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Boston Globe - Opinion

Alex Beam -- Writers sued AI giant Anthropic. Their payout? Pocket change. -- Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement sounded like a windfall. For many authors, it's turning out to be something closer to a tip.

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IDEAS | DAVID BOCKINO -- Why gambling won't ruin sports -- Betting isn't the parasite on the game that we imagine.

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Ken Girardin -- The pipeline Cuomo killed still haunts New England -- Andrew Cuomo's decision to halt new natural gas infrastructure reshaped New England's energy market, driving up costs and undermining the transition away from dirtier fuels.

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Peter Laffin -- Whatever happened to the New England Democrat? -- Senate races in Maine and New Hampshire suggest the region's Democrats are moving left even as prominent Republicans stake out the political center.

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EDITORIAL -- If city councilors don't like Wu's $4.9b budget, they should amend it -- To avoid fights like this in the future, the city needs to get a handle on its biggest expenses.

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IDEAS | JOHN MAC GHLIONN -- Left-wing extremist Hasan Piker gets away with it. Right-wing extremist Nick Fuentes does not. -- A bit of a comeuppance for Piker in recent days doesn't even the score.

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Mary Ann D'Urso -- My life depends on a steel needle that's in short supply -- I have insulin-dependent diabetes, and one of the most essential pieces of my care has become difficult to find.

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Alleged fraud by United Healthcare undermines trust in health system -- Insurer accused of making patients appear sicker to inflate payments.

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Sheriffs' days of Wild West spending, mission creep must end -- Reining in this vestige of colonial rule may take years.

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Ideas | Abdallah Fayyad -- Trump's corruption is hurting you -- Regulatory agencies seem more focused on helping the president's family make a fortune from crypto and prediction markets than on protecting average consumers.

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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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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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RENÉE GRAHAM -- Note to Graham Platner: Just come clean about everything already -- With Platner, it's been one problematic revelation after another. He needs to get ahead of it now.

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- For women, Platner vs. Collins is a tough choice because of abortion rights -- Many are willing to embrace a flawed candidate at a cost to the party's credibility on women and character.

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RENÉE GRAHAM -- Rooting for the Knicks — and the Spurs' Victor Wembanyama — in the NBA Finals -- The young standout center's willingness to cry in public may help reshape masculine emotions.

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David Eckels Wade -- The Iran deal didn't fail — America abandoned it -- It achieved many of the goals policy makers are still pursuing today.

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Jake Wilson -- Somerville doesn't love that dirty water. But we need help paying to clean it up. -- Protecting ratepayers from escalating costs requires creative and comprehensive state-level solutions.

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Barbara McQuade -- The worst part of Trump's 'anti-weaponization' fund -- An audit-immunity provision showed just how far the administration was willing to go.

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Letters to the editor

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Fenway's 'different vibe' is a nostalgic vibe for me -- No matter what's happening with the Red Sox team's dynamics at Fenway, game day is always a warm and welcoming experience for fans.

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It's too expensive to be a pro sports fan -- Middle class families can't afford to attend pro sporting matches. Three cheers for community sports!

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Don't overlook Platner's shortcomings — and don't encourage conspiracy theories -- One letter writer is surprised that prior letter writers were OK with overlooking Platner's shortcomings, while another writer disproved of a letter that linked Auchincloss's failure to endorse Platner to support from the AIPAC.

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They lost their daughter to Medicaid's humiliating bureaucracy -- Countless people fail to submit Medicaid paperwork proving they "deserve" access to health care.

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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.

5 months ago

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.

5 months ago

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?

6 months ago

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.

5 months ago

Travel bans aren't enough to stop Ebola's spread

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Grade inflation is damaging students. Graduation standards need to push back.

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How Harvard radicals inspired the conservative legal movement

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Why would you leave America right now?

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More musicians are refusing to 'shut up and sing'

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In World Cup run-up, it's Team Wu vs. Team Healey

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Technology to prevent wrong-way highway crashes is proven to work. Mass. should implement changes quickly.

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America's health care boom: More administrators, fewer doctors

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SAGE STOSSEL -- An American in Paris

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PATRICK CHAPPATTE -- Strategic ambiguity

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BETH WOLFENSBERGER SINGER -- New birth control options for 2026

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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.

2 months ago

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.

4 months ago

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.

5 months ago

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.

5 months ago

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.

1 year ago

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.

5 months ago

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.

2 years ago

Not so fast, fashion -- How to be fashionable and equitable while saving the planet from climate change.

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