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Has the time (finally) come for liquor licensing reform in Boston?

LESLEY BECKER
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A lot of people are reluctant to wear masks in America. But all they need are masks that really let them be themselves.

LETTERS
Postcards from the pandemic
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MICHAEL A. COHEN

America, we have a problem

Jonathan Kaledin

We need a Water New Deal too

JEFF JACOBY

Like the nation’s founders, Americans say: ‘More immigrants, please’

public health
EDITORIAL

Tougher oversight key to protecting state’s elderly

Renée Graham

Be a patriot. Wear a mask.

Michael A. Cohen

There’s a pandemic. The government’s not here to help

climate crisis
Jonathan Kaledin

We need a Water New Deal too

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Data Point: The bipartisan consensus for climate action

EDITORIAL

Yes, we still need to raise the gas tax

education
LETTERS

Staring down a crisis in Mass. public schools

Andrew Bacevich

Firing BU’s mascot won’t advance racial equality

LETTERS

In leaning toward reopening, colleges are pushing our health to the edge

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securing democracy
LETTERS

Sabotaging Trump rallies does nobody any good, and could help him

Andrew Manuel Crespo and Kristy Parker

The prosecution of Michael Flynn is not over yet

Joan Vennochi

Barr interrupts his legal work for Trump to stir up trouble in Boston

technology
IDEAS | BRIAN BERGSTEIN

Mars needs a constitutional convention

Josh Bernoff

Facebook and the economics of decency

IDEAS | MIGNON CLYBURN AND JON SALLET

Make broadband far more affordable

civil rights
JEFF JACOBY

Like the nation’s founders, Americans say: ‘More immigrants, please’

LETTERS

There seems to be no dismantling bias in Boston-area housing market

Liz Vizza

Monuments and their meanings: Whose story do they represent?

Community Voices
LETTERS

This memory of a ’50s guest DJ goes out to all you Arnie Ginsburg fans

LETTERS

COVID-19 isn’t letting up, and neither should we

Josh Bernoff

Facebook and the economics of decency

Globe Opinion Columnists

Editorials

Has the time (finally) come for liquor licensing reform in Boston?
It's long overdue for the city to establish a more equitable process of handing out liquor licenses. And the pandemic may be the perfect time for reform.

Tougher oversight key to protecting state’s elderly

Nursing home deaths that far outpace the national average cry out for real reform from the Baker administration.

What does the Declaration of Independence mean to you?

In 2020, with the nation convulsed by a pandemic and protests against police violence, what does the Declaration of Independence mean to you?

Cocktails to go? Not in Massachusetts.

Legislators are dragging their feet over allowing struggling bars and restaurants to sell cocktails with takeout and delivery orders, denying them important revenue.

Other cities can fire police officers for misconduct. Why not Boston?

Police discipline should not be on the table during union negotiations.

Letters

As evictions loom, a cloud descends
With a state moratorium on evictions scheduled to end Aug. 18, many fear the impacts to come.

Staring down a crisis in Mass. public schools

Readers react to an editorial critical of the Massachusetts Teachers Association's push to do away with the MCAS.

There’s no booming economy imaginable to excuse Trump’s outrages

"Let’s hope Americans believe there is more to leadership than presiding over a supposedly healthy economy."

There seems to be no dismantling bias in Boston-area housing market

Readers found a study showing discrimination against Black people seeking apartments to raise a distressingly familiar problem.

This memory of a ’50s guest DJ goes out to all you Arnie Ginsburg fans

"I said, 'Why not?' and called him at the station to see if I could DJ. Much to my surprise, he said sure."

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