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IDEAS | PETER GROSZ -- Why would you leave America right now? -- So much winning.

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Ashish Jha -- America's health care boom: More administrators, fewer doctors -- Celebrating this job growth hides an expensive administrative bloat

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Auchincloss vs. Platner is about more than a tattoo

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EDITORIAL -- Travel bans aren't enough to stop Ebola's spread -- President Trump gutted the agencies that could be responding to the deadly outbreak in Congo. But it's not too late for the United States to play a more active role.

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IDEAS | PETER S. CANELLOS -- How Harvard radicals inspired the conservative legal movement -- Opposition to Cambridge leftists propelled a right-wing transformation of American society.

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RENÉE GRAHAM -- Rooting for the Knicks — and the Spurs' Victor Wembanyama — in the NBA finals -- The young standout center's willingness to cry in public may help reshape masculine emotions.

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Technology to prevent wrong-way highway crashes is proven to work. Mass. should implement changes quickly. -- Systems that detect wrong-way drivers have worked in Rhode Island and could save lives in Massachusetts too.

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Mass. is getting more granny flats. But it's still hard to build them. -- More accessory dwelling units were built in 2025, but builders still have to wade through town-by-town policies.

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Finding the next Parole Board member just got harder -- Turning down a decent public servant for no good reason is not a good look for the Governor's Council.

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IDEAS | MICHAEL SCHUR AND JOE POSNANSKI -- Why sports fans are so obsessive: A theory -- We leave behind other childish pursuits. Why not this one?

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IDEAS | NOAH ISENBERG -- In her time, Marilyn Monroe was 'sex on a piece of film.' Now, she's something more. -- Reimagining an icon on her 100th birthday.

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Ideas | Duncan Levin -- No, my grandfather did not invent lamination -- Even though the internet thinks he did.

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IDEAS | ELIZABETH SVOBODA -- The future of philanthropy is female -- More donors and foundation heads are women than ever before — and they're giving in new ways.

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- In World Cup run-up, it's Team Wu vs. Team Healey -- An argument over World Cup crowd safety at South Station reveals state and city infighting.

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ALAN WIRZBICKI -- Rhode Island cut wrong-way crashes dramatically. We can too. -- The state has been a leader in both low and high tech approaches to wrong-way driving.

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RENÉE GRAHAM -- Enough with the streaming services. I'll stick with CDs, albums, and DVDs. -- Give me the "inconvenient" life.

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Eugene Scott -- More musicians are refusing to 'shut up and sing' -- From Bruce Springsteen to Martina McBride, musicians are showing that political engagement is part of America's musical tradition.

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Mariel Garza -- From reality TV punch line to LA mayoral contender -- Spencer Pratt, the former "The Hills" villain is forcing Democrats to take him more seriously.

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Governor's Council had good reasons to reject Healey's Parole Board pick -- To suggest, as the Globe does, that any decent public servant would do a good job on the Parole Board shows a callous disregard for the incarcerated population.

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Copley Square 3.0: the unveiling, and from some, the unleashing -- I'll "give both the new Copley Square design and my reaction to it time to mellow a little," writes one reader. Another: "It's boring! Why not fill it with moveable street furniture?"

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Query for Prop 2 1/2 boosters: Where should the money come from? -- Would they support an increase in the state income tax? An increase in the "millionaires tax"? Capital gains tax? Sales tax? Expanded gambling or recreational marijuana to provide more revenue?

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A closer look at Mass General Brigham's metrics -- Readers react to a story that detailed questions surrounding MGB's mortality statistics, on which the hospital system reported it has been making strides.

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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.

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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?

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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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Classical music is bigger than its elite institutions

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When US pressure on Iran and Cuba doesn't produce compliance

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Tipping culture is out of control. The World Cup might offer a fix.

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State Police Academy heads for its overdue overhaul

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May I have a word: The noise that annoys a neighbor

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The fastest way to ease the housing crisis? Rent control.

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BETH WOLFENSBERGER SINGER -- New birth control options for 2026

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CHRISTOPHER WEYANT -- Breaking News burnout

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PAUL KARASIK -- The nest generation: An osprey's story

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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