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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

Conservatives renew their attack on the Voting Rights Act

Trump-appointed federal appellate justices carved up what was left of the crucial civil rights law. And at least two Supreme Court justices are willing to join them.
RENÉE LOTH

The advent of the 2023 Advent calendar extravaganza

No longer content with a simple piece of decorated cardboard, today’s shoppers can count down the days with treats from perfume samples to pet food.
JOAN VENNOCHI

Where’s the public in the talks about Robert Kraft’s plan for a soccer stadium in Everett?

The public deserves the opportunity to get the full story on this stadium, from start to finish. So far, that hasn’t happened.

op-eds

Uri Dromi

A UN refugee agency has been perpetuating the problem of Palestinian refugees

The current crisis opens a golden opportunity to fix that aberration, at least in Gaza.
William Lefebvre and Victoria Wisniewski

Gen Z takes a seat — and sets the table — at COP28

The climate change challenge has largely fallen to us, caused by prior generations through a lack of environmental regulations and industrial expansion, leading to an exponential increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
Anita Soracco

Climate education should be taught in schools

And not just in science but woven across all subjects because climate change involves so much more than science.

letters

‘Your atrocity justifies my atrocity’ is perverse logic

Outraged over shooting of three Palestinian students in Vt.

Bid to move USPS facility and expand South Station has potential

Seeking new funding source to adapt to and mitigate climate change

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Is it time for revisionist history of the Big Dig?

Was the Big Dig a boon or a bust? Ian Coss set out to answer that question in his nine-part podcast series “The Big Dig” from GBH News and PRX in Boston.
EDITORIAL

Students should learn about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the classroom — not on TikTok

Professors should teach students how to have respectful dialogue.
Sara Roy

Gaza is on the verge of collapse

Why haven’t leaders of the United States and European countries demanded a mutual cease-fire, which would stop the death and destruction, and facilitate the release of hostages and the safe entry of needed levels of aid?
IDEAS | JENNIFER BLOCK

Youth gender medicine has become a hall of mirrors

Despite the certainty projected by medical institutions about the affirming model of care, some pioneering practitioners worry it may have gone too far.
JOAN VENNOCHI

Lighten up on Bill Belichick

Does the Patriots’ lousy season mean he is done as a coach and all that he achieved is reduced to nothing? If that’s true, it says as much about the New England psyche as it does about Belichick.
Ronald D. Liebowitz

How universities should confront antisemitism on campus

In this twilight zone moment where college students seem to be enjoying their freedom to express grotesque language about Jews, Brandeis University will uphold free speech rightly understood.

Cartoons

PATRICK CHAPPATTE

UN Climate Summit in a hot place

SAGE STOSSEL

A bygone era of collegiality

KIRSTEN ELIZABETH

An afternoon on Nomans Land

WARD SUTTON

The golden candidate?

CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

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PATRICK CHAPPATTE

Biden and Xi re-establish contact

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SCOT LEHIGH

Giving consumers a choice when buying their electricity

Massachusetts should fix rather than nix the residential retail program.

RENÉE GRAHAM

Donald Trump’s un-wonderful life

Being the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination can’t conceal that the former president is a desperate old man facing more trouble than he ever imagined.

EDITORIAL

Cannabis worker’s death cries for improved workplace safety rules

A 27-year-old West Springfield worker’s death last year revealed the hazards of the nascent industry — and highlights how little is being done to protect the marijuana workforce.

JOAN VENNOCHI

More rabbis are calling for Israel-Hamas cease-fire

The number, while still relatively small, reveals a growing willingness in the Jewish community to speak out on a highly emotional and divisive topic, one rabbi says.

MARCELA GARCÍA

A collision with Boston City Hall over Wu’s car accident

The newly released finding contradicts an initial police investigation that concluded that Keyanna Smith’s actions did not contribute to the crash.

Uri Dromi

A UN refugee agency has been perpetuating the problem of Palestinian refugees

The current crisis opens a golden opportunity to fix that aberration, at least in Gaza.

EDITORIAL

Challenges to Trump’s eligibility are murky at best. But there is a clear way to stop him.

Even the perception that the next president was chosen by legal maneuvers, as opposed to the will of the people, could cause more damage to the Republic. Trump should be defeated at the ballot box instead.

ALEX BEAM

‘Napoleon’ isn’t accurate? Excuse me, mate, were you there?

Though, yes, there is a howler or two.

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SPECIAL PROJECTS

Not so fast, fashion

How to be fashionable and equitable while saving the planet from climate change.

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.

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.
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.
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

How Uphams Corner got wealthier without getting whiter

The scrappy Dorchester neighborhood has fulfilled the community activist’s dream: development without displacement.
IDEAS

Where did all the workers go?

For two years, employers have been desperate for workers — and there’s no indication the labor shortage will soon change. What are we losing — and possibly gaining — as a result?
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IDEAS | PETER THOMSON

The radical, forgotten experiment in educational integration that changed my life

In 1971, kids from Roxbury and Lincoln spent half the year attending school together in the city and the other half in the suburb. Fifty years later, I tracked down my fellow students to see how it shaped them — and whether something like it could work today.

Globe Opinion’s 2022 Top 10

The readers have spoken: Take a tour through The Boston Globe opinion section’s top 10 most read columns, editorials, cartoons, letters, and Ideas stories of 2022.
RENÉE GRAHAM

Remembering trans lives taken in 2022

Even before a gunman killed five people and injured nearly 20 last month at Club Q, a popular LGBTQ nightspot in Colorado Springs, Colo., 2022 was already a deadly year for trans and gender nonconforming people. At least 35 have been killed nationwide, most of them Black trans women.
TIMELINE

Assault on American democracy

Jan. 6, 2021, was one of the most alarming days in American history. Boston Globe Opinion columns, editorials, letters, and cartoons untangle the continuing aftermath of the attack on the US Capitol.
IDEAS | JOAN VENNOCHI

How the MBTA went off the rails

Nearly everything about Boston has changed in the past few decades, yet the T has the same big problem — a failure to prioritize the rider experience above all.
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Boston was once a wildly ambitious city. It’s time to go big again.

Soaring housing costs, a broken T, and other existential problems require sweeping fixes that meet the moment.

Young people and the power of social media

Social media holds enormous power over young people. Can they find a way to navigate safely through its ever-changing landscape?

How do we memorialize the pandemic?

As the United States neared its one millionth COVID-19 related death, artists, architects, and community leaders are calling for a permanent memorial to honor all those touched by COVID. Globe Opinion asked several artists for their vision of what a COVID memorial could look like.
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IDEAS | ABDALLAH FAYYAD

Editing the Constitution

The Constitution is undergoing massive changes in the Supreme Court. It’s time to put the founding document in the hands of the people.
ideas

The Future of Work

The past year has shattered expectations of what workdays look like. Parenting while Zooming. An uncrowded T. Wary interactions with customers. In this special issue of Ideas, we explore which of these changes will stick — and how they’ll affect the quality of our lives.

The Longevity Hub

The Boston Globe Opinion section and MIT's AgeLab present The Longevity Hub, an ongoing series seeking to spark Greater Boston's transformation into the Silicon Valley of aging.
EDITORIAL

Future-proofing the presidency

Donald Trump brought our democracy to the brink and exposed its weak spots. Here’s how to thwart the next American tyrant.
EDITORIAL

A battle for affordable housing in Massachusetts

The Globe editorial board's 2020 series on the need for inclusive housing reform in Newton and across the Commonwealth.

Brave New Planet

Brave New Planet is a podcast that delves deep into the most exciting and challenging scientific frontiers, helping us understand them and grapple with their implications. Dr. Eric Lander, president and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, is host.

The future of food

What we eat, where it comes from, and how we get it are being reimagined like never before. In this special issue, we celebrate the role of food in our communities and explore how it can be tastier, more accessible, and healthier for us and the planet.
Letters

Postcards from the pandemic

Invited to take a walk, in fact, lots of walks; dining room table repurposed — a snapshot of how readers were coping.
An archive of conversations with the experts writing thought-provoking Globe Opinion op-eds and Ideas features.

The Other swing voter

Political coverage often focuses on voters who oscillate between political parties in a few key swing states. Here we feature perspectives and opinions from and about demographics of Americans — young voters and Black and brown voters —who swing between voting and not voting.
From voter suppression to gerrymandering to foreign interference, the integrity of US elections is under attack. In a three-part weekly series, Globe Opinion examines how the nation arrived at this moment and what needs to be done to protect voting rights.
Thomas E. Patterson

Trapped: Why the GOP's death is imminent

The Republican Party is destroying itself. Thomas Patterson of the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center explains the five traps the party has set for itself and warns that the party's future is in peril without reform.

Black voices now

Globe Opinion seeks to amplify the perspectives and the voices of Black community members, scholars, activists, doctors, teachers, business leaders, students, and parents as op-ed and letter writers, and as innovators and provocateurs featured in Globe Ideas. Here we feature Black voices from the community amid the historic protests following the killing of George Floyd. We aim to amplify yet more Black voices going forward.
IDEAS

Massachusetts Works

We turn the typical model of journalism on its head — instead of focusing on what’s broken, we’re taking a look at what Massachusetts gets right.

Legal Lens documentaries

Law and documentary film may seem far apart, but they actually share many connections. With the guidance of filmmaker and producer Joseph Tovares and support from the Hewlett Foundation, 12 Harvard Law School students from eight countries have worked since January on the Legal Lens project. You can view the films here on BostonGlobe.com.

Choosing, using, and losing your health care: A policy first-aid kit

In a four-part weekly series, Globe Opinion offers a baseline assessment of health care as well as prescriptions for fixing the industry.

Journalists are not the enemy

A central pillar of President Trump’s politics is a sustained assault on the free press. Journalists are not classified as fellow Americans, but rather “the enemy of the people.”
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