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SCOT LEHIGH

Right-wingers plunge House into chaos with ouster of Kevin McCarthy as speaker

In politics, you tend to reap what you show and sow. McCarthy showed weakness and sowed distrust.
RENÉE GRAHAM

In two-decades-old assassinations, a prediction of today’s white domestic terrorism

Few may recall Dan White’s name. But his heinous acts are a template for the current far-right violent extremism roiling American politics.
BANNED BOOKS

Banned Books Week: ‘The Glass Castle’ by Jeannette Walls

In honor of Banned Books Week, Globe Opinion is publishing excerpts from some of the hundreds of titles banned in US classrooms and libraries this year.

op-eds

KEEP MCAS

Pandemic learning losses show MCAS is needed now more than ever

The 2023 test scores are nothing to celebrate. Too many of the Commonwealth’s more than 913,000 public school students continue to lag behind their pre-pandemic scores.
ELIMINATE MCAS

State needs to end MCAS as a graduation requirement

If we want more authentic learning, we should do more teaching and put less emphasis on testing.
Simon Saradzhyan

Biden needs to act on Nagorno-Karabakh

The president must stop sitting on his hands as Azerbaijan forces the Armenian population from the lands they have inhabited for more than two millennia.

letters

Taking in the hearts and minds of teens

MBTA Green Line extension: The tracks of our tears

Mass. pushes, against tide, for more charter schools

Plastic, plastic, everywhere

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Is crypto dead? Critic Molly White doesn’t think so.

With Sam Bankman-Fried’s upcoming trial, the crypto industry is under fire, but it won’t be stopped, says the writer of the “Web3 Is Going Just Great” blog.
EDITORIAL

The Boston suburbs’ cynical ploy to keep poor families out: Use seniors as a shield

Leafy communities have steered subsidized housing away from parents with kids and toward elders for decades. It’s time for a rebalancing.
KEEP MCAS

Pandemic learning losses show MCAS is needed now more than ever

The 2023 test scores are nothing to celebrate. Too many of the Commonwealth’s more than 913,000 public school students continue to lag behind their pre-pandemic scores.
EDITORIAL

When building bike lanes isn’t enough

Yes, it is a critical first step to getting more people out of their cars and onto bikes. But government, business, and civic groups can do more to encourage cycling.
JEFF JACOBY

Rupert Murdoch was good for Boston

The media tycoon’s sins may be many, but a love of newspapers has always been among his greatest virtues.
IDEAS | KARA MILLER

Marriage is increasingly for the upper classes. That’s not a good sign.

The economic divide between one- and two-parent households is getting larger.

Cartoons

BETH WOLFENSBERGER SINGER

Loose leaf notebook

WARD SUTTON

The Democrats’ dilemma

CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

Worlds apart

PATRICK CHAPPATTE

The U.N. has a lot on its plate

SAGE STOSSEL

No laughing matter

CHRISTOPHER WEYANT

The new McCarthyism

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EDITORIAL

The Boston suburbs’ cynical ploy to keep poor families out: Use seniors as a shield

Leafy communities have steered subsidized housing away from parents with kids and toward elders for decades. It’s time for a rebalancing.

EDITORIAL

A tax relief bill — at last

But one with two ill-advised policy forays that should be addressed.

RENÉE GRAHAM

The complicity that enables sexual predators

Survivors are chastised for waiting to speak out against abusers. But what about others who know and choose silence over truth?

Joan Wickersham

Body-shaming isn’t limited to the world of ballet

Every woman I know has a story. Usually more than one story.

JEFF JACOBY

Rupert Murdoch was good for Boston

The media tycoon’s sins may be many, but a love of newspapers has always been among his greatest virtues.

EDITORIAL

CCC needs to get its act together

Chaos at the state cannabis regulatory body undermines the legal marijuana industry as it gets off the ground in Massachusetts.

SCOT LEHIGH

Massport’s plan to expand private jet space at Hanscom is a climate debacle

Small private jets are intensive spewers of carbon dioxide.

Simon Saradzhyan

Biden needs to act on Nagorno-Karabakh

The president must stop sitting on his hands as Azerbaijan forces the Armenian population from the lands they have inhabited for more than two millennia.

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SPECIAL PROJECTS

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?
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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