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

The Globe’s opinion and editorial writers offer the third 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

OPINION | Diane Hessan

About those ‘Women for Trump’

Women who support Trump value his policies over anything else, and they see him as a refreshing change from those they perceive to be elitist candidates.
OPINION | THE PRESIDENT ON TRIAL

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

OPINION | Susan Church, Kerry Doyle, and Heather Yountz

Customs and Border Protection goes rogue

OPINION | SCOT LEHIGH

The Senate’s choice: Integrity or servility

EDITORIAL CARTOON | CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

The right to remain silent

OPINION | H.D.S. Greenway

China’s rehabilitation of Confucius

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

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Recycling programs need a reboot — and some financial help from online retailers
Massachusetts towns are struggling to pay for their curbside recycling programs. The companies that have unleashed so much packaging ought to help.

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Let’s analyze Donald Trump’s reelection chances

It’s never the wrong time to analyze Donald Trump’s reelection chances. If you care about unseating him, it doesn’t help to underestimate him, or his appeal.
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Not only is Trump guilty of obstructing Congress, Senate Republicans are his coconspirators

It went on like this all day Tuesday: House Democrats would lay out an exhaustive narrative detailing the president’s crimes and Republicans responded with invective and gaslighting.
OPINION | JOAN VENNOCHI

Mayor Walsh wants to change the Boston Fire Department. Can he?

A Boston firefighter was found guilty last week of assaulting a female colleague — stark evidence of the generally hostile work environment endured for years by the small number of women in the Boston Fire Department.
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As Harry and Meghan ‘step back,’ Queen Elizabeth steps up

Not for the first time in her long life, Queen Elizabeth has risen to the occasion.
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From lab to clinic: hope for those suffering from depression

For many, when despair becomes depression, or untenable anxiety, the standard answers — antidepressants with a dose of therapy — are not enough to assuage suffering. It’s time to close the interminable lag time between what’s happening in the lab and what’s happening in the clinic.
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Day 1: Trump’s lawyers mislead, and keeping an eye on GOP lame ducks

The Globe’s opinion and editorial writers offer the first of their daily takes on the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump.
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Sketches from the World Economic Forum in Davos

Cartoonist Patrick Chappatte's take on the news.
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New Hampshire voters mull tough presidential choices

A burning desire to oust Donald Trump is keeping Joe Biden’s name on a lot of lips.
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

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Part 3: Losing

Part 4: Prognosis

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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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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.”

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Boston is a city with dwindling numbers of children

"I expect it has been exacerbated in recent years because the new neighborhoods of the city, such as the Ink Block and the Seaport, are not welcoming to families with children."

Beach battle bingo in Beverly

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Accountability is shown the door in impeachment trial

Readers express their frustration as Republican senators appear poised to give President Trump a pass.

With her flourish of pens, Pelosi has jabbed at her own legacy

"After talking about the solemnity of impeachment on numerous occasions, she was seen gloating and joking during the signing of the articles and handing out engraved pens."

For psychiatric care, nurse practitioners need time, mentoring before practicing alone

"Governor Baker’s proposal to allow nurse practitioners to practice independently in Massachusetts should be opposed in its current form."

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Senate Republicans can’t handle the truth

With new revelations about Trump’s corrupt dealings in Ukraine, they should allow witness testimony in the impeachment trial. Don’t count on it.

The war to liberate Iraq was just, even if it’s no longer popular to say so

In 2003, Joe Biden — like most Americans — was strongly in favor of using military force to topple Saddam Hussein.

Big Number: The year 2045

Demographers project that white people will become a minority in the United States in about 2045.

Note to Democratic candidates: Fight Trump, not each other

Democrats divided cannot make a serious stand against Trump.

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