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Alan Wirzbicki -- Advice for Harvard students on how to survive your first A-minus -- Students are upset because the Ivy League school wants to limit the number of A's it awards. But the shift could be a blessing in disguise.

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EDITORIAL -- Trump's monument to nothing now a Memorial Day insult -- Fencing and a drilling rig greet visitors to Arlington National Cemetery.

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IDEAS | Lori Cashman & Rachel Janfaza -- Gen Z's preparedness paradox -- For a generation raised on caution, taking risks may be the answer they've been looking for.

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Marcus Capone, Amber Capone, Peter Palandjian, and Eliza Dushku Palandjian -- Psychedelics therapy could save veterans' lives -- The moment for using psychedelics in medicine has arrived.

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A Memorial Day bummer for dog owners: The beach is now closed -- Is an across-the-board summer ban of dogs at the beach the only plausible solution?

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The clock is ticking: Boston and the T need to sort out the World Cup safety plan -- The city and state are arguing about whether to close a block of traffic near South Station to help ensure the safety of foreign visitors boarding trains bound for Foxborough.

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A new lawsuit forces the state to confront racial segregation in schools -- Because school assignments are largely based on ZIP code, the state's schools reflect the state's racial segregation. But separate is not equal.

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RENÉE GRAHAM -- What is lost without a 'consoler-in-chief' -- Trump's relative silence about what happened in San Diego again highlights his inability to show empathy when the nation he haphazardly leads is in pain.

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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- What to know about what's coming next at the Supreme Court -- Most of the potential blockbuster rulings that remain involve issues that intertwine law and politics.

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RIGHT, LEFT, AND CENTER -- The MAGA stranglehold over Republican voters -- Does Trump's hold over GOP primary voters strengthen the party? Or will it shrink the party to diehard MAGA loyalists and ultimately be detrimental? Three writers weigh in.

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Paul Diego Craney and Jared Walczak -- Proposition 2 1/2 still gets the balance right -- The property tax law defends Massachusetts homeowners.

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Elissa Ely -- The geography of belonging -- My village accumulates through haircuts, conversations, soup deliveries, and shared grief over aging dogs.

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Alex Beam -- The World Cup: all hype, all drama, all worth it -- The slogans are cheesy, the ticket prices obscene, and the hype endless. But no sport delivers drama quite like soccer.

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Tim Flaherty and E. Denise Simmons -- What Cambridge got wrong about ShotSpotter -- The City Council framed ShotSpotter as a civil-liberties threat but overlooked its narrow purpose: detecting gunfire quickly enough to help save lives.

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Remembering Barney Frank -- The decades-long fixture in Democratic politics and pioneering gay-rights advocate died Tuesday, at 86, of complications from congestive heart failure.

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Trump and the GOP are overbearing about the 'under-babied' -- At issue is not women's health or well-being but, rather, changing demographics that may endanger views that favor the white Christian nuclear family.

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US was not wrong to push NATO eastward -- What Stephen Kinzer got wrong about Eastern Europe and NATO.

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Remembering the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic -- The spiritual, and political, importance of remembering victims of COVID-19.

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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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So much for the sisterhood. Shannon O'Brien is out as chair of the Cannabis Control Commission.

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Bill Cassidy traded his conscience for capitulation to Trump. He still lost.

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CHRISTOPHER WEYANT -- Fear of inheritance

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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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