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JOAN VENNOCHI

A troubled MBTA: What’s the plan to fix it, Maura Healey and Phillip Eng?

They need to step up and let the riding public know what the big picture plan is for fixing the troubled agency.
KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

Will the Supreme Court side with loan sharks?

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the predatory loan police. And the Supreme Court could defund it.
JEFF JACOBY

Before it’s too late, the UN blackball of Taiwan must stop

China demands that its small neighbor be treated as a pariah. Why doesn’t the West push back?

op-eds

Joshua Rauh and Seamus Duffy

United Auto Workers strike: Is the union idling in the past?

It must build a future that will be beneficial for the next generation of labor, not just the union’s senior membership.
Rubén Rosario

Sports rivalry, or how I learned to accept my Sox-loving son

This rivalry, or any other, should never rise beyond friendly banter.
Yanique Redwood

I headed the BU Center for Antiracist Research. Here’s what I learned.

Antiracism work is not one-human-being work. It is collective work.

letters

Chance at hand for Catholic Church to expand leading role for women

T near-misses ‘unacceptable’? Then why do we keep seeing them?

Spineless speaker, feckless far-right bloc drive US toward shutdown

Before tragedy strikes, we have to crack down on laser pointers

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PODCAST | SAY MORE WITH SHIRLEY LEUNG

Can anybody stop Donald Trump?

With 2024 campaigning well underway in N.H., Globe Opinion’s Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Joan Vennochi, and Carine Hajjar weigh in on the GOP field and whether President Biden is too old to run again.
IDEAS | KARA MILLER

Marriage is increasingly for the upper classes. That’s not a good sign.

The economic divide between one- and two-parent households is getting larger.
Brendan Little

Long Island is a haven worthy of our most vulnerable

That beautiful island made me briefly consider that I was worthy of that space — a consideration that was the first step in my recovery journey.
EDITORIAL

When building bike lanes isn’t enough

Yes, it is a critical first step to getting more people out of their cars and onto bikes. But government, business, and civic groups can do more to encourage cycling.
JOAN VENNOCHI

In City Council results, a shadow campaign between old and new Boston

Old and new Boston joined forces to oust Ricardo Arroyo and Kendra Lara. Now, the political dynamic shifts.
IDEAS | FREDRIK DEBOER

Identity politics is a game the left can’t win

Dividing up a coalition into an endless number of minority groups won't create the solidarity required for real change.

Cartoons

CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

Worlds apart

PATRICK CHAPPATTE

The U.N. has a lot on its plate

SAGE STOSSEL

No laughing matter

CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

The new McCarthyism

CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

School dazed

WILLIAM DOWD

Remembering Bess

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Rubén Rosario

Sports rivalry, or how I learned to accept my Sox-loving son

This rivalry, or any other, should never rise beyond friendly banter.

Yanique Redwood

I headed the BU Center for Antiracist Research. Here’s what I learned.

Antiracism work is not one-human-being work. It is collective work.

MARCELA GARCÍA

A respite for tens of thousands of Venezuelan arrivals

President Biden has expanded Temporary Protected Status dramatically, and that’s a good thing.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Is there only one way to think, talk, teach, and write about racism?

Layoffs at Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research at BU present an opportunity for the university to rethink how the center can advance the important work of identifying and tackling racism.

Les Kaufman

NOAA needs to get serious about protecting Stellwagen Bank

If effectively managed, marine protected areas like Stellwagen Bank can offer sanctuary to species including those targeted by commercial fisheries.

EDITORIAL

Why did New Bedford lose a popular UMass art program?

As a result of the move, 116 students had to relocate suddenly to the UMass Dartmouth campus or to a former Bed Bath & Beyond store at a nearby strip mall. That’s not what they signed up for.

Joan Fitzgerald

Massachusetts lags on banning plastics

Cutting the use of plastic bags as well as telling state agencies not to use plastic bottles are symbolically important, but the state needs stronger policies.

Michael E. Mann

Climate change and El Niño battle it out this hurricane season

Evidence that landfalling hurricanes may be tending to drift northward from the mid-Atlantic coast to the Northeast with a warming climate is cause for concern for New Englanders.

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SPECIAL PROJECTS

Blue sky Boston: Where inspiration meets aspiration for the city’s future

Sustainable living. Gondolas. A science expo. Evaluation of student humanity. Here’s what a Boston of the future could be.
ERNESTO BARBIERI WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JESS RULIFFSON

Tenderness and brutality: True stories from an ICU nurse

An illustrated opinion piece that examines the porous border between healing and suffering in one hospital’s intensive care unit.
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

How Uphams Corner got wealthier without getting whiter

The scrappy Dorchester neighborhood has fulfilled the community activist’s dream: development without displacement.
IDEAS

Where did all the workers go?

For two years, employers have been desperate for workers — and there’s no indication the labor shortage will soon change. What are we losing — and possibly gaining — as a result?
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IDEAS | PETER THOMSON

The radical, forgotten experiment in educational integration that changed my life

In 1971, kids from Roxbury and Lincoln spent half the year attending school together in the city and the other half in the suburb. Fifty years later, I tracked down my fellow students to see how it shaped them — and whether something like it could work today.

Globe Opinion’s 2022 Top 10

The readers have spoken: Take a tour through The Boston Globe opinion section’s top 10 most read columns, editorials, cartoons, letters, and Ideas stories of 2022.
RENÉE GRAHAM

Remembering trans lives taken in 2022

Even before a gunman killed five people and injured nearly 20 last month at Club Q, a popular LGBTQ nightspot in Colorado Springs, Colo., 2022 was already a deadly year for trans and gender nonconforming people. At least 35 have been killed nationwide, most of them Black trans women.
TIMELINE

Assault on American democracy

Jan. 6, 2021, was one of the most alarming days in American history. Boston Globe Opinion columns, editorials, letters, and cartoons untangle the continuing aftermath of the attack on the US Capitol.
IDEAS | JOAN VENNOCHI

How the MBTA went off the rails

Nearly everything about Boston has changed in the past few decades, yet the T has the same big problem — a failure to prioritize the rider experience above all.
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.

Young people and the power of social media

Social media holds enormous power over young people. Can they find a way to navigate safely through its ever-changing landscape?

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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IDEAS | ABDALLAH FAYYAD

Editing the Constitution

The Constitution is undergoing massive changes in the Supreme Court. It’s time to put the founding document in the hands of the people.
ideas

The Future of Work

The past year has shattered expectations of what workdays look like. Parenting while Zooming. An uncrowded T. Wary interactions with customers. In this special issue of Ideas, we explore which of these changes will stick — and how they’ll affect the quality of our lives.

The Longevity Hub

The Boston Globe Opinion section and MIT's AgeLab present The Longevity Hub, an ongoing series seeking to spark Greater Boston's transformation into the Silicon Valley of aging.
EDITORIAL

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.
EDITORIAL

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

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.

The future of food

What we eat, where it comes from, and how we get it are being reimagined like never before. In this special issue, we celebrate the role of food in our communities and explore how it can be tastier, more accessible, and healthier for us and the planet.
Letters

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.
An archive of conversations with the experts writing thought-provoking Globe Opinion op-eds and Ideas features.

The Other swing voter

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.
Thomas E. Patterson

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.
IDEAS

Massachusetts Works

We turn the typical model of journalism on its head — instead of focusing on what’s broken, we’re taking a look at what Massachusetts gets right.

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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