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Our national debt takes a ride into the stratosphere

Trump and the GOP Congress are handing future generations a gigantic bill. There could have been another way.

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Ben Harris

Locked shampoo and woke politics: Will Auchincloss take on Markey?

Markey shows no signs of running from the progressive label.

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Joan Vennochi

It’s time to retire the term ‘tomboy’

Then and now, restrictive gender labels ostracize kids who only want to express who they are.

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Renée Graham

Places I won’t be visiting

There are thousands of reasons why I won’t be visiting Saudi Arabia.

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Alex Beam

Trump goes ‘woke’ in report on antisemitism at Harvard

What is most striking is the brazen hypocrisy — one might even say chutzpah — of the Trump lawyers’ arguments.

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Benjamin Eidelson

Four years ago, Mayor Wu said shoplifters shouldn’t be prosecuted. Now shoplifting is up in Boston. Funny how that works.

Stores have put goods behind lock and key, which is why you have to ask a clerk for face wash.

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Carine Hajjar

Who is an American? Trump wants to decide.

Two new citizenship policies threaten to push the country to a place where horrific human rights violations would become, again, as American as...

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr

Three opinion writers on what Zohran Mamdani means for the Democratic Party

At a moment centrists are battling progressives for control of the Democratic Party, Mamdani’s sudden stardom is all the buzz.

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New York has many problems. Grocery stores aren’t one of them.

Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for supermarket socialism is an idea with a long history of failure.

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Jeff Jacoby

To avoid a Trump-orchestrated primary challenge, a defiant Senator Tillis chose to forgo reelection

But if Trump’s bill was a test for Republicans, the vast majority of them again failed miserably.

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Renée Graham

Navigating the extremes: A search for middle ground on transgender issues

A course correction should be based on common sense, solid facts, and respect.

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Cathy Young

In defense of tourism

Tourism is an easy bogeyman. But we all benefit from being able to see the world in ways previous generations could only dream of.

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Alan Wirzbicki

One person not caving to Trump? E. Jean Carroll.

The writer has sued Trump twice and won.

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Joan Vennochi

A lesson from RFK to Gov. Mills to run against Senator Collins

The best way to change national policies is to seek national office like Kennedy did in 1964.

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Larry Tye

The gym at middle age — the place where hot body dreams go to die

Pursuing a hot body became as much a part of my past as estrogen. I began to love my no-frills gym and all its members in their spectacular...

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Tracy Brady

ICE deported my husband. Our everything is gone, and we are unraveling.

This is not just an immigration issue. This is an issue of basic humanity. It is the brutal unraveling of a family.

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Kenia Guerrero

Health is the foundation of American freedom

To pursue life, liberty, and happiness — not just politically but through our everyday lives — you need health.

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Ashish K. Jha

Was your cargo ship hijacked? Try this guy.

Max Hardberger is an international repo man for ships that have been illegally seized by white-collar pirates. When negotiations fail, waterborne...

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