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Note to Democrats: Decorum will not defeat fascism

Some Democrats punished Representative Al Green of Texas for interrupting Trump’s speech. But they should adopt his stance of "righteous...

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Wu and Pressley made me into a Bostonian

Mayor Michelle Wu and Representative Ayanna Pressley made be proud and made me a Bostonian

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The Blackest queerest Academy Awards ever

As a kid, never could I have imagined such a celebration of Black queer excellence before the eyes of the world.

06.03.2025 5

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An unrepentant Andrew Cuomo is ready for his close-up again

A convicted felon was elected president. Now the once-disgraced governor wants to be New York’s next mayor.

04.03.2025 5

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Musk and Trump aren’t just decimating the federal workforce. They’re denigrating it.

Mass layoffs are painful enough without the president branding fired workers as corrupt.

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A government speeding through every red light

In this oligarchic unmaking of America, “stop” applies only to recognition of people’s rights and calls for accountability.

27.02.2025 2

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For Republicans, Trump’s age ain’t nothing but a number

Some are pushing for an unconstitutional third term for the second oldest president ever.

26.02.2025 4

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Musk amplifies Trump’s hatred of the media

The president and his top lieutenant are ramping up their threats.

23.02.2025 20

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The power of resistance, one ‘No’ at a time.

With so much chaos, it’s natural for people to feel powerless and to do what feels expedient. But there is no action too small in opposition to...

20.02.2025 5

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Without trans women of color, there would have been no Stonewall rebellion

Trump tries to erase trans existence from the modern LGBTQ movement.

19.02.2025 20

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Like dictators before him, Trump attacks the arts

The president will honor only what he deems acceptable, and condemn all else. That’s the death of art.

16.02.2025 10

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How Kendrick Lamar reclaimed the American flag as his — and our — own

Lamar — probably not unintentionally — reignited a recent conversation about the American flag and who gets to claim it.

13.02.2025 10

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As Trump attacks LGBTQ rights, Republicans quietly accept an out Cabinet secretary’s sexuality

That’s not progress. It’s hypocrisy.

12.02.2025 30

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Forget Eagles vs. Chiefs. It’s Kendrick Lamar vs. Trump at the Super Bowl.

Smackdown at the Super Bowl: Kendrick Lamar vs. Donald Trump

09.02.2025 20

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White male supremacy is a myth. That’s why avatars like Trump and Musk want to erase the achievements and access of women and people of color.

They are reinforcing the mendacious notion that this is a nation built only by white men for white men only.

06.02.2025 10

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Republicans are complicit in the constitutional crises that Trump and Musk are unleashing

In a moment demanding courage, the GOP has only cowards.

05.02.2025 20

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When Democrats finally flexed, Trump flinched

Trump threatened to freeze federal grants. Democrats pushed back.

02.02.2025 10

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Will Black History Month become another casualty of Trump’s DEI purge?

With Trump’s ongoing purge of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and his hatred of history that edifies anyone other than white men, the...

30.01.2025 8

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Trump bans trans military service members. Again.

His contention that “radical gender ideology” is eroding unit cohesion is a lie to mask another act of segregation.

29.01.2025 10

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A bishop’s message of mercy rattled Trump but offered solace to a nation in peril

All the visibly uncomfortable president could do was sit, listen, and seethe.

26.01.2025 10

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Why there are no reader comments on my Globe columns

I don’t mind when people disagree with me — that’s part of a journalist’s job. But disagreeing with a viewpoint is not an open invitation to...

23.01.2025 7

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Trump’s American carnage, part II

From pardoning insurrectionists to abandoning a climate agreement, Trump is again putting millions at risk.

21.01.2025 3

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Michelle Obama is done pretending

For the former first lady, sitting through one Trump inauguration was enough.

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A playlist for the next four years

My music collection will be getting even more of a workout than usual over what will be four chaotic years under the Trump administration.

17.01.2025 10

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While Trump spreads lies about the California wildfires, Mexico and Canada send their best

In a probable message to the incoming president, a Mexican official said "cooperation has no borders."

14.01.2025 5

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President Biden admits — almost — that he shouldn’t have run for reelection

Whatever his accomplishments, part of his legacy will also be putting his ego ahead of the country’s future.

12.01.2025 10

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A Republican senator’s husband tried to embarrass VP Kamala Harris. He only embarrassed himself.

Bruce Fischer's behavior revealed a small, petty man who treated Harris not as this nation’s vice president, but as a Black woman he would not...

09.01.2025 5

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Who radicalized Matthew Livelsberger?

Before blowing up a Cybertruck in Las Vegas, the Green Beret advocated for a violent purge of Democrats from the government and military.

07.01.2025 3

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A homeless woman was murdered in New York. The immigration status of her accused killer is getting most of the attention.

Debrina Kawam died a horrific death. Her life deserves to be honored, not co-opted by a right-wing media fixated on lies about dangerous...

05.01.2025 10

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My New Year’s Resolutions

2025 has me thinking that maybe a few resolutions this year could serve as a bulwark against our new national dystopia that begins on Jan. 20.

02.01.2025 4

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Jimmy Carter: An uncommon product of his times

Born in the Jim Crow South, the former president saw injustice as something to be eradicated, not tolerated.

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For trans people, the horrors of 2024 may pale compared with what may await them in 2025

Trump is threatening an assault on trans lives on “day one” of his administration.

29.12.2024 4

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The shattered dreams and lives of trans people lost to violence

With the relatively small trans population, deaths within these communities are deeply felt.

22.12.2024 5

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A hurricane map, a black Sharpie, and what should have been learned about Trump’s authoritarian need to manipulate the truth

With Trump's total disregard for facts, and especially the expertise of those smarter than him, he’s positioning himself as an omnipotent arbiter...

20.12.2024 6

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Trump hung out with an acquitted killer anointed as a right-wing hero. Where’s the outrage?

At a high-profile event, Daniel Penny, who killed Jordan Neely, took a public victory lap with the next president.

17.12.2024 4

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‘We can only save ourselves’

After another year of violence, the trans community feels as if it’s been left to fend for itself.

15.12.2024 6

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Warmed by the life that Nikki Giovanni lived

Nikki Giovanni was as fine a poet as any nation has ever produced. She also was an activist, a teacher, an intellectual, and a social commentator.

12.12.2024 3

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This holiday season’s most talked about gift — presidential pardons

And no, Donald Trump should not get one.

10.12.2024 4

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The escalating war on trans lives

Trump’s election win is heightening fears that anti-trans laws and violence will increase.

08.12.2024 7

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Black Republicans get played again

By 8 to 1, there are more billionaires than there are Black people in Donald Trump’s proposed Cabinet.

05.12.2024 6

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‘Anticipatory obedience’ is already a contender for 2025′s word of the year

There’s a grotesque scramble to appease Trump’s good side — even though he doesn’t have one.

03.12.2024 5

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For Republicans, private grousing about Trump turns into public complicity

With a second Trump presidency weeks away, the GOP will again be defined by its cowardice.

26.11.2024 3

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Disqualifying, extreme, and incompetent — Trump’s DEI Cabinet picks

This isn’t a presidential transition. It’s a national stress test to see if democracy will continue to bend or finally break.

24.11.2024 20

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House Republicans’ anti-trans bathroom rules should be flushed down the toilet

Representative Nancy Mace’s anti-trans bathroom crusade is about hate, not bathrooms.

21.11.2024 4

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America’s great white reckoning again

With Trump’s election, this nation has retreated into a swamp infested with rancor and division.

19.11.2024 4

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President Biden should pardon his son Hunter

With a weaponized Justice Department, Trump’s retribution agenda won’t stop with political opponents and their families.

17.11.2024 7

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A postelection life as a social media nomad

Ideally, we'd all flee social media entirely, but I know that's not going to happen.

14.11.2024 2

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The hypocritical politics of identity politics

When marginalized groups speak up, they’re accused of playing the identity card. But white voters and politicians always get a pass.

12.11.2024 2

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What Donald Trump could learn from Quincy Jones

The legendary producer often talked about how checking his ego and letting go of anger made him a better collaborator, artist, and person.

10.11.2024 5

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America f-ed around. Now, it’s about to find out.

A majority of American voters have spoken. And they have chosen this nation’s demise.

07.11.2024 2

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