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I’ll be back next year. I hope you will, too.
From the financial markets to the Supreme Court, we are seeing some pushback to chaotic start of the second Trump administration.
It was a fantasy that floated far from the facts.
Our president’s vengefulness, dishonesty, and bullying should make us all cringe.
Governor Janet Mills told President Trump that she would not comply with his executive order banning transgender athletes in women’s sports. We...
The longtime GOP Senate leader transformed that body, but not for the better.
It’s chintzy rhetorical cover for an effort to slash legitimate spending and close or decimate useful federal agencies.
Trump is a bigger threat to democracy than anything JD Vance denounced in his Munich speech.
How to slough snow shoveling onto your spouse.
Team Trump grumps about judicial decisions while its GOP enablers shrink from their oversight duties.
Don’t be gulled as Congress starts to reconcile Trump’s agenda with budgetary reality.
Protecting traditional constitutional governance will be a struggle on many fronts.
Senate hearings show a would-be secretary running away from his record.
Targets of Trump’s attacks should PLACATE him.
Persuasion will soon matter more than formal authority.
A divided nation begins a fraught journey with Trump.
From reducing inflation to cutting spending painlessly to immediately ending Russia’s war with Ukraine, the president-elect is waging a quiet...
After a wonderful holiday in Quebec City, this American rues Donald Trump’s rude remarks.
Voters declared in November that the events of Jan. 6, 2021, weren’t a paramount concern, but that neither erases history nor gives the once and...
They share what triggered their appetite for imaginary worlds and the richness it brings.
Despite wins against Dinesh D’Souza, Rudy Giuliani, and Alex Jones, the overall situation in post-truth America isn’t encouraging.
Tariffs shouldn’t be an all-purpose foreign policy bludgeon.
As Lord Acton said, we can’t expect great men to be good men.
Are they enough to get me on a certain cable news station?
Polling shows prospects for progress on both issues.
Trump is flooding the zone with a parade of horribles. All that’s required is for senators to simply resolve to do their jobs.
Some things are so strange that only (relatively) ancient history can explain them.
Trump’s election will make emission-reductions goals even harder to reach.
We have entered a dark, democracy-eroding era.
We’ve seen it all in the campaign’s closing days.
On matter after matter, Trump has abandoned Reagan’s legacy.
If you value democracy, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff deserves your respect for his courageous candor.
A creative philosophical technique may help people to examine that fateful day in an objective manner.
On inflation, deficits, and debt, the differences matter.
After several months of trailing Vice President Kamala Harris, the Republican nominee has doubled down on fear-mongering.
A “D” for research, an “F” for critical reasoning, but an “A ” for spending members’ dues.
The former GOP governor is cochair of Republicans for Harris.
Voters can see Trump’s penchant for appeasement in his approach to Ukraine.
Ungrateful women were resisting his generous offer to be their protector.
Passage of Question 2 would eliminate the MCAS graduation requirement, not replace it.
Donald Trump’s record makes clear he has no regard for our national rules of the road.
Tell me, column readers, do you read novels? And if so, why?
It’s not true that tougher gun-safety laws make no difference on school shootings.
Harris turned in a strong, effective, persuasive performance. Not so Trump. Outpointed, outwitted, outsmarted, overmatched on substance, he...
The Democratic nominee can use the change from single-payer to ACA-backer to her political advantage.
Globe Opinion presents a handy campaign field guide to governing-philosophy accusations, affixations, and appellations.
Camelot’s clown prince leaves the race in a revealing manner.
But both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have made economically dubious proposals.
The former president and his wife recall a more dignified and decent time in American politics.
The former speaker has helped Biden cement his legacy.