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Ashish Jha -- America's health care boom: More administrators, fewer doctors -- Celebrating this job growth hides an expensive administrative bloat

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Auchincloss vs. Platner is about more than a tattoo

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IDEAS | KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW -- I coined the term 'intersectionality.' I helped develop critical race theory. Here's why. -- A painful moment at Harvard. A shocking moment in Congress.

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EDITORIAL -- Technology to prevent wrong-way highway crashes is proven to work. Mass. should implement changes quickly. -- Systems that detect wrong-way drivers have worked in Rhode Island and could save lives in Massachusetts too.

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IDEAS | MICHAEL SCHUR AND JOE POSNANSKI -- Why sports fans are so obsessive: A theory -- We leave behind other childish pursuits. Why not this one?

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ALAN WIRZBICKI -- Rhode Island cut wrong-way crashes dramatically. We can too. -- The state has been a leader in both low and high tech approaches to wrong-way driving.

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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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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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Development would bring needed health care, housing to former Carney Hospital -- New health care center must include services that local residents need and can access

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IDEAS | NOAH ISENBERG -- In her time, Marilyn Monroe was 'sex on a piece of film.' Now, she's something more. -- Reimagining an icon on her 100th birthday.

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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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IDEAS | ELIZABETH SVOBODA -- The future of philanthropy is female -- More donors and foundation heads are women than ever before — and they're giving in new ways.

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IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF -- May I have a word: The noise that annoys a neighbor -- Coinages for the cacophony produced by America's new favorite pastime.

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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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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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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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Cailin Marcel Manson -- Classical music is bigger than its elite institutions -- What if major orchestras acted as connectors, not monopolies?

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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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Letters to the editor

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Copley Square 3.0: the unveiling, and from some, the unleashing -- I'll "give both the new Copley Square design and my reaction to it time to mellow a little," writes one reader. Another: "It's boring! Why not fill it with moveable street furniture?"

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Query for Prop 2 1/2 boosters: Where should the money come from? -- Would they support an increase in the state income tax? An increase in the "millionaires tax"? Capital gains tax? Sales tax? Expanded gambling or recreational marijuana to provide more revenue?

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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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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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The next recession could be a middle-class massacre

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Rent control would hurt the people it intends to help

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The nest generation: An osprey's story

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At the Supreme Court, a small victory against racial discrimination

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Justice still blooms in Alabama

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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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BETH WOLFENSBERGER SINGER -- New birth control options for 2026

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CHRISTOPHER WEYANT -- Breaking News burnout

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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.

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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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