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MARCELA GARCÍA

Trump’s 50-year playbook of lie, deflect, and deny

Trump’s long track record of questionable behavior, so excessively dishonorable and often outright heinous, practically drowns out the act of allegedly paying hush money to a porn star.
SCOT LEHIGH

Trump’s indictment lands in two separate media realities

CNN and MSNBC were cautious, while Fox News went into full conspiracy theory mode.
JOAN VENNOCHI

Forget about TikTok, we’ve got Trump to fire us up again

The arguments about his indictment go around the usual circles and break down along the usual partisan lines. It’s already exhausting.
NEWSLETTER

I dream of knees

Dissatisfied with harsh working conditions and an insufficient amount of time off, my left knee recently went on strike. These days when I’m not researching standing desks or proper ergonomics, I dream about knees.

op-eds

Dallas Ducar

How Massachusetts can protect trans people

The Legislature should pass bills requiring parity in primary care, eliminating cost-sharing, and protecting health care providers.
Malcolm Brogdon

Juvenile justice should focus on rehabilitation not punishment

We can’t ignore the fact that justice-involved 18- to 25-year-olds have been ill served by a system that relies on excessive punishment, fails to rehabilitate them, and perpetuates racial disparities.
Erwin Chemerinsky

No one, including a former president, is above the law

If Donald Trump committed a crime, he should be indicted and prosecuted for it.
Stacia Datskovska

Twitter is quick to attack young journalists. Take it from me.

What followed the publication of my op-ed was an onslaught of online hate.

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Stacia Datskovska

Twitter is quick to attack young journalists. Take it from me.

What followed the publication of my op-ed was an onslaught of online hate.

Priscilla H. Douglas

The reawakening of ‘woke-ism’

For centuries its meaning was straightforward. Who could imagine that a word could be catapulted so far from its true meaning?

JOAN VENNOCHI

I covered Mel King as a ‘radical’ instead of a visionary ahead of his time

I believe in the power of protest, yet I presented King as a threat to the power structure. But King saw his mission as something very different.

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

Supreme Court’s new target: the Americans with Disabilities Act

A ruling could essentially rewrite the ADA, which was designed to put enforcement partly in the hands of those best positioned to recognize public access discrimination: those with disabilities.

Marilyn Waite

Climate financing is finally here, but will there be equity?

Financial regulators are failing to adequately address the intersections of climate investing and justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. This failure risks continuing the long history of oppressive financial policies.

Andrew J. Perrin and Christian Lundberg

People deserve safety on college campuses. Ideas don’t.

The best way to break the campus echo chamber is to open up campuses to better argumentative practices.

NEWSLETTER

Woke is easy to define. It’s harder to fight.

Wokeness isn’t designed to uplift and unify. Its purpose is to tear down and divide.

Christopher R. Knittel

Your electric bill shouldn’t be so high. Here’s how to fix it.

The effect of the state’s flawed electricity pricing system on incentives to electrify is enormous.