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OPINION | Robin Chase and Doug Foy

Build a better city, starting with the Allston interchange

It’ll take a decade to fix some of Boston’s old highways. Let’s use that time to create a neighborhood truly suited for the 21st century.
OPINION | Susan Smith Richardson

Let the sunshine in

OPINION | Niall Ferguson

After the strongmen

OPINION | John Thompson

The 2020 Census: Shaping the future of democracy in the United States

OPINION | Chris Dunn

The long fight to protect the 2020 Census from Trump

OPINION | Michael J. Sullivan

Justice Department made the right call on Roger Stone sentencing

OPINION | JEFF JACOBY

The president who was not a politician

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Letting towns solve the Mass. housing shortage
Legislature should resist the temptation to turn a simple zoning reform bill into a Christmas tree loaded with good intentions.

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Annie Glenn — a hero to those who stutter

She fought for broad public understanding of stuttering, for the idea that stutterers weren’t merely shy, weren’t unintelligent, weren’t social pariahs.
OPINION | Renée Loth

Does love belong in the classroom?

The need for open discussion about love is at least as urgent as learning about sex.
OPINION | Ezekiel J. Emanuel

A 1% pledge to get out the vote would ensure that Democrats and democracy win

Democrats need to stop worrying about temporary vicissitudes and keep focused on the absolute key to winning this November that has received woefully little attention: turnout.
OPINION | RENÉE GRAHAM

John Kelly deserves contempt, not praise

When it mattered most, John Kelly chose silence.
OPINION | SCOT LEHIGH

Oblique House: The Dickensian tale of prosecutorial overreach in the Curious Case of the Imaginary Offenses

US Attorney Andrew Lelling should close the book on the farcical case of former City Hall aides Tim Sullivan and Ken Brissette.
EDITORIAL CARTOON | CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

Let’s choose already

Cartoonist Christopher Weyant's take on the news.
OPINION | Jhilam Biswas

Massachusetts law meant to protect people with mental illness may make them sicker

The Rogers Guardianship is meant to preserve a patient’s right to refuse medication. But refusal of medication may reflect their underlying illness.
OPINION | Karen E. Spilka, Julian Cyr, and Cindy F. Friedman

Mental health care is vital to routine health care

Parity as a concept is simple: insurance coverage for mental health care should be equal to, and no more restrictive than, coverage for any other medical condition.

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OPINION | Robin Chase and Doug Foy

Build a better city, starting with the Allston interchange

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Letting towns solve the Mass. housing shortage

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Letters

The elephant no longer really serves as mascot of GOP

“I would propose that the Republican mascot be changed on the grounds that GOP members of Congress have forgotten too much.”

State officials can’t obscure fact that their bid would hinder access to public records

“If the law says no one can access a marriage record for 90 years, regulations cannot legally say anything else.”

Mass. Senate lauded for taking steps to fix broken mental health system

“Why can people receive life-saving cardiac care without question while care for life-threatening mental health and substance use disorders is unavailable to so many?”

Both Mass. and casino need to see value of committing to footbridge

"The Commonwealth has a can’t-miss opportunity for a public-private partnership to complete this critical infrastructure."

AG Barr: bullied from day one

“You have now been caught in your blatant service as his personal attorney general and not the attorney general of the United States of America.”

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The nonexistent question that may haunt the census

Although the citizenship question won’t be asked, its mere evocation was designed to have a chilling effect on vulnerable portions of the population.

The Democrats’ electability trap

The narrative of electability is fundamentally distorting the Democratic race and turning voters into pundits.

All hail the campaign book

The campaign book has made a massive impact on American history. But books their “authors” may not have read — much less written — often simply provide an excuse for candidates to chatter on TV.

A different kind of Presidents’ Day

Cartoonist Sage Stossel's take on the news.

‘Do you feel healthy?’ In China, an American navigates the coronavirus outbreak

A campus quarantine, newly issued thermometers, and take-out chicken and rice.

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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.”

the president on trial

Day 6: John Bolton’s bombshell, and the return of Ken Starr

The Globe’s opinion and editorial writers offer the sixth of their daily takes on the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump.

Day 1: Trump’s lawyers mislead, and keeping an eye on GOP lame ducks

Day 2: Prosecutors make their case against Trump, senators confront life without smartphones

Day 3: Democrats keep building case against Trump, but is the public paying attention?

Day 4: Democrats detail obstruction charge, and eyes turn to Trump’s defense lawyers

Day 5: The defense launches its case, but who’s the audience?

Choosing, using, losing your health care: a policy first-aid kit
In a four-part series, Globe Opinion offers a baseline assessment of health care as well as prescriptions for fixing the industry.

Part 1: Choosing

Part 2: Using

Part 3: Losing

Part 4: Prognosis

Legal Lens
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.

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Parenting discrimination

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