IDEAS | JOHN MAC GHLIONN -- The next recession could be a middle-class massacre -- We're not ready for what's about to hit.

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Sally Kornbluth -- America built the world's greatest research engine. Now it's shrinking. -- At public and private universities across the country, high-impact science is being damaged and derailed.

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

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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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Balancing growth: Everett's right-sized approach to data centers makes sense -- Anti-data center fervor has taken hold. But the facilities are a necessary tool to make our modern economy run and a source of jobs and tax revenue.

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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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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- At the Supreme Court, a small victory against racial discrimination -- With an unusual lineup, the court acknowledges that race, at least in the criminal justice context, still matters.

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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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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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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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Platner had his tattoo covered. Auchincloss brings it back to the surface. -- Calling fellow Democrat Graham Platner's now-covered tattoo "disqualifying," Representative Jake Auchincloss has stirred up the Maine Senate race. Readers are not pleased with the Massachusetts congressman.

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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.

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.

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For Trump, the violence is the message

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Auchincloss vs. Platner is about more than a tattoo

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Wesley Hunt says Jim Crow is gone. Many Black Americans aren't convinced.

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Development would bring needed health care, housing to former Carney Hospital

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I coined the term 'intersectionality.' I helped develop critical race theory. Here's why.

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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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Graphic novel excerpt: True stories from Iran's Twelve-Day War

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PAUL KARASIK -- The nest generation: An osprey's story

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CAMILA KERWIN -- Who will our tribe be?

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CHRISTOPHER WEYANT -- Fear of inheritance

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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.

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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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