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Before there was Trump there was James Michael Curley

If Trump is elected president this fall, it will not be the first time that American voters have rewarded a convicted crook with electoral power.

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More micromanaging will not cure Boston’s liquor license shortage

There’s an easy way to fix the problem Beacon Hill has caused.

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If you can wager on the price of orange juice, why not on elections?

Some regulators want to ban election betting markets. Here’s why they’re wrong.

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The law that ruined America’s immigration system

Steeped in racism and eugenics, the 1924 Immigration Act made it impossible for most would-be Americans to enter the United States legally.

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Generation Z has serious problems. It has serious advantages, too.

When it comes to wealth and work, Zoomers are in good shape.

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Israel and America are having a disagreement. That’s OK.

The Jewish state has repeatedly earned US respect by not being a pushover.

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Does Jane Fonda really require more honor?

Of all the people to single out for honor on “Black April,” none was more certain to provoke outrage in Vietnamese American circles than Jane...

21.05.2024 40

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In Argentina, Milei’s exhilarating chainsaw revolution is underway

The new president is turning his country’s economy around by shrinking the state and championing free markets.

19.05.2024 40

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A cynical Washington Post tells Biden: Nothing matters more than beating Trump

‘Trim your principles,’ the paper editorializes, ‘and pander away.’

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Just say no to more mass transit

No matter how much is spent on public transportation, we are constantly hectored that more is needed.

14.05.2024 20

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I rejoice that Boston didn’t get the 2024 Olympics

The grassroots campaign that kept away the Summer Games deserves a gold medal in civic activism.

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Trump among the libertarians

Why would the Libertarian Party, which will be nominating a presidential candidate at its national convention in Washington this month, invite...

07.05.2024 50

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Deep in a hole, Kristi Noem keeps digging

She fabricated an anecdote about meeting North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Then she made things worse.

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A wrongheaded rule in Mass. hurts kids with special needs

The Commonwealth’s admirable commitment to children with disabilities is undermined by a regulation rooted in bigotry.

05.05.2024 40

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The man who made conservatism fun

A PBS documentary about William F. Buckley Jr. conveys both his intellectual force and his joyful charisma.

21.04.2024 20

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Happy about your IRS refund? Don’t be.

How tax withholding turned us into geese who can be plucked without squealing.

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Defying the Supreme Court on student loans, Biden sets a dangerous precedent

It is hard to overstate how radical it is for a president to behave in this way.

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Russia’s reported use of chemical weapons in Ukraine is another ‘red line’

Obama failed to act when Syria deployed poison gas. Biden must not make the same error.

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Diversity, yes. Diversity statements, no.

Instead of diversity, DEI policies promote a rigid ideological uniformity.

09.04.2024 20

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Science says race isn’t real. How long will the US Census keep pretending otherwise?

The federal government is making an arbitrary, nonsensical, and divisive system even more so.

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Joseph Lieberman, mensch

The four-term senator from Connecticut and VP nominee understood that there are times when party loyalty asks too much.

03.04.2024 10

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(Not) in the path of totality

In the Boston area, where I live, about 95 percent of the sun will be blocked by the moon during the solar eclipse that will cross North America next...

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The border needs fixing, but not because migrants are dangerous

Most immigrants, authorized and unauthorized alike, are more law-abiding than native-born Americans.

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What The Economist gets right about Israel

On the cover of the current issue of The Economist is an Israeli flag, covered in grime, being whipped by a sandstorm in a deserted land. Above it, in...

27.03.2024 20

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The green giant

Norman Borlaug, who was born on a farm in Iowa 110 years ago this week, is reckoned to have saved more lives than any man in human history —...

27.03.2024 9

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The phony feeding frenzies over ‘bloodbath’ and ‘hamstringing’

Ripping words out of context, prominent voices on the left and right alike keep pouring fuel on our incendiary civic discourse.

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Bernie Sanders’s foreign policy ‘revolution’ is a string of leftist clichés

The Vermont senator looks at America’s global record and sees mostly failure and disgrace.

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The slashing of Balfour’s portrait

A member of Palestine Action destroyed a portrait of Arthur James Balfour at Trinity College in the U.K. — an act the anti-Israel group defended on...

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The Wendy’s beef was a nothingburger

The flap over Wendy's plan to test ‘dynamic pricing’ was a nothingburger.

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Only Haitians can fix Haiti

After a century of failed foreign interventions, Haitians must be told that no one is coming to rescue them.

13.03.2024 7

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How to ‘feel better’ about Ukraine (according to John Kerry)

I have followed John Kerry’s career for 40 years, but I still cringe at things that come out of his mouth.

12.03.2024 20

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There was nothing heroic about Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation

Suicide is a tragedy, whatever the reason, yet leftists praised Bushnell as a great moral exemplar.

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Navalny is gone, but the ‘virus of freedom’ is spreading

Like all brave dissidents, his courage imbues others with the courage to speak truth to power.

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Meet one of Cuba’s greatest heroes

Cuba’s indomitable heroine is a recipient of this year's International Women of Courage Award.

05.03.2024 20

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Today’s voters would be wise to heed the critics of ‘Old Tippecanoe’

No one as old as William Henry Harrison had ever run for president. Even his supporters knew that was a problem.

18.02.2024 9

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Seiji Ozawa’s love for America

Ozawa’s passion for American baseball was a subset of his affection for the United States.

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The seventh-grader and the First Amendment

Liam Morrison’s school said he couldn’t wear a "two-genders" T-shirt. The Constitution says he can.

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I was a young Republican. Now I want nothing to do with either party.

How much disillusionment can our political system tolerate before it cracks up?

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Who loves you, Xi Jinping?

It is only one of the many contrasts presented by the Republican presidential contest, but it is particularly acute. Haley tells the world she would...

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At Columbia Law, a club formed to combat antisemitism gets shot down

The only student group rejected this year was one organized to oppose anti-Jewish bigotry.

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Big Brother to motorists: No smiling

To the bureaucratic blob in Washington, allowing a measure of fun to intrude on highway driving would be anathema.

31.01.2024 7

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Give Newton’s teachers an ultimatum: Return to work or forfeit your jobs

It is strictly illegal for public employees to strike. Why isn’t the law being enforced?

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The swastika stands for evil and mass murder. So does the hammer and sickle.

Communism rarely evokes the instinctive loathing that Nazism does. Why?

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America’s elites live in a world of their own

The real "1 percent" aren’t the superrich but those with influence, access, and a graduate degree.

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A discount for the right skin color

There is nothing "inclusive" about penalizing or rewarding people on the basis of their race and gender.

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A pandemic mea culpa from Francis Collins

A key figure in the government’s COVID-19 response admits that he was willfully blind.

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The safest way to travel

Airline travel isn't nearly as comfortable, pleasant, roomy, and civilized as it once was. But it is a lot safer.

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The answer Biden should have given on Taiwan

The chief threat to stability in Asia today is not Taiwanese independence but Chinese belligerence. The president should have said so.

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CAIR, a self-described champion of civil rights, lets the mask slip — again

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has been linked to Islamist extremists.

14.01.2024 10

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Donald Trump, man of — faith?

In a new poll commissioned by the Deseret News, an astonishing 64 percent of Republicans surveyed said that Trump is a “person of faith.”

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