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Why no government-owned or operated facility should be named after someone who is alive.
Even after 80 years, Auschwitz, the largest mass-murder site on earth, still stupefies.
Trump's executive order on racial preferences restores the ideal MLK dreamed of.
Each party has a lenient standard for itself and a much more stringent one for its opponents.
Even outlandish notions become plausible when a president promotes them.
The Jewish state is poised to repeat a blunder that may pave the way to another Oct. 7.
He was proudly American to his core, not only staking a claim to the American dream, but enriching it for all.
Trump and Biden have shown that the benefits of unfettered clemency no longer outweigh its drawbacks.
People move for all kinds of reasons, of course, but it would be hard to deny that what prompts so many to abandon Massachusetts and make a new start...
Can something and its opposite both be accurate?
No one tried to help Debrina Kawam as she went up in flames.
The reason for the season isn’t to score political points.
If 18-year-olds are adults when they engage in good activities, they should be treated as adults when they engage in bad ones.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has done nothing to merit clemency.
Mandatory minimum wage increases hurt many of the people they are supposedly meant to help.
Nothing good comes from having a Legislature that stays in session year-round.
The burning of synagogues is one of the oldest evils perpetrated against Jews.
If you’re born in America, you’re an American, whether the president likes it or not.
The country’s ‘anarcho-libertarian’ president has balanced the budget, slashed spending, shrunk inflation — and remained popular.
A Middleborough seventh-grader is asking the Supreme Court to take up his case.
Consider the extraordinary chain of events that gets the turkey to your Thanksgiving table.
Beginning with FDR, politicians have promoted fables and fibs about the nation’s largest spending program.
The president-elect’s winning margin — just 1.6 percentage points — is one of the tiniest in history.
I understand why Christians invite me to "come to Jesus." They should understand why I say "No, thank you."
Antisemitism, the great evil that Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned of, has spread across the globe.
Biden ought to apologize for his role in promoting such an ugly libel about Georgia's election law.
Giving in to Trump was good for business.
The country’s new president announces a new foreign policy: ‘Long live freedom, damn it!’
Politicians can promise lots of things in exchange for votes, but it’s a crime to offer cash. Exactly why is a puzzle.
To my mind, a Trump presidency would be unthinkable. A Harris presidency would be too.
Well before there was Trump, there was Obama. And Obama’s presidency was the most polarizing in modern history up to that time.
As immigration from Latin America has surged, so have Republican fortunes.
On a per-capita basis America remains vastly more economically productive than Canada.
Does the First Amendment allow states to discriminate against schools run by a church?
How one Globe columnist us voting on the Massachusetts ballot issues.
Even in America, the old patterns of Jewish history cannot be escaped.
The most audacious falsehoods about Jews have the most power.
A one-time vote is no way to uphold workplace democracy.
There is no shortage of serious reasons to oppose Harris’s campaign for the White House. But those who deride her candidacy as anti-democratic...
The federal government rightly characterizes faith-based organizations as ‘the bedrock of our society.’
Donahue struck me as a genuine and appealing personality. My single encounter with him was admittedly inane, but I’m glad I had the experience.
The horrors of Oct. 7 were planned by Palestinian terrorists Jerusalem freed in exchange for a captive
It has been much more common for vice presidents to accede to the presidency upon the death or resignation of their predecessor.
There will be no death penalty for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
For the first time in this war, Ukraine has invaded Russia.
Coleman Hughes, a young Black author, argues that the way to achieve justice is to refuse to focus on race.
In a toxic new ad, the footwear and apparel company preaches that athletes achieve glory by embracing their darkest and most selfish impulses.
Should good people celebrate when evil people are killed?
If Mass. makes these schools free for everyone, enrollment is likely to rise, but graduation rates may not budge.
A majority of Americans now want immigration to be curtailed and all undocumented migrants expelled.