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Renée Loth -- Is inclusionary zoning illegal? -- A Cambridge lawsuit takes aim at a crucial tool promoting affordable housing.

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Watching the Patriots while democracy burns -- While we cheer for touchdowns, Trump exploits our distractions to push dangerous policies and erode democratic norms.

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IDEAS | SIDDHU PACHIPALA -- Liberals have to reckon with the limits of protests -- Mass demonstrations can be worthwhile. But they also may be substituting for more useful forms of political participation.

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Samantha Joseph -- Antisemitism is surging. A strong state commission plan confronts it. -- A state commission's report makes clear that antisemitism deserves to be taken seriously. But it alone cannot stop hate.

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Most medical care shouldn't require insurance preapproval -- Healey's new rules seek to limit prior authorization.

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What exactly is ICE's mission in Minnesota? -- Officers have the legal authority to arrest unauthorized immigrants. But Americans should protest the way the administration has turned enforcement into dangerous political theater.

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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- Supreme Court seems to want to keep the Federal Reserve independent -- "What goes around comes around," Justice Brett Kavanaugh said.

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Mattea Kramer -- Why the Mass. antisemitism commission recommendations are dangerous -- The commission's recommendations compromise civil liberties and pose new threats to the very population they are supposed to protect.

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Tracey Maclin -- Trump administration puts the Fourth Amendment under siege -- Immigration officers may enter homes without judicial approval, raising alarms over Americans' constitutional rights.

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Richard Ben-Veniste -- Powell, Trump, and the return of the Saturday Night Massacre -- Like Nixon, Trump is testing the limits of presidential power by targeting an independent official whose only offense is doing his job.

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Alan M. Leventhal -- The strategic cost of Trump's Greenland obsession -- His threats risked fracturing NATO, emboldening Russia and China, and triggering a trade war with Europe.

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Centrists are set to battle for the soul of the Democratic Party -- One reader writes, "American voters are more conservative than the Democratic Party seems willing to admit." Another finds it ironic that a group called Welcome "suggests making the party unwelcome for certain other groups."

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The Patriots game: a timeout from the daily crises -- Joan Vennochi's column "Watching the Patriots while democracy burns" elicited two contrasting views from readers.

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Federal cap on graduate loans for nurses chips at a key health care pillar -- While controlling student debt is important, the new federal loan caps risk undermining nursing as a serious professional pursuit.

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