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PUBLIC HEALTH
EDUCATION
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TECHNOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
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SECURING DEMOCRACY
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CIVIL RIGHTS
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CLIMATE CRISIS
Choosing, using, and losing your health care: A policy first-aid kit
In a four-part weekly series, Globe Opinion offers a baseline assessment of health care as well as prescriptions for fixing the industry.
Larry Seamans, Kate Barrand, and Danielle Ferrier
The American Rescue Plan needs a long-term plan for homeless families
While poor families will continue to struggle, others who do make it out of poverty will likely fall back into it and ultimately homelessness when the Rescue Plan largely ends in 2022.
LETTERS
Older generation needs to acknowledge teen mental health crisis
Re Taylor Trudon’s “The kids are not OK” (Opinion, April 5): Teen mental health is the forgotten crisis of our era. Take it from this high school junior.
LETTERS
Emphatic ‘no’ to heels
No one — female or male — should ever be required to wear high heels for any reason.
LETTERS
Young people’s mental health must be addressed
Mental health should be given the same priority as physical health; it shouldn’t be a line item on a list of questions asked at annual physicals or by a school nurse.
LETTERS
Global-minded teen’s selflessness on vaccine is laudable but inadvisable
The vaccine is intended not just to protect ourselves individually but also those who are vulnerable around us.
Shaleen Title and Andy Tan
Big tobacco is coming for legal marijuana
It’s no coincidence that in 2018 Altria, which owns the Marlboro brand, invested $1.8 billion in a cannabis company and $12.8 billion in JUUL, a nicotine vape product.
LETTERS
Dispensing vaccines and so much more
With resources strained and uncertainty continuing to be rampant, the need to think outside our comfortable boxes remains high.
EDITORIAL
Vaccine ‘passports’ — with crucial protections — can help get America through herd immunity limbo
The Biden administration should be clear in its guidance to companies about how the credentials can be used.
LETTERS
The interest of a child, again, fatally bungled
The report on the Department of Children and Families’ role in 14-year-old David Almond’s life and death is a tragic window into flawed decision-making and lack of transparency in the agency.
RENÉE GRAHAM
Stop weaponizing addiction
George Floyd and Hunter Biden probably had little in common — except for the ways they’re demonized for substance use disorder.