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The complicity that enables sexual predators

Survivors are chastised for waiting to speak out against abusers. But what about others who know and choose silence over truth?

Joan Wickersham

Body-shaming isn’t limited to the world of ballet

Every woman I know has a story. Usually more than one story.

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Reina Carolina Morales Rojas and the pain of not knowing

It’s been 10 months since an East Boston immigrant woman from El Salvador went missing. What happened to her?

JEFF JACOBY

Rupert Murdoch was good for Boston

The media tycoon’s sins may be many, but a love of newspapers has always been among his greatest virtues.

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Ethnic Armenians waited to be evacuated from Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh, on Sept. 27.

Simon Saradzhyan

Biden needs to act on Nagorno-Karabakh

The president must stop sitting on his hands as Azerbaijan forces the Armenian population from the lands they have inhabited for more than two millennia.

Joshua Rauh and Seamus Duffy

United Auto Workers strike: Is the union idling in the past?

It must build a future that will be beneficial for the next generation of labor, not just the union’s senior membership.

Rubén Rosario

Sports rivalry, or how I learned to accept my Sox-loving son

This rivalry, or any other, should never rise beyond friendly banter.

Yanique Redwood

I headed the BU Center for Antiracist Research. Here’s what I learned.

Antiracism work is not one-human-being work. It is collective work.

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Carine Hajjar

Trump supporters rallied before the second Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., on Sept. 27.

GOP presidential hopefuls fail to address the (orange) elephant in the room

Until the GOP presidential candidates tackle Donald Trump head-on, voters will ignore their visions for the country.

JOAN VENNOCHI

The Green Line extension has a track problem that requires speed reductions to 3 miles per hour. I can walk at that pace, if not faster, and I just had hip replacement surgery.

A troubled MBTA: What’s the plan to fix it, Maura Healey and Phillip Eng?

They need to step up and let the riding public know what the big picture plan is for fixing the troubled agency.

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

Senator Elizabeth Warren said there is support from within the banking and lending industry for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its rules.

Will the Supreme Court side with loan sharks?

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the predatory loan police. And the Supreme Court could defund it.

Joshua Rauh and Seamus Duffy

Members of the United Auto Workers picketed outside of the Michigan Parts Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich., Sept. 25.

United Auto Workers strike: Is the union idling in the past?

It must build a future that will be beneficial for the next generation of labor, not just the union’s senior membership.

JEFF JACOBY

The new Taiwan passport was revealed in Taipei, Taiwan, Sept. 2, 2020.

Before it’s too late, the UN blackball of Taiwan must stop

China demands that its small neighbor be treated as a pariah. Why doesn’t the West push back?

SCOT LEHIGH

A poor showing for Donald Trump in New Hampshire could well prove contagious — and in the Granite State, he has nowhere to go but down.

No, Donald Trump doesn’t have the 2024 GOP nomination locked up

His early lead in the polls hardly means he’s the GOP’s nearly inevitable nominee.

RENÉE GRAHAM

General Mark Milley, outgoing chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Sept. 28, 2021.

Normalizing Trump’s unhinged rage is an invitation to violence

When the former president — and current front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination — makes inciting comments, he must be called out and challenged without reservation.

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Now arriving: post-pandemic Boston

Offices may never fully reopen. Commuters may never come back to the T. So what’s the plan now?