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

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

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.

NOAA needs to get serious about protecting Stellwagen Bank
If effectively managed, marine protected areas like Stellwagen Bank can offer sanctuary to species including those targeted by commercial fisheries.

Massachusetts lags on banning plastics

Cutting the use of plastic bags as well as telling state agencies not to use plastic bottles are symbolically important, but the state needs stronger policies.

Michael E. Mann
Climate change and El Niño battle it out this hurricane season
Evidence that landfalling hurricanes may be tending to drift northward from the mid-Atlantic coast to the Northeast with a warming climate is cause for concern for New Englanders.

Kelly Meraw
A daring hope for Catholic women
It’s time for the Catholic Church to discern how it might now formally recognize women like me who are fulfilling vital communal roles that would otherwise go unfulfilled.

Evy Peña
When FIFA brings the World Cup to Boston, it must commit to workers’ rights
Boston’s plan must include labor protections that account for the unique challenges faced by migrant workers, such as improvements to recruitment practices and access to justice.

Arthur Caplan and Gwendolyn P. Quinn
The controversial birth of the artificial womb
Although the technology is promising, this development poses numerous ethical challenges.

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Carine Hajjar

During a Sept. 11 campaign event in Rye, N.H., Chris Christie, a Republican presidential primary candidate, autographed a photo of him with Barack Obama.

Chris Christie takes on mission impossible in GOP presidential nomination race

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People with Down syndrome helped scientists pave the way for Alzheimer’s drugs but are now left out of the treatment. 3:00 a.m.

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US Senator Mitt Romney has long expressed confidence that young people will help rebuke the chaotic populism infecting the GOP.

Utah after Mitt Romney

Republicans jumped from Romney as their presidential nominee all the way to Donald Trump in only four years. 12:46 p.m.

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X CEO Elon Musk left a Senate forum on AI in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 13.

Congress can’t regulate AI. It’s too complex.

Artificial intelligence is an extremely fast-moving and increasingly diversified field, which makes it a poor match for slow-moving regulatory and judicial processes. 3:00 a.m.

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Today’s ‘unprecedented’ flooding extremes will be tomorrow’s good old days

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Carlo Ratti and Antoine Picon

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AI is coming to our neighborhoods and will show us the future of cities

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Seniority policies are holding back teacher diversity efforts

To say that the racial and ethnic makeup of the Massachusetts teacher population is already out of step with the student body would be an understatement. 3:25 a.m.

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A firefighter cleaned a truck at Engine 50 firehouse in Charlestown.

Rethinking the costly role of fire departments

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