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03/01/2025

Editorial: Convenient, high-quality surgical centers could increase access to care for low-risk patients while freeing up hospital resources and lowering costs. But regulators need to ensure that is what this proposal would do.

The answer depends on cost and access implications.

03/01/2025

At a time of political unrest and uncertainty, asteroid 2024 YR4 is not just a simple diversion, writes Heather Hopp-Bruce. It’s balm for the existentially angsty soul.

The possibility of even a mere side-eye from an asteroid is exciting space news in a year filled with it.

03/01/2025

Almost every school in America practices for the day a gunman roams the halls. But it’s unclear if they’re doing this wisely — or whether they should be doing it at all, writes E.J. Graff.

Almost every school in America practices for the day a gunman roams the halls. But it’s unclear if they’re doing this wisely — or whether they should be doing it at all.

02/28/2025

People who have been following the rules and helping to make America a great country deserve protection. The US must maintain temporary protected status for Haitians, writes Immigrant Family Services Institute executive director Geralde V. Gabeau.

People who have been following the rules, giving their best, and helping to make America such a great country deserve protection.

02/28/2025

“I’m embarrassed to be an American. That’s hit me hard,” says Scot Lehigh. President Trump’s vengefulness, dishonesty, and bullying should make us all cringe.

Our president’s vengefulness, dishonesty, and bullying should make us all cringe.

02/28/2025

White House border czar Tom Homan’s potential visit to Massachusetts would certainly bring the sweet sugar rush of vindication for the state’s tiny minority party, says Carine Hajjar. But it could also bring considerable political risk.

The Legislature has failed to provide authority to local police to help federal immigration officials detain dangerous criminals.

02/27/2025

Every red light is being shattered before our eyes, writes Renée Graham. But craven Republicans are choosing to look the other way.

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In this oligarchic unmaking of America, “stop” applies only to recognition of people’s rights and calls for accountability.

02/27/2025

Owner Jeff Bezos instructed The Washington Post's opinion section to focus on defending "personal liberties and free markets."

“Translation: Stop criticizing the current occupant of the Oval Office and his administration,” says a reader in .

For a crown jewel of investigative reporting related to politics such as the Post, this unnecessary, dangerous, and humiliating censorship of viewpoints runs counter to “personal liberties.”

02/27/2025

Editorial: Massachusetts zoning codes impose unnecessary rules that drive up housing costs. A new report recommends the state overrule them.

Local zoning codes impose unnecessary rules that drive up housing costs. A new report recommends the state overrule them.

02/27/2025

Trump doesn’t care about the rule of law, so he doesn’t want military officers who do care about it getting in his way, writes Seth Moulton. And that’s the difference between a dictatorship and a democracy.

A politicized military may not follow orders or policy it disagrees with. Or it might follow illegal orders. In both cases, democracy is under threat.

02/27/2025

On immigration policy, this country desperately needs a path to civil conversation, writes Joan Vennochi. But White House border czar Tom Homan is not interested in civility, just in bringing “hell with me” to Boston — whatever that means.

His insult aimed at the Boston Police commissioner was also an insult to every police officer who does their job by following applicable law in their jurisdiction.

$Mitch McConnell is one of the primary reasons the Senate has become a broken, fractious body — one that falls far short ...$

02/26/2025

Mitch McConnell is one of the primary reasons the Senate has become a broken, fractious body — one that falls far short of the wise, collegial, far-sighted role the founders envisioned, says Scot Lehigh.

The longtime GOP Senate leader transformed that body, but not for the better.

02/26/2025

Editorial: Few distractions in schools today are as pervasive as cellphones. More than 15 states have already enacted curbs on smartphones and electronic devices, and Massachusetts should be next.

Nearly 3 in 4 high school teachers report that cellphone use is a major disruption in their classrooms.

02/26/2025

Boston should adopt ranked-choice voting, a more inclusive and representative election system, writes Ruthzee Louijeune.

Our city is ready for a more inclusive and representative election system.

02/26/2025

When John Summers filed a procedural complaint against an education panel in Cambridge, he was accused of engaging in white supremacy.

"Collective white guilt is a core doctrine in Cambridge’s schools,” he writes in .

When I filed a complaint against an education panel in Cambridge, I got a lesson in how progressives stifle criticism.

02/26/2025

While Trump isn’t the first two-term president to crack wise about running again if it were allowed, he’s the only one who doesn’t understand that his own actions have rendered that “joke” no longer funny, says Renée Graham.

Some are pushing for an unconstitutional third term for the second oldest president ever.

02/25/2025

Since the establishment of NATO in 1949, European countries have had little incentive to build up their own armies or plan for their continent’s security, writes Stephen Kinzer. They left that to Washington — but now they’re scrambling for ideas.

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European countries are unprepared for being abandoned by the United States. But it’s not without options for ensuring security.

02/25/2025

Vocational schools connect students with blue-collar jobs, while helping to overcome labor shortages. Unless Boston wants to run out of plumbers, it should invest in Madison Park, writes Marcela García.

Vocational schools connect students with well-paid blue-collar jobs, while helping employers overcome the state’s labor shortages.

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