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Diane Hessan

It’s not quite time for Democrats to party

EDITORIAL

Keep the checks coming, Congress

Stephen Kinzer
Sanctions-mad America turns on its friends
Punishing Germany, Mexico, and other allies is bad policy.

LETTERS
Postcards from the pandemic
Homesick in Las Vegas; dreading Phase Three; the COVID protection rack by the front door — an update on how Globe readers are coping

JEFF JACOBY

As night descends on Hong Kong, the UN raises no objection

Elissa Ely

All together now!

Jennifer Horn

Trump and the flag of treason

public health
IDEAS | Tony Rehagen

What will become of Generation COVID?

LETTERS

Elder care facilities have long been beset by woes

LETTERS

Harsh light on risks to kids in Mass. group homes heightens need for more data

climate crisis
Jeanne Shaheen and Sheldon Whitehouse

Crashing coastal property values and the economic fallout of climate change

Jonathan Kaledin

We need a Water New Deal too

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Data Point: The bipartisan consensus for climate action

education
EDITORIAL

Mr. President, keep your hands off our kids

LETTERS

Trump raises pandemic pressure on colleges

EDITORIAL

An irrational assault on higher education

cartoons

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securing democracy
LETTERS

The Declaration of Independence — an anti-Trump tract, in other words

Jennifer Horn

Trump and the flag of treason

Cass R. Sunstein

On Trump finance rulings, the Supreme Court delivers

technology
LETTERS

Hard lessons on remote learning in Worcester

IDEAS | BRIAN BERGSTEIN

Mars needs a constitutional convention

Josh Bernoff

Facebook and the economics of decency

civil rights
Jennifer Horn

Trump and the flag of treason

IDEAS | Abdallah Fayyad

Welcome to the new civil rights era

EDITORIAL

An irrational assault on higher education

Community Voices
Moyinoluwa Adeniji

Racism is like a virus

LETTERS

The Declaration of Independence — an anti-Trump tract, in other words

LETTERS

Self-evident truths, reconsidered

Globe Opinion Columnists

Editorials

Keep the checks coming, Congress
Debt and eviction loom large for too many Americans. Lawmakers should pass a bill to send more direct cash payments to every household.

Mr. President, keep your hands off our kids

Trump continues to try to bend the science and CDC guidelines on school reopening.

Rule of law triumphs over Trump

Even if the public won't get a look at the president's tax returns yet, the Supreme Court has told the president he's not above the law.

An irrational assault on higher education

A new Trump policy would force some international students in US schools to go home. It's a callous plan that would cause great economic harm.

State lobbying law needs a fix

Court ruling for Sal DiMasi sets the stage for a second look at how to keep lobbying clean.

Letters

Elder care facilities have long been beset by woes
Readers react to a Globe editorial calling for tougher oversight of nursing homes and long-term care facilities.

The Declaration of Independence — an anti-Trump tract, in other words

As readers shared what the Founders' document means to them, a critique of the Trump administration emerged.

Reflections on the Declaration of Independence

Every Fourth of July, we print the Declaration of Independence so that its text and ideas can be interrogated by a new generation. This year, with the nation convulsed by a pandemic and protests against police violence, we asked our readers what the Declaration of Independence means to them.

Mayor Walsh should look to city’s creative industry

"The creative industry is a field that can generate wealth, income, and jobs to improve the standard of living of the city’s Black residents as well as women- and Black-owned businesses."

Harsh light on risks to kids in Mass. group homes heightens need for more data

"This report points out the risk children face when the state is their stand-in parent."

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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.

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.

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.

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.”