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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (pictured on the screen of a fan recording with their phone) performed at the TD Garden on March 20.

"My parents paid for me to pursue expensive hobbies, my home was filled with toys, etc. But my father also sexually abused me for years," writes a reader who adds, "The sad truth is, a parent hurting a child never makes sense, but it happens every day, regardless of family resources."

A thorny path to teaching and to teacher diversity

The system needs to change so that prospective teachers can make it through the chaos that currently exists.

We have to prepare for a future with fewer primary care doctors

We know that shortages of primary care physicians remain on the horizon; what matters most is how we, as an industry, will disrupt the current system to better serve patients.

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Dr. Barbara Spivak, a primary care doctor who occasionally uses telehealth, talked with a patient using a computer in her Watertown office.

Telehealth is a thing. For real. Now how to make full use of it?

"Rarely do we find such a dramatic introduction of a health care tool of such value," writes one provider.

LETTERS

Frances Haugen, a whistle-blower and former Facebook employee, testified before a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing in Washington on Oct. 5, 2021.

For safer social media, we have to get under the hood of tech

Without any legislative or regulatory mandate to do otherwise, these companies have kept researchers, lawmakers, and the American public in the dark.

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Confession was held outdoors in the parking lot of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Chelmsford on April 6, 2020, in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sanctity of confessional must not supersede safety of children

Seriously, does the welfare of the faithful need the same protection as a child? The faithful are consenting adults with a constitutional freedom to worship as they please. 2:00 a.m.

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A rendering from the proposal for Flagpole of Freedom Park in Columbia Falls, Maine. If built, the more than $1 billion attraction would include the tallest flagpole in the world.

About that giant flagpole in Maine, consider this

When powerful nations are in a heady state of decline, they tend to resort to monuments to their former greatness as a substitute for reform. 2:30 a.m.

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Parishioners who did not fit in the pews knelt during Christmas Mass at Christ the King Ukrainian Catholic Church in Jamaica Plain in 2022.

Good spiritual counsel could avert a crime, but confession is sacred

Canon 984 of church law states that we priests cannot use any information that we hear in confession at all. I have been blessed by Christ to forgive sin in His name and provide sound spiritual counsel and guidance to dissuade a person from sin and crime. 2:20 a.m.