IDEAS | JOHN MAC GHLIONN -- The next recession could be a middle-class massacre -- We're not ready for what's about to hit.

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Sally Kornbluth -- America built the world's greatest research engine. Now it's shrinking. -- At public and private universities across the country, high-impact science is being damaged and derailed.

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

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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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State Police Academy heads for its overdue overhaul -- Want to end barking Logan troopers? Don't have drill instructors barking at them.

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Balancing growth: Everett's right-sized approach to data centers makes sense -- Anti-data center fervor has taken hold. But the facilities are a necessary tool to make our modern economy run and a source of jobs and tax revenue.

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Kara Bettis Carvalho -- Tipping culture is out of control. The World Cup might offer a fix. -- The games will give restaurants the freedom to experiment with mandated tips.

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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- At the Supreme Court, a small victory against racial discrimination -- With an unusual lineup, the court acknowledges that race, at least in the criminal justice context, still matters.

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RENÉE GRAHAM -- Jim Crow 2.0 is already working as the Supreme Court's conservatives intended -- For decades, Republicans have been trying to kneecap the Voting Rights Act.

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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- Justice still blooms in Alabama -- An Alabama court refused to allow state Republicans to use a map that packs most of the state's Black voters into a single district, weakening their voting power.

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Heather Hopp-Bruce -- Oh crap, the garden catalogs are here -- For poor gardeners like me, they read like an obituary to past plantings.

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Ray Takeyh and Katerina Viyella -- When US pressure on Iran and Cuba doesn't produce compliance -- Revolutionary regimes continue to frustrate American strategies built on leverage and isolation.

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Tram Hoang and Mark Paul -- The fastest way to ease the housing crisis? Rent control. -- It would help tenants stay in their homes and strengthen neighborhood ties.

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Jonah Karafiol and Jeffrey Miron -- Rent control would hurt the people it intends to help -- The state needs to build more housing, not to ration the housing it state already has.

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Letters to the editor

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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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Judicial temperament is lacking on the Supreme Court -- Maybe the most difficult qualities for a judge to achieve are open-mindedness and freedom from bias.

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Platner had his tattoo covered. Auchincloss brings it back to the surface. -- Calling fellow Democrat Graham Platner's now-covered tattoo "disqualifying," Representative Jake Auchincloss has stirred up the Maine Senate race. Readers are not pleased with the Massachusetts congressman.

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Gray area makes a mess of well-intended broker fee law -- We had long suspected that the gray area as to when the landlord or the tenant would be subject to paying the fee could lead to abuse, confusion, and litigation.

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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?

6 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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Finding the next Parole Board member just got harder

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The least glamorous wedding ever

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True believers in academic freedom are becoming harder to find

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For Trump, the violence is the message

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Auchincloss vs. Platner is about more than a tattoo

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Wesley Hunt says Jim Crow is gone. Many Black Americans aren't convinced.

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Development would bring needed health care, housing to former Carney Hospital

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I coined the term 'intersectionality.' I helped develop critical race theory. Here's why.

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

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CAMILA KERWIN -- Who will our tribe be?

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CHRISTOPHER WEYANT -- Fear of inheritance

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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.

4 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.

5 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.

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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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