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Readers explain their fiction addiction

They share what triggered their appetite for imaginary worlds and the richness it brings.

12.12.2024 4

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How courts are tackling America’s post-truth provocateurs

Despite wins against Dinesh D’Souza, Rudy Giuliani, and Alex Jones, the overall situation in post-truth America isn’t encouraging.

10.12.2024 9

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Warning: Rough Trump trade seas ahead

Tariffs shouldn’t be an all-purpose foreign policy bludgeon.

06.12.2024 9

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From MAGA to medieval: How Trump’s team echoes the past

As Lord Acton said, we can’t expect great men to be good men.

03.12.2024 4

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My Thanksgiving tirades on Trump and Fox

Are they enough to get me on a certain cable news station?

26.11.2024 5

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Progress on abortion rights and gun safety must come in the states

Polling shows prospects for progress on both issues.

22.11.2024 10

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How high will the Senate jump for Trump’s Cabinet nominees?

Trump is flooding the zone with a parade of horribles. All that’s required is for senators to simply resolve to do their jobs.

19.11.2024 8

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A pellucid primer for a perplexing political period

Some things are so strange that only (relatively) ancient history can explain them.

14.11.2024 3

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Geoengineering can help save the planet

Trump’s election will make emission-reductions goals even harder to reach.

12.11.2024 4

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A sober look at America after Trump’s win

We have entered a dark, democracy-eroding era.

07.11.2024 9

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America’s choice: democracy, decency, and reason or divisiveness, rumors, and resentment

We’ve seen it all in the campaign’s closing days.

31.10.2024 6

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Donald Trump has taken Ronald Reagan’s Republican Party in a dark and divisive direction

On matter after matter, Trump has abandoned Reagan’s legacy.

29.10.2024 5

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Thank you, General John Kelly, for speaking the truth about Trump

If you value democracy, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff deserves your respect for his courageous candor.

24.10.2024 4

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Try to remove politics from the events of Jan. 6

A creative philosophical technique may help people to examine that fateful day in an objective manner.

23.10.2024 6

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What Trump’s and Harris’s economic policy proposals portend

On inflation, deficits, and debt, the differences matter.

17.10.2024 8

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How fear is shaping Trump’s closing message

After several months of trailing Vice President Kamala Harris, the Republican nominee has doubled down on fear-mongering.

16.10.2024 7

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Grading the MTA leaders on their Question 2 campaign

A “D” for research, an “F” for critical reasoning, but an “A ” for spending members’ dues.

11.10.2024 7

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Bill Weld warns about the danger of Donald Trump

The former GOP governor is cochair of Republicans for Harris.

08.10.2024 20

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Donald Trump is a latter-day Neville Chamberlain

Voters can see Trump’s penchant for appeasement in his approach to Ukraine.

03.10.2024 5

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The Great Trumpkin confronts the gender gap

Ungrateful women were resisting his generous offer to be their protector.

01.10.2024 10

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The MTA beckons voters with false claims on Question 2

Passage of Question 2 would eliminate the MCAS graduation requirement, not replace it.

26.09.2024 10

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The overarching concern in 2024 must be democracy

Donald Trump’s record makes clear he has no regard for our national rules of the road.

24.09.2024 10

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What a novel experience to lose yourself in fiction

Tell me, column readers, do you read novels? And if so, why?

17.09.2024 10

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JD Vance fogs up the school safety debate

It’s not true that tougher gun-safety laws make no difference on school shootings.

12.09.2024 20

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Kamala Harris dismantles Donald Trump

Harris turned in a strong, effective, persuasive performance. Not so Trump. Outpointed, outwitted, outsmarted, overmatched on substance, he repeatedly...

11.09.2024 10

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Harris should explain her health care flip-flop

The Democratic nominee can use the change from single-payer to ACA-backer to her political advantage.

05.09.2024 20

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Fascism? Liberalism? Communism? An Explainer.

Globe Opinion presents a handy campaign field guide to governing-philosophy accusations, affixations, and appellations.

04.09.2024 10

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RFK Jr., we got to know thee all too well

Camelot’s clown prince leaves the race in a revealing manner.

29.08.2024 10

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Red-baiting rhetoric belies the Democrats’ better record on the economy

But both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have made economically dubious proposals.

23.08.2024 20

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The Obamas offer a refreshing dose of dignity

The former president and his wife recall a more dignified and decent time in American politics.

21.08.2024 10

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Joe Biden owes Nancy Pelosi a thanks, not a freeze-out

The former speaker has helped Biden cement his legacy.

20.08.2024 10

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‘It makes no sense to just cede the future to China’: A climate check with Ed Markey ahead of the election

A longtime climate leader, Senator Markey sees real progress in the push for renewable energy and decreased emissions — but that would probably end...

15.08.2024 10

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Donald Trump is either trying to dupe voters with lies or he is seriously delusional

Either way, Americans of all political stripes should be concerned.

14.08.2024 30

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Fickle fortune frowns upon The Great Trumpkin

But who was to blame for the mess he was in?

01.08.2024 30

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How a VP can take the Oval Office

Three other vice presidents tried but failed to make the same transition, but some important lessons can be drawn from each.

31.07.2024 10

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Trump’s and Netanyahu’s myopic stance on the Iran nuclear deal has left the world in a worse place

The pact was working when Trump bailed out. Now Iran is close to having enough fissile material for a bomb.

25.07.2024 10

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The strengths and liabilities of Kamala Harris

Vice President Harris’s ascension has excited the Democratic Party, but Democrats must be ready for the attacks that will come.

23.07.2024 10

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Biden does the right thing by stepping down from race

Credit the president for stepping over his ego and toward the exit — and former House speaker Nancy Pelosi for nudging him in that direction.

21.07.2024 10

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Trump puts his indelible imprint on the GOP

Donald Trump has used his MAGA base as a cattle prod to herd the rest of the party into the stable.

19.07.2024 10

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Readers weigh in on Biden: Please go, Joe

Most don’t think he can win again and wish he’d make a graceful exit.

17.07.2024 20

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Readers, over to you: What should President Biden do?

Do you believe he can win and govern competently? Or is it time for him to step aside?

12.07.2024 10

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If Biden steps aside, who should step up?

These Democrats have the depth for an impressive ticket if the president drops out of the race.

09.07.2024 10

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Why is it so hard to quit politics?

Unpopularity or fear of losing may be the real reason, but it is seldom the explanation offered when an elected official calls it quits. Even when the...

03.07.2024 10

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The Great Trumpkin confronts the most terrible time of the year

How he hated the Fourth of July and all it stood for!

02.07.2024 10

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Joe Biden’s dismal failure

Panicked Democrats are talking about the need for Biden to let Democrats choose a different standard-bearer. For the good not just of his party but of...

28.06.2024 20

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Biden and Trump both get low grades on fiscal discipline

"Responsible fiscal policy may not be good politics, but it is absolutely necessary to make the country strong enough to deal with all the other...

25.06.2024 10

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A withering heat wave frames climate as a key presidential campaign issue

CNN needs to put the matter front and center in next week’s debate.

20.06.2024 10

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Britain signals a left turn even as the EU looks right

The UK elections are shaping up as big for the Labor Party and dismal for the Conservative Party.

18.06.2024 10

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This country must re-embrace fiscal responsibility

The warning lights on the federal deficit are flashing. Our current path isn’t sustainable.

06.06.2024 6

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Kennedy, Reagan, and Ford: What we can learn from debates past

This year’s first presidential debate, coming June 27, has the very real potential to set the early general election narrative.

05.06.2024 10

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