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Boston Globe - Opinion

EDITORIAL -- Trump can't be allowed to punish campus free speech -- Rümeysa Öztürk had her student visa revoked solely because she wrote an op-ed.

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EDITORIAL -- After another shooting in Minn., Congress must step in -- Congress should insist on full, impartial investigations into misconduct and an end to theatrical immigration surges in blue cities.

1 day ago

IDEAS | TED WIDMER -- Boston in the 1770s. Minneapolis in 2026. -- America itself was born out of resistance to heavy-handed occupation.

1 day ago

IDEAS | Jonah Prousky -- Social media bans don't work — but they're still worthwhile -- Even an ineffective law can build momentum for cultural change.

2 days ago

EDITORIAL -- Are out-of-state cannabis products illegally entering Massachusetts' legal market? -- Regulators should look out for "inversion."

2 days ago

IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER -- Trump should know the folly of meddling in Iran -- American intervention could make the situation worse.

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Jim Foti -- Selma arrives in Minneapolis -- Hundreds of clergy from across the United States answer a call to stand with the city's residents against federal terror.

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Would it really be so hard for the congressional GOP to oppose Trump's Greenland obsession? -- It is far easier to believe that the crisis Trump has created over Greenland has more to do with his desire for a legacy project than any real concern for national or global security.

5 days ago

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

6 days ago

The Justice Department's flimsy Powell investigation isn't kidding anyone -- Prosecutors are obviously pursuing the Federal Reserve chair for political reasons.

7 days ago

RENÉE GRAHAM -- Selma, Stonewall — and Minnesota -- Residents' refusal to bend to Trump's fascism may be the most unexpected rebellion in modern American history.

22 hours ago

ALAN WIRZBICKI -- Are there alternatives to road salt? -- All that sodium chloride has an environmental impact, and can also corrode cars.

1 day ago

JOAN VENNOCHI -- Another killing in Minneapolis forces a reckoning for Trump loyalists -- Video of agents killing Alex Pretti has exposed how partisan loyalty now determines what Americans are willing to see.

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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- Don't look to Germany for an analogy. The Minneapolis nightmare is uniquely American. -- In order to defeat the white nationalism that is at the core of ICE's assault on American democracy, we have to see it and treat it as what it is.

2 days ago

Timothy Snyder -- The political logic of Trump's violent lawlessness -- He is using the border as a pretext to dismantle the rule of law everywhere, normalize state terror, and replace constitutional government with personal rule.

1 day ago

Courtnay Peifer -- ICE brought fear to Minneapolis. Now we are standing up for ourselves. -- We know the world is watching, and we are fighting to hold the line on democracy and decency.

2 days ago

Nay voters sent Belichick a message. It was the right one. -- Even where the all-time greats are concerned, good sportsmanship and a touch of humility still matter.

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Kraft should decline Hall nod if Belichick can't enter with him -- Whatever tensions ultimately divided Kraft and Belichick, neither man's legacy can be fully honored without the other.

1 hour ago

A new political calculus as the world watches Minneapolis -- "Anyone who plans on assuming a national leadership role in the Democratic Party should go to Minneapolis now," writes one reader.

11 hours ago

A mound of gratitude from a Globe print subscriber -- As the Boston area woke up to more than a foot of snow Monday, a reader expressed his thanks for finding his paper delivered, as usual.

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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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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?

2 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.

1 month ago

Inclusionary zoning may be flawed, but losing it would deprive Mass. cities of an important tool

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Warren and Mamdani are showing Democrats how to deal with Trump

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The drawing that killed my father's family

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The high cost of free speech in Trump's America

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Why I'm giving birth to someone else's baby

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Antisemitism is surging. A strong state commission plan confronts it.

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Why the Mass. antisemitism commission recommendations are dangerous

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Trump administration puts the Fourth Amendment under siege

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WARD SUTTON -- Spot the "paid agitators"

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BETH WOLFENSBERGER SINGER -- Nancy Drew redrawn for these more baffling and mysterious times

3 days ago

PAUL KARASIK -- MLK on leadership

9 days 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.

6 days 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.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

1 year ago

True stories from an ICU: Was it right to keep their sister alive? -- An illustrated opinion piece that explores the emotional impact of hospice care on ICU nurses and hospital employees.

1 year ago

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.

1 year ago

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

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