Opinion- Page 3

For a long time, Asian characters in Western media were easy to predict. They were often side characters, defined by accents, martial arts skills, or other one-dimensional stereotypes. Rarely were they the center of the story. That started to change when COVID-19…

The generation above mine worked long and earnestly for years to overcome gender stereotypes. Through effort and perseverance, keen leadership and insistence, the idea that all women had to be tiny-waisted, home-tidying, husband-seeking and spider-fearing was tossed into a historical fire. It…

At the beginning of the school year, I learned something surprising: over the summer, the Massachusetts Senate passed a bill that would ban cell phones in schools statewide. (The House has yet to pass it.) In Belmont, we already have a policy…