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Postcards from the pandemic

EDITORIAL

States must take up the gun-safety fight

MARCELA GARCÍA

The thrills and chills of going viral on TikTok

I watched in awe as the views of the video of my dog grew exponentially in a day, from 10,000 to 300,000, and then past the million mark. It has now been seen more than 4.4 million times.
Antonio F. D. Cabral

Mass. should put an end to a shameful immigration program

The Legislature should end the 287(g) program, which empowers ICE to co-opt state and local correctional personnel as immigration agents.
RENÉE GRAHAM

Republican anti-trans legislation is an assault on children

A slew of proposals underscore the hateful lie that trans youth do not deserve the right to be who they are.

RENÉE LOTH
The Biden administration announced in March that Gene Sperling, a former top economic official in the last two Democratic presidential administrations, will oversee the rollout of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that President Biden signed into law.
GOP lawmakers’ rejection of Biden’s $1.9 trillion rescue plan doesn’t add up
Why would Congressional Republicans continue to scorn President Biden’s courtship if it would so clearly help their constituents?

Kimberly Atkins
Producer, actor, filmmaker, and author Tyler Perry is 2,674 on Forbes' list of billionaires.
Why the racial wealth gap hitting Black American billionaires matters
The inequality represented even at the highest echelons of affluence reflects how a dearth of Black super-wealth can have a ripple effect on the rest of society.

SCOT LEHIGH

A filibuster work-around with long-term implications

CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

The rotten foundation of America

A person smokes a Juul Labs Inc. e-cigarette.
Shaleen Title and Andy Tan

Big tobacco is coming for legal marijuana

editor's picks

Joseph Coughlin and Luke Yoquinto

Boston: The Silicon Valley of longevity?

IDEAS | ANNIE MURPHY PAUL

A smarter way of thinking about intelligence

IDEAS | NOAH Y. KIM

Housing will test white support for Black lives

The outbuildings of the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana.
IDEAS | TIYA MILES

What should we do with plantations?

public health
LETTERS

Global-minded teen’s selflessness on vaccine is laudable but inadvisable

Shaleen Title and Andy Tan

Big tobacco is coming for legal marijuana

LETTERS

Dispensing vaccines and so much more

climate crisis
A bus with doors on both sides pulls into a station in Indianapolis.
IDEAS | Julia Wallerce and Ari Ofsevit

Let’s board buses on both sides now

LETTERS

Renewable energy and renewed opportunity for fossil fuel workers go hand in hand

Timmons Roberts

Top 10 reasons Governor McKee’s first big signing ceremony should be for Act on Climate

education
Blue Hills Regional Technical School in Canton has hands-on learning that is crucial to many of their vocational programs, from automotive technology and electrical to cosmetology and culinary arts.
LETTERS

What determines ‘fairness’ in vocational school admissions?

JEFF JACOBY

The problem with Holocaust education

LETTERS

Decades-old problem of segregated schools persists

Cartoons

securing democracy
A voter submits a ballot in an official drop box during early voting in Athens, Ga., Oct. 19, 2020. A new Georgia law, among other constraints on voting, restricts the availability of drop boxes for absentee ballots.
EDITORIAL

MLB, corporate leaders wake up to assault on voting rights

IDEAS | TOM JOUDREY

Stanley Kowalski’s populist rage was a prescient warning

Kimberly Atkins

Civil suits could be the path to holding Trump accountable for the insurrection

technology
Travelers walk through the Salt Lake City International Airport in Salt Lake City on March 17.
LETTERS

Vaccine passports should not usher the way to even more social stratification

IDEAS | Marcel Fafchamps

Is technology giving us what the Soviets intended?

Elizabeth Dugan

How Massachusetts can become a living laboratory for aging

civil rights
Plymouth County Sheriff Joe McDonald has entered into a 287(g) contract, which empowers Immigration and Customs Enforcement to co-opt state and local correctional personnel as immigration agents.
Antonio F. D. Cabral

Mass. should put an end to a shameful immigration program

RENÉE GRAHAM

Republican anti-trans legislation is an assault on children

EDITORIAL

Vaccine ‘passports’ — with crucial protections — can help get America through herd immunity limbo

Community Voices
Marvelous Marvin Hagler attracts attention at Logan Airport in this Sept. 9 file photo.
LETTERS

Marvin Hagler was marvelous with the kids in his visit to Dana-Farber cancer clinic

LETTERS

Family of victim in Newton police shooting wants crisis training to be mandatory

IDEAS | RODNEY BUSH

‘It’s not possible to isolate yourself or social distance in here’

Globe Opinion Columnists & Contributors

Editorials

States must take up the gun-safety fight
There is a greater prospect for progress in state capitals than in Washington, D.C.

Big dreams for transit need a dose of reality

President Biden’s infrastructure plan sets off a wave of Massachusetts dreamin.’

Keep the US Capitol open to the public

While law enforcement need to better protect the Capitol, new security measures should not prevent public access to the building. Doing so would be a loss for American democracy.

Holyoke veterans deserve more than a new building

What ails the Soldiers’ Home won’t be solved without a change in how it is led and governed.

Vaccine ‘passports’ — with crucial protections — can help get America through herd immunity limbo

The Biden administration should be clear in its guidance to companies about how the credentials can be used.

Letters

Blue Hills Regional Technical School in Canton has hands-on learning that is crucial to many of their vocational programs, from automotive technology and electrical to cosmetology and culinary arts.
What determines ‘fairness’ in vocational school admissions?
Readers respond to the March 28 editorial, “Fighting for fairness in vocational-ed admissions.”

Bullish on Boston

Readers weigh in on developer Don Chiofaro's stalled plan for the Boston Harbor waterfront.

One’s totalitarian, the other isn’t

Cuban and Venezuelan voters in the United States hear about Democratic policies and think “socialist.” But what they most likely fear is communism.

MBTA must restore crucial bus lines

Despite reversing course on cuts, many crucial MBTA busroutes are still without service.

No love for Birx

Dr. Birx claims that heeding her advice would have saved 450,000 lives. Not so. In fact, she was Trump’s primary enabler.
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Brave New Planet is a podcast the 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.
Watching the 2020 DNC felt like watching an infomercial for a product that was not made for me, but that I’m being told to buy anyway.
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.
Voters observed social distancing guidelines as they waited in line to cast ballots in the Wisconsin presidential primary election, in Milwaukee in April.
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.”
National Student Essay Competition winners announced