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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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IDEAS | RICHARD HANANIA -- Why Trump is surprisingly good at handling the Middle East -- The president's achievements in the region are due to traits that are considered major character flaws in other contexts.

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EDITORIAL -- 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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IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF -- May I have a word: A new term becomes a smash hit -- There is a real word for this situation, but it wasn't getting the job done anymore.

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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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Finding beds for the homeless in West Roxbury -- Massachusetts is facing a housing crisis — and the most extreme manifestation of that crisis is homelessness.

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MLB, NBA indictments show growing danger of prop bets to integrity of sports -- Microbetting on sports has proven a bridge too far, tempting players and bettors alike.

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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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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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RENÉE GRAHAM -- Trump believes affordability is 'a con job by the Democrats.' He's wrong. -- The president can't relate to the kind of supermarket sticker shock rattling millions nationwide.

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JEFF JACOBY -- The two faces of human stubbornness -- Our "inelastic" loyalties to products and ideas can be ennobling — or corrupting.

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Renée Graham -- All the president's offenders -- Trump's pardons are a middle finger to anyone who refuses to forget the myths that reached a violent coda on Jan. 6, 2021.

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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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Lara Jirmanus, Aaron Shakow, and Sandra Susan Smith -- Harvard idealizes pluralism. It needs restorative justice instead. -- This is a crisis as serious as any in Harvard's 400-year history. The university is failing in its duty to make academic freedom real for all.

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Jamie Van Nostrand -- Why Mass. gas bills are rising — and what we need to do about it -- Most of what customers now pay each month no longer goes toward fuel, but toward rebuilding and maintaining a gas network that is larger than is necessary to meet future needs.

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Elissa Ely -- Falling into others' arms -- Dignity at life's end and on a mountain trail.

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Suit over LGBTQ+ content in Lexington schools is a lesson in intolerance

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No surprise — views are split over Hassan's defense of her shutdown vote

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Democrats should embrace the idea of gun safety classes in schools

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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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IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG -- Mamdani won. So did Democrats in New Jersey and Virginia. Their brand is still toxic. -- There is only one way to solve the party's enduring problem.

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How to make streets feel safer without adding police

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Why top colleges should cut back on early decision admissions

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The Justice Department's war on judges

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Why the funding for Trump's White House renovation is so problematic

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The right's reckoning with hate: What happens when extremists take the mic

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What James Watson got wrong about DNA

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Why I voted to end the government shutdown

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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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