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The section that asks “what if?” and “why not?”
IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER
A surprising thing Walz and Vance have in common
Both VP candidates have unorthodox views on foreign policy — and one of them may actually get a chance to be influential.
IDEAS | MARY ZIEGLER
Ballot measures for abortion rights are becoming tests of democracy
When voters are asked directly, they support abortion rights. So Republicans are trying to keep them from being asked.
IDEAS | NATE TINNER-WILLIAMS
Pope Francis won’t pick a side in today’s culture wars
The head of the Catholic Church has been more of a moderating force than either the progressive or orthodox movements within the faith might have preferred.
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG
The radical ideology at the heart of the anti-Israel protests
The academic theory of ‘settler colonialism’ distorts the very real plight of the Palestinians.
IDEAS | RACHEL AMENT
Parenting is so hard that I turned to ChatGPT for help
I turned to ChatGPT in desperation, but all I needed was more confidence in myself.
IDEAS | DANIEL BROCK JOHNSON
James Foley’s last gift
Ten years after the journalist’s execution by ISIS, his friends are continually rekindling the powerful process of communal grieving.
may i have a word?
May I have a word: The gross thing about birthday parties
A useful term for those who cringe when someone blows out the candles.
May I have a word: The parking spots you somehow missed
May I have a word: Calling out serial bailers
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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.
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG
How Uphams Corner got wealthier without getting whiter
The scrappy Dorchester neighborhood has fulfilled the community activist’s dream: development without displacement.
Where did all the workers go?
For two years, employers have been desperate for workers — and there’s no indication the labor shortage will soon change. What are we losing — and possibly gaining — as a result?
Public health
IDEAS | Tasnim Ahmed
Doctors fleeing primary care is a crisis for Boston’s low-income neighborhoods
IDEAS | ADELINE GOSS
What should we think of the new Alzheimer’s drugs?
IDEAS | NATALIE KAUFMAN
Why is my generation so caffeinated all the time?
democracy under siege
IDEAS | Elizabeth Svoboda
Trump isn’t a fascist. He’s a Caesarist.
IDEAS | DAVID SHRIBMAN
America is at a turning point, yet again
IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER
Latin America is rife with dysfunctional madness
politics
IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER
A surprising thing Walz and Vance have in common
IDEAS | JEFFREY SWINDLE AND MATTHEW D. BLANTON
El Salvador’s migration success story doesn’t add up
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Anointing Kamala Harris was a mistake
civil rights
IDEAS | MARY ZIEGLER
Ballot measures for abortion rights are becoming tests of democracy
IDEAS | MARY ZIEGLER
Katie Britt’s MOMS Act is dangerous, but not for the reasons you might think
IDEAS | JANE EISNER
Here’s how to get more young people to vote
inequality
IDEAS | Shira Schoenberg
Cut loose at 18 and struggling into adulthood
IDEAS | LISA SELIN DAVIS
Subsidizing families is one thing the two parties can agree on
IDEAS | COLEMAN HUGHES
Color blindness remains the best form of antiracism
climate crisis
IDEAS | BENJAMIN TWINING
Using the ocean as a carbon sink may be our best hope against climate change
IDEAS | KIRSTEN LIE-NIELSEN
Oysters, please — without a side of plastic
IDEAS | VERONIQUE GREENWOOD
A journey to the vault at the end of the world
education
IDEAS | WILL AUSTIN
Fewer kids are applying to Boston’s exam schools. It’s a sign of a larger problem for the city.
IDEAS | JARED CHARNEY
At a recovery high school, graduation is a huge step on a treacherous journey
IDEAS | ALEXANDRA STYRON
The problem with campus protests is not cruelty but ignorance
development
IDEAS | Morgan Evelyn Arnold
There’s a gaping hole in Boston’s live music scene
IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR
Milton isn’t a ‘rapid transit community,’ no matter how many times the state says it is
IDEAS | Taylor C. Noakes
A once-futuristic vision for urban housing whose time still may come
history
IDEAS | DANIEL BROCK JOHNSON
James Foley’s last gift
IDEAS | OLIVER EGGER
In Florence, an exhibition dedicated to remembering abandoned children
IDEAS | JOHN BENJAMIN
The problem with Zionism
housing
IDEAS | SHIRA SCHOENBERG
The Mass. housing shortage is making life even harder for survivors of domestic violence
IDEAS | BART TOCCI
I can’t afford you anymore: A letter to the place where I was born
IDEAS | MILES HOWARD
Making too little to get affordable housing — and other problems with trying to stay in Boston
technology
IDEAS | JOSÉ M. MUÑOZ
Picking up good vibes from a stranger? That might be your neurons aligning.
IDEAS | JEREMY KAHN
Soon, AI will book your flights and order your groceries. It’ll be convenient — and risky.
IDEAS | Michael Serazio
ChatGPT’s uncanny valley of the mind
essays
IDEAS | ANDRE DUBUS III
The town I swore I’d never go back to is now the town my children want to come home to
IDEAS | RACHEL AMENT
Parenting is so hard that I turned to ChatGPT for help
IDEAS | Miles Howard
Free coffee and a place to make friends in real life? Sounds like social utopia.
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IDEAS | JOAN VENNOCHI
How the MBTA went off the rails
Nearly everything about Boston has changed in the past few decades, yet the T has the same big problem — a failure to prioritize the rider experience above all.
IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Boston was once a wildly ambitious city. It’s time to go big again.
The pandemic is still shattering expectations of what workdays look like. In this special issue of Ideas, we explore which of these changes will stick — and how they’ll affect the quality of our lives.
Editing the Constitution
The pandemic is still shattering expectations of what workdays look like. In this special issue of Ideas, we explore which of these changes will stick — and how they’ll affect the quality of our lives.
The Future of Work
The pandemic is still shattering expectations of what workdays look like. In this special issue of Ideas, we explore which of these changes will stick — and how they’ll affect the quality of our lives.
The Future of Food
What we eat, where it comes from, and how we get it are being reimagined like never before.
Massachusetts Works
We turn the typical model of journalism on its head — instead of focusing on what’s broken, we’re taking a look at what Massachusetts gets right.