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MARCELA GARCÍA

Where is Reina Carolina Morales Rojas?

The case of the East Boston immigrant who has been missing for 10 weeks raises many questions about the urgency of police response to missing person cases.
Alex Beam

Living the forever life

Thanks for this gift — can we please return it?
RENÉE GRAHAM

Nikki Haley for president? No thanks.

The former UN ambassador who said she wouldn’t run against Trump is about to run against Trump.
Joan Vennochi

With sports betting, Massachusetts is all-in with gambling and all its risks

The former athletes who promoted sports betting at the Encore launch paid lip service to the concept of safe betting. But gambling is inherently risky.

op-eds

Jon Garelick

Boston University’s Jenga building creeps me out

Is it going to fall over? Is it going to grow arms and legs and walk like a Transformer?
Gordon Hanson

Avoiding job loss in the transition to renewable energy

Policy makers must act now to blunt job losses by being prepared to offer much more help to workers who are affected by mass layoffs.
John Tierney

The not-so-secret secret about those classified documents

The government needs classification reform to ensure transparency and an enlightened citizenry, to make certain that public officials continue to act in the best interest of the nation, and to document historical activities to inform future decisions and policies.
Peniel E. Joseph

Tyre Nichols and America’s systemic failure

Proposed reforms at the federal level would not have saved the life of Tyre Nichols. Only the fundamental transformation of systems of punishment that have been normalized in American society and culture can do that.

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Gordon Hanson

Avoiding job loss in the transition to renewable energy

Policy makers must act now to blunt job losses by being prepared to offer much more help to workers who are affected by mass layoffs.

NEWSLETTER

Biden finally pulls the plug on COVID state of emergency

Nearly eight months after President Biden affirmed on national TV that the pandemic had ended, he will finally lift the declaration of emergency.

JEFF JACOBY

Listen to Gaza’s quiet dissenters

A remarkable series of videos amplifies the voices of Palestinians who yearn to be liberated — from Hamas.

SCOT LEHIGH

GOP establishment hedges on Trump

Few speak the unvarnished truth: A man who betrayed democracy should be rejected out of hand.

John Tierney

The not-so-secret secret about those classified documents

The government needs classification reform to ensure transparency and an enlightened citizenry, to make certain that public officials continue to act in the best interest of the nation, and to document historical activities to inform future decisions and policies.

RENÉE GRAHAM

Why I won’t watch the Tyre Nichols video

In 2020, we were promised a reckoning. All we’ve gotten are more Black people killed by police.

NEWSLETTER

Wu wants to cut fares at Boston’s commuter rail stations. Is that really a good idea?

It’s pretty rich to say the proposal’s purpose is “to promote fare equity” when the main beneficiaries are riders in West Roxbury, Roslindale, Hyde Park, and Readville.

Joan Vennochi

What makes David Sabatini think he deserves a second chance after his #MeToo downfall?

He still doesn’t get the impact on anyone’s life beyond his own. “My life was 100 percent destroyed,” he told the Globe.