Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s publicly hosted holiday party excluding white elected officials is questionable optics and judgment for someone who is supposed to be uniting the city. As the Herald first reported, Wu hosted the party for an “electeds of color” group only on Wednesday night.

Some days it’s with a text. On others, it’s a call, even just to leave a message. President Joe Biden reaches out to his son Hunter regularly to check on him. And increasingly, those messages have taken on a fresh sense of urgency. The younger Biden is facing new criminal charges.