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Editorials are opinions of The Boston Globe's Editorial Board.

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani in Vienna on Dec. 27.
EDITORIAL

If the US can’t hold Iran, it must know when — and how — to fold

The time to revive the nuclear deal is running short.
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Vaccination rates for Massachusetts children, ages 5-11, are a ‘tale of two states’

Economics alone does not explain the disparities.
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Threats against election officials must be stopped

It’s time for Congress to make intimidation and harassment of election officials a federal crime.
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A year later, waiting for justice

The only way to protect the Republic is to hold accountable the people who perpetuated the Big Lie and provoked the insurrection.

EDITORIAL
Police Sergeant Shana Cottone (center) protested Boston's new vaccine mandate at City Hall on Dec. 20.
To ‘serve and protect’ means getting the vaccine
Public safety unions should be ashamed for pushing back on the Boston vaccine mandate.

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The Massachusetts State House dome glows in the late afternoon sunshine, Dec. 1, 2021.
‘People’s house’ still shuttered, but crucial work lies ahead
The Legislature left a heap of unfinished business for 2022, with voting reforms topping the list.

Finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing

A battle for affordable housing in Massachusetts

The Globe editorial board's 2020 series on the need for inclusive housing reform in Newton and across the Commonwealth.

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The John Adams Courthouse is home to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, which recently ruled in favor of police officers who frisked a Black man under questionable circumstances.

The state’s high court backed police who frisked a Black man under questionable circumstances. Don’t take the decision too far.

One hunch proven right should not open the floodgates for police encounters based on racial bias.

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Governor Charlie Baker (left) and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Pat Greenhouse and David L. Ryan/Globe Staff

New Year’s Resolutions for the new mayor and the outgoing governor

What should top the 2022 priority list for Michelle Wu and Charlie Baker? The Globe editorial board weighs in.

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Former Boston police officer Patrick M. Rose Sr. covers his face during arraignment on Aug. 13, 2020. Rose was kept on the force even after the department’s own investigators concluded he had molested a child in 1995.

Policing the police finally gets underway

Transparency, diligence key to ushering in a new post-George Floyd era in public safety in Massachusetts.

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People lined up to receive at-home COVID-19 tests in New York on Dec. 23. While investing heavily in vaccines for Americans, the administration neglected until the final weeks of 2021 to put into place a free testing strategy for the country that could help prevent the spread of new variants.

Stop reacting to the pandemic. Start planning ahead for it.

Far too often, the Biden administration has been caught flat-footed responding to the latest front in the COVID-19 crisis. The White House must take a longer view and prepare for what’s to come.

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Haitian migrants rest outside a shelter in Monterrey, Mexico, on Sept. 26, where they awaited their immigration resolution.

It’s past time for America to do right by Haiti

The Biden administration needs a new policy toward migrants fleeing violence and poverty and to get behind grassroots democratic reform.

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Richard Sackler, the former president of Purdue Pharma, appears in a 2015 deposition video.

Throwing out the $4.5 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma is the right call

Victims of addiction should be able to sue the Sackler family, whose company helped fuel the opioid crisis.

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Massachusetts State Police takes photographs of a heavily-damaged unmarked state police cruiser that was struck by another car on March 16, 2016. Thomas Clardy, a Massachusetts State Police trooper, died of injuries from the crash. The other driver was found to have THC in his blood at the time he lost control of his vehicle.

Toking and driving just isn’t cool

Five years into recreational marijuana sales, Massachusetts "driving under" laws overdue for an update.

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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, seen here giving a COVID-19 on Dec. 21, is behind legislation aimed at strengthening protections for survivors of abuse.

Victims make their case for better protections

Baker’s third attempt to change state dangerousness laws a must for 2022.