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Boston Globe - Opinion

JOAN VENNOCHI -- Norman Rockwell's America takes on Trump's anti-immigration agenda -- A museum display is a gut check on America in 2026.

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Ashish K. Jha -- The obesity curve finally bent. Now comes the hard part. -- The decline in obesity rates is a medical triumph. But millions remain locked out by high costs, uneven insurance coverage, and bureaucratic barriers.

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EDITORIAL -- Cambridge's street-sweeping experiment isn't working. What if we raised the price of parking permits instead? -- Making street parking more expensive — particularly for households with more than one registered vehicle — could help reduce the number of cars on the curb and open up more street parking spaces.

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IDEAS | KATHRYN PAIGE HARDEN -- We're entering the age of the 'superbaby.' The risks are profound. -- What happens when tech startups start selling parents information on their embryos' DNA.

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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- Supreme Court is turning Trump into the king he wants to be -- Smashing precedent and historical tradition, the court's conservative supermajority declared that Trump has the right to fire those he doesn't find sufficiently loyal. That's a coronation.

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Back Bay blight: The city should do more to address crumbling buildings -- Four vacant buildings on Boylston raise important questions about how the city should combat blight.

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With energy costs rising, Massachusetts should make solar simpler -- The Legislature should adopt Australia's more streamlined approach.

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RENÉE GRAHAM -- Trump's slimy, swampy eyesore in Washington, D.C. -- And the Reflecting Pool isn't looking too good either.

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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- The Supreme Court cherry-picks on gun control -- Its ruling on Hawaii law leaves states guessing how far gun restrictions can go under its shifting historical test.

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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- Religious freedom stops at the prison gate -- A new ruling shut the door on Damon Landor, whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved by a Louisiana state prison guard.

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Nancy Krieger -- Quiet regulation changes could censor vital research -- The changes would cement federal control of research grants, but there's still time to act.

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Jack Verrill -- Is fear of AI stifling rural Maine's economic rebirth? -- Maine's data center debate hits a small town hard.

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Robert Kuttner -- A housing fix that doesn't fix housing -- The bipartisan bill lacks the scale of spending and structural change needed to fix America's housing crisis.

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Renée Loth -- Preserving America's unfinished experiment -- The threatened Swansea Friends Meeting House reminds us that protecting historic places means protecting the struggles that expanded freedom.

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Letters to the editor

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The ballot question fix -- The attorney general should not be allowed to determine the constitutionality of a ballot question.

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The Reflecting Pool disaster

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Greener parks and schoolyards can reduce temps -- Chittick Elementary in Mattapan demonstrates the effectiveness of integrating trees and ground covers into schoolyard designs.

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The jobs robots should be doing -- The public is not anti-robot. It is asking for transparency, clear limits, and responsible deployment.

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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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The government should not be using political standards to judge scientific grants

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Progressives have already lost the Suffolk County DA race

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As America celebrates liberty, the Supreme Court protects Trump's efforts to deny it

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This summer's must-read is a warning about Trump

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How to prevent another crisis in the public defender system

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May I Have a Word: Scents and scents ability

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Getting to Gillette Stadium is expensive. So I walked instead.

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CHRISTOPHER WEYANT -- Missing the Scots

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SAGE STOSSEL -- The curse of Widow's Bay

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BETH WOLFENSBERGER SINGER -- How to dodge darkness

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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.

3 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.

5 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.

6 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.

2 years ago

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

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