By Shirley Leung, Boston Globe, November 21,2024 Ever since Donald Trump’s reelection, a word typically used to describe the economy of Russia is being applied to the United States: oligarchy. Yes, our capitalist system has been minting billionaires for decades, and they’ve long used campaign donations to cozy up to politicians. But with Trump retaking
By Jill Abramson, The Boston Globe, October 26, 2024 In 2017, the Washington Post, under a more emboldened Bezos, unveiled its new slogan, “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” On Friday the Post hid what should have been a principled presidential endorsement in darkness. Democracy died in broad daylight on Friday when Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos
By Scot Lehigh, The Boston Globe, October 25, 2024 Americans who value democracy owe General John Kelly their gratitude for going public with information instrumental to an informed voting decision as this chaotic presidential campaign careens toward its close. Kelly, who first served as Donald Trump’s secretary of Homeland Security and then became his longest-serving
By Renée Graham, The Boston Globe, October 23, 2024. Call it normalizing or ‘sanewashing,’ but covering the former president as if he’s an ordinary nominee is journalistic malpractice. Donald Trump did not work the fry station in a McDonald’s on Sunday. He donned an apron, but the suburban Philadelphia restaurant was closed to the public.
By Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Boston Globe, October. We can see the decline in the former president’s ability to hold a train of thought, speak coherently, or demonstrate a command of the English language, to say nothing of policy. So why are Republicans and the press holding Trump to a different standard than Biden? Donald Trump
The Editorial Board, The New York Times, September 30, 2024. The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. It is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than
By Scot Lehigh, The Boston Globe, September 25, 2024. As the presidential campaign makes the fall turn into the home stretch, the focus is on folderol at the expense of the fundamental. Every homeowner knows that when it comes to preserving your home, it’s more important to repair the rot in your sills or the
By Renée Graham, The Boston Globe, September 18, 2024. For months, Springfield, Ohio, officials touted its annual CultureFest as an opportunity to “celebrate the rich ethnic diversity and heritage in our city, collaborate with global-minded Springfield residents,’’ and “cultivate a welcoming city for people from around the world.’’ That was before Donald Trump and Republican Senator
By Michael Ettlinger, The Boston Globe, September 9,2024. What would happen if 22 percent of America’s farmworkers vanished from the workforce? Would workers from across the country flock to the cotton fields of Texas, the sugar fields of Florida, and the peanut farms of Georgia to take low-paying jobs in the blazing heat? Or would
By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, August 19,1924. On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris gave her first big economic policy speech as the Democratic presidential nominee. It was, of course, very different from the “economic” speech and news conferences Donald Trump has held in the past couple of weeks. For one thing, Harris actually outlined her economic proposals, rather than
By Yvonne Abraham, Boston Globe, August 19, 2024. This went way beyond creepy long ago. The extremists who run the GOP are obsessed with our uteri. Like, weirdly obsessed. Their fixation is about more than forcing women to give birth whether we want to or not, though Lord knows they are plenty concerned with that.
Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times, August 16, 2024. The most consequential moment from Donald Trump’s glitchy interview with Elon Musk on Monday came during a discussion of government cost-cutting. “Well, you, you’re the greatest cutter,” Trump told Musk, before launching, apropos of nothing, into a reverie about how Musk dominates his employees. “They go
By Renée Grahm, The Boston Globe, August 4, 2024. Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, who’s vying to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, is getting big props for giving his rejuvenated party the political buzzword of the moment: “weird.” In a series of recent public appearances, Walz has been tossing that word around like
By Rich Barlow, Boston Globe, July 30, 2024. When it comes to abortion, Americans pause our intolerance of nuance. Three-quarters of my fellow Catholics, recognizing that unborn life is still life, say abortion should be illegal in some cases but legal in others. JD Vance’s opposition to abortion in cases of rape or incest aligns
By Elizabeth Svoboda, The Boston Globe, July 21, 2024. Since Donald Trump’s ascent nearly a decade ago, political discourse has thrummed with warnings of approaching American fascism. The talk has only grown louder since the former president’s attempted coup on Jan. 6, 2021, his vows to lock up political opponents, and his boosters’ 2024 campaign
By Editorial Board, Boston Globe, July 1,2024. Its decision on Friday overturning the Chevron doctrine is the latest in a string of rulings to upend court precedent in a way that is dangerous for the rule of law and the principle of separation of powers. In one of the most consequential opinions of its term,
By Charlie Savage, Jonathan Swan, and Maggie Haberman, The New York Times, June 18, 2024. Donald Trump and his closest allies are preparing a radical reshaping of American government if he regains the White House. Here are some of his plans for cracking down on immigration, directing the Justice Department to prosecute his adversaries, increasing presidential power, upending America’s economic policies, retreating militarily
By Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Boston Globe, June 13, 2024. It’s a tale of two trials with very different endings: not for the defendants but for the rest of us. The convictions of former president Donald Trump and Hunter Biden, son of President Biden, have many things in common. But differences in how the former and
By Renee Loth, Boston Globe, June 3, 2024 For a guy who crusades against nanny-state overreach, Governor Ron DeSantis is doing an awful lot of finger-wagging lately about other people’s lives. I recently returned to Massachusetts from a trip to Florida, where the local papers reported that Governor Ron DeSantis had issued a statewide directive
By Scot Lehigh, Boston Globe, June 3, Donald Trump was the defendant for the past five weeks in Manhattan. Now, American rationality is on trial. Trump, his attorneys, and a broad array of Republican elected officials are driving the ridiculous assertion that the former Republican president was tried and convicted at the behest of President
By Dean Obeidallah, CNN.com, May 27, 2024. Donald Trump is accustomed to adoring fans packing his rallies. These MAGA faithful — including some supporters who travel hundreds of miles to attend repeated rallies — are only too eager to laugh at his jokes and applaud his bombastic rhetoric. That’s why Trump being loudly and repeatedly jeered and heckled throughout his speech