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Ideas

Everyone in a nursing home deserves a single room

The government should require that owners give residents private space — or it should take over the facilities and replace them with small homes.

OpEds

Making daylight saving time permanent would mean losing sleep — and lives

This legislation is not about protecting sunshine. Instead, it should be called “An Act to Force Americans to Wake Up an Hour Earlier Each Day.”

OpEds

How to prevent MassHealth enrollees from losing their coverage

Insurers must work with their provider partners in the MassHealth ACO program to raise member awareness about the importance of responding to its communications so that they do not experience a gap in coverage.

Ideas

Did a 21st-century pharmacy really just cave to the threat of a 19th-century antiabortion law?

Walgreens fears that conservative judges will come up with a backwards interpretation of the 1873 Comstock Act.

Columns

The little boots inside Lindsay Clancy’s house make clear none of it makes any sense at all

A photo of the boots arrived on my phone one night last week, part of a batch of more than two dozen pictures of the inside of the Clancy’s house taken a few days after the children’s deaths.

Columns

Abortion foes twist criminal laws in push for fetal personhood

Antiabortion groups are engaged in a messaging campaign based on their disingenuous claim that there is societal consensus that life begins before birth. That’s the first step in the push for their next objective: a nationwide ban on abortion.

Ideas

Scrubbing away our collective health

Chemical agents found in common consumer products damage our skin, respiratory tract, and gut. It’s time to redefine what we mean by “clean.”

Columns

I had employer support with my long COVID. Others aren’t so lucky.

I cannot imagine the fear and anxiety that losing my employment — and with it, my health care coverage — would have added to an already stressful situation. But far too many people are dealing with that very horror every day.