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Boston Globe - Opinion

KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR -- LGBTQ visibility? Not in classrooms, if religious challengers have their way at the SCOTUS. -- Maryland parents claim that the inclusion of books that include the experiences of LGBTQ people, without the ability to opt their children out of the curriculum, burdens their ability to exercise their religions.

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RENÉE GRAHAM -- Courage is contagious. Pass it on. -- Trump officials threatened to kill billions in federal funding for Harvard. Alan Garber, the university's president, drew a line in the sand.

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JOAN VENNOCHI -- Belichick's new playbook with girlfriend: giving up control -- Jordon Hudson, 24, has a mind for business, specifically Belichick's business. That's what gives the gossip a serious side.

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Andrew Bacevich -- In the Trump era, patriotism is obsolete -- The patriotism that my mother adhered to no longer carries much weight. Can a nation as sprawling and as restless as ours survive without the adhesive of core values held in common?

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Renée Loth -- Reimagining Paul Revere's ride to address Trump-era threats -- A new play brings into high relief the uncanny parallels between both the Revolutionary and Civil War periods and the perilous present, all through the lens of Longfellow's poem.

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Willy C. Shih -- Can Trump's tariffs really bring back US manufacturing? -- The answer is not as clear-cut as the president might like.

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Why have a House Committee on Ethics at all? -- Indicted representative gets a pass from his colleagues until the federal court decides his fate.

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Harvard steps up -- After refusing to surrender its independence to the Trump administration, the university loses billions in funding.

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Harvard's moment of truth -- Readers laud the university for taking a defiant stance in the face of the Trump administration's threats. Writes one: "The president's targeting of academic institutions to bend to his will is a serious threat to a pillar of our democracy."

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Debate goes on over Cambridge housing plan -- "I have seen many decades of political and social wrangling over who should be allowed to live where," writes one resident of the city.

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Professor laments that some of her students are silenced -- Looking around at my students' faces, how can I help but feel anger that only some of them have the freedom to speak their minds while others are effectively muzzled?

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Ryan Normandin -- In Newton, we tried an experiment in educational equity. It has failed. -- "Multilevel classrooms" are not working for teachers or students, writes the head of Newton South High School's Faculty Council.

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IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG -- Scared of another Trump term? Here's how it could work out better than you think. -- The silver linings playbook for the next four years.

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CARINE HAJJAR -- An attempt to cancel Seth Moulton boomerangs on Tufts -- The chair of the university's political science department said Tufts would stop facilitating internships with the Salem congressman after his comments about transgender athletes. But that wasn't the end of the story.

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Vikas Saini -- How America's broken health system fuels dangerous rage -- Why there is pent up anger about America's health care system.

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Heather Hopp-Bruce -- Spending the day with my transgender son and MAGA aunt -- They share the same goals — freedom, prosperity, safety — but have wildly different ideas about how to achieve them and no single conversation or text thread is going to change that.

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EDITORIAL -- Tougher action is needed on teacher strikes -- Much higher fines would make a difference.

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CHRISTOPHER WEYANT -- Harvard responds to Donald Trump

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WILL DOWD -- Remembering Josephine Baker

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CHRISTOPHER WEYANT -- Trade war evil genius

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PATRICK CHAPPATTE -- When the tariffs hit home

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Ella Scheuerell -- It's (not) that funny: A cancer story

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CHRISTOPHER WEYANT -- Free falling

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Trump doesn't care about domestic terrorism — unless Teslas are the victims

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Why US colleges should cut back on international students

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Who's afraid of Emily Brontë? On the recent termination of NEH Public Scholar grants.

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The Supreme Court missed a chance to check Trump's autocracy. Its next shot may be its last.

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I wrote a children's book 20 years ago. It's now the center of a Supreme Court case.

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The politics of representation and belonging in Roxbury

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Why Tania Fernandes Anderson should wait one more month to resign

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Calluses: True stories from an ICU -- An ICU nurse explores the similarities between bedside manner and the hard calluses developed when learning to play guitar in this interactive comic.

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The Wisdom Issue: How to grow old — without getting old -- Writers of a certain age on the challenges, delights, surprises, preoccupations, and freedoms of growing older.

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True stories from an ICU: Was it right to keep their sister alive? -- An illustrated opinion piece that explores the emotional impact of hospice care on ICU nurses and hospital employees.

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IDEAS -- Blueprints for a new downtown Boston -- It's time to reimagine the identity of the city's core — and we've got ideas.

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When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse -- An interactive comic that explores how medical mistakes can happen in the chaotic environment of an ICU.

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Not so fast, fashion -- How to be fashionable and equitable while saving the planet from climate change.

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Teens Speak -- We asked. They delivered. Teens from across the country offer a candid look at how they're navigating life, school, friendships, social media, expectations, and so much more.

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Blue sky Boston: Where inspiration meets aspiration for the city's future -- Sustainable living. Gondolas. A science expo. Evaluation of student humanity. Here's what a Boston of the future could be.

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ERNESTO BARBIERI WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JESS RULIFFSON -- Tenderness and brutality: True stories from an ICU nurse -- An illustrated opinion piece that examines the porous border between healing and suffering in one hospital's intensive care unit.

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