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The section that asks “what if?” and “why not?”
IDEAS | DARYLN BREWER HOFFSTOT
Digging a grave for our beloved, departed goldendoodle was hard. We wouldn’t have had it any other way.
I yearned for a backhoe. Only after we’d finished the backbreaking labor did I realize what a mistake it would have been to have used one.
IDEAS | CRAIG FEHRMAN
As soon as it began, the US almost fell apart
Our country was founded on noble words and visions, but what really stitched it together was something as fickle as self-interest.
IDEAS | KEVIN LEWIS
Social Studies: Schools that don’t produce many biologists; when major leaguers get too comfortable; what Starbucks does for neighborhoods
Surprising findings from the social sciences.
IDEAS | VERONIQUE GREENWOOD
A journey to the vault at the end of the world
At the Svalbard Seed Vault, set up to insure humanity against environmental catastrophe, I felt a strange combination of foreboding and hope.
IDEAS | LILY GAGE
Misinformation and political polarization aren’t the only things keeping people from getting COVID vaccines
Only 22 percent of Americans have gotten the latest booster. Some people blame politics, but lack of access to health care could be a bigger factor.
IDEAS | ROB HENDERSON
Why doesn’t the candidate with the best policies win? Because looks can be deceiving.
Voters are generally drawn to candidates who exude competence.
may i have a word?
May I have a word: Swarming insects, the paparazzi of the bug world
A collective term for the pesky, biting, winged beasties that come for our blood in summer.
May I have a word: The summertime thermostat wars
May I have a word: A breacher of aisle etiquette
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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 | LILY GAGE
Misinformation and political polarization aren’t the only things keeping people from getting COVID vaccines
IDEAS | ZACH RAUSCH
Why are religious teens happier than their secular peers?
IDEAS | JOE KEOHANE
The case for — gasp! — teaching kids to talk to strangers
democracy under siege
IDEAS | THEO ZENOU
Dear Biden, stop backing down from the fake news wars
IDEAS | MATTIA FERRARESI
Take it from the Italians: Trump can’t be defeated in court
IDEAS | WILLIAM SCHULZ
The disturbing rhetorical device permeating American politics
politics
IDEAS | ROB HENDERSON
Why doesn’t the candidate with the best policies win? Because looks can be deceiving.
IDEAS | MARY ZIEGLER
Remarkably, Trump is using the abortion issue to his benefit
IDEAS | MICHAEL COTTER
Mass. voters emphatically stood up for cage-free eggs. Now factory farms are pushing back.
civil rights
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
IDEAS | MARIANNE MOLLMANN AND EDUARDO GONZALEZ CUEVA
Our daughter is a student protester at Emerson. The police went too far.
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 | VERONIQUE GREENWOOD
A journey to the vault at the end of the world
IDEAS | ASHLEY BALZER VIGIL
In uncharted ocean depths, researchers find never-before-seen sea creatures
IDEAS | MICHELINE MAYNARD
The $100 billion gamble on EV batteries
education
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
IDEAS | Jane Rosenzweig
ChatGPT is at odds with what education is for
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 | CRAIG FEHRMAN
As soon as it began, the US almost fell apart
IDEAS | TREVOR CORSON
Neutrality for Ukraine is the best route to peace
IDEAS | OLIVER EGGER with photos by ANABEL DeMARTINO
Art created below decks slick with blubber and blood
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 | BRIAN BERGSTEIN
Some AI experts are scared of superintelligent machines. Ray Kurzweil can’t wait for them to arrive.
IDEAS | EVGENY MOROZOV
The Boston hippies who developed technologies that Silicon Valley wouldn’t dare to make
IDEAS | JUAN CARLOS MONTERREY GOMEZ
America is losing the clean energy race to China
essays
IDEAS | DARYLN BREWER HOFFSTOT
Digging a grave for our beloved, departed goldendoodle was hard. We wouldn’t have had it any other way.
IDEAS | OMER AZIZ
The ‘pursuit of happiness’ may sound good. But what if that’s the wrong approach?
IDEAS | RACHEL ZIMMERMAN
Writing about my husband’s suicide was one thing. Recording the audiobook? Something else entirely.
more special projects
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.