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Joan Vennochi
An MBTA employee checks on a new Orange Line train before a ribbon-cutting to celebrate the arrival of the trains in 2019.
In case you missed it: The Orange Line is falling apart
Now that the MBTA has introduced new vehicles, it would be nice if they could get them to run properly.

JEFF JACOBY
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joe Biden.
A Democrat in the White House? Cue the FDR analogies
Americans in 2021 aren’t asking for another New Deal, and have made sure the president lacks the power to enact one.

Jyoti Jasrasaria
Election inspector Taquaine Mason observes a voter drop his ballot into the box during early in-person voting, Oct. 29, 2020, in Cambridge.
Voter suppression happens in Massachusetts, too
Our election laws put us in line with some of the worst states in the country.

EDITORIAL
Plants in a grow room at Ermônt medical marijuana dispensary in Quincy, March 2017.
Cities and towns have been abusing marijuana money, a gateway drug to corruption
Pot shop licensing shouldn’t be an insider’s game.

SCOT LEHIGH
Governor Charlie Baker and his team have fought their way forward from the doleful days when their inoculation-organization efforts were widely panned.
Charlie Baker’s big bounce back
A bipartisan event with President Biden helps showcase Governor Baker’s recovery after a COVID-19 fumble.

EDITORIAL
Melvin Jacinto (right) in the town where he lives in western Guatemala, on March 8. Jacinto wants to try to enter the United States to reunite with his son. They were separated at the US-Mexico border in 2018.
What does America owe families separated by Trump’s border policy?
The Biden administration is working to reunite children separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border, but it should also provide a pathway to citizenship to families traumatized by the ordeal.

David M. Shribman
President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks in Providence, R.I. on Oct. 21, 1936.
When FDR tried to ‘pack the court’
Roosevelt’s attempt to pack the Supreme Court and ‘purge’ his party is a cautionary tale — for Democrats and Republicans.

Joan Vennochi
A rendering of the outpatient surgery center that Mass General Brigham is planning to build in Westborough.
Will a new name and game plan satisfy the old Partners appetite for growth?
Mass General Brigham wants to build suburban outpatient surgery centers. Will its latest expansion wish be granted?

Rosabeth Moss Kanter
President Biden speaks about infrastructure and jobs along the banks of the Calcasieu River in Westlake, La., on May 6.
Biden’s holistic approach to infrastructure
Infrastructure is too often viewed in silos. The Biden plan offers many lenses to view the implications of infrastructure adequacy for people’s lives.

Frederick Salvucci and James Aloisi
The Southeast Expressway in Boston.
A new vision for transportation
The proposed federal COVID-relief package provides a once-in-a-generation opportunity to invest strategically in a more sustainable and equitable transportation future.