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The section that asks “what if?” and “why not?”
IDEAS | JEREMY KAHN
Soon, AI will book your flights and order your groceries. It’ll be convenient — and risky.
AI "agents" — automated digital assistants — are coming. Will you be able to trust them?
IDEAS | Robert Israel
Monday is Victory Day in Rhode Island — a holiday worth reconsidering
No other state celebrates the US defeat of Japan this way. Maybe it’s time for a new approach.
IDEAS | SCOTT KIRSNER
Boston’s startup scene needs more diversity. Let’s expand it beyond tech and biotech.
Boston startups that are likelier to have diverse founders are harder to get off the ground here.
IDEAS | WILL AUSTIN
Fewer kids are applying to Boston’s exam schools. It’s a sign of a larger problem for the city.
The decline in applications to Boston Latin School, Boston Latin Academy, and the John D. O’Bryant speaks to the challenges of raising kids here.
IDEAS | JEFFREY SWINDLE AND MATTHEW D. BLANTON
El Salvador’s migration success story doesn’t add up
US policymakers should be more skeptical of President Nayib Bukele’s claims that his approach to public security has slowed migration.
IDEAS | KATIA WISH
Learning to really see Boston, one sketch at a time
Capturing the city in two dimensions is a multisensory exercise in the art of looking at a place I only thought I knew.
may i have a word?
May I have a word: The parking spots you somehow missed
A word for really good parking spaces that always go to other people, whoever they are.
May I have a word: Calling out serial bailers
May I have a word: Everlasting roadwork
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IDEAS
Blueprints for a new downtown Boston
It's time to reimagine the identity of the city's core — and we've got ideas.
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG
How Uphams Corner got wealthier without getting whiter
The scrappy Dorchester neighborhood has fulfilled the community activist’s dream: development without displacement.
Where did all the workers go?
For two years, employers have been desperate for workers — and there’s no indication the labor shortage will soon change. What are we losing — and possibly gaining — as a result?
Public health
IDEAS | ADELINE GOSS
What should we think of the new Alzheimer’s drugs?
IDEAS | NATALIE KAUFMAN
Why is my generation so caffeinated all the time?
IDEAS | JAKE BERRY ELLISON JR.
My elderly father had dementia, anger issues, and many guns. What were we to do?
democracy under siege
IDEAS | Elizabeth Svoboda
Trump isn’t a fascist. He’s a Caesarist.
IDEAS | DAVID SHRIBMAN
America is at a turning point, yet again
IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER
Latin America is rife with dysfunctional madness
politics
IDEAS | JEFFREY SWINDLE AND MATTHEW D. BLANTON
El Salvador’s migration success story doesn’t add up
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Anointing Kamala Harris was a mistake
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG
With JD Vance as heir apparent, will MAGA outlive Trump?
civil rights
IDEAS | MARY ZIEGLER
Katie Britt’s MOMS Act is dangerous, but not for the reasons you might think
IDEAS | JANE EISNER
Here’s how to get more young people to vote
IDEAS | MARIANNE MOLLMANN AND EDUARDO GONZALEZ CUEVA
Our daughter is a student protester at Emerson. The police went too far.
inequality
IDEAS | Shira Schoenberg
Cut loose at 18 and struggling into adulthood
IDEAS | LISA SELIN DAVIS
Subsidizing families is one thing the two parties can agree on
IDEAS | COLEMAN HUGHES
Color blindness remains the best form of antiracism
climate crisis
IDEAS | BENJAMIN TWINING
Using the ocean as a carbon sink may be our best hope against climate change
IDEAS | KIRSTEN LIE-NIELSEN
Oysters, please — without a side of plastic
IDEAS | VERONIQUE GREENWOOD
A journey to the vault at the end of the world
education
IDEAS | WILL AUSTIN
Fewer kids are applying to Boston’s exam schools. It’s a sign of a larger problem for the city.
IDEAS | JARED CHARNEY
At a recovery high school, graduation is a huge step on a treacherous journey
IDEAS | ALEXANDRA STYRON
The problem with campus protests is not cruelty but ignorance
development
IDEAS | Morgan Evelyn Arnold
There’s a gaping hole in Boston’s live music scene
IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR
Milton isn’t a ‘rapid transit community,’ no matter how many times the state says it is
IDEAS | Taylor C. Noakes
A once-futuristic vision for urban housing whose time still may come
history
IDEAS | Robert Israel
Monday is Victory Day in Rhode Island — a holiday worth reconsidering
IDEAS | JOHN BENJAMIN
The problem with Zionism
IDEAS | CRAIG FEHRMAN
As soon as it began, the US almost fell apart
housing
IDEAS | SHIRA SCHOENBERG
The Mass. housing shortage is making life even harder for survivors of domestic violence
IDEAS | BART TOCCI
I can’t afford you anymore: A letter to the place where I was born
IDEAS | MILES HOWARD
Making too little to get affordable housing — and other problems with trying to stay in Boston
technology
IDEAS | JEREMY KAHN
Soon, AI will book your flights and order your groceries. It’ll be convenient — and risky.
IDEAS | Michael Serazio
ChatGPT’s uncanny valley of the mind
IDEAS | RAVI IYER
The surgeon general has new social media guidelines. Minnesota already made some of them into law.
essays
IDEAS | VERONIQUE GREENWOOD
The secret history and uncertain future of purple
IDEAS | KATIA WISH
Learning to really see Boston, one sketch at a time
IDEAS | ETHAN GILSDORF
Dungeons & Dragons is 50. Almost as many years ago, it saved my life.
more special projects
IDEAS | JOAN VENNOCHI
How the MBTA went off the rails
Nearly everything about Boston has changed in the past few decades, yet the T has the same big problem — a failure to prioritize the rider experience above all.
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Boston was once a wildly ambitious city. It’s time to go big again.
The pandemic is still shattering expectations of what workdays look like. In this special issue of Ideas, we explore which of these changes will stick — and how they’ll affect the quality of our lives.
Editing the Constitution
The pandemic is still shattering expectations of what workdays look like. In this special issue of Ideas, we explore which of these changes will stick — and how they’ll affect the quality of our lives.
The Future of Work
The pandemic is still shattering expectations of what workdays look like. In this special issue of Ideas, we explore which of these changes will stick — and how they’ll affect the quality of our lives.
The Future of Food
What we eat, where it comes from, and how we get it are being reimagined like never before.
Massachusetts Works
We turn the typical model of journalism on its head — instead of focusing on what’s broken, we’re taking a look at what Massachusetts gets right.