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EDITORIAL -- 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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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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Finding the next Parole Board member just got harder -- Turning down a decent public servant for no good reason is not a good look for the Governor's Council.

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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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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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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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RIGHT, LEFT, AND CENTER -- The millionaires tax is thriving. So why are residents still leaving? -- The millionaires tax is bringing in more revenue in Massachusetts than expected. But does this surge really signal economic strength? Our three writers weigh in.

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RENÉE GRAHAM -- Trump's obsessive ballroom blitz -- Another alleged attempt on his life becomes a new opportunity for Trump to push his ballroom blitz.

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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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Joan Wickersham -- The least glamorous wedding ever -- The groom had the flu, the honeymoon hotel lost the reservation, and the cat disappeared. It was the start of a very happy marriage.

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Renée Loth -- For Trump, the violence is the message -- From reviving Alcatraz to celebrating cage fights on the White House lawn, Trump is turning violent imagery, cruelty, and intimidation into a governing philosophy.

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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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Don't lay school cuts at the feet of teachers' contracts -- Cutting teachers and paraprofessionals isn't the solution to budget crises, especially when the state has plenty of money.

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The price of coal, in lives and in earth -- The search for survivors of a coal mine explosion in northern China reminded me of the Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl song "The Ballad of Springhill" and its line "Bone and blood is the price of coal."

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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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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney quietly builds an alternative to American power

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Pope Leo on centering human dignity in the age of AI

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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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