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In search of Bolivia’s white gold

In an impoverished country rich with natural resources, “powder to the people” means an economic future powered by lithium.

IDEAS | Ayelet Fishbach and Bradley Turnwald

Feeding two birds with one scone

Food that’s both healthy and tasty is more common than you’re led to believe.

IDEAS | ELIZABETH SCARBORO

Students like mine are being left behind

Even when they’re back in school, they’re still far from being back on track.

Kareem Farah, who founded the Modern Classrooms Project, in his classroom in Washington, D.C., in 2017.

IDEAS | THOMAS ARNETT

A better way to do online learning

Many schools struggling with the pandemic are shelving the very solutions that could save them.

Pro-mask and non-mask wearing demonstrators face off at the Cobb County School Board Headquarters in Marietta, Ga., last August.

IDEAS | ERIKA COHEN

I chair the school board in Derry, N.H., and I’m afraid

Police presence. Threats of violence. Open hostility. What happens to our schools if rancor overtakes our capacity to peaceably disagree?

More than two dozen countries make voting a civic duty akin to jury duty.

IDEAS | Miles Rapoport and Alex Keyssar

How to boost voter turnout to nearly 100 percent

Saving democracy might require mandatory voting — and Massachusetts can lead the way.

may i have a word?

May I have a word: When you sense that you may be forgetting something
In search of a word that captures that familiar nagging feeling.

May I have a word: Copyediting the Constitution

May I have a word: Tackling the ‘you plural’ problem

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Editing the Constitution

The Constitution is undergoing massive changes in the Supreme Court. It’s time to put the founding document in the hands of the people.

The Future of Work

The past year has shattered expectations of what workdays look like. Parenting while Zooming. An uncrowded T. Wary interactions with customers. In this special issue of Ideas, we explore which of these changes will stick — and how they’ll affect the quality of our lives.

The Future of Food

What we eat, where it comes from, and how we get it are being reimagined like never before. In this special issue, we celebrate the role of food in our communities and explore how it can be tastier, more accessible, and healthier for us and the planet.

Massachusetts Works

In this special section, we’re turning the typical model of journalism on its head — instead of focusing on what’s broken, we’re taking a look at what Massachusetts gets right. But it’s not all perfect: We also examine areas where Massachusetts can improve.

Conversations with the experts writing thought provoking Globe Opinion op-eds and Ideas features.

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