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KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR

The Supreme Court is a potential threat to our democracy

How can we trust that the court’s gerrymandering decision wasn’t biased by Justice Samuel Alito’s favor of conservative causes? We can’t.
SCOT LEHIGH

Here’s how blue state voters can help the Democrats’ swing-state efforts

The 2024 election results are all but preordained for Democrats voting in blue states, but they can still help President Biden win in swing states.
Renée Graham

In praise of Jacob’s big gay life on ‘Abbott Elementary’

Traditionally, gay sitcom characters serve as sassy sidekicks to the straight leads. But that’s not the case with Jacob.
Alex Beam

To be on the right side of history

History is more like a succession of random events to which we later assign certain meanings. Its complicated perspectives are hard to see, in real time or even in hindsight.

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Drew Gilpin Faust

US higher education is endangered

The long-held right of universities and their faculties to decide what they should teach is so precious. Precious but under threat.
Wendell Jamieson

Why do we treat airplanes like Greyhound buses?

Why do we have so little respect for our fellow travelers that we delay their flights with our ginormous bags and then confront them for six hours with our most slovenly selves?
Mohamad Ali

Targeting Muslims while they bank

Beneath outward manifestations of bias is a hidden and unpredictable layer of discrimination embedded in our computer systems, algorithms, and data. Muslims frequently feel the effects.
Elsa Pearson Sites

What to do when Medicare runs out of money

It’s simple math: More recipients means more spending. But the catch is we’re already spending a lot of money and how fast we’re spending it is alarming.

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JEFF JACOBY

Israel and America are having a disagreement. That’s OK.

The Jewish state has repeatedly earned US respect by not being a pushover.

Jeff Jacoby

Does Jane Fonda really require more honor?

Of all the people to single out for honor on “Black April,” none was more certain to provoke outrage in Vietnamese American circles than Jane Fonda, who has been widely reviled as “Hanoi Jane” since 1972.

SCOT LEHIGH

The misplaced notion that Donald Trump is a business whiz

His actual record shows staggering losses and unethical practices.

RENÉE GRAHAM

No, Diddy didn’t apologize for assaulting Cassie Ventura

After a video surfaced, he made excuses for his violent behavior, but he neither mentioned Cassie Ventura nor addressed how he called her a liar for telling the truth.

Mohamad Ali

Targeting Muslims while they bank

Beneath outward manifestations of bias is a hidden and unpredictable layer of discrimination embedded in our computer systems, algorithms, and data. Muslims frequently feel the effects.

Alan Wirzbicki

What in carnation? A budding insight into my fellow T riders.

A guy walks into the T carrying flowers...

JOAN VENNOCHI

State leaders knew about Steward’s spiral but did nothing to stop it

Leaders knew for years about Steward’s fiscal disaster. The 14-year time span covers the administrations of three governors and three attorneys general.

MARCELA GARCÍA

For a Concord small business, Haitian migrants get the job done

This story stands out as a small-scale example of how to overcome certain barriers to hire recently arrived migrants, most of whom are desperate to work and become self-sufficient.