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JEFF JACOBY

The case for colorblindness is as compelling — and vital — as ever

Coleman Hughes, a young Black author, argues that the way to achieve justice is to refuse to focus on race.
RENÉE GRAHAM

Putting free tampons in all school bathrooms is hardly a radical idea

Republicans are trying to smear Tim Walz over a Minnesota law that actually is in step with public opinion.
Rachelle G. Cohen

Ukraine’s house is on fire and the Truth Squad is dialing 911

Putin’s propaganda war ramps up.
Heather Hopp-Bruce

Exploding watermelons, orange cats, and other chance encounters

She’s one of those people I have an immediate easy connection with but never really know and often never see again.

op-eds

Abraham Nussbaum

Medical training doesn’t have to be a bear

Watching “The Bear” can help physicians figure out how to change medical training so we can pass along our craft without transmitting the dream-altering abuse.
Robert Kuttner

Who is to blame for the Wall Street panic attack? The Federal Reserve.

Investors are not sure what the Fed will do. Suddenly, the process of moving beyond the recent bout of inflation while avoiding a recession looks far less orderly than it did just a week ago.
Jim Spencer

I covered Tim Walz. He’s the nicest tough guy you may ever meet.

Americans will see that in the next few months. They will see a pragmatic politician who built a career on the old cliché: Politics is the art of the doable.
Elizabeth Warren and Chrissy Lynch

Project labor agreements are good for the state and job growth

PLAs ensure good wages and benefits, safe working conditions, and sustained investment in the local economy and workforce.

editorials

One way to control health care costs: crack down on dubious diagnoses

STAT, The Wall Street Journal flag questionable test for artery disease.

Healey’s no-win shelter situation

The "right to shelter" was a promise that the state can’t actually keep.

Mold, yeast have no place in legal weed

Michigan provides an example of how regulators can hold labs accountable.

letters

From ‘heah’ to an eternity of Boston accents onscreen

With an AI assist, ride-hailing firms tilt market in their favor

The threat is real: Conservative justices hold too much power

A long to-do list for Beacon Hill, which left so much undone

🎧 Beating Burnout: A four-part series from ‘Say More’

Part 1: We’re in a Burnout Epidemic. There’s Hope.Part 2: Cal Newport says We’re Thinking about Productivity WrongPart 3: Krista Tippett on the Power of Getting QuietPart 4: Emily Nagoski Connects Sex and Stress

Read our editorial series on higher education →

With US college-age population falling, luring more international students could help schools surviveThe ‘demographic cliff’ is coming. Colleges must be prepared.
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Editor's picks

PODCAST | SAY MORE

Will Tim Walz or JD Vance actually move the needle? Opinion writers react.

This week on "Say More with Shirley Leung," Globe Opinion writers weigh in on Tim Walz, JD Vance, and the state of the race.
EDITORIAL

Healey’s no-win shelter situation

The "right to shelter" was a promise that the state can’t actually keep.
JOAN VENNOCHI

Walz pick gives Trump campaign the reset it needed

The Trump campaign was unprepared for Kamala Harris’s strong start and seemed unsure about the best way to attack her. With Tim Walz, it knows exactly what to do.
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.
JEFF JACOBY

Nike celebrates athletics at its worst

In a toxic new ad, the footwear and apparel company preaches that athletes achieve glory by embracing their darkest and most selfish impulses.
IDEAS | ETHAN GILSDORF

Dungeons & Dragons is 50. Almost as many years ago, it saved my life.

Once I discovered the transmogrifying portal of D&D, the game became a safe haven — the place where I could achieve feats and victories beyond my reach in real life.

Cartoons

SAGE STOSSEL

On the benefits of being governed by cat people

CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

The Harris-Walz

CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

The big dip

CAMILA KERWIN

Remembering the world fliers

CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

Desperate times, desperate measures

CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

Unwelcome to Iowa

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Heather Hopp-Bruce

Exploding watermelons, orange cats, and other chance encounters

She’s one of those people I have an immediate easy connection with but never really know and often never see again.

PODCAST | SAY MORE

Will Tim Walz or JD Vance actually move the needle? Opinion writers react.

This week on "Say More with Shirley Leung," Globe Opinion writers weigh in on Tim Walz, JD Vance, and the state of the race.

EDITORIAL

Healey’s no-win shelter situation

The "right to shelter" was a promise that the state can’t actually keep.

Abraham Nussbaum

Medical training doesn’t have to be a bear

Watching “The Bear” can help physicians figure out how to change medical training so we can pass along our craft without transmitting the dream-altering abuse.

Robert Kuttner

Who is to blame for the Wall Street panic attack? The Federal Reserve.

Investors are not sure what the Fed will do. Suddenly, the process of moving beyond the recent bout of inflation while avoiding a recession looks far less orderly than it did just a week ago.

EDITORIAL

Mold, yeast have no place in legal weed

Michigan provides an example of how regulators can hold labs accountable.

Jim Spencer

I covered Tim Walz. He’s the nicest tough guy you may ever meet.

Americans will see that in the next few months. They will see a pragmatic politician who built a career on the old cliché: Politics is the art of the doable.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Walz pick gives Trump campaign the reset it needed

The Trump campaign was unprepared for Kamala Harris’s strong start and seemed unsure about the best way to attack her. With Tim Walz, it knows exactly what to do.

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SPECIAL PROJECTS

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.
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.
IDEAS

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?
Explore the project ➞
IDEAS | PETER THOMSON

The radical, forgotten experiment in educational integration that changed my life

In 1971, kids from Roxbury and Lincoln spent half the year attending school together in the city and the other half in the suburb. Fifty years later, I tracked down my fellow students to see how it shaped them — and whether something like it could work today.

Globe Opinion’s 2022 Top 10

The readers have spoken: Take a tour through The Boston Globe opinion section’s top 10 most read columns, editorials, cartoons, letters, and Ideas stories of 2022.
RENÉE GRAHAM

Remembering trans lives taken in 2022

Even before a gunman killed five people and injured nearly 20 last month at Club Q, a popular LGBTQ nightspot in Colorado Springs, Colo., 2022 was already a deadly year for trans and gender nonconforming people. At least 35 have been killed nationwide, most of them Black trans women.
TIMELINE

Assault on American democracy

Jan. 6, 2021, was one of the most alarming days in American history. Boston Globe Opinion columns, editorials, letters, and cartoons untangle the continuing aftermath of the attack on the US Capitol.
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.

Soaring housing costs, a broken T, and other existential problems require sweeping fixes that meet the moment.

Young people and the power of social media

Social media holds enormous power over young people. Can they find a way to navigate safely through its ever-changing landscape?

How do we memorialize the pandemic?

As the United States neared its one millionth COVID-19 related death, artists, architects, and community leaders are calling for a permanent memorial to honor all those touched by COVID. Globe Opinion asked several artists for their vision of what a COVID memorial could look like.
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IDEAS | ABDALLAH FAYYAD

Editing the Constitution

The Constitution is undergoing massive changes in the Supreme Court. It’s time to put the founding document in the hands of the people.
ideas

The Future of Work

The past year has shattered expectations of what workdays look like. Parenting while Zooming. An uncrowded T. Wary interactions with customers. 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 Longevity Hub

The Boston Globe Opinion section and MIT's AgeLab present The Longevity Hub, an ongoing series seeking to spark Greater Boston's transformation into the Silicon Valley of aging.
EDITORIAL

Future-proofing the presidency

Donald Trump brought our democracy to the brink and exposed its weak spots. Here’s how to thwart the next American tyrant.
EDITORIAL

A battle for affordable housing in Massachusetts

The Globe editorial board's 2020 series on the need for inclusive housing reform in Newton and across the Commonwealth.

Brave New Planet

Brave New Planet is a podcast that delves deep into the most exciting and challenging scientific frontiers, helping us understand them and grapple with their implications. Dr. Eric Lander, president and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, is host.

The future of food

What we eat, where it comes from, and how we get it are being reimagined like never before. In this special issue, we celebrate the role of food in our communities and explore how it can be tastier, more accessible, and healthier for us and the planet.
Letters

Postcards from the pandemic

Invited to take a walk, in fact, lots of walks; dining room table repurposed — a snapshot of how readers were coping.
An archive of conversations with the experts writing thought-provoking Globe Opinion op-eds and Ideas features.

The Other swing voter

Political coverage often focuses on voters who oscillate between political parties in a few key swing states. Here we feature perspectives and opinions from and about demographics of Americans — young voters and Black and brown voters —who swing between voting and not voting.
From voter suppression to gerrymandering to foreign interference, the integrity of US elections is under attack. In a three-part weekly series, Globe Opinion examines how the nation arrived at this moment and what needs to be done to protect voting rights.
Thomas E. Patterson

Trapped: Why the GOP's death is imminent

The Republican Party is destroying itself. Thomas Patterson of the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center explains the five traps the party has set for itself and warns that the party's future is in peril without reform.

Black voices now

Globe Opinion seeks to amplify the perspectives and the voices of Black community members, scholars, activists, doctors, teachers, business leaders, students, and parents as op-ed and letter writers, and as innovators and provocateurs featured in Globe Ideas. Here we feature Black voices from the community amid the historic protests following the killing of George Floyd. We aim to amplify yet more Black voices going forward.
IDEAS

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.

Legal Lens documentaries

Law and documentary film may seem far apart, but they actually share many connections. With the guidance of filmmaker and producer Joseph Tovares and support from the Hewlett Foundation, 12 Harvard Law School students from eight countries have worked since January on the Legal Lens project. You can view the films here on BostonGlobe.com.

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.

Journalists are not the enemy

A central pillar of President Trump’s politics is a sustained assault on the free press. Journalists are not classified as fellow Americans, but rather “the enemy of the people.”
National Student Essay Competition winners announced