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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.

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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.

JEFF JACOBY

Pelosi shows the way forward on Taiwan

The House speaker gave a master class in how to stand up to a thug. Follow her lead, Mr. President.

Alex Beam

Dear Bob Dylan . . .

Letters from his unopened sack of fan mail.

Building a class

Any particular qualifications of an individual applicant are secondary considerations to the primary one — how will the applicant contribute to that year’s class.

SCOT LEHIGH

The midterm election picture is changing

Both parties are battling with the consequences of overreaching.

Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Needed: A COVID course correction

How should the federal government navigate the disconnect between a public health emergency and a population that seems inured?

Joan Vennochi

Kansas abortion vote shows how hard it is to take away a right

There’s a fear that many rights we now take for granted are at risk, and a populist rising against that outcome could be more bipartisan than Republicans understand.