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07/12/2025

There’s a dangerous trend of placing aggressive patients with severe behavioral and psychiatric issues in nursing homes, and it’s growing across the country, writes Dr. Asif Merchant.

When nursing homes, designed to care for older adults, begin housing aggressive patients with severe behavioral and psychiatric issues, the risks multiply.

07/11/2025

"I would encourage others to heed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s call to read the opinions regarding the birthright citizenship decision and make up their own mind," writes a reader in .

"I, for one, appreciate that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is 'breaking the fourth wall,' " writes a reader.

07/11/2025

“While my father used to be the first phone call I received after finishing an interview on public radio or having a piece printed in public media, he is no longer able to call,” writes Katherine Gergen Barnett.

“But his voice remains, pushing me and so many others to be courageous.”

David Gergen was recently diagnosed with Lewy body dementia. His daughter, Katherine Gergen Barnett, reveals the wisdom she received from her dying father in a moment of clarity amid his decline.

07/11/2025

readers had a number of heartfelt responses to La Presse readers in Montreal, who had shared messages about the importance of ties between the US and Canada.

While views come from a variety of vantage points, the overwhelming message is: Don’t give up on us yet.

07/11/2025

“Trump’s public use of profanity without apology or repercussions points to how he has upended language over his decade in the political spotlight — a hallmark of authoritarianism,” writes Renée Graham.

Trump wants his reach, even down to our usage of words that sound like his own, to be absolute in his obscenity of a presidency.

07/11/2025

With all the bad things the Trump administration is throwing at Harvard, it makes sense for the university to negotiate with him, writes Carine Hajjar.

With all the bad things the Trump administration is throwing at Harvard, doesn’t it at least make sense to talk?

07/11/2025

Harvard alumni are stepping up to protect the university’s independence against the incursions of the Trump administration, writes Renée Loth.

Harvard alumni step up to protect the university’s independence.

07/11/2025

"When nursing homes, designed to care for older adults, begin housing aggressive patients with severe behavioral and psychiatric issues, the risks multiply," writes Dr. Asif Merchant.

When nursing homes, designed to care for older adults, begin housing aggressive patients with severe behavioral and psychiatric issues, the risks multiply.

07/11/2025

With the Trump administration’s attack on Harvard’s accreditation, we’re seeing “an existential threat to an essential mechanism that has shaped the character of American higher education,” writes Rakesh Khurana, former dean of Harvard College.

Accreditation, once an esoteric, peer-driven mechanism for ensuring institutional integrity, has become another proxy battlefield in the nation’s higher education wars.

07/11/2025

With the passage of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, writes Robert Darrow, renewable energy “just sustained its biggest body blow since the Reagan era.”

The sector just sustained its biggest body blow since the Reagan era.

07/10/2025

"When the Trump administration declared Wednesday that Harvard University may no longer meet accreditation standards, it escalated a crisis not only for Harvard but for all of American higher education," writes Rakesh Khurana, former dean of Harvard College.

Accreditation, once an esoteric, peer-driven mechanism for ensuring institutional integrity, has become another proxy battlefield in the nation’s higher education wars.

07/10/2025

Over the next few weeks, the editorial board will be posing some of the questions it wishes local politicians spent more time discussing — and more energy solving.

Start with this one: How can Boston become more family friendly?

Lamenting the flight of families to the suburbs used to be code for lamenting the loss of white families. That may be one of the reasons the problem still tends to be talked about gingerly, if at all.

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