Editor's Note

Dear Reader, This week, our issue opens with a Camberville double feature. First, we turn to an outgrowth of Cambridge's competitive parenting culture. SAB and AJPL take an in-depth look at the Russian School of Mathematics, an after-school math program with 15 centers in Massachusetts alone. So many students have enrolled in the program that it's begun to change the inner workings of Cambridge classrooms. What does it mean for Cambridge students when the center of learning moves beyond the school day? In our second scrutiny, RCG and CJ examine polyamory in Somerville. In 2020, Somerville became the first U.S. city to allow groups of more than two partners to register for a domestic partnership. At the time, the ordinance received national media attention. Five years out, this story asks: What is it actually like to be polyamorous in Somerville? Elsewhere in this issue: KJK's column on corecore, SG's 15Q with Benjamin L. Bivort, SG's conversation with Taylor Swift scholar Stephanie Burt, HGL's review of the grand opening PopUp Bagels, MAB and VO's venn diagram about turkey terrorism, and MEL's lovely endpaper about unseen sickness. FMLove, YAK+MTB