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Joan Vennochi

What Deshaun Watson and Robert Kraft have in common

The higher up you are in the power pyramid — team owner versus pro athlete versus everyone else — the less the rules apply to you.

Ward Sutton
‘Top Gun: Maverick’ isn’t just a feel-good movie, it’s Pentagon propaganda
The military’s been involved with Hollywood since the 1920s, but “Top Gun” super-charged the relationship, triggering a 70 percent spike in requests for collaboration. But the Pentagon has its own agenda.

JEFF JACOBY
Why taxpayers shouldn’t pay for primary elections
Political parties are private organizations. Let them choose their nominees on their own dime.

RENÉE GRAHAM
Charlottesville was a template for the Jan. 6 insurrection
Donald Trump’s unwillingness to condemn white supremacy in 2017 presaged his incitement of the deadly US Capitol attack

SCOT LEHIGH
Reading the tea leaves about the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago
Something so unprecedented needs both a legally and a politically persuasive justification.

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Dallas Ducar

Massachusetts can continue to lead the way in providing gender-affirming health care

Access, even in Massachusetts, remains incredibly rare and this must change.

Philip J. Landrigan and David Bellinger

Air pollution is responsible for premature deaths in every Massachusetts city and town

We recently published a study in the journal Environmental Health estimating air pollution’s health effects in every Massachusetts city and town, information we have placed in a searchable database.

James E. Hansen

The eyes of climate change history are on Biden

The president has an opportunity to take the fundamental step on climate change that eluded all past leaders, and he can start by taxing carbon emissions.

Joan Vennochi

Don’t scrap the MBTA. Free it from Beacon Hill politics.

There’s nothing duller than talking about governance. But there’s also nothing more important when it comes to accountability.

Vincent Jones II and Laurie Essig

Bachelorette parties in P-town often destroy safe spaces for LGBTQ+ people

We call this process “hetrification.” Like gentrification, hetrification occurs when people feel privileged to take over the spaces of others.

RENÉE GRAHAM

The NFL has no credibility with women

Don’t listen to what the league says in defense of women — watch what it does.

Beth Howard

Keep your scorn. Kentucky needs your solidarity.

As the waters continued to rise, so did the vitriol coming our way on social media. Many people, many of whom claim to be progressive, are laying the blame for this situation at our feet — even suggesting that we deserve it.

Svante Myrick

To transform Boston policing, test for authoritarianism

Polygraph tests for applicants can weed out individuals whose psychological profiles mean they should never carry a badge and a gun.