In my latest for Boston Globe Opinion, I solicit suggestions for a redesigned Massachusetts flag. Read the column and send me your best ideas, which I will feature in a future column.
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Scot Lehigh: A withering heat wave frames climate as a key presidential campaign issue trib.al/Tjdbp1x

Jeff Jacoby: There are many mysteries in life and one of them is how a state panel convened to design a new flag and seal for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts can spend more than three years and $100,000 yet fail completely to accomplish its mission. trib.al/jY5DcJG

From Boston Globe Ideas: Unraveling the 'chilling' surveillance web of smartphones, doorbell cams, and social media apps like Nextdoor. trib.al/9dKZ9kJ

From Boston Globe Ideas: Heat waves like this one demand a rethinking of air conditioning trib.al/P97r5fL

This week on “Say More,” Krista Tippett, the host of the popular “On Being” podcast has tips for cultivating silence in our noisy, modern life. trib.al/aGnbuMU

A gut check on reforms to organ transplant system trib.al/v71Uvdh

Fixing the agency’s culture means putting a truly reform-minded leader in charge of change. That takes political courage, writes Joan Vennochi. trib.al/MBBrpiJ

An airport provides a traveler’s first and last impression, and the name is part of that impression, writes Joan Vennochi. trib.al/CekROCq

If we’re pretty sure social media endangers kids, shouldn’t we do something about it?
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The UK elections are shaping up as big for the Labor Party and dismal for the Conservative Party, writes Scot Lehigh. trib.al/yMSwVo4

It shouldn’t take another mass shooting for Congress to restore a bump stock ban trib.al/GLN2lXs

The GOP fixation with President Biden’s age seems a way for the 78-year-old Donald Trump to deflect concerns about his own advanced years and mental acuity, writes Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈. trib.al/JS0VCod

The latest debate roiling many of America’s campuses is less over the war in Gaza than it is over what administrators should do about students charged with crimes or violating school rules when they were protesting, writes Richard Haass. trib.al/wa2bRph

Opinion | Governor Healey needs to change State Police culture bostonglobe.com/2024/06/17/opi… via The Boston Globe

The champion Boston Celtics — this is just the beginning trib.al/d6TQf1v

Nare Villarroel’s story stands out as the antithesis of the fearmongering political narrative that warns of a ‘migrant invasion,’ one that vilifies newcomers with a broad brush, writes Marcela E. García. trib.al/sFuLK3x

From Alan Wirzbicki: Don’t get me wrong: Saving the T is a good idea and good use of public funds. But saving it with the millionaires tax might not be a great precedent. trib.al/ZDM20wr

I learned a lot from Cal Newport, an MIT-trained computer scientist on how to work less & do more. I also got some good advice on how to #WFH because working from home is not working for me anymore. He introduced to me the concept of 'work from near home.'

Any faith in the city’s capacity to do better would be misguided, writes Sandra Susan Smith. trib.al/8zOULgL