EDITORIAL -- A tragedy in Stoneham should spark a push to update Mass. rules for micromobility devices -- Massachusetts law hasn't kept up with rapidly changing micromobility technology that's blurring the lines between bikes, e-bikes, mopeds, dirt bikes, motorcycles, and scooters.

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IDEAS | TOMMY BARONE -- What made Harvard get softer on its students -- Campus battles over DEI and free speech are part of a much larger change in philosophy that took hold over decades. Will the administration show tough love now?

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Eugene Scott -- Most in GOP say: No so fast, Mr. President -- Trump loyalists want broad powers, but most Republicans don't.

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EDITORIAL -- Pharmacy deserts make staying healthy harder -- Payment reform could shore up struggling drugstores.

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IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER -- The heroic excavators of government secrets -- For 40 years, document nerds at the National Security Archive have been discovering things our leaders would rather you didn't know. Today their job may be harder than ever.

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ALAN WIRZBICKI -- It's getting hard to ignore e-bikes' dangers -- If drivers of cars are responsible for their crashes, drivers of e-bikes are responsible for theirs.

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A Thanksgiving to celebrate the courage of others -- Now if only it will become contagious.

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Trump's ICE dragnet catches Leavitt's family member -- The White House press secretary's response? Distance.

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JEFF JACOBY -- When two families say 'I do' -- A marriage binds households into a wider circle of kin, giving children more people to count on.

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Renée Graham -- In a difficult year, what — and who — I'm thankful for -- I am most thankful for those who've cast aside their comfort, found communion with their neighbors, and refuse to remain silent.

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Natalia Barron Cervantes, Cassandra M. Kelleher, and Peter T. Masiakos -- Massachusetts laws haven't kept up with e-bike technology, and children are paying the price -- Children are riding powerful machines without adequate safeguards.

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Will Austin -- Boston should return to the neighborhood school -- The current school assignment system is expensive, confusing, and ineffective. Mayor Wu has earned the political capital to fix it.

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Richard Galvin and Kathy Abbott -- Boston needs a plan to pay for flood protection -- Boston can look to other cities to learn how they developed investment strategies.

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Karen Stabiner -- Am I too old to do this anymore? -- I'd passed my cycling expiration date and never noticed. I am an anomaly merely by doing what I have always done.

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Since when are nurses not professionals?

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Assessing Roxbury Community College's success

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PODCAST | SAY MORE -- A Boston veteran's 57-year journey to find peace -- Kevin Cullen shares the story of one Boston veteran who spent decades finding peace after a devastating experience in Vietnam.

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EDITORIAL -- Rage over a lost penny -- The president wanted to look bold by eliminating the penny. But shouldn't the administration have planned ahead for the consequences?

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JEFF JACOBY -- The right's immune system is finally fighting back against antisemitism. Maybe. -- A backlash from conservatives against right-wing influencers is a rare sign of hope.

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PODCAST | SAY MORE -- In Boston and New York, progressive millennial mayors are having a moment -- What can Democrats learn from Michelle Wu and Zohran Mamdani?

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The long, strange trip of David Brudnoy

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Wu made two good School Committee appointments. With their terms ending, she should reappoint them.

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Bill Belichick wrote the book on winning. Then he broke his own rules.

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Boston's World Cup moment in the sun gets some shade

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The awkward Thanksgiving of O. Henry's 'two gentlemen'

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Paul Karasik -- Wicked good Boston merch ideas

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Calluses: True stories from an ICU -- An ICU nurse explores the similarities between bedside manner and the hard calluses developed when learning to play guitar in this interactive comic.

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The Wisdom Issue: How to grow old — without getting old -- Writers of a certain age on the challenges, delights, surprises, preoccupations, and freedoms of growing older.

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True stories from an ICU: Was it right to keep their sister alive? -- An illustrated opinion piece that explores the emotional impact of hospice care on ICU nurses and hospital employees.

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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.

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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.

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Not so fast, fashion -- How to be fashionable and equitable while saving the planet from climate change.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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