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Musk amplifies Trump’s hatred of the media

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

yesterday 20

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Renée Graham

‘Union Joe’ left the labor movement weaker than he found it

The share of Americans who belong to unions has fallen to a new low.

yesterday 9

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Jeff Jacoby

With climate justice, US can do well by doing good

Helping vulnerable countries is in our nation’s self-interest in a world of global competition.

previous day 10

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Cass R. Sunstein

Mass deportation hysteria prevails — but who’s actually at risk?

While all immigrants should know their rights, they must also understand their individual risk level — because for most of them, the fear of...

friday 1

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Marcela García

Prevalece el pánico de las deportaciones, pero ¿quién está realmente en peligro?

La gran mayoría de los inmigrantes no comprenden plenamente los riesgos jurídicos reales a los que se enfrentan, lo que les hace más vulnerables a...

friday 1

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Marcela García

Dellinger swings for the high court fences but could strike out

By tacitly ruling that temporary restraining orders are reviewable, the Supreme Court will open the door for other TROs that have been issued to be...

friday 4

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr

How Mass. can streamline homebuilding

There are several ways Massachusetts can speed up and simplify homebuilding permits.

friday 4

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Salim Furth And Andrew Mikula

Rare earth minerals and radar: Greenland’s draw for America

Why Greenland matters to US security.

friday 10

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Alan M. Leventhal

US must embrace a winning biotech strategy

If we fail to scale manufacturing in the United States, then our best bio-innovations will be brewed in China.

friday 10

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Drew Endy And Mike Kuiken

Don’t buy DOGE’s fraud-is-everywhere fantasy

It’s chintzy rhetorical cover for an effort to slash legitimate spending and close or decimate useful federal agencies.

20.02.2025 7

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Scot Lehigh

State AGs’ early loss in Musk case likely a blessing in disguise

Judge Chutkan’s order denying temporary relief could make it more likely that the law and Constitution catch up to Musk’s unprecedented government...

20.02.2025 1

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr

How Massachusetts got rich on gambling

New podcast documents the rise of the ‘the other Massachusetts miracle’ — the state lottery.

20.02.2025 2

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Renée Loth

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 1

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Renée Graham

A pox on both sides in the ‘Gulf of America’ brawl

There was no need to make the change, and no need to resist it.

19.02.2025 5

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Jeff Jacoby

Boys have been allowed to play on girls' teams at Mass. high schools since the 1970s. That’s not fair.

When there is no equivalent boys' team, girls' athletic teams in Massachusetts are required to let boys play, too — even if that makes competitions...

19.02.2025 2

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Carine Hajjar

AG Campbell all in on fighting Trump but silent on White Stadium

Both sides on the White Stadium plan have a legal argument to make, one that the AG could weigh in on if she chose. Instead, she has chosen not to.

19.02.2025 3

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Joan Vennochi

Will bike and bus lanes be an issue in the Boston mayoral election?

Three Opinion writers to weigh in on the debate about bike and bus lanes across the city.

19.02.2025 3

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Alan Wirzbicki

Disgraceful DOJ misconduct in the case of Eric Adams

What is so dispiriting in the case of the New York City mayor is that the Trump Justice Department effectively condoned his corruption by cynically...

19.02.2025 5

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Lloyd Macdonald And Robert Cordy

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

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

18.02.2025 10

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Renée Graham

Europe is rightly angry at Vance’s myopic message

Trump is a bigger threat to democracy than anything JD Vance denounced in his Munich speech.

18.02.2025 20

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Scot Lehigh