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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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Bernie Sanders -- Republicans finally want to talk about health care. That's good — but their ideas are absurd. -- Their proposals would take our already broken health care system and make it even worse. Here's what we should do instead.

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IDEAS | LISA SELIN DAVIS -- A chance to depoliticize gender-affirming care -- A report commissioned by the Trump administration manages to look at the evidence for youth gender medicine outside of a left-right framing.

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JEFF JACOBY -- The Allston Car Wash raid and what it means to be a neighbor -- The raid was harsh. The self-righteousness of a College Republican was worse.

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Rebecca Spiess -- Is Cambridge's equity-based school system finally facing a reality check? -- Elizabeth Hudson has tapped into public frustration that, despite lavish spending on schools, persistent achievement gaps in Cambridge remain.

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EDITORIAL -- Don't eliminate the option of state receivership for failing schools -- Receivership should be a last resort if local officials can't, or won't, improve their schools.

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IDEAS | ZOE YU -- What a '90s sitcom can teach us about male and female friendships -- A digital divide is driving the sexes apart like never before.

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Renée Graham -- Michelle Obama is right. America 'ain't ready' for a woman president. -- It pains me to say that most men with Harris's and Clinton's qualifications probably would have wiped the floor with Trump.

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Would you hire an electrician from Harvard Vocational School? -- The Trump administration wants the university to open a vocational school. It's not as crazy an idea as you think.

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After scandals, Senate bill would make needed changes to cannabis commission -- Voters legalized marijuana in 2016, but the entity tasked with regulating recreational cannabis has proven to be dysfunctional.

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- The Larry Summers distraction -- Caught up in the Epstein scandal, the former Harvard president said he is 'deeply ashamed.' But what about Trump? He has no shame.

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RENÉE GRAHAM -- Note to Democrats: Marjorie Taylor Greene is not your friend -- After criticizing Trump, the Republican representative got death threats — and an invitation from across the aisle.

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- State GOP candidates at odds over ICE car wash raid -- Mike Kennealy joining John Deaton in warning against racial profiling.

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Jill Abramson -- Epstein, RFK Jr., and journalism's week of shame -- The lines not to be crossed are clear: Reporters must keep a journalistic distance from sources and people in the news.

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Eugene Scott -- Liberals need to think beyond the Beltway and go local -- Democrats' biggest successes can be found not in D.C., but in local politics instead.

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Black troops un-memorialized at US WWII cemetery in Netherlands

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Trump can barely muster a shrug over killing of Jamal Khashoggi

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In Trump era it's harder to teach middle schoolers kindness, respect

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Younger candidates, sure, but where are the young Democratic voters?

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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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Finding beds for the homeless in West Roxbury

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The unintended consequences of AI in medicine

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Harvard idealizes pluralism. It needs restorative justice instead.

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Why Mass. gas bills are rising — and what we need to do about it

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Trump believes affordability is 'a con job by the Democrats.' He's wrong.

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MLB, NBA indictments show growing danger of prop bets to integrity of sports

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The two faces of human stubbornness

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Venezuelans might not mind an American invasion

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WILL DOWD -- Remembering Regina and Bobby

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CHRISTOPHER WEYANT -- Back to abnormal

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PATRICK CHAPPATTE -- Quick, tear it all down! The Epstein vote is coming.

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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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