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End the religious exemption for school vaccinations, already

MARCELA GARCÍA

A breach of trust in East Boston?

Centro Presente and Lawyers for Civil Rights sent a formal complaint to state authorities in March to request an investigation into the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center.
ABDALLAH FAYYAD

Is Kevin Hayden fit to be district attorney?

When it comes to holding police accountable, Hayden’s office looks uncomfortably like a throwback to see-no-evil prosecutors of the past.

RENÉE GRAHAM
From the ‘party of law and order’ to ‘defund the FBI’
Threatening federal law enforcement moves America closer to authoritarianism. Republicans are all in.

RENÉE LOTH
Blowin’ in the wind
You can’t understand its true shape or dimensions. To get some perspective on things, step back.

JEFF JACOBY
Republicans’ ‘banana republic’ charge is bananas
Former presidents are not exempt from the laws that bind the rest of us.

SCOT LEHIGH
Congress is plagued by hyperpartisanship even on matters popular with the public
Is it possible the GOP could begin to play a constructive role on health and climate change?

letters

The invasion of the bachelorette party

Even with a course correction, COVID will remain a powerful foe

Polygraphs are not the way forward in police reform

Media beware: Trump has a way with language

IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF
May I have a word: Something that’s been under one’s nose all along, and a palindrome for ‘palindrome’
Two challenges yield a plethora of new coinages. Plus: Who can put a name to that thing that makes all parents cringe when they find themselves doing it?

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Future-proofing the presidency

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The vaccine could save us, if we let it
Death from COVID-19 is now largely preventable. Everyone must do their part to get more people vaccinated.

News organizations across the country join the call to get more people vaccinated

SCOT LEHIGH
Would you fall prey to authoritarianism? Take the test.
Your results could be edifying — and perhaps even personally helpful.

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.

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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.

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MARCELA GARCÍA

A breach of trust in East Boston?

IDEAS | RICHARD B. WOODWARD

Dying of a disease I never knew existed

LETTERS

Even with a course correction, COVID will remain a powerful foe

climate crisis
SCOT LEHIGH

Congress is plagued by hyperpartisanship even on matters popular with the public

James E. Hansen

The eyes of climate change history are on Biden

IDEAS | Boštjan Videmšek and Jure Eržen

The battle for Ukraine — and global food security

education
IDEAS | HINDA MANDELL

Crafting is my pedagogical love language — and it works wonders in the college classroom

IDEAS | JOSHUA PEDERSON

It’s a mistake to make students reveal their pronouns

Building a class

securing democracy
David Daley

America’s crisis of democracy has already arrived

SCOT LEHIGH

Reading the tea leaves about the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago

ABDALLAH FAYYAD

What happened at Mar-a-Lago is good for democracy

technology
LETTERS

Polygraphs are not the way forward in police reform

IDEAS | ALBERT FOX CAHN

Your camera, the police, and you

Amanda Munger

My apps tracked my pregnancy and my abortion: Will deleting them protect me?

civil rights
IDEAS | MARY ZIEGLER

Where the antiabortion movement goes after Kansas

RENÉE GRAHAM

Boston Celtics green never veiled Bill Russell’s unapologetic Blackness

Amanda Munger

My apps tracked my pregnancy and my abortion: Will deleting them protect me?

Community Voices
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The invasion of the bachelorette party

LETTERS

Harvesting horseshoe crabs for their blue blood has readers seeing red

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Turning 74, but happily immature all his life

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End the religious exemption for school vaccinations, already
New York polio outbreak highlights the risk of letting kids come to school without standard immunizations.

Revenge porn does real harm to real victims. Why won’t the state Senate act?

Massachusetts remains a national outlier on the issue even as survivors plead for a remedy.

An unprecedented FBI raid demands unprecedented transparency

Former president Donald Trump could release a copy of the warrant for the FBI’s raid on his Florida mansion. If he doesn’t, the Justice Department should seek to unseal it.

Repairs to Orange Line: the T better get it right

Federal regulators should be watching how well the transit agency handles an upcoming 30-day closure of the Orange Line.

Legislature needs to return to business

A mere rule shouldn't halt passage of an omnibus economic bill that impacts millions.

Letters

The invasion of the bachelorette party
An op-ed on how bachelorette parties in Provincetown have disrupted safe spaces for LGBTQ+ people generated much debate among BostonGlobe.com readers. Here is an edited sample of the more than 570 comments that were posted.

Even with a course correction, COVID will remain a powerful foe

Protecting our communities from the otherwise inevitable future damage of this pandemic seems like a wise use of this extraordinary American Rescue Plan Act funding.

Polygraphs are not the way forward in police reform

Reducing police misconduct is a worthy goal. Pretending to read the minds of police applicants with polygraphs is not the way to achieve it.

Media beware: Trump has a way with language

The phrase “broke into” carries the connotation that the action was a criminal activity, which is probably exactly why Trump used the phrase himself when he said of the FBI, “They even broke into my safe!”

The T: pressing forward, ploddingly, or going nowhere fast?

With a huge surplus of tax dollars, wouldn’t you think our state government would spend the money needed to prevent another catastrophe before it is too late?

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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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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.
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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.
Read more →
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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 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.
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.

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.

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.”
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