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Marcela García

La desmedida controversia para nombrar una escuela en Concord

Los intentos de nombrar un plantel escolar nuevo en honor a Ellen Garrison, una líder negra, han agitado a la comunidad.
Kimberly Atkins Stohr

Will the Trump team’s bigoted pandering to Black voters work?

Elections are won in the margins of battleground states, which is why the pro-Trump spot is running on urban radio stations in Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania.
SCOT LEHIGH

A brush with political death could make Mike Johnson a better speaker

Democrats saved his speakership, but their continued emergency aid will require his reciprocal respect.
MARCELA GARCÍA

Concord’s school-naming controversy: Will a Black pioneer be honored?

The effort to name a new middle school after Ellen Garrison, an acclaimed Black educator, has roiled the town.

op-eds

Kenneth R. Manning

The value of graduations during times of political turmoil

A new era was ushered in by the 1970 graduation, one in which women’s rights, racial equality, social and political justice, and other human rights issues assumed fresh significance.
Ronald J. Mariano and John J. Lawn Jr.

Health care in Massachusetts is in need of reform

It is the Legislature’s responsibility to ensure that what happened with Steward Health Care never happens again in Massachusetts.
Joan Fitzgerald and Gregory King

How to bring solar energy to low-income communities

Low- and moderate-income households are only a small percentage of those benefiting from community solar. A couple of projects in Boston are seeking to change that.
Judith Garcia

Legislature should pass health equity bill

Access to quality health care should not be determined by one’s ZIP code, income level, or ethnicity.

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Ronald J. Mariano and John J. Lawn Jr.

Health care in Massachusetts is in need of reform

It is the Legislature’s responsibility to ensure that what happened with Steward Health Care never happens again in Massachusetts.

RENÉE GRAHAM

The lawyer who led the case for marriage equality in Massachusetts

“Part of what’s inspiring is when you’re actually able … to access that sense of liberty and justice for all,” Mary Bonauto said.

JEFF JACOBY

A cynical Washington Post tells Biden: Nothing matters more than beating Trump

“Trim your principles,” the paper editorializes, “and pander away.”

Jeff Jacoby

Just say no to more mass transit

No matter how much is spent on public transportation, we are constantly hectored that more is needed.

RENÉE GRAHAM

Margaret Marshall and the judicial decision that changed the nation

"I see marriage equality as part of the great … experiment of inclusivity and equality for everyone," the retired chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court said.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Noncitizen voting is already illegal in federal elections. Here’s why Republicans are still pushing the issue.

The latest attempt by Republicans to zero in on undocumented immigrants who allegedly vote when they can’t serves at least four advantageous political purposes for themselves and Donald Trump.

Alan Wirzbicki

Do jerks on planes deserve lifetime bans?

It may be an unpopular view, but banishing people from an airline forever is a pretty serious move.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Will Michael Cohen’s testimony matter to jurors?

Even if it does, will they still find Donald Trump guilty of the crime of falsifying business records, with the intent of influencing the 2016 presidential campaign? It’s complicated.