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The storied broadcasters have been a lifeline to people living under tyranny.
There is very little data to suggest that annual inspection mandates keep roads safe or the environment clean.
Scrap the cent or keep it; I don’t care. But let the decision be based on sound reasoning, not on gaudy talking points that add nothing to the debate.
Zelensky and his nation are the latest to learn that it can be fatal to be America’s friend.
As the annual festival of Purim arrives, Jews feel the chill of danger.
Imports are a sign of wealth, not of being ripped off.
The mayor embarrassed herself by offering condolences for a knife-wielding attacker.
I cannot see anything objectionable in Bezos’s description of the change coming to his paper’s opinion section.
The share of Americans who belong to unions has fallen to a new low.
There was no need to make the change, and no need to resist it.
What the 14th president can teach the 47th.
JD Vance invokes religion to defend the indefensible.
With rare exceptions, anyone who resorts to such language isn’t trying to engage in debate; they are trying to shut off debate.
Neither logic nor history makes a dent in the president’s protectionism.
A religious leader has the right to politely challenge Trump to his face.
Why no government-owned or operated facility should be named after someone who is alive.
Even after 80 years, Auschwitz, the largest mass-murder site on earth, still stupefies.
Trump's executive order on racial preferences restores the ideal MLK dreamed of.
Each party has a lenient standard for itself and a much more stringent one for its opponents.
Even outlandish notions become plausible when a president promotes them.
The Jewish state is poised to repeat a blunder that may pave the way to another Oct. 7.
He was proudly American to his core, not only staking a claim to the American dream, but enriching it for all.
Trump and Biden have shown that the benefits of unfettered clemency no longer outweigh its drawbacks.
People move for all kinds of reasons, of course, but it would be hard to deny that what prompts so many to abandon Massachusetts and make a new start...
Can something and its opposite both be accurate?
No one tried to help Debrina Kawam as she went up in flames.
The reason for the season isn’t to score political points.
If 18-year-olds are adults when they engage in good activities, they should be treated as adults when they engage in bad ones.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has done nothing to merit clemency.
Mandatory minimum wage increases hurt many of the people they are supposedly meant to help.
Nothing good comes from having a Legislature that stays in session year-round.
The burning of synagogues is one of the oldest evils perpetrated against Jews.
If you’re born in America, you’re an American, whether the president likes it or not.
The country’s ‘anarcho-libertarian’ president has balanced the budget, slashed spending, shrunk inflation — and remained popular.
A Middleborough seventh-grader is asking the Supreme Court to take up his case.
Consider the extraordinary chain of events that gets the turkey to your Thanksgiving table.
Beginning with FDR, politicians have promoted fables and fibs about the nation’s largest spending program.
The president-elect’s winning margin — just 1.6 percentage points — is one of the tiniest in history.
I understand why Christians invite me to "come to Jesus." They should understand why I say "No, thank you."
Antisemitism, the great evil that Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned of, has spread across the globe.
Biden ought to apologize for his role in promoting such an ugly libel about Georgia's election law.
Giving in to Trump was good for business.
The country’s new president announces a new foreign policy: ‘Long live freedom, damn it!’
Politicians can promise lots of things in exchange for votes, but it’s a crime to offer cash. Exactly why is a puzzle.
To my mind, a Trump presidency would be unthinkable. A Harris presidency would be too.
Well before there was Trump, there was Obama. And Obama’s presidency was the most polarizing in modern history up to that time.
As immigration from Latin America has surged, so have Republican fortunes.
On a per-capita basis America remains vastly more economically productive than Canada.
Does the First Amendment allow states to discriminate against schools run by a church?
Before a crowd of MAGA locals in North Carolina, former president Donald Trump vowed that if he returns to the White House, the region’s biggest...