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SCOT LEHIGH -- A brush with political death could make Mike Johnson a better speaker -- Democrats saved his speakership, but their continued emergency aid will require his reciprocal respect.15 hours ago
MARCELA GARCÍA -- Concord's school-naming controversy: Will a Black pioneer be honored? -- The effort to name a new middle school after Ellen Garrison, an acclaimed Black educator, has roiled the town.17 hours ago
Joan Fitzgerald and Gregory King -- How to bring solar energy to low-income communities -- Low- and moderate-income households are only a small percentage of those benefiting from community solar. A couple of projects in Boston are seeking to change that.6 days ago
Judith Garcia -- Legislature should pass health equity bill -- Access to quality health care should not be determined by one's ZIP code, income level, or ethnicity.6 days ago
Kim Janey -- Mass. should focus on long-term solutions for homeless families -- Enough with arbitrary shelter caps.6 days ago
House leaders lard up the state budget with a side of pork -- Stealth earmarks just appear in the final hour even at a time of so-called fiscal restraint.23 hours ago
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SAY MORE -- Amy Tan reflects on her new nonfiction book. 'Birds were fun ... fiction writing is torment.' -- The "Joy Luck Club" author talks about her obsession with birds in her backyard and what it means to write a book that isn't about Chinese culture.6 days ago
JEFF JACOBY -- Deep in a hole, Kristi Noem keeps digging -- She fabricated an anecdote about meeting North Korea's Kim Jong Un. Then she made things worse.9 days ago
EDITORIAL -- Columbia canceled its main commencement. Other schools shouldn't follow its lead. -- Students have a right to protest, but graduates have a right to a cherished life event.3 days ago
ALAN WIRZBICKI -- An elegy for Boomerangs -- The thrift shop chain will close in June, after years of supplying the community with used books and records, oddball furniture, and a vast number of mugs.15 days ago
EDITORIAL -- Healey's ADU proposal: small homes, big impact -- A change to the state's zoning rules could yield thousands of new homes — if legislators can see past the complaints of some local officials.6 days ago
IDEAS | BRIAN BERGSTEIN -- Why people see truth in Trump's lies -- Rhetoric scholar Robin Reames explores how people develop views that the opposing political tribe finds abhorrent.6 days ago
CAMILA KERWIN -- Beecher's bibles5 days ago
CHRISTOPHER WEYANT -- It turns out RFK Jr. is a pretty good job creator6 days ago
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Will Dowd -- Remembering Dorothea von Ertmann12 days ago
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The future of marriage equality1 hour ago
Karen Read trial: How the bland and mundane morphed into the dark and dangerous15 hours ago
Health care in Massachusetts is in need of reform17 hours ago
How did DCF fail to notice their social worker was attending high school?23 hours ago
The lawyer who led the case for marriage equality in Massachusetts1 day ago
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Margaret Marshall and the judicial decision that changed the nation2 days ago
How far has the stigma around AIDS really faded?1 day ago
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IDEAS -- Blueprints for a new downtown Boston -- It's time to reimagine the identity of the city's core — and we've got ideas.1 month ago
When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse -- An interactive comic that explores how medical mistakes can happen in the chaotic environment of an ICU.1 month ago
Not so fast, fashion -- How to be fashionable and equitable while saving the planet from climate change.1 month ago
Teens Speak -- We asked. They delivered. Teens from across the country offer a candid look at how they're navigating life, school, friendships, social media, expectations, and so much more.1 month ago
Blue sky Boston: Where inspiration meets aspiration for the city's future -- Sustainable living. Gondolas. A science expo. Evaluation of student humanity. Here's what a Boston of the future could be.1 month ago
ERNESTO BARBIERI WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JESS RULIFFSON -- Tenderness and brutality: True stories from an ICU nurse -- An illustrated opinion piece that examines the porous border between healing and suffering in one hospital's intensive care unit.1 month ago
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG -- How Uphams Corner got wealthier without getting whiter -- The scrappy Dorchester neighborhood has fulfilled the community activist's dream: development without displacement.1 month ago
IDEAS -- Where did all the workers go? -- For two years, employers have been desperate for workers — and there's no indication the labor shortage will soon change. What are we losing — and possibly gaining — as a result?1 month ago
IDEAS | PETER THOMSON -- The radical, forgotten experiment in educational integration that changed my life -- In 1971, kids from Roxbury and Lincoln spent half the year attending school together in the city and the other half in the suburb. Fifty years later, I tracked down my fellow students to see how it shaped them — and whether something like it could work today.1 month ago
Globe Opinion's 2022 Top 10 -- The readers have spoken: Take a tour through The Boston Globe opinion section's top 10 most read columns, editorials, cartoons, letters, and Ideas stories of 2022.1 month ago
RENÉE GRAHAM -- Remembering trans lives taken in 2022 -- Even before a gunman killed five people and injured nearly 20 last month at Club Q, a popular LGBTQ nightspot in Colorado Springs, Colo., 2022 was already a deadly year for trans and gender nonconforming people. At least 35 have been killed nationwide, most of them Black trans women.1 month ago
TIMELINE -- Assault on American democracy -- Jan. 6, 2021, was one of the most alarming days in American history. Boston Globe Opinion columns, editorials, letters, and cartoons untangle the continuing aftermath of the attack on the US Capitol.1 month ago
IDEAS | JOAN VENNOCHI -- How the MBTA went off the rails -- Nearly everything about Boston has changed in the past few decades, yet the T has the same big problem — a failure to prioritize the rider experience above all.1 month ago
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG -- Boston was once a wildly ambitious city. It's time to go big again. -- Soaring housing costs, a broken T, and other existential problems require sweeping fixes that meet the moment.1 month ago
Young people and the power of social media -- Social media holds enormous power over young people. Can they find a way to navigate safely through its ever-changing landscape?1 month ago
How do we memorialize the pandemic? -- As the United States neared its one millionth COVID-19 related death, artists, architects, and community leaders are calling for a permanent memorial to honor all those touched by COVID. Globe Opinion asked several artists for their vision of what a COVID memorial could look like.1 month ago
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IDEAS | ABDALLAH FAYYAD -- Editing the Constitution -- The Constitution is undergoing massive changes in the Supreme Court. It's time to put the founding document in the hands of the people.1 month ago
IDEAS -- The Future of Work -- The past year has shattered expectations of what workdays look like. Parenting while Zooming. An uncrowded T. Wary interactions with customers. In this special issue of Ideas, we explore which of these changes will stick — and how they'll affect the quality of our lives.1 month ago
The Longevity Hub -- The Boston Globe Opinion section and MIT's AgeLab present The Longevity Hub, an ongoing series seeking to spark Greater Boston's transformation into the Silicon Valley of aging.1 month ago
EDITORIAL -- Future-proofing the presidency -- Donald Trump brought our democracy to the brink and exposed its weak spots. Here's how to thwart the next American tyrant.1 month ago
EDITORIAL -- A battle for affordable housing in Massachusetts -- The Globe editorial board's 2020 series on the need for inclusive housing reform in Newton and across the Commonwealth.1 month ago
Brave New Planet -- Brave New Planet is a podcast that delves deep into the most exciting and challenging scientific frontiers, helping us understand them and grapple with their implications. Dr. Eric Lander, president and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, is host.1 month ago
The future of food -- What we eat, where it comes from, and how we get it are being reimagined like never before. In this special issue, we celebrate the role of food in our communities and explore how it can be tastier, more accessible, and healthier for us and the planet.1 month ago
Letters -- Postcards from the pandemic -- Invited to take a walk, in fact, lots of walks; dining room table repurposed — a snapshot of how readers were coping.1 year ago
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The Other swing voter -- Political coverage often focuses on voters who oscillate between political parties in a few key swing states. Here we feature perspectives and opinions from and about demographics of Americans — young voters and Black and brown voters —who swing between voting and not voting.1 year ago
From voter suppression to gerrymandering to foreign interference, the integrity of US elections is under attack. In a three-part weekly series, Globe Opinion examines how the nation arrived at this moment and what needs to be done to protect voting rights.2 years ago
Thomas E. Patterson -- Trapped: Why the GOP's death is imminent -- The Republican Party is destroying itself. Thomas Patterson of the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center explains the five traps the party has set for itself and warns that the party's future is in peril without reform.1 year ago
Black voices now -- Globe Opinion seeks to amplify the perspectives and the voices of Black community members, scholars, activists, doctors, teachers, business leaders, students, and parents as op-ed and letter writers, and as innovators and provocateurs featured in Globe Ideas. Here we feature Black voices from the community amid the historic protests following the killing of George Floyd. We aim to amplify yet more Black voices going forward.1 month ago
IDEAS -- Massachusetts Works -- We turn the typical model of journalism on its head — instead of focusing on what's broken, we're taking a look at what Massachusetts gets right.1 month ago
Legal Lens documentaries -- Law and documentary film may seem far apart, but they actually share many connections. With the guidance of filmmaker and producer Joseph Tovares and support from the Hewlett Foundation, 12 Harvard Law School students from eight countries have worked since January on the Legal Lens project. You can view the films here on BostonGlobe.com.1 month ago
Choosing, using, and losing your health care: A policy first-aid kit -- In a four-part weekly series, Globe Opinion offers a baseline assessment of health care as well as prescriptions for fixing the industry.1 month ago
Journalists are not the enemy -- A central pillar of President Trump's politics is a sustained assault on the free press. Journalists are not classified as fellow Americans, but rather "the enemy of the people."1 month ago
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