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Boston Globe - Opinion

Where the law of the land ends, the story begins - From the Outlaw Ocean Project and Globe Opinion, this six-part series follows Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Ian Urbina and his team as as they expose the dark undercurrents of the largely lawless open seas.

7 days ago

Part 1: 'Humanitarian rescue' of migrants, or the EU's dirty work?

7 days ago

Part 2. Was your cargo ship hijacked? Try this guy.

11 hours ago

Renée Graham -- With Zohran Mamdani's win in New York, voters spoke. Is the Democratic establishment listening? -- The winner of NYC's Democratic mayoral primary offers his party a path out of its funk.

1 day ago

JEFF JACOBY -- Beacon Hill's transparency theater -- Reform is always fleeting in the Massachusetts Legislature.

1 day ago

MARCELA GARCÍA -- Otras jugadoras de fútbol femenino de BU se quejaron de su entrenadora -- En 2022, una psicóloga recibió serias inquietudes por parte de jugadoras del equipo.

3 days ago

Tracy Brady -- The gym at middle age — the place where hot body dreams go to die -- Pursuing a hot body became as much a part of my past as estrogen. I began to love my no-frills gym and all its members in their spectacular ordinariness.

6 hours ago

Kenia Guerrero -- ICE deported my husband. Our everything is gone, and we are unraveling. -- This is not just an immigration issue. This is an issue of basic humanity. It is the brutal unraveling of a family.

15 hours ago

Ashish K. Jha -- Health is the foundation of American freedom -- To pursue life, liberty, and happiness — not just politically but through our everyday lives — you need health.

15 hours ago

A window for peacefully ending Iran's nuclear weapons program -- President Trump has an opportunity to negotiate a meaningful, long-lasting deal. He shouldn't squander it.

14 hours ago

RMV's answer to unpaid tolls amounts to debtor's prison -- Lifting the driver's licenses of debtors is today's version of 'debtor's prison'

1 day ago

The MTA is compromising its mission — and its integrity

16 hours ago

'Nepo baby' Zohran Mamdani is still a breath of fresh air

16 hours ago

What will it take to get students of all abilities the education they're entitled to?

1 day ago

Horror and forgiveness: getting over Vietnam

1 day ago

History, schmistory — MAGA has its eyes on the future

1 day ago

'Dear American neighbours': Canadian paper's readers would like to send us a message

3 days ago

IDEAS | AUSTIN TAYLOR -- I experienced what's wrong with Harvard, but I'm rooting for it over Trump -- As a kid from rural Maine, I saw how out of touch the university is. I also believe it can still get things right.

24 days ago

PODCAST | SAY MORE -- The C-Word: She was a cancer doctor. She hid hers for 10 years. -- Barrett Rollins only discovered the extent of his wife's advanced cancer when she collapsed at work, revealing a football-sized breast tumor.

24 days ago

Karissa Korman, Carine Hajjar, and Rebecca Spiess -- Donald Trump and Elon Musk are breaking up. Here's a playlist to help them cope. -- How else will two of the world's most powerful men manage?

24 days ago

EDITORIAL -- Marcelo Gomes da Silva should be freed -- Arresting an 18-year-old with no criminal record is not going to make communities safer.

22 days ago

Tim Keegan -- I'm a farmer, and I back Trump's tariffs even if they will hurt me -- The turmoil surrounding tariffs is just another factor in the mess of variables that will determine the success or failure of my enterprise.

1 month ago

IDEAS | TED WIDMER -- The legacy of the Revolution is still up for grabs -- The War of Independence brought the United States together. Today we're divided over what it all meant.

2 months ago

BETH WOLFENSBERGER SINGER -- Does this strike you as beauty?

3 days ago

CHRISTOPHER WEYANT -- The real choice in this mayoral election

5 days ago

SAGE STOSSEL -- Remembering Ada Lovelace

6 days ago

SAGE STOSSEL -- The catharsis of color

7 days ago

CHRISTOPHER WEYANT -- The Bunker Buster

7 days ago

WARD SUTTON -- What will you find at a Trump White House yard sale?

11 days ago

A book that changed my mind: 'The Screwtape Letters'

14 hours ago

Boston taxpayers need to know what White Stadium will cost them

15 hours ago

The biggest losers in the bombing of Iran? The Iranian people.

15 hours ago

'Big Beautiful Bill' will raise the cost of college

15 hours ago

Massachusetts should allow three-year college degree pilot

18 hours ago

The trouble with tourism

1 day ago

Trump was wrong to bomb Iran. Democrats must be the antiwar party.

1 day ago

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3 years 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.

5 months 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.

9 months 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.

9 months ago

IDEAS -- Blueprints for a new downtown Boston -- It's time to reimagine the identity of the city's core — and we've got ideas.

1 year 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.

1 year ago

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

1 year ago

Teens Speak -- We asked. They delivered. Teens from across the country offer a candid look at how they're navigating life, school, friendships, social media, expectations, and so much more.

1 year ago

Blue sky Boston: Where inspiration meets aspiration for the city's future -- Sustainable living. Gondolas. A science expo. Evaluation of student humanity. Here's what a Boston of the future could be.

1 year ago

ERNESTO BARBIERI WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JESS RULIFFSON -- Tenderness and brutality: True stories from an ICU nurse -- An illustrated opinion piece that examines the porous border between healing and suffering in one hospital's intensive care unit.

1 year ago