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Postcards from the pandemic

Don’t Look Back

JEFF JACOBY

Congress goes after forced labor, and big business objects

EDITORIAL

Bipartisan stimulus proposal is better than nothing. But it’s not nearly enough

Don’t Look Back
A conversation about what we should keep from pandemic life — and what we can now reimagine, curated by Globe Opinion.

LETTERS
Postcards from the pandemic
The promise of trees; daily correspondence with the grandkids; a memoir in drawings — an update on how readers are coping

Kimberly Atkins

For even loyal appointees like Barr, Trump learns his attack on the law has limits

Renée Graham

2020′s other epidemic: Violence against the trans community

Abdallah Fayyad

The country’s affordable housing plans are woefully inadequate

public health
EDITORIAL

Testing key to reopening public schools

LETTERS

Our woeful behavioral health care system sends too many people hurtling toward harm

Elissa Ely

Caring for the caregivers who feel the weight of the pandemic war

climate crisis
LETTERS

If we have to drive, let’s at least go electric

Jonathan Jennings and Kinari Webb

The best climate change solutions benefit humanity and nature

Peter de Menocal and Richard W. Murray

Science is the way forward

education
LETTERS

The English language: a barrier and a bridge

EDITORIAL

Testing key to reopening public schools

LETTERS

History will judge us harshly for how we’ve let schoolchildren down

cartoons

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securing democracy
Steven Livingston and W. Lance Bennett

The GOP and the future of democracy in America

EDITORIAL

Voice of America saved from wrecking crew

LETTERS

Charting a course correction in our politics

technology
IDEAS | LINDA RODRIGUEZ MCROBBIE

Plants will save us — if we help them do it

IDEAS | SARAH RUTH BATES

Q&A: The watchdog digging up big tech’s dirt

Kevin Esvelt

The ethical way to alter organisms

civil rights
EDITORIAL

Police reform bill historic but just a beginning

IDEAS | ABDALLAH FAYYAD

What happens when college cops patrol off campus?

IDEAS | David Velasquez

Take down the language barrier to citizenship

Community Voices
LETTERS

Giving thanks: our vaccine against negativity

LETTERS

Over the river, through the woods, against all directives, for one overriding reason

LETTERS

In the disability community, every missing dollar is keenly felt

Globe Opinion Columnists

Editorials

Bipartisan stimulus proposal is better than nothing. But it’s not nearly enough
Next year, Congress should send President-elect Biden a more ambitious proposal for a more equitable recovery.

Testing key to reopening public schools

As COVID-19 numbers rise, so does the need to serve public school children across the Commonwealth.

Republicans learn the wrong lessons from the election

States’ renewed efforts to restrict access to the ballot must be stopped.

Police reform bill historic but just a beginning

The Legislature made good on its promise. More work lies ahead.

Voice of America saved from wrecking crew

The Biden administration must fully restore the firewall between politics and the news agency.

Letters

The English language: a barrier and a bridge
Readers react to both a study showing earnings gains for immigrants who learn English and to two opinion pieces examining how our language both lifts and hinders non-English speakers.

Ask not what your president-elect can do for you . . .

President-elect Biden can't pump up a deflated United States single-handedly.

Vaccine’s foes are basically opting out of society

"An individual’s non-medical choice to opt out of COVID-19 vaccination is a choice to opt out of society."

Our democracy survived a close call — cut Biden some slack

We see "more evidence of the Democratic reflex to form a circular firing squad in the face of victory."

Our woeful behavioral health care system sends too many people hurtling toward harm

"Without change, we will be left with our hollow system where the demand for services outpaces supply."

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endorsement

The Globe endorses Joe Biden for president

The former vice president is uniquely poised to restore the integrity of the presidency and to repair the damage of the last four years.

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. Readers are invited to send in 200-word letters on this topic to letter@globe.com.

Democracy Under Siege: Protecting US elections

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.

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.”
National Student Essay Competition winners announced