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Postcards from the pandemic

Don’t Look Back

Michael D'Antonio and Kiki Sideris

Filling Biden’s Cabinet

EDITORIAL

Boston lays the groundwork to end family homelessness

Don’t Look Back
A conversation about what we should keep from pandemic life — and what we can now reimagine, curated by Globe Opinion.

LETTERS
Postcards from the pandemic
The promise of trees; daily correspondence with the grandkids; a memoir in drawings — an update on how readers are coping

Joan Vennochi

Will Beacon Hill side with the people or the police unions?

DAN WASSERMAN

Translating Trumpspeak

Laurence H. Tribe and Joseph R. Grodin

Let’s hear it for the judges for dismissing Trump’s lawsuits

public health
LETTERS

Reports of vaccine progress are a beacon of hope

Katherine Gergen Barnett

We can’t address coronavirus loneliness alone

Mary Ann D'Urso

Isolation and connection during the pandemic

climate crisis
LETTERS

Carbon tax and rebate, nuclear power should be part of Biden’s climate mandate

IDEAS | LEAH C. STOKES

Biden has a climate mandate

EDITORIAL

America turns its back on the world

education
Joseph Curtatone

Pooled COVID-19 testing can help keep kids in school

EDITORIAL

Restoring in-person learning for neediest is the right move

IDEAS | JOSH BENJAMIN

I’m mourning the sounds of kids arguing in my classroom

cartoons

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securing democracy
Laurence H. Tribe and Joseph R. Grodin

Let’s hear it for the judges for dismissing Trump’s lawsuits

LETTERS

We look to Georgia for a course correction of our politics

LETTERS

Like people, our democracy can only take so much

technology
Kevin Esvelt

The ethical way to alter organisms

Natalie Kofler and Riley Taitingfong

Advances in genetic engineering test democracy’s capacity for good decision-making

IDEAS | DAVID EWING DUNCAN

Make government jobs cool again

civil rights
LETTERS

Social workers can’t provide person-centered care in state’s dehumanizing prison setting

Barbara Smith

What Joe Biden should say about white supremacy

RENÉE GRAHAM

America doesn’t want unity. It wants absolution without restitution

Community Voices
LETTERS

In the disability community, every missing dollar is keenly felt

LETTERS

‘I was an absentee-ballot counter, and this is what I learned’

LETTERS

In Mass., you might say ‘parochial’ is our middle name (but someone would correct you)

Globe Opinion Columnists

Editorials

Boston lays the groundwork to end family homelessness
The City Council’s plan to form a special commission on family homelessness is an earnest endeavor. Political leaders should be held accountable for ensuring it makes a difference.

The future of public transportation is on the line in Massachusetts

Proposed budget cuts could unravel public transit at a time when it needs to grow.

A decimated State Department needs a reboot

The Biden administration needs to reimagine the foreign service and revitalize America’s influence abroad.

The CARES Act promised money to prison inmates. Some are still waiting

When incarcerated people are denied money they’re owed, their families suffer.

Lindsey Graham’s shameful effort to subvert democracy

The South Carolina senator’s apparent scheming to disenfranchise voters is a disgrace.

Letters

Reports of vaccine progress are a beacon of hope
"That’s what’s going to get me through the next months of knuckling down, continuing to wear a mask and observe social distance."

Social workers can’t provide person-centered care in state’s dehumanizing prison setting

"Conditions of mental health watches within the state Department of Correction are equivalent to solitary confinement; this is not treatment."

We look to Georgia for a course correction of our politics

"We all know what a disaster our Congress has been. The voters of Georgia have an opportunity to make things better."

Like people, our democracy can only take so much

"Like people, our democracy has a limited ability to heal. If we attack democracy too much and too often, it will wither and die."

In pressing for census count, note how high stakes are here in Mass.

"In Boston alone, neighborhoods such as Dorchester, Chinatown, and East Boston almost certainly were undercounted in the census."

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endorsement

The Globe endorses Joe Biden for president

The former vice president is uniquely poised to restore the integrity of the presidency and to repair the damage of the last four years.

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. Readers are invited to send in 200-word letters on this topic to letter@globe.com.

Democracy Under Siege: Protecting US elections

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.

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.”
National Student Essay Competition winners announced