Some slightly off-the-beaten-path stories you may have missed over the past week:

— Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy bemoans the PE takeover of youth sports: “My Son’s Hockey Team and the Crisis of American Resentment” (The Atlantic)

— Harvard professor and former gubernatorial candidate Danielle Allen deserves a medal for helping revive a long neglected classroom subject: “Reports of the Death of Civics Are Greatly Exaggerated” (NYT)

— Let’s see how our new affordability-conscious pols react to this plan: “Energy company proposes big natural gas pipeline expansion in New England” (WBUR)

— She’s basically defending price gouging: “Healey defends $80 World Cup train fare while New York drops shuttle price to $20” (BBJ)

— It’s the wrong reason to ban a jingle that deserves banning for pure annoyance reasons: “Judge Bars Kars4Kids From Broadcasting ‘Misleading’ Ads in California” (NYT)

— Yes, Watertown:  “How Watertown built a biotech hub out of long-vacant industrial land”  (BBJ)

— She paid gargantuan fees for Google search gimmicks?: “How a Secretive Firm Tried (and Failed) to Fix an Epstein Friend’s Tattered Image” (WSJ)

— The incumbent senator abandons the ignore-him strategy now that a poll shows the race tightening: “Markey and Moulton will debate in August” (WBUR)

 And check out last week’s Headlines of Interest, including one on Jack ‘Dude’ Schlossberg.