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04/11/2025

“Having plentiful internet discourse is great. But if viewers favor media that only serve as background noise for scrolling, that’s what networks will provide,” writes Gwen Egan.

Second screen habits are reshaping our TV viewing experience.

04/11/2025

“Transgender people shouldn’t be isolated from society. And we should listen to women who say that they feel their spaces are no longer theirs,” writes Jonah Orion Wheeler. “The current political climate puts these two ideas in opposition, but they don’t need to be.”

Transgender people shouldn’t be isolated from society. And we should listen to women who say that they feel their spaces are no longer theirs.

04/11/2025

Editorial: If there’s anything that police unions and public officials ought to be able to agree on, it’s that officers who need help should have ready access to confidential counseling and services without fear of adverse impact on their careers.

Dealing with the stigma is the first step.

04/11/2025

There's something about Paul Revere and his remarkable midnight ride of April 18, 1775, that transcends politics — even today, writes Kostya Kennedy in .

Dealing with the stigma is the first step.

04/10/2025

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may feel that sweeping books out of the Naval Academy’s library satisfies his goal of producing a peerless fighting force, but it undermines the academy’s reputation for providing a peerless undergraduate experience, writes David Shribman.

Removing books about the Holocaust and the Black experience in the United States strikes at the heart of the academy’s professed purpose.

04/10/2025

Democrats are already trying to brand Mike Kennealy as a MAGA extremist (spoiler: he’s not), and some Republicans are trying to denounce him as a Republican in name only (whether he is depends on your definition), writes Carine Hajjar.

The first declared GOP candidate for governor in 2026 is focused on sound management and transparency.

04/10/2025

President Trump’s trade war is not going well. Does this mean the next president — Democrat or Republican — will go back to being all for free trade?

Don’t count on it, says David Scharfenberg in . Both parties have a greater appetite for protectionism than the US has had in decades.

Trump’s trade war is reckless. But his appetite for protectionism is more widely shared than you may realize.

04/10/2025

Editorial: Schools can’t stop the administration from cancelling student visas. But they can assist students with the fallout.

Schools can’t stop the administration from cancelling student visas. But they can assist students with the fallout.

04/10/2025

How to fight back against the Trump administration? As the April 15 deadline to file taxes approaches, one radical option — tax resistance — comes to mind, writes Alex Beam.

I don’t have the moral fortitude to engage in tax resistance. But godspeed to those who do.

04/10/2025

What is happening at Columbia University and other institutions is only hurting science — and in no way helping American Jews, writes Andrew Geneslaw.

What is happening at Columbia University and other institutions is only hurting science — and in no way helping American Jews.

04/09/2025

Amy Coney Barett offers a flicker of hope for those who pray the Supreme Court has the will to stand up to Trump’s vast and continuing power grabs, writes Joan Vennochi. But with that, she becomes a target for the MAGA world.

In deportation case, she looked like an independent jurist who believes in the rule of law instead of a rubber stamp for Trump.

04/09/2025

"Closing intensive residential treatment facilities for children and adolescents would be shortsighted," writes one reader.

Ask a parent how they have to fight to get their children the help they need.

04/09/2025

“Until now, I heard of no one having the courage and understanding that it takes to do what Wu is doing, bringing her baby daughter with her to the office, on the campaign trail, and to Capitol Hill,” writes one reader. https://trib.al/n1vD4Z3

Ask a parent how they have to fight to get their children the help they need.

04/09/2025

Nathan Pusey was the president of Harvard during the Red Scare in the 1950s, writes Larry Tye. How does that 70-year-old history bear on today’s targeting by President Trump of law firms, foundations, and, most of all, institutions of higher learning?

Look back at actions of former Harvard president Nathan Pusey, who took on Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare.

04/09/2025

Mike Kennealy is a favorite of the moderate Baker camp, but he faces two stiff challenges in the governor’s race: winning the Republican primary and taking on Governor Maura Healey.

Can he do it? Three Opinion writers have thoughts.

Mike Kennealy is a favorite of the moderate Baker camp, but he faces two stiff challenges.

04/09/2025

Editorial: Suffolk County prosecutors accused a man of providing false information on a driver’s license application. He deserved a fair trial — but thanks to ICE, he didn't get one.

ICE scoops defendant in midtrial, denying him and this community justice.

04/08/2025

As an education researcher, I understand the appeal of AI-adapted texts. However, I also have concerns,” writes MG Prezioso. “I worry about how AI-adapted texts will affect students’ love of reading.”

A writer’s voice and style don't just matter to the reading experience, they are the reading experience.

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