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Postcards from the pandemic

Brave New Planet

Scot Lehigh

As Massachusetts shows, strong gun-safety laws work

EDITORIAL

Governor Baker is right — schools must reopen

Kimberly Atkins

After a brutal year, Garland must work to reform DOJ — and restore Black Americans’ trust

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco

The children of immigrants can help save higher ed

CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

Long shadows

Joan Wickersham
The emperor of nothing
How does a deposed leader with untrammeled ambition and a massive sense of injured self-importance deal with a world in which nothing more can happen?

John Yazwinski
Underutilized hotels can help curtail homelessness
Converting empty hotels into housing is a game-changer, as well as a proactive and cost-effective approach to health care.

editor's picks

Joseph Coughlin and Luke Yoquinto

Boston: The Silicon Valley of longevity?

IDEAS | ANNIE MURPHY PAUL

A smarter way of thinking about intelligence

IDEAS | NOAH Y. KIM

Housing will test white support for Black lives

IDEAS | TIYA MILES

What should we do with plantations?

public health
EDITORIAL

Governor Baker is right — schools must reopen

Scot Lehigh

As Massachusetts shows, strong gun-safety laws work

LETTERS

The hunger-for-vaccine games

climate crisis
Susan Hockfield and Ernest J. Moniz

George Shultz — an environmentalist and technologist ahead of his time

IDEAS | JIM KRANE

Can Saudi Arabia use ‘clean oil’ to buy time in the fight against climate change?

LETTERS

The pitfalls and perils of the Anthropocene (that’s us, by the way)

education
EDITORIAL

Governor Baker is right — schools must reopen

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco

The children of immigrants can help save higher ed

LETTERS

With push on to reopen schools, no letup on drumbeat to vaccinate teachers

Cartoons

securing democracy
LETTERS

Direct line from Reagan’s antigovernment message to Texas mayor’s you’re-on-your-own rant

EDITORIAL

Despite census delays, accuracy must be the top goal of redistricting

EDITORIAL

An assault on this democracy demands answers

technology
IDEAS | FRANK PASQUALE

Now that science fiction is reality, it’s time for new laws of robotics

IDEAS | GABRIEL NICHOLAS

Our disinformation problem has been 70 years in the making

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Inside the race to develop a vaccine for our other pandemic: Hate

civil rights
Kimberly Atkins

After a brutal year, Garland must work to reform DOJ — and restore Black Americans’ trust

Marcela García

The Biden administration is deporting hundreds of Haitians to a country mired in political chaos

Kimberly Atkins

The word ‘aliens’ has been weaponized against noncitizens for generations. It needs to go

Community Voices
EDITORIAL

‘Civilianizing’ police details can be win-win

LETTERS

As kids, they jammed in the basement — and he heard what would become the Chick Corea sound

LETTERS

The concentric circles of Dr. Bernard Lown’s influence

Globe Opinion Columnists & Contributors

Editorials

Governor Baker is right — schools must reopen
Children have fallen behind academically. Pediatricians report rising anxiety and depression among kids. Schools can reopen safely for in-person learning, and it’s past time they do.

Becerra’s fearlessness frightens GOP foes

But a pandemic is no time to delay the confirmation of the head of the Department of Health and Human Services.

‘Civilianizing’ police details can be win-win

Thousands of requests go unfilled even as BPD maintains a stranglehold on those lucrative gigs.

Despite census delays, accuracy must be the top goal of redistricting

States should prioritize getting it right over getting it fast.

Restaurants don’t need indoor dining. They need a bailout.

Democrats’ proposal to include $25 billion in restaurant grants in the next major COVID relief package could save restaurants — and lives.

Letters

The hunger-for-vaccine games
"I’m 74 years old and have asthma and have had no luck getting an appointment. And it shouldn’t require luck."

Direct line from Reagan’s antigovernment message to Texas mayor’s you’re-on-your-own rant

"What happens when you need public servants and you don’t have any? The answer: Hundreds of thousands die unnecessarily in a pandemic. People freeze in Texas."

With push on to reopen schools, no letup on drumbeat to vaccinate teachers

"Would someone explain why, if getting kids back into schools is a priority, vaccinating teachers is not a priority?"

Between mass vaccination sites and local centers, Mass. strains to find the right fit

"As doses are provided to the mass vaccination sites, the state should continue to supply the local town clinics."

Connolly and the FBI: rooting out corruption, to a point

"Frank Serpico had to get shot in the face before the mayor and police brass acknowledged that gamblers and drug dealers were paying off cops."

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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.

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.”
National Student Essay Competition winners announced