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Readers, I need your help on two big questions

If you’ve had success in helping friends see the truth about Donald Trump or if you are involved in an effective grass-roots effort to increase...

12.04.2024 9

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If Democrats are Charlie Brown, Florida is their Lucy

If Florida can be brought into play, it expands the Electoral College map in a way that’s great for the Democratic presidential nominee and ominous...

10.04.2024 3

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Don’t count on an MCAS compromise

The Massachusetts Teachers Association’s blunder-prone leaders have incentives to stick to their guns on removing the MCAS graduation requirement...

09.04.2024 5

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It’s time for serious study of climate engineering

The world needs to know what might work and what won’t to fight the climate crisis.

04.04.2024 5

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The Great Trumpkin returns!

Because Donald Trump’s campaign is sometimes too surreal for anything but satire.

02.04.2024 4

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Paul Grogan looks back at an estimable career — and forward to the nonprofit future

The former Boston Foundation president hopes his memoir will inspire idealistic young people to work in the community-service sector.

28.03.2024 2

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The Republican House fails the Ronald Reagan test

With time running short, the House recesses without approving aid for Ukraine.

26.03.2024 4

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Chuck Schumer’s important speech on Israel

As the Senate majority leader made clear, supporting Israel doesn’t mean supporting Benjamin Netanyahu, its intransigent, myopic premier.

21.03.2024 2

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Credit Mike Pence for speaking the truth about Trump

Voters should listen to what the former vice president and other erstwhile Trump appointees say about the man they worked for.

19.03.2024 5

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The teachers association’s anti-MCAS crusade gets curiouser and curiouser

Massachusetts voters should reject teachers association's anti-MCAS crusade.

14.03.2024 4

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Biden comes out swinging

To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of Joe Biden’s dotage are greatly exaggerated.

13.03.2024 2

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Joe Biden needs to explain his slow and cautious walk

More than jokes are needed to allay voters’ concerns about the president’s age.

12.03.2024 5

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Republican voters embrace a disgrace in Trump

Super Tuesday highlighted the chasm that divides the American electoral middle, with a sharp wall of revulsion facing a steeply pitched slope of fear.

06.03.2024 1

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Mass. Republican voters should give party chair Amy Carnevale a vote of confidence

Here’s how to support the current GOP chair against the party’s pugnacious old guard.

01.03.2024 10

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Don’t take gay marriage for granted

With constitutional privacy rights eroded, the Supreme Court could do an about-face on marriage equality.

27.02.2024 2

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Nikki Haley’s foreign policy is an antidote to the GOP’s isolationism

The press should highlight the contrast between her positions and those of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.

22.02.2024 4

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sinking ship: All aboard the Titanic

"It bothers me every day that so many in the campaign can’t see the iceberg that is dead ahead," one former RFK Jr. staffer said.

20.02.2024 7

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Lindsey Graham is a metaphor for the retreat of Reagan Republicanism in a time of Trump

The South Carolina senator now thwarts causes he once championed alongside John McCain.

16.02.2024 2

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Oh lord, what’s up with the GOP?

If Mike Johnson is God’s chosen speaker, the Lord is certainly working in mysterious ways.

08.02.2024 5

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Why Biden’s hand is stronger than you think

Joe Biden started his primary campaign in South Carolina because he was concerned that a serious challenge could embarrass him in occasionally...

08.02.2024 4

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The illegal Newton strike backfires — on teachers

Union members need to realize they made themselves look silly.

06.02.2024 4

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Maine governor makes a measured move on guns

After Lewiston and Bowdoin shootings, Janet Mills hopes to pass gun reform that will stand the test of political time.

02.02.2024 7

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Trump’s mysterious force of accomplishment

Many credit him with unbelievable power and influence.

30.01.2024 2

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Can Donald Trump control his inner caveman?

That question looms as the presidential primary campaign moves to Nikki Haley’s home state of South Carolina.

25.01.2024 1

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Trump goes full grump in N.H. primary victory speech

An angry Trump is an unhinged Trump. And to his credit, even Trump himself seemed to realize there was something unorthodox about his primary night...

24.01.2024 9

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Trump won N.H., but Haley’s campaign is far from over

Let’s label Nikki Haley’s second-place finish what it really should be called — a significant accomplishment.

24.01.2024 4

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In N.H., Haley and Phillips turn up the heat on Biden and Trump’s age. Will it work?

If the New Hampshire of today still bears a strong resemblance to the independent-minded Granite State of old, expect a primary result that...

22.01.2024 9

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Haley calls out Trump’s ‘temper tantrums’ but will NH voters put him in time out?

In an effort to upset Donald Trump in New Hampshire, Nikki Haley is essentially posing this question to Granite State voters: Aren’t you sick of the...

19.01.2024 6

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Iowa deals Ron DeSantis a near-lethal blow and gives Nikki Haley a shot against a dominant Donald Trump

It’s now on to New Hampshire, which cares little about what Iowa voters think.

16.01.2024 3

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Nikki Haley beats Ron DeSantis in Iowa debate

During a night in which DeSantis repeatedly stressed his record in Florida, Haley gave viewers a better idea of what she would do as president, both...

11.01.2024 1

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The tricky task ahead for Trump’s GOP rivals

With MAGA such a large, authoritarian-inclined, reason-resistant part of the Republican Party, that renders primary terrain a minefield for Trump’s...

10.01.2024 2

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Biden begins a critical clash with Trump about democracy

President Biden aimed a truth torpedo directly at Donald Trump. The Republican front-runner’s only real response was an attempt at misdirection and...

09.01.2024 3

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A frustrated president struggles with his limitations

Biden is no great communicator.

04.01.2024 3

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Chris Christie sees — and tries to seize — his moment

The Republican Party needs a candidate who tells rather than sidesteps tough truths, he told voters in New Hampshire.

02.01.2024 2

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Trying out an electric vehicle in the Norwegian cold

Readers, please weigh in with your thoughts on EVs.

28.12.2023 8

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Why New Hampshire matters more than Iowa

With Trump off-balance from his multiple indictments, DeSantis saw an opportunity to send him reeling to the canvas early in the fight — and then...

09.12.2023 2

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Senator Angus King of Maine looks for middle ground on gun safety

Angus King leads. Will Susan Collins step up?

07.12.2023 3

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Scot Lehigh tried writing like a Trump supporter. Here’s what he came up with.

Lehigh gets into the MAGA mindset.

05.12.2023 1

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Trump recycles his health care hookum

Can he fool his MAGA followers again with his cynical promise to replace Obamacare with something "much better"?

30.11.2023 3

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Giving consumers a choice when buying their electricity

Massachusetts should fix rather than nix the residential retail program.

29.11.2023 4

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Teachers union chief Max Page misleads on MCAS

Page has a knack for fudging the facts.

21.11.2023 2

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Antisemitism on campuses should concern us all

There should be no place for intimidation, harassment, and threats anywhere, but especially at places dedicated to intelligent discussion and higher...

17.11.2023 10

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Donald Trump goes full fascist in his rhetoric

Watergate whistleblower John Dean: The media must call out the former president.

14.11.2023 2

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Which party will survive the election-year rapids ahead?

The hard-to-read river presents distinct perils for both the Democrats and the Republicans.

10.11.2023 2

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Nikki Haley outshines Ron DeSantis on the N.H. campaign trail

The erstwhile UN ambassador and South Carolina governor has her act together; the Florida governor does not.

07.11.2023 4

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Vivek Ramaswamy is not ready for prime primary time

A debate in New Hampshire shows a candidate with hollow answers.

02.11.2023 2

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Joe Biden has a Democratic challenger; he should debate him

Dean Phillips’s candidacy gives Biden a chance to reassure voters that he’s up to the job.

31.10.2023 2

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Gun violence invades Maine’s state of grace

Policy makers need to come together to strengthen the state’s gun laws.

27.10.2023 7

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A week of flips: Trump election-theft plotters admit their crimes

Seeking prominence and influence, they instead earned ignominy.

26.10.2023 3

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Jim Jordan faces long odds in his fight to become speaker

Pugnacious right-wing populism isn’t the proper prescription for leading the House.

20.10.2023 4

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