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Scot Lehigh

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Readers, I’m taking a break to write another novel

I’ll be back next year. I hope you will, too.

12.03.2025 6

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Trumpian chaos reigns — but there are reasons for optimism

From the financial markets to the Supreme Court, we are seeing some pushback to chaotic start of the second Trump administration.

07.03.2025 20

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Dreamworld: Trump’s speech takes leave of reality

It was a fantasy that floated far from the facts.

05.03.2025 5

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Trump’s behavior makes me embarrassed to be an American

Our president’s vengefulness, dishonesty, and bullying should make us all cringe.

28.02.2025 20

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“See you in court,” she said.

Governor Janet Mills told President Trump that she would not comply with his executive order banning transgender athletes in women’s sports. We...

27.02.2025 10

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Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s cynical and hollow man

The longtime GOP Senate leader transformed that body, but not for the better.

26.02.2025 10

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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.

21.02.2025 7

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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.

19.02.2025 20

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From slopes to mopes: Dodging a season of snow

How to slough snow shoveling onto your spouse.

14.02.2025 3

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The courts step in where Congress fears to tread

Team Trump grumps about judicial decisions while its GOP enablers shrink from their oversight duties.

12.02.2025 10

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Warning: Fiscal scams and flimflams probably lie ahead

Don’t be gulled as Congress starts to reconcile Trump’s agenda with budgetary reality.

07.02.2025 10

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Donald Trump’s actions present troubling tests for democracy

Protecting traditional constitutional governance will be a struggle on many fronts.

05.02.2025 30

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The absurdity of Kennedy’s HHS nomination

Senate hearings show a would-be secretary running away from his record.

31.01.2025 20

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A norm-busting president requires an unorthodox response

Targets of Trump’s attacks should PLACATE him.

28.01.2025 4

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Will Trump’s power flower or sour over time?

Persuasion will soon matter more than formal authority.

24.01.2025 9

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The Trump inaugural: MAGA’s magical hopes vs. rational real-world fears

A divided nation begins a fraught journey with Trump.

21.01.2025 7

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Trump moonwalks back from major campaign promises

From reducing inflation to cutting spending painlessly to immediately ending Russia’s war with Ukraine, the president-elect is waging a quiet...

17.01.2025 30

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O Canada, sorry for our boorish behavior

After a wonderful holiday in Quebec City, this American rues Donald Trump’s rude remarks.

09.01.2025 10

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The certification of Donald Trump’s victory offers a moment for civic reflection

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...

07.01.2025 7

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Readers explain their fiction addiction

They share what triggered their appetite for imaginary worlds and the richness it brings.

12.12.2024 5

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How courts are tackling America’s post-truth provocateurs

Despite wins against Dinesh D’Souza, Rudy Giuliani, and Alex Jones, the overall situation in post-truth America isn’t encouraging.

10.12.2024 5

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Warning: Rough Trump trade seas ahead

Tariffs shouldn’t be an all-purpose foreign policy bludgeon.

06.12.2024 7

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From MAGA to medieval: How Trump’s team echoes the past

As Lord Acton said, we can’t expect great men to be good men.

03.12.2024 4

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My Thanksgiving tirades on Trump and Fox

Are they enough to get me on a certain cable news station?

26.11.2024 4

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Progress on abortion rights and gun safety must come in the states

Polling shows prospects for progress on both issues.

22.11.2024 4

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How high will the Senate jump for Trump’s Cabinet nominees?

Trump is flooding the zone with a parade of horribles. All that’s required is for senators to simply resolve to do their jobs.

19.11.2024 4

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A pellucid primer for a perplexing political period

Some things are so strange that only (relatively) ancient history can explain them.

14.11.2024 2

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Geoengineering can help save the planet

Trump’s election will make emission-reductions goals even harder to reach.

12.11.2024 2

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A sober look at America after Trump’s win

We have entered a dark, democracy-eroding era.

07.11.2024 2

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America’s choice: democracy, decency, and reason or divisiveness, rumors, and resentment

We’ve seen it all in the campaign’s closing days.

31.10.2024 2

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Donald Trump has taken Ronald Reagan’s Republican Party in a dark and divisive direction

On matter after matter, Trump has abandoned Reagan’s legacy.

29.10.2024 4

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Thank you, General John Kelly, for speaking the truth about Trump

If you value democracy, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff deserves your respect for his courageous candor.

24.10.2024 2

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Try to remove politics from the events of Jan. 6

A creative philosophical technique may help people to examine that fateful day in an objective manner.

23.10.2024 3

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What Trump’s and Harris’s economic policy proposals portend

On inflation, deficits, and debt, the differences matter.

17.10.2024 10

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How fear is shaping Trump’s closing message

After several months of trailing Vice President Kamala Harris, the Republican nominee has doubled down on fear-mongering.

16.10.2024 3

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Grading the MTA leaders on their Question 2 campaign

A “D” for research, an “F” for critical reasoning, but an “A ” for spending members’ dues.

11.10.2024 1

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Bill Weld warns about the danger of Donald Trump

The former GOP governor is cochair of Republicans for Harris.

08.10.2024 10

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Donald Trump is a latter-day Neville Chamberlain

Voters can see Trump’s penchant for appeasement in his approach to Ukraine.

03.10.2024 2

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The Great Trumpkin confronts the gender gap

Ungrateful women were resisting his generous offer to be their protector.

01.10.2024 2

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The MTA beckons voters with false claims on Question 2

Passage of Question 2 would eliminate the MCAS graduation requirement, not replace it.

26.09.2024 2

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The overarching concern in 2024 must be democracy

Donald Trump’s record makes clear he has no regard for our national rules of the road.

24.09.2024 1

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What a novel experience to lose yourself in fiction

Tell me, column readers, do you read novels? And if so, why?

17.09.2024 2

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JD Vance fogs up the school safety debate

It’s not true that tougher gun-safety laws make no difference on school shootings.

12.09.2024 5

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Kamala Harris dismantles Donald Trump

Harris turned in a strong, effective, persuasive performance. Not so Trump. Outpointed, outwitted, outsmarted, overmatched on substance, he...

11.09.2024 1

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Harris should explain her health care flip-flop

The Democratic nominee can use the change from single-payer to ACA-backer to her political advantage.

05.09.2024 1

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Fascism? Liberalism? Communism? An Explainer.

Globe Opinion presents a handy campaign field guide to governing-philosophy accusations, affixations, and appellations.

04.09.2024 3

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RFK Jr., we got to know thee all too well

Camelot’s clown prince leaves the race in a revealing manner.

29.08.2024 2

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Red-baiting rhetoric belies the Democrats’ better record on the economy

But both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have made economically dubious proposals.

23.08.2024 3

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The Obamas offer a refreshing dose of dignity

The former president and his wife recall a more dignified and decent time in American politics.

21.08.2024 1

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Joe Biden owes Nancy Pelosi a thanks, not a freeze-out

The former speaker has helped Biden cement his legacy.

20.08.2024 2

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