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Here Are 5 Things You Can Do To Stay Politically Engaged 'The Bitter Comes With The Sweet': Without Death, There Is No Life Feb 5, 2021 I Write Obituaries For The New York Times. Memorializing People In A Pandemic Feels Like A Different Assignment Feb 4, 2021 'When Did You Become White?': The Question All 'White' Americans Must Answer Feb 3, 2021 Support the news Most Popular 1 I Write Obituaries For The New York Times. Memorializing People In A Pandemic Feels Like A Different Assignment 2 How The 1918 Pandemic Haunted My Family For Generations 3 How To Write A Sympathy Note In The Time Of Coronavirus 4 Once Again, Black Women Are Heroes. It's Time To Pay Up 5 'He Blew Me A Kiss. And That Was The Last Time I Saw Him': They Were Both Gravely Ill With COVID — But Only One Survived 6 Spare Me Your Outrage, Your Shock. This Is America In Case You Missed It With Mayor Kim Janey, Boston Media Would Have This Rare Chance — A Do-Over Jan 11, 2021 Stop Debating COVID Vaccine Doses And Fix The Rollout Jan 12, 2021 From Hygge To Saudade: The Power Of Untranslatable Words Jan 3, 2021 A Holiday Season Gutted By The Pandemic: We're Trying To 'Celebrate And Grieve At The Same Time' Play 04:31 Nov 20, 2020 On Air Commentaries 'He Blew Me A Kiss. And That Was The Last Time I Saw Him': They Were Both Gravely Ill With COVID — But Only One Survived Play 09:30 Dec 22, 2020 'It Doesn’t Matter If It’s Your Fault': I Warn My Daughter About Police As My Father Warned Me Play 02:57 Jul 16, 2020 The Greatest Threat To Our Democracy Is Inaction Play 05:29 Jan 12, 2021 ‘Losing The Thread Of What We’ve Lost’: A Postcard From The Pandemic Play 02:46 Oct 2, 2020 Politics Feb 1, 2021 To Overcome COVID Vaccine Skepticism In Mass., We Need A Multicultural Approach In Massachusetts, only 11% of Black residents and 32% of Latinos say they will take a COVID vaccine as soon as it is available to them, writes Josiane Martinez. To boost vaccination rates, we need a culturally competent, multilingual plan that addresses health disparities and mistrust in government. Some Community Health Centers, Key Partners In Vaccine Rollout, Don’t Have Any With Latinos Dying At Higher Rates From COVID, Brigham And Women’s Hospital Intervenes Louise C. Ivers and Wilfredo R. Matias: We're Fighting COVID One-Handed. To End This Pandemic, Get Local Health Officials Better Data Biden Calls For An All-Electric Federal Fleet. GM Is Going Electric. And Your SUV Is Still A Big Problem Feb 1, 2021 The Catholic Right’s Combusting Psyche Jan 28, 2021 This Is What Is At Stake When We Talk About Transgender Athletes Jan 26, 2021 Mass. Should Be Nailing The Vaccine Rollout. Why Are Most States Ahead Of Us? Jan 25, 2021 Support the news More From Cog 'I Can Dare To Hope': What It Felt Like To Spend A Day Vaccinating My Hospital Colleagues We can't hug but we bump elbows, writes Dr. Alexa B. Kimball, and that is my final gesture for the day to protect the people who have given so much... Feb 2, 2021 I Didn’t Know My Mother, Not Really, Until The Pandemic Doris Iarovici's mother moved to Boston to be closer to family during the pandemic. What Doris didn't anticipate was the sheer pleasure of her mother's presence, as they navigate a... Jan 29, 2021 'A Good Education Saves Lives In More Ways Than One': How Teachers Can Boost COVID Vaccinations Teachers should be part of a federal strategy, not only to boost COVID vaccinations, writes Kurt Ostrow, but to inoculate the public against the many contagious strains of vaccine misinformation. Jan 29, 2021 In The Stories I Tell Myself, My Brother Didn't Die Adam took his own life in 2016, writes Emily Rubin. But she imagines ways he might have found safety. Jan 27, 2021 Amanda Gorman's Poetry Opened The Door, And 'Let Everyone In' The 22-year-old poet is the right messenger for this pivotal time in our history, writes January Gill O'Neil. Jan 22, 2021 By Killing Keystone XL, Biden Sets The Tone For His Climate Policy With the millstone of the Trump years now lifted, writes Frederick Hewett, President Biden should seize the opportunity to cancel other fossil fuel infrastructure projects. Jan 22, 2021 What Can Be Done To Protect Abortion In America? Plenty Roe v. Wade will almost certainly fall, but it doesn't have to be the end of safe and legal abortion in America, writes Jesse Mermell. Here are six things President... Jan 22, 2021 5 Steps Biden Can Take To Protect Climate Migrants Climate displacement is an urgent issue but there are few legal protections for climate migrants, writes Nick Micinski. President Biden can be the first U.S. president to make it a... Jan 21, 2021 A Return To Leadership By Example I'm too exhausted by Trump to be elated about Biden, writes Holly Robinson. But I have hope. Jan 21, 2021 Pearls And Chucks: How Kamala Harris Is Changing Fashion In Politics It has been easy to look on fashion cynically, writes Joanna Weiss. But sometimes you want that attention -- and if you’re blessed with political talent, you know how to... Play 02:31 Jan 20, 2021 The Cavalry Is Finally Here Joe Biden and Kamala Harris need to offer Americans of good faith more than just an end to the nihilism of the Trump era, writes Steve Almond. They need to... Jan 20, 2021 America Is Not As Divided As You Think. Yes, Really Don't dismiss Joe Biden's message of unity as happy talk, write Shaun Adamec and Nat Kendall-Taylor. He's pursuing a governing philosophy designed to overcome the relentless stories we hear about... Jan 20, 2021 'An American Eldercide': Some 39% Of COVID Deaths Are In Nursing Homes. We Must Do Better On the eve of his inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden will lead a ceremony to commemorate the dead. He ought to pay special grief to the tens of thousands of people... Jan 19, 2021 'We Have Been Here Before, And Have Overcome': This Is The Inaugural Address Joe Biden Should Give The Capitol riot shocked us; it might have been less shocking to our founding fathers, writes Rich Barlow. How their era handled the crisis offers lessons for us. Jan 19, 2021 'The Sun Is Rising In Atlanta': On The Election Of My Friend, Rev. Sen. Warnock Bill Eville and his family drove from Massachusetts to Atlanta to help Warnock's U.S. Senate campaign in the Georgia runoff. Jan 15, 2021 I Lost Laura 4 Years Ago. The Law Passed In Her Name Will Save Lives In the final hours of the legislative session, hundreds of people came together to help writer Peter DeMarco lobby for "Laura's Law," which will make emergency room entrances easier to... Play 05:34 Jan 14, 2021 'It Redefines The Realm Of What Might Be Possible': Sign The Climate Bill, Gov. Baker State policymakers across the country are keenly aware of others’ steps forward -- or backward -- on energy and environmental policy. That’s why it’s so important Gov. Baker sign the... Jan 14, 2021 There Are White Supremacist Hate Groups Everywhere. Even In 'Blue' Mass. People who live in progressive bubbles might be tempted to assume that the kind of bigotry and hatred incited by Donald ...