Letters
Mass. responds to probation challenges with a different approach
The Massachusetts Probation Service is oriented toward keeping people in treatment in the community, using graduated sanctions and incentives to improve compliance with supervision and avoid incarceration.
Letters
Thomas Jefferson might like a word with today’s Supreme Court justices
He understood the intent of the Founding Fathers.
Letters
Why is it OK to use electric shock on people with disabilities?
Does the Globe think that the 50 current individuals subject to electric shock at JRC are the only severely self-injurious people in the entire country, since JRC is the only place in the United States that utilizes this treatment?
OpEds
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.
OpEds
The march on Washington — then and now
I was a young girl at the first march. I could not have imagined that even more would be at stake 60 years later.
Columns
Corporate America is on notice: Discriminating by race is illegal
Harvard cannot employ racial preferences — and the Fortune 100 can’t either.
Ideas
Another brick in the wall blocking abortion access
The Supreme Court stayed a ruling that would reduce access to abortion pills, but a conservative judge has shifted the terms of the legal debate.
Columns
Don’t call them ‘mistakes.’ Unjustified police encounters are acts of anti-Black terror.
"Wrong place, wrong time," officers say. But is there ever a "right place, right time" for Black people in America?