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Scot LehighBoston Globe |
It takes a patient, nonconfrontational approach. And don’t expect miracles.
After the dark and dreary Jim Lyons era, the Massachusetts GOP is in the beginning stages of a Republican renaissance.
Mild questions about the former president trigger one belligerent outburst and a round of rationalization in the South.
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...
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...
The Massachusetts Teachers Association’s blunder-prone leaders have incentives to stick to their guns on removing the MCAS graduation requirement...
The world needs to know what might work and what won’t to fight the climate crisis.
Because Donald Trump’s campaign is sometimes too surreal for anything but satire.
The former Boston Foundation president hopes his memoir will inspire idealistic young people to work in the community-service sector.
With time running short, the House recesses without approving aid for Ukraine.
As the Senate majority leader made clear, supporting Israel doesn’t mean supporting Benjamin Netanyahu, its intransigent, myopic premier.
Voters should listen to what the former vice president and other erstwhile Trump appointees say about the man they worked for.
Massachusetts voters should reject teachers association's anti-MCAS crusade.
To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of Joe Biden’s dotage are greatly exaggerated.
More than jokes are needed to allay voters’ concerns about the president’s age.
Super Tuesday highlighted the chasm that divides the American electoral middle, with a sharp wall of revulsion facing a steeply pitched slope of fear.
Here’s how to support the current GOP chair against the party’s pugnacious old guard.
With constitutional privacy rights eroded, the Supreme Court could do an about-face on marriage equality.
The press should highlight the contrast between her positions and those of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
"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.
The South Carolina senator now thwarts causes he once championed alongside John McCain.
If Mike Johnson is God’s chosen speaker, the Lord is certainly working in mysterious ways.
Joe Biden started his primary campaign in South Carolina because he was concerned that a serious challenge could embarrass him in occasionally...
Union members need to realize they made themselves look silly.
After Lewiston and Bowdoin shootings, Janet Mills hopes to pass gun reform that will stand the test of political time.
Many credit him with unbelievable power and influence.
That question looms as the presidential primary campaign moves to Nikki Haley’s home state of South Carolina.
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...
Let’s label Nikki Haley’s second-place finish what it really should be called — a significant accomplishment.
If the New Hampshire of today still bears a strong resemblance to the independent-minded Granite State of old, expect a primary result that...
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...
It’s now on to New Hampshire, which cares little about what Iowa voters think.
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...
With MAGA such a large, authoritarian-inclined, reason-resistant part of the Republican Party, that renders primary terrain a minefield for Trump’s...
President Biden aimed a truth torpedo directly at Donald Trump. The Republican front-runner’s only real response was an attempt at misdirection and...
Biden is no great communicator.
The Republican Party needs a candidate who tells rather than sidesteps tough truths, he told voters in New Hampshire.
Readers, please weigh in with your thoughts on EVs.
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...
Angus King leads. Will Susan Collins step up?
Lehigh gets into the MAGA mindset.
Can he fool his MAGA followers again with his cynical promise to replace Obamacare with something "much better"?
Massachusetts should fix rather than nix the residential retail program.
Page has a knack for fudging the facts.
There should be no place for intimidation, harassment, and threats anywhere, but especially at places dedicated to intelligent discussion and higher...
Watergate whistleblower John Dean: The media must call out the former president.
The hard-to-read river presents distinct perils for both the Democrats and the Republicans.
The erstwhile UN ambassador and South Carolina governor has her act together; the Florida governor does not.
A debate in New Hampshire shows a candidate with hollow answers.
Dean Phillips’s candidacy gives Biden a chance to reassure voters that he’s up to the job.