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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.

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- The political mystery of Josh Kraft -- Through the trail of Kraft's political contributions comes a hint of what matters to him at the national level. But where does he stand on local issues?

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JEFF JACOBY -- No, Trump didn't earn an 'unprecedented and powerful' mandate -- The president-elect's winning margin — just 1.6 percentage points — is one of the tiniest in history.

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Wendy Schmidt and Eric S. Lander -- Don't rely on chance meetings for scientific discoveries -- Interdisciplinary science should be the routine rather than the exception.

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Jill Abramson -- Trump, Musk, and the rise of the conservative press -- The news standards for accuracy used by some conservative shows are looser than the rules observed by traditional journalists.

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Judges throw a wrench in Massachusetts adoptions -- A new legal interpretation of longstanding state adoption law has upended the process for out-of-state birth parents. The Legislature should step in to clarify.

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Cambridge residents cast a wary eye on rezoning plan

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Bernie Sanders -- Democrats must choose: The elites or the working class -- In my view, the Democrats lost this election because they ignored the justified anger of working class America and became the defenders of a rigged economic and political system.

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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.

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MARCELA GARCÍA -- Ruben Gallego's blueprint for Democratic success -- The way Gallego ran his Senate campaign in Arizona contains important lessons.

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RENÉE GRAHAM -- The hypocritical politics of identity politics -- When marginalized groups speak up, they're accused of playing the identity card. But white voters and politicians always get a pass.

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America's great white reckoning again

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Not so fast, fashion -- How to be fashionable and equitable while saving the planet from climate change.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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An archive of conversations with the experts writing thought-provoking Globe Opinion op-eds and Ideas features.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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National Student Essay Competition winners announced

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