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JOAN VENNOCHI

I covered Mel King as a ‘radical’ instead of a visionary ahead of his time

I believe in the power of protest, yet I presented King as a threat to the power structure. But King saw his mission as something very different.
KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

Supreme Court’s new target: the Americans with Disabilities Act

A ruling could essentially rewrite the ADA, which was designed to put enforcement partly in the hands of those best positioned to recognize public access discrimination: those with disabilities.
NEWSLETTER

Woke is easy to define. It’s harder to fight.

Wokeness isn’t designed to uplift and unify. Its purpose is to tear down and divide.

op-eds

Stacia Datskovska

Twitter is quick to attack young journalists. Take it from me.

What followed the publication of my op-ed was an onslaught of online hate.
Priscilla H. Douglas

The reawakening of ‘woke-ism’

For centuries its meaning was straightforward. Who could imagine that a word could be catapulted so far from its true meaning?
Marilyn Waite

Climate financing is finally here, but will there be equity?

Financial regulators are failing to adequately address the intersections of climate investing and justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. This failure risks continuing the long history of oppressive financial policies.
EDITORIAL

Doing the right thing on gun sales

Credit card companies need to keep their promise to create a new gun store code.
EDITORIAL

Trump acolytes in Congress willing to trample rule of law

Going after the Manhattan DA would violate separation of powers and New York's sovereignty.

letters

In key ways, child welfare system is the very definition of thoughtless

We need to do all we can to keep teachers of color in the classroom

More students veering off, rather than heading off to college

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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.
John Yoo

Prosecuting Trump for hush money undermines more serious investigations

The prosecution’s case faces severe legal problems that impede what should be the main focus — whether Trump was responsible for the Jan. 6 insurrection or other efforts to block the electoral vote count.
EDITORIAL

Saving the Amazon, before it’s too late

The United States should join Europe in halting the import of beef and other goods linked to the deforestation of the critical rainforest region.
Brian McGrory

The little boots inside Lindsay Clancy’s house make clear none of it makes any sense at all

A photo of the boots arrived on my phone one night last week, part of a batch of more than two dozen pictures of the inside of the Clancy’s house taken a few days after the children’s deaths.
NEWSLETTER

Charlestown is too isolated

I-93, which runs through an underdeveloped tract of land, almost entirely isolates Charlestown from its surrounding neighborhoods.
IDEAS | KERRY ALTIERO AS TOLD TO KELLY HORAN

The old restaurant model is toast

A chef poured his entire soul into his beloved Café Miranda in Rockland, Maine. Then came the “apocalypse” — and a reckoning with the demands he had put on employees.

Cartoons

CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

Is anywhere safe?

WILL DOWD

Remembering Jorge Luis Borges

CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

March Madness

PATRICK CHAPPATTE

Trump cries foul, again

CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

The final legacy of the Iraq War

CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

Siliconned

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Christopher R. Knittel

Your electric bill shouldn’t be so high. Here’s how to fix it.

The effect of the state’s flawed electricity pricing system on incentives to electrify is enormous.

RENÉE GRAHAM

Republicans retreating from Trump? Now that’s fake news.

Private disgust with Trump has never translated into widespread public GOP denouncements of him. Why would that change now?

EDITORIAL

Growing antisemitism is society’s problem

In the Anti-Defamation League’s annual report on antisemitic incidents, Massachusetts had the sixth-most incidents, 152, up from 108 in 2021.

Jennifer Handt

Where there’s a will, there’s Fenway

Our 3-year-old son has a rare genetic disease. I search for an angle into this sad story where he might defeat the beast. The promise of victory is an uphill climb, to be sure — but possible. Within reach. As a lifelong, card-carrying member of Red Sox Nation, it’s all I need to hear.

MARCELA GARCÍA

In the Maine undocumented workers’ case, what about the Mass. company that employed them?

Federal authorities declined to identify the company or say whether it will be subject to any sanctions for its role.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Here’s hoping MBTA chief Phillip Eng is where the buck stops, the empathy starts

Changing the perception of the T as an unresponsive, uncaring bureaucracy that ducks public accountability is the heart of the challenge faced by Eng. Hopefully he gets that.

EDITORIAL

As sports betting ads push the limits, regulators need to push back

TV airwaves are swamped with ads offering what sounds like free money but isn’t.

Anthony Rudel

Want to explore classical music? Let me be your guide.

There is nothing artificial about human reactions to music and how we as broadcasters connect with them.

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SPECIAL PROJECTS

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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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.”
National Student Essay Competition winners announced