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Elizabeth Goitein

Yes, Trump can deploy troops to suppress protests

EDITORIAL

No time to waste on mail-in voting

Renée Graham
Trump’s America vs. America
In declaring war on anti-racism protesters, Trump’s American carnage presidency is ready for its savage close-up

LETTERS
Postcards from the pandemic
A shrine to the performance that was not to be, capturing dad’s 65th birthday — an update on how Globe readers are coping

JOAN VENNOCHI

If Ted Kennedy spent nearly 50 years in Washington, why can’t Ed Markey?

Michael A. Cohen

Stop the comparisons to 1968. America is facing a very different set of risks today

LETTERS

Postcards from the pandemic

climate crisis
LETTERS

Pandemic throws a wrench into clean energy effort

Joan Wickersham

Birdwatching with 20-20 hindsight

LETTERS

Bikes are a better form of mass transit

education
LETTERS

In reshaping college, let us not lose our grasp of what higher education is

LETTERS

In virtual space, students slip through Boston schools’ fingers

Marty Meehan

Research universities can help solve the coronavirus crisis

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IDEAS | MATTIA FERRARESI

The difficulty of doing nothing

EDITORIAL

The taxpaying workers in Massachusetts who still need coronavirus cash relief

MICHAEL A. COHEN

America needs a path forward — but we don’t have a president who can point the way

securing democracy
Elizabeth Goitein

Yes, Trump can deploy troops to suppress protests

Renée Graham

Trump’s America vs. America

Michael A. Cohen

Stop the comparisons to 1968. America is facing a very different set of risks today

technology
Josh Bernoff

Should Twitter censure presidential tweets?

EDITORIAL

Trump hijacks the debate over Internet law

IDEAS | KEVIN LEWIS

Social Studies: Pandemic insurance, ride-share bias, and blue-collar eyes

civil rights
Elizabeth Goitein

Yes, Trump can deploy troops to suppress protests

Renée Graham

Trump’s America vs. America

LETTERS

Rallies of resolve, heated protest, and fanned flames

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Editorials

No time to waste on mail-in voting
It’s the best way to protect voters during a pandemic, yet Trump fights no-excuses absentee voting. Now Massachusetts lawmakers try to set things right.

America’s willful ignorance about Black lives

This could be a watershed moment for the threat that Black Americans face from police, but only if political leaders refuse to accept anything less than real reform.

The taxpaying workers in Massachusetts who still need coronavirus cash relief

A bill in the State House would fund cash rebates for undocumented adults who are not eligible for aid under the federal CARES Act and for other pandemic benefits because of their immigration status. The legislature should pass it.

Trump hijacks the debate over Internet law

The foundational law governing social media could use an update. But that should come from careful consideration in Congress, not from a fit of pique in the Oval Office.

The coronavirus is crushing working people. It’s time for Congress to act.

In the coming weeks and months, Congress must work not only to get vulnerable workers through the pandemic, but also to put them on more solid footing in the long term.

Letters

Rallies of resolve, heated protest, and fanned flames
Readers focus on the point of the weekend's protests as many grapple with outbreaks of violence.

Annexation threatens the future of both Israelis and Palestinians

"It would destroy Israel’s democratic character, threaten its security, and condemn millions of Palestinians to living indefinitely under undemocratic military control, without equal rights."

In reshaping college, let us not lose our grasp of what higher education is

"An 18-year-old is not a fully developed adult. There is a vast difference between teaching a freshman and a student in his or her junior year."

1918 flu epidemic was a study in inequity

"Like today, those who could afford to stay home and avoid infection were the privileged. Then, as now, it was marginal communities that were struck down."

In virtual space, students slip through Boston schools’ fingers

Readers were stirred to write in response to reporting and commentary on data that show that at least 10,000 Boston students have not logged in to virtual learning in May.

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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.”