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Yvonne X., as told to Kelly Horan

Yes, racism is a public health crisis

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Let the world watch the 2020 election

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She misses watching sports; this is some retirement; frustrating separation — an update on how readers are coping

JEFF JACOBY

Here come the dumbest presidential debates in history

Michael A. Cohen

Trump’s plan for reelection: thievery

James Bernard

Wake the sleeping giant

public health
LETTERS

Freedom and the pursuit of safety

EDITORIAL

Massachusetts travel restrictions lack teeth

Michelle Hoover

I volunteered for a COVID-19 vaccine safety trial

climate crisis
IDEAS | Bina Venkataraman

Q&A: The ocean as hero, not victim

LETTERS

Parking lots across the state present a big opportunity for solar

Nikayla Jefferson and Leah C. Stokes

Our racist fossil fuel energy system

education
Massachusetts Education Equity Partnership

State must fulfill its promise to underserved students

LETTERS

The long-term effects on school-age children are unknown

LETTERS

Remote teaching is the only option

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securing democracy
LETTERS

Freedom and the pursuit of safety

EDITORIAL

Let the world watch the 2020 election

Renée Graham

Fear of COVID-19 is causing a shortage of poll workers. Young people can help

technology
IDEAS | Albert Fox Cahn and Naz Akyol

The TikTok backlash is hypocritical

Carlo Ratti

Urban demonstrations are a triumph of the city

LETTERS

Hard lessons on remote learning in Worcester

civil rights
Yvonne X., as told to Kelly Horan

Yes, racism is a public health crisis

LETTERS

Freedom and the pursuit of safety

EDITORIAL

Police unions show their hand

Community Voices
James Bernard

Wake the sleeping giant

Sophie Morganstern and Yvette Yelardy

We’ve always talked about race, but this time’s different

LETTERS

Law professor has witnessed countless cases of the bias Black attorney describes

Globe Opinion Columnists

Editorials

Let the world watch the 2020 election
The United States should give access to international election monitors to fully evaluate our electoral process.

Massachusetts travel restrictions lack teeth

Maine provides a better model that depends on more than "personal responsibility."

Police unions show their hand

Delay is the weapon of choice for opponents of reform and the politicians who enable them.

Congress must protect mail-in voting, even if it means going to court

Concern over the US Postal Service comes as Trump has railed against absentee voting by mail for months, calling it “fraudulent,” and even drawing a fact-checking rebuke from Twitter for making the false claim.

Foster parents deserve bill of rights

Lawmakers need to reach accord on bringing transparency to the state's child welfare agencies and better serve our most vulnerable children.

Letters

Freedom and the pursuit of safety
How much are we willing to give up in order to 'defeat' the coronavirus?

Not my GOP

The party of Margaret Chase Smith and George Aiken is long gone.

Rara avis

Cassandra Extavour rare multiple talents are to be treasured.

An outpouring of feelings about Jake Auchincloss

Readers react to the Globe editorial board's endorsement for the Democratic Party primary in the Fourth Congressional District.

A lifetime to repent

Forgiveness heals with grit, grace, prayers, and enough lifetime to allow for such healing and repentance.

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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.

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.”