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They are reinforcing the mendacious notion that this is a nation built only by white men for white men only.

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30.01.2025 6

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Trump bans trans military service members. Again.

His contention that “radical gender ideology” is eroding unit cohesion is a lie to mask another act of segregation.

29.01.2025 10

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A bishop’s message of mercy rattled Trump but offered solace to a nation in peril

All the visibly uncomfortable president could do was sit, listen, and seethe.

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Why there are no reader comments on my Globe columns

I don’t mind when people disagree with me — that’s part of a journalist’s job. But disagreeing with a viewpoint is not an open invitation to...

23.01.2025 2

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Trump’s American carnage, part II

From pardoning insurrectionists to abandoning a climate agreement, Trump is again putting millions at risk.

21.01.2025 3

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Michelle Obama is done pretending

For the former first lady, sitting through one Trump inauguration was enough.

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A playlist for the next four years

My music collection will be getting even more of a workout than usual over what will be four chaotic years under the Trump administration.

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In a probable message to the incoming president, a Mexican official said "cooperation has no borders."

14.01.2025 5

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President Biden admits — almost — that he shouldn’t have run for reelection

Whatever his accomplishments, part of his legacy will also be putting his ego ahead of the country’s future.

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A Republican senator’s husband tried to embarrass VP Kamala Harris. He only embarrassed himself.

Bruce Fischer's behavior revealed a small, petty man who treated Harris not as this nation’s vice president, but as a Black woman he would not...

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Who radicalized Matthew Livelsberger?

Before blowing up a Cybertruck in Las Vegas, the Green Beret advocated for a violent purge of Democrats from the government and military.

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A homeless woman was murdered in New York. The immigration status of her accused killer is getting most of the attention.

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My New Year’s Resolutions

2025 has me thinking that maybe a few resolutions this year could serve as a bulwark against our new national dystopia that begins on Jan. 20.

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Jimmy Carter: An uncommon product of his times

Born in the Jim Crow South, the former president saw injustice as something to be eradicated, not tolerated.

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For trans people, the horrors of 2024 may pale compared with what may await them in 2025

Trump is threatening an assault on trans lives on “day one” of his administration.

29.12.2024 3

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The shattered dreams and lives of trans people lost to violence

With the relatively small trans population, deaths within these communities are deeply felt.

22.12.2024 3

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A hurricane map, a black Sharpie, and what should have been learned about Trump’s authoritarian need to manipulate the truth

With Trump's total disregard for facts, and especially the expertise of those smarter than him, he’s positioning himself as an omnipotent arbiter...

20.12.2024 5

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Trump hung out with an acquitted killer anointed as a right-wing hero. Where’s the outrage?

At a high-profile event, Daniel Penny, who killed Jordan Neely, took a public victory lap with the next president.

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‘We can only save ourselves’

After another year of violence, the trans community feels as if it’s been left to fend for itself.

15.12.2024 4

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Nikki Giovanni was as fine a poet as any nation has ever produced. She also was an activist, a teacher, an intellectual, and a social commentator.

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This holiday season’s most talked about gift — presidential pardons

And no, Donald Trump should not get one.

10.12.2024 3

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The escalating war on trans lives

Trump’s election win is heightening fears that anti-trans laws and violence will increase.

08.12.2024 6

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Black Republicans get played again

By 8 to 1, there are more billionaires than there are Black people in Donald Trump’s proposed Cabinet.

05.12.2024 5

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For Republicans, private grousing about Trump turns into public complicity

With a second Trump presidency weeks away, the GOP will again be defined by its cowardice.

26.11.2024 3

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Disqualifying, extreme, and incompetent — Trump’s DEI Cabinet picks

This isn’t a presidential transition. It’s a national stress test to see if democracy will continue to bend or finally break.

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House Republicans’ anti-trans bathroom rules should be flushed down the toilet

Representative Nancy Mace’s anti-trans bathroom crusade is about hate, not bathrooms.

21.11.2024 2

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America’s great white reckoning again

With Trump’s election, this nation has retreated into a swamp infested with rancor and division.

19.11.2024 4

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President Biden should pardon his son Hunter

With a weaponized Justice Department, Trump’s retribution agenda won’t stop with political opponents and their families.

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A postelection life as a social media nomad

Ideally, we'd all flee social media entirely, but I know that's not going to happen.

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The hypocritical politics of identity politics

When marginalized groups speak up, they’re accused of playing the identity card. But white voters and politicians always get a pass.

12.11.2024 2

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What Donald Trump could learn from Quincy Jones

The legendary producer often talked about how checking his ego and letting go of anger made him a better collaborator, artist, and person.

10.11.2024 5

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America f-ed around. Now, it’s about to find out.

A majority of American voters have spoken. And they have chosen this nation’s demise.

07.11.2024 2

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It’s not a bad sign for Harris that the race is so close

Trump had a four-year head start on the vice president’s campaign.

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How I learned to stop worrying and to appreciate Halloween

A small plastic pumpkin has given my mind both a safe place and a different appreciation of a day that means so much to so many.

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Donald Trump hates America

And he will ultimately destroy it if he’s elected president again.

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The loneliness of the non-swing state voter

We don’t get rallies, coffee shop stops, or selfies with this nation’s next president.

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What it takes for men to recognize the reality of sexual assault — other men as victims

It’s sadly predictable that women who accuse men of sexual assault aren’t as readily believed as men who make similar allegations.

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The media’s toxic affair with Trump

Call it normalizing or "sanewashing," but covering the former president as if he’s an ordinary nominee is journalistic malpractice.

22.10.2024 2

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Can Michelle Obama help seal the deal for Kamala Harris?

After keeping a low profile, the former first lady will reportedly campaign for the vice president in Atlanta.

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The Pentagon is finally giving LGBTQ former service members honor and respect

It is impossible to explain the indelible harm inflicted on those who were punished simply because they wanted to both serve their country and be...

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Finding solace from politics in baseball’s playoffs

Like the Democrats, my NY Mets are in a position that seemed impossible in the spring — a shot at victory this fall.

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The unending fight for — and against — voting rights

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Kamala Harris claps back at Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s ‘humble’ criticism

With Election Day only weeks away, Republicans will continue the sexist and racist attacks on Harris that began when she announced her candidacy.

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Politicizing a tragedy isn’t enough for Donald Trump. He’s spewing false and outlandish claims about the federal response.

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Pete Rose and Dikembe Mutombo were great athletes. Only one of them was a great man.

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James personified the Black man’s struggle in America in a way previously unseen by TV audiences.

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In less than three months, the vice president has already surpassed all expectations and proven many of her most ardent doubters wrong.

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