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In an interview, Boston City Councilor and mayoral candidate Michelle Wu didn’t have concrete answers to some of the most controversial questions about BPS.
MARCELA GARCÍA

Can Michelle Wu fix Boston Public Schools?

While big thinking is necessary for change, the mayor’s job is loaded with immediate problems and crises.

Dean A. Strang and Nancy Gertner
Law enforcement officers cleared an area of demonstrators outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department during a protest on April 14 over the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop.
Supreme Court rulings on traffic stops reinforce structural racism in policing
The court was well aware of what it was doing.

Mary Ann Sorrentino
Reverend Erika Wilson, from the Awakening Spiritual Community of San Antonio, speaks at the Whole Women's Health clinic in 2019.
The chipping away of a woman’s right to choose
This most private personal decision, as the Supreme Court declared, must be protected.

Anne Bernays
Throw Shakespeare from the train
Not so long ago, it was an accepted fact that fiction writers could and did write from whomever’s point of view they figured was the best way to tell their story.

Alex Beam
Then-Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris in her Converse sneakers at a drive-in campaign event at the Infinite Energy Center on Nov. 1 in Duluth, Georgia.
What’s afoot, politically?
It has not gone unnoticed that the Biden administration has ushered in a new era of women’s footwear.

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Mike Stanton
Worcester Red Sox players held a scrimmage at their new Polar Park stadium on April 8.

Rhode Islanders, don’t go to Polar Park

It’s never good for fans when their local team becomes a pawn in a political game. Guess who loses?

H.D.S. Greenway
Security personnel stands guard as Independent Election Commission workers unload ballot boxes from a truck to be taken to a counting center the day after Afghanistan held presidential elections, in September, 2019.

Afghanistan and Vietnam: How did the US lose two wars?

In the end, our clients could never shake the impression that they were puppets fighting for foreigners.

Kimberly Atkins
Licensed vocational nurse Denise Saldan prepares the single-dose Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine in Los Angeles, California on March 25.

I got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The pause makes me believe in it more.

The worst thing that could happen now is for the recommendation by the FDA and CDC to pause the vaccine’s administration to spur a new wave of vaccine hesitancy.

Joan Vennochi
A police officer from Prince George's County, Maryland, awaits a procession for Capitol Police Officer William Evans on April 13 in Washington, D.C. A ceremony honoring Evans was held in the rotunda of the US Capitol after he was killed in the line of duty when a car drove into security barriers on April 2.

‘Your dad was a hero’ — the clashing views about American police

More than relying on one jury to change the world of policing, it might be better to change how we think about police.

Leonard L. Glass, Edwin B. Fisher, and Lance Dodes
Yale University campus in New Haven, Conn.

Why did Yale dismiss Bandy X. Lee?

In dismissing Dr. Bandy X. Lee, the university cited the Goldwater Rule, which has been shown to be scientifically untenable.

JEFF JACOBY
Antiracism protesters chant at the Huntington Beach pier in opposition to a planned "White Lives Matter'" demonstration on April 11 in Huntington Beach, Calif. The march was organized by ultra-right groups that called for April 11 to be a national day of White Lives Matter.

Religion in America is fading, but true believers are everywhere

The passion of faith is increasingly channeled into politics and the culture wars.

OPINION

Grading Massachusetts on COVID-19 vaccination

Grading the state on its vaccine rollout, compared with the rest of the nation.

SCOT LEHIGH
Then-President Donald Trump speaks to the media with Florida Gov. Rick Scott at Eglin Air Force Base in Fla. in 2018.

A GOP unity cruise hits the Great Trump-Barrier Reef

Not even a nifty new award can keep the bitter former president at intra-party bay.