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Joan Vennochi

Is Charlie Baker afraid of the State Police?

EDITORIAL

Lies, corruption get a presidential pass

Gary Hart, Timothy E. Wirth, Joel McCleary, and Mark Medish
Keep America safe for democracy
The president's assertion of executive power poses a threat to the November elections.

LETTERS
Postcards from the pandemic
Homesick in Las Vegas; dreading Phase Three; the COVID protection rack by the front door — an update on how Globe readers are coping

Eugene Rivers and Christopher Winship

Boston police are not Minneapolis police

DAN WASSERMAN

Back to school quiz

GLOBE OP-TALKS

College disrupted: How the pandemic will shake up higher education

public health
Christine‌ ‌K.‌ ‌Cassel‌ ‌and‌ ‌Susan‌ ‌L.‌ ‌Graham‌ ‌

Contact tracing is essential to preventing another spike in coronavirus infections

IDEAS | Tony Rehagen

What will become of Generation COVID?

LETTERS

Elder care facilities have long been beset by woes

climate crisis
Nikayla Jefferson and Leah C. Stokes

Our racist fossil fuel energy system

Jeanne Shaheen and Sheldon Whitehouse

Crashing coastal property values and the economic fallout of climate change

Jonathan Kaledin

We need a Water New Deal too

education
EDITORIAL

Mr. President, keep your hands off our kids

LETTERS

Trump raises pandemic pressure on colleges

EDITORIAL

An irrational assault on higher education

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securing democracy
EDITORIAL

Lies, corruption get a presidential pass

Joan Vennochi

Is Charlie Baker afraid of the State Police?

Gary Hart, Timothy E. Wirth, Joel McCleary, and Mark Medish

Keep America safe for democracy

technology
LETTERS

Hard lessons on remote learning in Worcester

IDEAS | BRIAN BERGSTEIN

Mars needs a constitutional convention

Josh Bernoff

Facebook and the economics of decency

civil rights
Eugene Rivers and Christopher Winship

Boston police are not Minneapolis police

Nikayla Jefferson and Leah C. Stokes

Our racist fossil fuel energy system

Jennifer Horn

Trump and the flag of treason

Community Voices
Moyinoluwa Adeniji

Racism is like a virus

LETTERS

The Declaration of Independence — an anti-Trump tract, in other words

LETTERS

Self-evident truths, reconsidered

Globe Opinion Columnists

Editorials

Lies, corruption get a presidential pass
By commuting Roger Stone’s sentence, Trump proved that an act of Congress or a Constitutional Amendment is needed to curb abuses of presidential pardoning power.

Congress must bail out federal immigration agency

US Citizenship and Immigration Services faces a significant budget shortfall. Without congressional help, hundreds of thousands of immigrants could be stuck in limbo.

Keep the checks coming, Congress

Debt and eviction loom large for too many Americans. Lawmakers should pass a bill to send more direct cash payments to every household.

Mr. President, keep your hands off our kids

Trump continues to try to bend the science and CDC guidelines on school reopening.

Rule of law triumphs over Trump

Even if the public won't get a look at the president's tax returns yet, the Supreme Court has told the president he's not above the law.

Letters

Can’t blame police chiefs for calling it a day
"If you have an anti-cop mayor (Bill DeBlasio of New York) or prosecutor (Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins) whose primary motivational device is scapegoating, then an already difficult job becomes impossible."

Harm’s way, from all corners, for US troops

Recent reports that Russia may be offering bounties on US service members in Afghanistan have renewed attention on a nearly-20-year American mission.

Elder care facilities have long been beset by woes

Readers react to a Globe editorial calling for tougher oversight of nursing homes and long-term care facilities.

The Declaration of Independence — an anti-Trump tract, in other words

As readers shared what the Founders' document means to them, a critique of the Trump administration emerged.

Reflections on the Declaration of Independence

Every Fourth of July, we print the Declaration of Independence so that its text and ideas can be interrogated by a new generation. This year, with the nation convulsed by a pandemic and protests against police violence, we asked our readers what the Declaration of Independence means to them.

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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.”