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William Barr’s self-inflicted scars
Some of William Barr’s responses didn’t even pass the laugh test.
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Opinion | Alan Wirzbicki
Playing it safe with the new BPS superintendent?
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Marie Izquierdo should be the front-runner. The fact that she’s not says a lot about the city and Mayor Marty Walsh.
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Trump ignores Constitution with his subpoena fight
The president cannot pick and choose the laws he chooses to abide by. Democrats must begin impeachment proceedings.
Opinion | Margery Eagan
Spin tour for the Clintons
What’s the point of their speaking tour? To spin themselves.
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Two Reuters reporters and Jamal Khashoggi among ‘10 Most Urgent’ list of press freedom cases
The One Free Press Coalition every month spotlights the “10 Most Urgent” journalists who press freedoms are under threat worldwide.
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Democrats should embrace a carbon tax
It feels as though Democrats are losing sight of the greenest, tallest tree for the broader public-policy forest.
Editorial
Thinking big on DCF reforms
Charlie Baker can point to improvements at the Department of Children and Families, but he’s far from achieving systemic reforms.
OPINION | STAN ROSENBERG
Being a foster child is traumatic enough. Let’s stop making it worse
We need to do better by our foster children.
Renée Graham
Black women aren’t here to save America from itself
When black women vote, we are our own saviors. We aren’t maids charged with cleaning up America’s political messes.
Opinion | Michael Stein and Jon Kingsdale
The risks of ‘Medicare for all’
The alternative to the proposal is adequate funding of the Affordable Care Act.
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Reducing addiction requires tackling workplace injuries
“Reducing the occurrence of painful workplace injuries and illnesses will reduce opioid addiction commensurately.”
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Baker should account for what he keeps open
The governor’s office should be transparent about what qualifies businesses as essential and safe enough to operate during the outbreak.
OPINION
Post-coronavirus, how will we address the trauma health care workers have suffered?
When the next group of COVID-19 patients are suffering and in need of help, there is no time for breaks to debrief, shed a tear, or comfort one another.
EDITORIAL
Learning from the deadly outbreak in Holyoke
The investigator of the coronavirus tragedy at the state-funded veterans home should scrutinize the state’s history of oversight at the facility.
OPINION
The role of architecture in fighting a pandemic
If spaces can be purposefully designed, they can assist in the prevention, containment, and treatment of infectious disease, including COVID-19.
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Will coronavirus erase the stigma of sick days?
In the world’s richest nation, it is both a tragedy and a symbol of a morally bereft system that hundreds of millions of workers don’t have paid sick leave.
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