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Renée Graham -- Trump is too soft to handle America's hard truths -- History is neither positive or negative — it just is. And it should be presented without fear, favor, or Trump's white supremacist vision.

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Voters deserve guidance on campaign finance allegations -- The Office of Campaign and Political Finance deliberately puts off reaching any resolution regarding specific complaints until after an election takes place. That needs to change.

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Kirsten Weld and Andrew Manuel Crespo -- We work at Harvard, and we will not cave to Trump's demands -- Unlike our distant governing boards, we will not give up easily — no matter what kind of deals are signed in our name.

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John J. Miller -- Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize -- He deserved it during his first term. He deserves it even more today.

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Heather Mac Donald -- Trump is right to send the National Guard to Washington -- Trump's deployment is both within his constitutional authority and a justified use of federal law enforcement power to correct what should be an intolerable situation.

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Ilya Somin -- Rent control isn't the answer to the state's housing crisis -- Letting property owners decide how to use their own land is a far greater level of local control than allowing local governments to impose one-size-fits-all regulations.

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Indicted Suffolk sheriff needs to go — and soon -- Governor Healey shouldn't be shy about asking the court to suspend Tompkins.

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EDITORIAL -- Let's talk about the families that leave Boston -- Boston is a thriving city in many respects. But when so many families choose to raise their kids elsewhere, the city is not the whole community it should be.

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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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