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JOAN VENNOCHI

Coney Barrett offers a glimmer of hope in fight against Trump polices

In deportation case, she looked like an independent jurist who believes in the rule of law instead of a rubber stamp for Trump.
JOAN VENNOCHI, ALAN WIRZBICKI, AND CARINE HAJJAR

Can a Baker Republican still win? Three writers on the Mass. governor’s race.

Mike Kennealy is a favorite of the moderate Baker camp, but he faces two stiff challenges.
RENÉE GRAHAM

Yes, even small victories against a tyrannical Trump matter

Nothing this president does should go unchallenged.

op-eds

Alex Beam

Resisting Trump: The revival of tax protest

I don’t have the moral fortitude to engage in tax resistance. But godspeed to those who do.
Larry Tye

Can college leaders today learn from Harvard’s past?

Look back at actions of former Harvard president Nathan Pusey, who took on Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare.
JEFFREY GEDMIN AND ANDRES ILVES

US silences its own voice in Middle East media

Closing the Middle East Broadcasting Networks will not make America great again. This is a region that is critical to President Trump’s foreign policy agenda.

editorials

EDITORIAL

Justice denied in a Boston courtroom and ICE is to blame

ICE scoops defendant in midtrial, denying him and this community justice.
EDITORIAL

Lobbyist donations to lawmakers’ pet charities don’t pass the smell test

Donations by lobbyists and businesses to lawmakers' pet causes raise ethical issues.
EDITORIAL

Huge turnout for youth jobs fair was a reminder of the program’s importance

Turnout for a recent Roxbury jobs fair was so overwhelming that it became disorderly.

ideas

IDEAS | BRIAN BOYLES

A noble endeavor for a Great Society is being abandoned

For decades, the National Endowment for the Humanities cultivated wisdom and vision in Americans. Trump and Musk gutted it with haste.
IDEAS | Andrew Geneslaw

Canceling research funding is not the answer to antisemitism

What is happening at Columbia University and other institutions is only hurting science — and in no way helping American Jews.
IDEAS | MG Prezioso

Teachers are using AI to make literature easier for students to read. This is a terrible idea.

A writer’s voice and style don't just matter to the reading experience, they are the reading experience.

letters to the editor

DMH strains to provide services now, even without budget cuts

Ask a parent how they have to fight to get their children the help they need.

Her baby in her arms, Wu charts a path for other women

Marceline Donaldson, lauding Mayor Michelle Wu for the example she's setting, writes, "In the early 1960s I had a baby and a business in Minneapolis. From the time of her birth, she went with me wherever I had to go."

Federal cuts are eating away at families’ healthy options, farmers’ sales

"Our customers tell us how disappointed they are, and how they are facing empty cabinets at home and making the decision not to attend farmers markets," write a group of Massachusetts farmers.

Editor's picks

Ryan Normandin

In Newton, we tried an experiment in educational equity. It has failed.

“Multilevel classrooms” are not working for teachers or students, writes the head of Newton South High School’s Faculty Council.
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

Scared of another Trump term? Here’s how it could work out better than you think.

The silver linings playbook for the next four years.
CARINE HAJJAR

An attempt to cancel Seth Moulton boomerangs on Tufts

The chair of the university’s political science department said Tufts would stop facilitating internships with the Salem congressman after his comments about transgender athletes. But that wasn’t the end of the story.
Vikas Saini

How America’s broken health system fuels dangerous rage

Why there is pent up anger about America's health care system.
Heather Hopp-Bruce

Spending the day with my transgender son and MAGA aunt

They share the same goals — freedom, prosperity, safety — but have wildly different ideas about how to achieve them and no single conversation or text thread is going to change that.
EDITORIAL

Tougher action is needed on teacher strikes

Much higher fines would make a difference.

CARTOONS

Ella Scheuerell

It’s (not) that funny: A cancer story

CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

Free falling

BETH WOLFENSBERGER SINGER

Some bits I missed about the Revolutionary War era

SAGE STOSSEL

Spring pleasures in complicated times

PATRICK CHAPPATTE

On my signal

CAMILA KERWIN

Give me liberty

More from Globe Opinion

EDITORIAL

Lobbyist donations to lawmakers’ pet charities don’t pass the smell test

Donations by lobbyists and businesses to lawmakers' pet causes raise ethical issues.

IDEAS | MG Prezioso

Teachers are using AI to make literature easier for students to read. This is a terrible idea.

A writer’s voice and style don't just matter to the reading experience, they are the reading experience.

JEFFREY GEDMIN AND ANDRES ILVES

US silences its own voice in Middle East media

Closing the Middle East Broadcasting Networks will not make America great again. This is a region that is critical to President Trump’s foreign policy agenda.

IDEAS | Barbara Wallraff

May I have a word: Good ideas, lousy execution

What to call flops of ingenuity?

MARCELA GARCÍA

This deportation ‘shocks the conscience.’ So why is he still in prison?

Why Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s case is a legal test for all of us.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Remembering Phil Johnston and his legacy of hope and service

He was a fierce proponent of the principle that government is a force for good and should always act that way.

EDITORIAL

Huge turnout for youth jobs fair was a reminder of the program’s importance

Turnout for a recent Roxbury jobs fair was so overwhelming that it became disorderly.

Joan Wickersham

13 ways of looking at Cory Booker’s speech

‘This is a moral moment,’ he said in his 25-hour speech to the Senate. ‘It’s not left or right. It’s right or wrong.’

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SPECIAL PROJECTS

Calluses: True stories from an ICU

An ICU nurse explores the similarities between bedside manner and the hard calluses developed when learning to play guitar in this interactive comic.

The Wisdom Issue: How to grow old — without getting old

Writers of a certain age on the challenges, delights, surprises, preoccupations, and freedoms of growing older.

True stories from an ICU: Was it right to keep their sister alive?

An illustrated opinion piece that explores the emotional impact of hospice care on ICU nurses and hospital employees.
IDEAS

Blueprints for a new downtown Boston

It's time to reimagine the identity of the city's core — and we've got ideas.

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

An interactive comic that explores how medical mistakes can happen in the chaotic environment of an ICU.

Not so fast, fashion

How to be fashionable and equitable while saving the planet from climate change.

Teens Speak

We asked. They delivered. Teens from across the country offer a candid look at how they’re navigating life, school, friendships, social media, expectations, and so much more.

Blue sky Boston: Where inspiration meets aspiration for the city’s future

Sustainable living. Gondolas. A science expo. Evaluation of student humanity. Here’s what a Boston of the future could be.
ERNESTO BARBIERI WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JESS RULIFFSON

Tenderness and brutality: True stories from an ICU nurse

An illustrated opinion piece that examines the porous border between healing and suffering in one hospital’s intensive care unit.