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Columns

Can we talk about transgender athletes?

Is there a way to talk about this without being labeled right wing and transphobic?

Columns

Don’t take gay marriage for granted

With constitutional privacy rights eroded, the Supreme Court could do an about-face on marriage equality.

Columns

Is concern for judicial ethics all that’s driving the controversy over Healey’s pick for high court?

The governor’s choice of a former romantic partner, Gabrielle Wolohojian, crosses into new territory.

Columns

As state Senate seeks to honor a woman, it should bring a groundbreaking Black Bostonian out of the shadows

Maria W. Stewart rose from indentured servitude to become not only the nation’s first Black female published political writer, but also the first woman of any race to give public political speeches — and she did it all in Boston.

Columns

The seventh-grader and the First Amendment

Liam Morrison’s school said he couldn’t wear a "two-genders" T-shirt. The Constitution says he can.

OpEds

When the GOP comes for trans rights, they come for all of our rights

Ohio is a testing ground for what we can expect to see if Republicans win 2024: a party bent on depriving people of their freedom.

OpEds

Foreign governments silencing dissent on US campuses in Boston and beyond

It is part of a global phenomenon called transnational repression — the targeting of people for their criticism of an authoritarian government even far outside of that government’s territory.

Ideas

The arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend itself

In troubled times, one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most powerful lines may seem passive or even naive. But it’s a call to action.