the popular smartphone app Signal. The brewing scandal might actually be worse than it looks. If you’re an everyday consumer, you can’t do much better than Signal’s message encryption services to protect the privacy of your correspondence. And security services on consumer-grade iPhones and Androids has gotten pretty good too.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Hiawatha Bray

Howard owns 617 Defense, a company that offers firearms training throughout Greater Boston. He’s also president of the Massachusetts chapter of the National African American Gun Association, an organization that boasts 45,000 members nationwide, nearly half of them women. And he’s one of several local Black entrepreneurs serving a growing market niche: Black people who feel the need to arm themselves. A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Hiawatha Bray

Let’s see... a falling stock market, waning consumer confidence, a raging trade war between the US and Canada. Yes, it’s beginning to look a lot like recession. Maybe it isn’t the ideal moment for Apple to kill off its least expensive smartphone, the $429 iPhone SE, and replace it with the new $600 iPhone 16e. But with iPhone sales slumping lately, the product line needed something more than a facelift.