The willingness to be a loser every once in a while can lead to extraordinary things, writes Jason Anthony in #GlobeIdeas. trib.al/rQz7Jil

Some of us have been acknowledging strangers now and again for some time, offering salutations to oncoming walkers, writes @MilesPerHoward in #GlobeIdeas. But even for me, regularly choosing to offer a gesture of acknowledgment required a mental shift. trib.al/MbTrYer

On the Hancock Tower’s 50th birthday, let’s pause to celebrate a genuine Boston icon, which not only inspires with its grace, but teaches a valuable lesson in perseverance and attention to detail, writes Ted Widmer in #GlobeIdeas. trib.al/toxMWjk

Ultimately, no matter how well a criminal justice system is designed, it will always fall short in some cases, and the pardon power is the last recourse when all else has failed, writes @abdallah_fayyad in #GlobeIdeas. trib.al/v5tPjty

“I’m not an asshole, but sometimes I acted like one,” says Matt Siegal on #SayMore. Listen to the episode: trib.al/KRRlQtg

For much of the past half-century, Britain and America were bound together not only by history, language, and military alliances, but by a remarkably similar understanding of how an economy should be governed, writes @TWMunson in #GlobeIdeas. trib.al/BxECtOX

“The Nobel prize should really go to a New England novelist few in their right mind would bet on,” writes @TheoZenou in #GlobeIdeas. “Yes, I’m talking about Stephen King, the author of 67 novels and 12 story collections.” trib.al/eV8AOnS

“I care about trans people, and I love one in particular in my close family. What LGBTQ rights groups are doing to these folks with this unrelenting message that death is waiting for them around every corner is not healthy,” writes @DavidMastio. trib.al/Uiz0WMI

If students had broader practice in how to best use AI, they could better learn how to build important patient-doctor relationships, writes Sophia Li in #GlobeIdeas. trib.al/t1dEjmU

Artificial intelligence and biology are not two distant technological revolutions moving along parallel tracks. They have already begun to intersect, and that is dangerous, writes @AnnieJacobsen in #GlobeIdeas. trib.al/hSL8I7i

“The Constitution is 239 years old as of this week. As we celebrate it alongside 250 years of independence, we should reclaim our power to interpret its words through the representatives we elect to Congress,” write Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan. trib.al/bWSHlii

Stadium owners have the right to decide who gets to perform at their venues. The problem is how dishonest their criticism of Macklemore is — and how intolerant they seem of any kind of speech that criticizes Israel, writes @abdallah_fayyad in #GlobeIdeas. trib.al/Qr6NZSb

Only by ignoring every serious scholar and intelligence analyst was it possible for Trump to delude himself into thinking that Iran was a soft target, writes @stephenkinzer in #GlobeIdeas. In fact, the opposite is true. trib.al/xAXysX3

“If an insurer refused to cover routine cancer monitoring and a patient died from a malignancy, we would know where to look for responsibility,” writes David H. Rosmarin in #GlobeIdeas. “Mental health deserves a similar standard.” trib.al/2Br8H8C

Criminal justice reform requires more than just one commissioner or department implementing changes here and there, writes @abdallah_fayyad in #GlobeIdeas. trib.al/iAACVZz

"I was part of the process that led to the Affordable Care Act, the health care legislation enacted by President Obama. From what I’ve seen, all of those problems trace their origins back to a single source — neoliberalism," writes John E. McDonough. trib.al/wnx2Rv6

Trump has belittled and bullied Canada, taunting it by calling it the 51st state, bobbing and weaving on trade, and essentially trying to get Canada’s leader to cry uncle, writes Micheline Maynard in #GlobeIdeas. Mark Carney is having none of it. trib.al/Lxx4AL3

The sitcom is one of television’s oldest formats, and its slow retreat feels like television giving up on one of its most time-tested approaches to genuine mass entertainment, writes Saul Austerlitz in #GlobeIdeas. trib.al/RIIQ6uX

No one will “inherit” Trump’s movement, writes @petermlaffin in #GlobeIdeas. And with his exit looming, a fierce battle over the future of the Republican Party is underway. trib.al/mXUrVAw

“The bank scam taught me to be suspicious of strangers. The fake cat video taught me to be suspicious of delight. That’s a different kind of loss,” writes Thomas Lee in #GlobeIdeas. trib.al/gIniizL