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INEQUALITY

EDITORIAL
Search for a ‘clean slate’ remains elusive
Minor infractions may mean years of lost opportunities, despite court rulings and legislative reforms that promised otherwise.

EDITORIAL
Two commutations should be just the beginning
Clemency can be used to set right what the criminal justice system got wrong.

Bria Gadsden and Sasha Goodfriend
This is what menstrual equity looks like
Massachusetts needs a comprehensive plan.

LETTERS
Wu’s plan for Mass. and Cass is a good first step on a long path toward care, healing
We have spent decades speaking with women who live unsheltered, facing sexual harassment and assault, illnesses and substance use disorder, and barriers to contact with their families and children.

Rachel R. Yorlets
No one taught me that epidemiology is political — but it is
Our current triage has been as ineffective as it is unethical.

Joan Vennochi
From Texas to Massachusetts for an abortion
If Roe v. Wade is overturned or gutted, it will formalize the huge social, cultural, and legal gulf between states that protect abortion rights and those that will choose to restrict or ban abortion.

RENÉE GRAHAM
In 2021, another devastating record for deadly anti-transgender violence
The year changed. The harms that target transgender and gender nonconforming communities did not.

IDEAS | MICHAEL FAYE
While poverty rises, charitable donations are collecting dust
Philanthropy could nearly eliminate extreme poverty now — if donors decided to stop deferring their gifts.

LETTERS
Prison libraries and classes are key markers in paths that diverge
The vast majority of students were respectful, good-natured, and friendly, and in their studies many were bright or curious or diligent (sometimes all three), often much smarter than me, and, on occasion, nothing less than brilliant.

LETTERS
Diversity, personnel, and power: Report takes hard look at K-12 school leadership
District and school leaders will need to display strong leadership and commitment to a clear vision of why educator diversity matters.