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Renée Loth

Renée Loth

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Florida, the new nanny state

For a guy who crusades against nanny-state overreach, Governor Ron DeSantis is doing an awful lot of finger-wagging lately about other people’s...

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The much-published letter writer David English extols his craft

I often worry that writing letters of all kinds is a dying art form. But then I meet someone like David English, and I go find a stamp.

18.05.2024 70

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In Somerville, guaranteed basic income provides a safety net

The city will join a coalition of cities experimenting with a guaranteed basic income by giving 200 families at risk of homelessness $750 a month for...

02.05.2024 80

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Friends of the Public Garden: ‘We are a democracy in trees and dirt’

Boston’s parks create space for people of all types to get out of their pixelated bubbles and, simply, be together.

19.04.2024 10

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Taking stock of Truth Social

Several investment experts say Trump’s IPO is little more than a Ponzi scheme with a gloss of Wall Street legitimacy.

03.04.2024 100

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Another reason to end capital punishment

This country’s insistence on capital punishment poisons international treaties and agreements, complicates diplomacy, and limits America’s ability...

21.03.2024 60

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The threat of theocracy in the United States

Is it time to move on from the threat to America posed by autocracy and start taking seriously the threat of theocracy?

07.03.2024 60

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Will ‘The Holdovers’ return us to a time when exalted public school buildings were valued?

Fairhaven High School, the 1906 building in this South Coast town of 15,000, shines in the Oscar-nominated film.

26.02.2024 10

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A call for Americans to share their COVID-19 memories and experiences

The Library of Congress has launched a COVID-19 oral history project to preserve the experiences ordinary Americans had during the pandemic.

10.02.2024 10

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Letter from Ecuador: We flew into a national emergency

Is this a lesson — or preview? — in how a population can submit to authoritarian rule in the service of “order” so long as they’re not...

31.01.2024 30

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For Trump, every day is Opposite Day

The way Trump plays the game, it’s an insidious manipulation of the truth, a way to project upon his opponents the most noxious qualities of his own...

11.01.2024 5

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Nikki Haley, a she-wolf in moderate’s clothing. But Trump is worse.

It may feel like an act of desperation, but these are desperate times.

28.12.2023 10

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The trouble with Effective Altruism

Unlike causes that tug at the heartstrings to make an appeal, EA looks only at the most efficient way to improve the world. It all makes perfect,...

18.12.2023 7

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