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Boston Globe - Opinion

RENÉE GRAHAM -- SCOTUS, Megyn Kelly, and the howl of racists exhaling -- Holding their tongues no more, their hate has been normalized.

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EDITORIAL -- Green menace: Toxic blooms are shuttering Massachusetts lakes and ponds

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Norman Rockwell's America takes on Trump's anti-immigration agenda -- A museum display is a gut check on America in 2026.

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Ashish K. Jha -- The obesity curve finally bent. Now comes the hard part. -- The decline in obesity rates is a medical triumph. But millions remain locked out by high costs, uneven insurance coverage, and bureaucratic barriers.

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EDITORIAL -- Cambridge's street-sweeping experiment isn't working. What if we raised the price of parking permits instead? -- Making street parking more expensive — particularly for households with more than one registered vehicle — could help reduce the number of cars on the curb and open up more street parking spaces.

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IDEAS | NIR EYAL -- In Singapore, police arrested an 18-year-old for licking a straw. Here's what we can learn from that. -- When public order breaks down, Americans lose something precious.

19 hours ago

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- Supreme Court's transgender sports ruling rests on a myth -- In upholding trans athlete bans, the Supreme Court leaned on unsupported claims about fairness and safety.

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Back Bay blight: The city should do more to address crumbling buildings -- Four vacant buildings on Boylston raise important questions about how the city should combat blight.

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How to prevent another crisis in the public defender system -- Massachusetts can't afford another crisis in the criminal justice system.

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With energy costs rising, Massachusetts should make solar simpler -- The Legislature should adopt Australia's more streamlined approach.

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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- Supreme Court is turning Trump into the king he wants to be -- Smashing precedent and historical tradition, the court's conservative supermajority declared that Trump has the right to fire those he doesn't find sufficiently loyal. That's a coronation.

1 day ago

RENÉE GRAHAM -- Trump's slimy, swampy eyesore in Washington, D.C. -- And the Reflecting Pool isn't looking too good either.

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Cari Medina, Katie Murphy, and Steve Walsh -- Every 36 minutes a health care worker is assaulted -- Massachusetts lawmakers should pass bipartisan workplace violence reforms before the legislative session ends.

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Adam Omary -- The disability accommodation trap on college campuses -- Once enough students receive extra time, private testing rooms, and deadline extensions, their classmates face a choice: seek the same advantages or fall behind.

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Charter schools can be both antiracist and exceptional -- Black and brown families are seeking out charter public schools at high rates because at charters, their children are excelling.

19 hours ago

Making science funding political -- "This set of proposed rules represents a Project 2025 for science."

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Son's attack highlights mental health crisis -- Across Massachusetts, families desperately seek help for loved ones whose illnesses impair their ability to recognize they need treatment.

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Does Trump know what a passport is? -- Trump is bafflingly telling US citizens, "Welcome, but be good!"

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Why Gish Jen talks to the dead -- The writer's new novel "Bad Bad Girl" blends truth and fiction to dissect the cultural divide between mother and daughter.

6 months ago

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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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?

7 months ago

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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Quiet regulation changes could censor vital research

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Could 'Golden Girls'-style homesharing solve the state's housing woes?

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Is fear of AI stifling rural Maine's economic rebirth?

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A housing fix that doesn't fix housing

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The Supreme Court cherry-picks on gun control

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Religious freedom stops at the prison gate

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The government should not be using political standards to judge scientific grants

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Preserving America's unfinished experiment

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CHRISTOPHER WEYANT -- Missing the Scots

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SAGE STOSSEL -- The curse of Widow's Bay

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BETH WOLFENSBERGER SINGER -- How to dodge darkness

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Lost and/or found: Ten weird but totally true Boston stories -- Have you heard of the Boston Garden Monkey? How about the alligator in the Charles River? See what else we've uncovered.

3 months ago

Everything I needed to know about work and life ... I learned selling sneakers -- This isn't a story about sneakerheads. This is about what working in 1980s Toronto retail taught me about empathy, resilience, and paying attention.

5 months ago

The Wild Issue -- This special edition of Globe Ideas goes to mountaintops, rivers, urban parks, and open fields to unearth surprising stories about what nature means today.

6 months ago

The Revolution lives on -- 250 years later, the fight for American independence is still full of surprising stories and unresolved questions. Explore them in this special issue of Globe Ideas.

6 months ago

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.

1 year ago

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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Blueprints for a new downtown Boston -- It's time to reimagine the identity of the city's core — and we've got ideas.

6 months 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.

2 years ago

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

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