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The Wendy's beef was a nothingburger The Boston Globe March 17, 2024
Only Haitians can fix Haiti The Boston Globe March 13, 2024
How to 'feel better' about Ukraine (according to John Kerry) Arguable March 12, 2024
There was nothing heroic about Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation The Boston Globe March 10, 2024
Navalny is gone, but the 'virus of freedom' is spreading The Boston Globe March 6, 2024
Cuba's indomitable heroine Arguable March 5, 2024
The critics were right about 'Old Tippecanoe' The Boston Globe February 18, 2024
The seventh-grader and the First Amendment The Boston Globe February 14, 2024
I was a young Republican. Now I want nothing to do with either party. The Boston Globe February 11, 2024
At Columbia Law School, only one student club was rejected this year — the one formed to oppose antisemitism The Boston Globe February 7, 2024
Would Zora Neale Hurston celebrate Black History Month? Arguable February 6, 2024
Give Newton's teachers an ultimatum: Return to work or forfeit your jobs The Boston Globe January 31, 2024
Big Brother to drivers: Quit smiling Arguable January 30, 2024
The swastika stands for evil and mass murder. So does the hammer and sickle. The Boston Globe January 28, 2024
America's elites live in a world of their own The Boston Globe January 24, 2024
The pernicious myth of 'inclusive' discrimination Arguable January 23, 2024
A pandemic mea culpa from Francis Collins The Boston Globe January 21, 2024
Biden's bad answer on Taiwan The Boston Globe January 17, 2024
(No) fear of flying Arguable January 16, 2024
CAIR lets the mask slip — again The Boston Globe January 14, 2024
Beware any candidate who values loyalty above all else The Boston Globe January 10, 2024
Donald Trump, man of — faith? Arguable January 9, 2024
The Endangered Species Act has done little for endangered species The Boston Globe January 3, 2024
The wonderful life of 'It's a Wonderful Life' The Boston Globe December 24, 2023
A generation of antisemites The Boston Globe December 20, 2023
No time to go wobbly on Ukraine The Boston Globe December 17, 2023
The Boston Tea Party was a crime The Boston Globe December 14, 2023
Waiting for health care in Canada Arguable December 12, 2023
What Hamas can learn from Hanukkah The Boston Globe December 10, 2023
In post-Dobbs America, abortion is up The Boston Globe December 6, 2023
Brookline's phased cigarette ban is unwise, irrational, and patronizing The Boston Globe December 3, 2023
The inescapable conundrum of anonymous speech The Boston Globe November 29, 2023
Chester Darling's landmark life Arguable November 28, 2023
Look who's backing DiZoglio's ballot campaign The Boston Globe November 26, 2023
Palestinians can win the peace once Israel has won the war The Boston Globe November 19, 2023
Please pull the plug on the White House daily press briefings The Boston Globe November 12, 2023
Jeff Bezos moves to Florida, leaving Washington — and its rising tax burden — behind The Boston Globe November 8, 2023
A GOP senator joins the anti-Citizens United chorus The Boston Globe November 5, 2023
Most Americans are tuning out the news The Boston Globe November 1, 2023
A Vietnam War novel that isn't about the war Arguable October 31, 2023
Why they rip down the 'Kidnapped from Israel' fliers The Boston Globe October 29, 2023
Say it again, Supremes: Forced union dues in government are illegal The Boston Globe October 25, 2023
MLK embraced Israel. Why does BLM embrace Hamas? Arguable October 24, 2023
Amazon is huge, but it's no monopoly The Boston Globe October 22, 2023
An ultimatum for Qatar: Extradite the Hamas leader or face US wrath The Boston Globe October 18, 2023
For Gaza Palestinians, no help from Arab nations Arguable October 17, 2023
Redeeming captives is a high Israeli priority. Destroying Hamas must be a higher one. The Boston Globe October 15, 2023
Hamas attack is Israel's Pearl Harbor The Boston Globe October 10, 2023
I used to defend Columbus as 'magnificent.' I don't anymore. The Boston Globe October 8, 2023
The real reason an 'America First' mindset dominates the Republican base The Boston Globe October 4, 2023
Rupert Murdoch was good for Boston The Boston Globe October 1, 2023
The UN blackball of Taiwan must stop — before it's too late The Boston Globe September 27, 2023
'Art is anything you can get away with' The Boston Globe September 25, 2023
Live long and prosper The Boston Globe September 20, 2023
As the deficit soars, Biden boasts that he has cut the deficit The Boston Globe September 17, 2023
Conservatives should embrace 'Lift Every Voice' The Boston Globe September 13, 2023
The worst self-inflicted wound in Israel's history Arguable September 12, 2023
The dubious link between education and antisemitism The Boston Globe September 10, 2023
Only Sweden had the right COVID-19 response The Boston Globe September 6, 2023
The schoolboy and the Gadsden flag Arguable September 5, 2023
Of course it's not racist to criticize Kamala Harris The Boston Globe September 3, 2023
Two years on, the US pullout from Afghanistan looks worse than ever The Boston Globe August 31, 2023
Are the abortion extremists Republican or Democratic? Yes. Arguable August 29, 2023
Victory, not détente, is the right American strategy toward Beijing The Boston Globe August 27, 2023
Corporate America is on notice: Discriminating by race is illegal The Boston Globe August 23, 2023
It's time to end US military aid to Israel — for both countries' sakes The Boston Globe August 13, 2023
Ayotte isn't wrong about New Hampshire and Massachusetts The Boston Globe August 9, 2023
From Cuban princeling to imprisoned dissident Arguable August 8, 2023
As capital punishment fades, progressives take aim at life without parole The Boston Globe August 6, 2023
Oakland's NAACP blames out-of-control crime on left-wing policies The Boston Globe August 2, 2023
You can name the Three Stooges. Can you name your three members of Congress? The Boston Globe / Arguable July 26, 2023
'Our least abhorrent choice' The Boston Globe July 26, 2023
The mendacious assault on Florida's new curriculum Arguable July 25, 2023
When the minimum wage rises, does homelessness rise too? The Boston Globe July 23, 2023
A free society protects your right to burn a holy book The Boston Globe July 19, 2023
From the flood of 1927 to the flood of 2023 Arguable July 18, 2023
What Gavin Newsom's proposed 28th Amendment gets right The Boston Globe July 16, 2023
DiZoglio's former opponent is rooting for her to win The Boston Globe July 12, 2023
Th Celtics, the Mavericks, and the "millionaire's tax" Arguable July 11, 2023
It is long past time for NATO to admit Ukraine The Boston Globe July 9, 2023
What Frederick Douglass really said in his great Independence Day speech The Boston Globe July 2, 2023
Of course Xi Jinping is a dictator The Boston Globe June 28, 2023
The scandal at the Harvard morgue is not a reason for more government The Boston Globe June 25, 2023
In rejecting affirmative action, Justice Thomas is no hypocrite The Boston Globe June 21, 2023
Hypocrisy at Middlebury College The Boston Globe June 18, 2023
Unabomber's death calls to mind a tale of two brothers The Boston Globe June 14, 2023
Does Generation Z love Big Brother? Arguable June 13, 2023
Oklahoma says yes to a religious charter school. So does the First Amendment. The Boston Globe June 11, 2023
The indictment against Trump arrives as the political winds are shifting The Boston Globe June 9, 2023
Birthright citizenship is safe from Donald Trump's whims The Boston Globe June 7, 2023
The earmarks in the budget go 'oink-oink-oink' Arguable June 6, 2023
Middlebury College flunks a history test The Boston Globe June 4, 2023
AM radio in your car? Don't let Congress decide. The Boston Globe May 31, 2023
As 'Taxachusetts' returns, residents are fleeing The Boston Globe May 28, 2023
There is no '14th Amendment option' to raise the debt ceiling The Boston Globe May 24, 2023
Rachael Rollins was a disgrace The Boston Globe May 21, 2023
Did the Varsity Blues prosecutions really belong in federal court? The Boston Globe May 17, 2023
A brutal attack in the Senate chamber Arguable May 16, 2023
The real origin of the Palestinians' catastrophe The Boston Globe May 14, 2023
The case for a digital state lottery is as weak as ever The Boston Globe May 10, 2023
Resign, Dianne, Resign Arguable May 9, 2023
Republicans passed a debt-limit bill. What are Democrats waiting for? The Boston Globe May 8, 2023
Cleopatra wasn't black. So what? The Boston Globe May 3, 2023
When my Barbie column got spiked Arguable May 2, 2023
Republicans can spare the country a rematch it doesn't want The Boston Globe April 30, 2023
Your credit score is excellent, so prepare to be penalized The Boston Globe April 26, 2023
No less than a miracle: Israel turns 75 Arguable April 25, 2023
Which former governor should Healey hang? The Boston Globe April 23, 2023
Felons are locked up for a reason, and it isn't so they can vote The Boston Globe April 19, 2023
Don't give up Twitter, NPR. Give up your subsidy. Arguable April 18, 2023
The Afghanistan withdrawal was a shambles. Why is Biden pretending it wasn't? The Boston Globe April 12, 2023
Working-class voters didn't leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left them. The Boston Globe April 5, 2023
What's so special about matzah? Arguable April 4, 2023
Is this how a new Great Awakening begins? The Boston Globe April 2, 2023
Woke is easy to define. It's harder to fight. The Boston Globe / Arguable March 28, 2023
Marty Baron, in dissent, rises in defense of objective journalism The Boston Globe March 26, 2023
Should replacing Kamala Harris really be unthinkable? The Boston Globe March 22, 2023
Priestly celibacy gets a rethink The Boston Globe / Arguable March 21, 2023
Ending Saddam Hussein's reign of terror was the right call The Boston Globe March 19, 2023
Michigan revives compulsory unionism The Boston Globe March 15, 2023
Stanford Law School disgraces itself Arguable March 14, 2023
Lawmakers challenge the secrecy of the confessional The Boston Globe March 12, 2023
Mental competency tests for aging politicians? Don't count on it. The Boston Globe March 8, 2023
A national divorce would solve nothing The Boston Globe March 5, 2023
Let Nikki be Nikki The Boston Globe March 1, 2023
I opposed Jimmy Carter, but I praise him The Boston Globe / Arguable February 28, 2023
How the most qualified presidential candidate became America's worst president The Boston Globe February 19, 2023
As Social Security races toward a cliff, both parties refuse to act The Boston Globe February 15, 2023
'Pro-choice' or 'pro-abortion'? Arguable February 14, 2023
There's only one way to add an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution The Boston Globe February 12, 2023
Prisoners who donate a lifesaving organ ought to be rewarded The Boston Globe February 9, 2023
The State of the Union should be a memo, not a speech The Boston Globe / Arguable February 7, 2023
The deeply flawed campaign for racial reparations The Boston Globe February 5, 2023
Listen to Gaza's quiet dissenters The Boston Globe February 2, 2023
Undeclaring the state of emergency Arguable January 31, 2023
As any economist can tell Mayor Wu, rent control never works The Boston Globe January 29, 2023
Too young to rent? You're too young to vote. The Boston Globe / Arguable January 27, 2023
Trump, Biden, and the double standard on mishandling classified documents The Boston Globe January 25, 2023
For public school teachers, there can be no right to strike The Boston Globe January 22, 2023
In-state tuition isn't an immigration issue The Boston Globe January 18, 2023
When 'whataboutism' is appropriate The Boston Globe January 15, 2023
Legislators should be free The Boston Globe / Arguable January 11, 2023
The case for term limits is as strong as ever The Boston Globe January 11, 2023
The 'first lady' of television news Arguable January 10, 2023
Audiobooks are glorious The Boston Globe January 8, 2023
The school that sabotaged its standout students The Boston Globe January 5, 2023
Assisted suicide's slippery slope The Boston Globe January 4, 2023
Heat kills. Cold kills more. The Boston Globe January 1, 2023
The man in the olive green sweatshirt The Boston Globe / Arguable December 29, 2022
Real ID was a real mistake and Congress should scrap it at last The Boston Globe December 28, 2022
The Ebenezer Scrooge nobody knows The Boston Globe December 25, 2022
In Iran and China, protesters plead for liberty. Where is the leader of the free world? The Boston Globe December 11, 2022
What poor nations need is wealth, not climate reparations The Boston Globe December 7, 2022
Patton's prayer Arguable December 6, 2022
No, Justice Barrett should not recuse herself The Boston Globe December 4, 2022
Congress can attack inflation — if it chooses to The Boston Globe November 30, 2022
John Silber's soft streak Arguable November 29, 2022
What makes a good citizen? The Boston Globe November 23, 2022
The Pilgrims' rabbi Arguable November 22, 2022
Before declaring a pandemic amnesty, we need a pandemic mea culpa The Boston Globe November 20, 2022
RIP, CLT The Boston Globe November 16, 2022
The taming of income inequality The Boston Globe November 15, 2022
No, income inequality isn't at an all-time high. It's at a historic low. Arguable November 14, 2022
DeSantis is an improvement over Trump, but the GOP can do better The Boston Globe November 13, 2022
The election's biggest winner? Incumbency. The Boston Globe November 10, 2022
'The off-ramp out of extreme poverty' The Boston Globe / Arguable November 9, 2022
The biggest loser Arguable November 7, 2022
What the Yes on Question 1 and No on Question 4 campaigns have in common The Boston Globe November 6, 2022
'Jim Crow 2.0′ was the lie of the year The Boston Globe November 2, 2022
Mexico to daylight saving time: ¡Adiós! The Boston Globe / Arguable October 31, 2022
Harvey for Harvard The Boston Globe October 30, 2022
Don't blame Mitt Romney if Mike Lee goes down The Boston Globe October 26, 2022
And baby makes 8 billion The Boston Globe October 25, 2022
The Supreme Court can remind officials how to take a joke The Boston Globe October 23, 2022
The pardon power is being stretched too far The Boston Globe October 16, 2022
A slow writer's lament The Boston Globe October 9, 2022
No, Hurricane Ian will not 'fuel the economy' The Boston Globe October 5, 2022
The penitential presidents Arguable October 3, 2022
Putin's phony vote The Boston Globe October 2, 2022
Even now, slavery is a worldwide scourge The Boston Globe September 25, 2022
An all-Democratic state government needs a Republican watchdog The Boston Globe September 21, 2022
'We did nothing to prevent it' The Boston Globe September 18, 2022
Busing migrants from the border is a blessing, not a punishment The Boston Globe September 14, 2022
Guns make Americans safer The Boston Globe September 13, 2022
Elizabeth the good Arguable September 12, 2022
Congress sued to block Trump's illegal spending. Now it should sue to block Biden's The Boston Globe September 11, 2022
Americans 'approve' of unions, but they don't want to belong to one The Boston Globe September 7, 2022
Gorbachev failed. That's why he was showered with honors. The Boston Globe September 4, 2022
Sweet lands of liberty The Boston Globe August 31, 2022
The Munich massacre, 50 years on The Boston Globe / Arguable August 29, 2022
Beware: A more aggressive IRS is on the way The Boston Globe August 28, 2022
If you don't vote the way I do, the answer is no The Boston Globe August 24, 2022
Republicans' 'banana republic' charge is bananas The Boston Globe August 14, 2022
Why taxpayers shouldn't pay for primary elections The Boston Globe August 10, 2022
Pelosi shows the way forward on Taiwan The Boston Globe August 7, 2022
Public life needs more good losers The Boston Globe August 3, 2022
A bum 'hypocrisy' rap The Boston Globe August 2, 2022
What Lincoln's secretary of state saw in Jerusalem Arguable August 1, 2022
The authoritarian impulse The Boston Globe July 31, 2022
Millionaires tax is unwise and unworthy The Boston Globe July 27, 2022
Who needs Title IX now? The Boston Globe July 26, 2022
Alive and well and living on death row The Boston Globe July 24, 2022
What Harvard means by 'diversity' The Boston Globe / Arguable July 21, 2022
Country before party. GOP before Trump. The Boston Globe July 20, 2022
Attacks on pregnancy centers, like attacks on abortion clinics, should be intolerable The Boston Globe July 17, 2022
Informers on campus The Boston Globe July 13, 2022
The lifeblood of science Arguable July 11, 2022
The Revolution was America's first civil war The Boston Globe July 3, 2022
Overturning Roe does not make the Supreme Court 'illegitimate' The Boston Globe June 29, 2022
A newspaper's job isn't to tell people how to vote The Boston Globe June 26, 2022
Even Democrats now agree: Biden is too old for his job The Boston Globe June 22, 2022
Tom Hanks is a great pretender Arguable June 20, 2022
'Red-flag' laws raise some red flags The Boston Globe June 19, 2022
A roadmap for Jew-haters The Boston Globe June 15, 2022
The freedom to uphold an unpopular opinion The Boston Globe June 12, 2022
I'm right, and you're an evil monster The Boston Globe June 5, 2022
'Great replacement' theories, as old as America, have always been nonsense The Boston Globe June 1, 2022
'Like hearing Lincoln at Gettysburg' The Boston Globe May 29, 2022
Georgia voters expose the 'Jim Crow' smear as a lie The Boston Globe May 25, 2022
Bush's non-Freudian slip Arguable May 23, 2022
For Putin, a self-own for the history books The Boston Globe May 22, 2022
Is George Washington fit only for contempt? The Boston Globe May 18, 2022
When Jesus told stories about economics Arguable May 16, 2022
Who's afraid of liberal media bias? The Boston Globe May 15, 2022
The trade deficit is up again. No worries. The Boston Globe May 11, 2022
When Stalin and Hitler were allies Arguable May 9, 2022
Boston's ignominious record of disrespecting free speech The Boston Globe May 8, 2022
Alito's first draft is a good one. But first drafts change. The Boston Globe May 4, 2022
Canceling student debt will make things worse The Boston Globe May 1, 2022
The Constitution protects your right to vote — and your right not to The Boston Globe April 27, 2022
It's a mistake to ban Holocaust denial The Boston Globe April 24, 2022
The blessing of 'rote' memory The Boston Globe April 20, 2022
'Putin's price hike' is just the latest Biden inflation myth The Boston Globe April 17, 2022
The Passover story is an American story The Boston Globe April 13, 2022
The UN Human Rights Council makes a mockery of human rights The Boston Globe April 10, 2022
Mississippi's mainstream abortion law The Boston Globe April 6, 2022
Bruce Willis's nightmare The Boston Globe April 3, 2022
What gaffe? Of course Putin should not be in power. The Boston Globe March 30, 2022
Netflix and the moose Arguable March 28, 2022
Make no mistake: Anti-Zionism is antisemitism The Boston Globe March 20, 2022
The Iran nuclear deal may be imploding. Good. The Boston Globe March 16, 2022
Sorry, Tom Cotton: Trump is no Reagan The Boston Globe March 13, 2022
Execute Tsarnaev The Boston Globe March 9, 2022
At the University of Massachusetts, STEM professors resist indoctrination The Boston Globe March 6, 2022
To avoid Ukraine's fate, Taiwan needs nuclear missiles — now The Boston Globe March 2, 2022
A pistol aimed at NATO's flank Arguable February 28, 2022
The 'Little Magician' who transformed American politics The Boston Globe February 20, 2022
What does immigration status have to do with a driver's license? The Boston Globe February 16, 2022
Cuba's dictatorship, not the embargo, is what needs to go The Boston Globe February 13, 2022
Putin's phony grievance The Boston Globe February 9, 2022
It's not just the Holocaust that Whoopi Goldberg got wrong The Boston Globe February 6, 2022
A peaceful Supreme Court confirmation, for a change The Boston Globe February 2, 2022
More education choices, fewer education fights The Boston Globe January 30, 2022
There's a term for senators like Kyrsten Sinema The Boston Globe January 26, 2022
'Unsilenced' tells a tale of Chinese repression The Boston Globe January 23, 2022
Biden is failing because he abandoned his mandate The Boston Globe January 19, 2022
Jewish Study for Non-Jewish Clergy Sapir Winter 2022
Does free speech fly at City Hall Plaza? The Boston Globe January 12, 2022
The filibuster has been bad, but repealing it would be worse The Boston Globe January 9, 2022
Bye-bye, Bay State The Boston Globe January 5, 2022
Nobody knows anything The Boston Globe January 2, 2022
Elizabeth Warren's one-trick inflation pony The Boston Globe December 29, 2021
I expected better of Elizabeth Warren Arguable December 27, 2021
"Ingenuity": from 2021's Words of the Year The Boston Globe December 27, 2021
As Russia gears up to invade Ukraine, the West faces a choice The Boston Globe December 26, 2021
Voting is for citizens The Boston Globe December 22, 2021
Restore the original immigration policy: an open door The Boston Globe December 19, 2021
Roe's 'viability' standard has been overtaken by science The Boston Globe December 15, 2021
When racial hate turns out to be faked Arguable December 14, 2021
No genocide Olympics The Boston Globe December 12, 2021
The inflation hawks have been right all along The Boston Globe November 17, 2021
The Massachusetts redistricting battle is more evidence that Congress is too small The Boston Globe November 14, 2021
Focus on your day job, Governor Baker The Boston Globe November 10, 2021
F-bombing the president The Boston Globe November 7, 2021
The rise of the 'school board voters' The Boston Globe November 3, 2021
If China attacks, it must know Taiwan won't fight alone The Boston Globe October 31, 2021
Arguable: Thomas Jefferson, honored and dishonored Arguable October 25, 2021
A free press doesn't take government handouts The Boston Globe October 24, 2021
It isn't tax cuts that are driving federal deficits The Boston Globe October 20, 2021
Why Beacon Hill resents ballot activists The Boston Globe October 17, 2021
With COVID-19, every disagreement became a culture-war flashpoint The Boston Globe October 13, 2021
Legalizing assisted suicide would send a devastating message The Boston Globe October 10, 2021
Who will defend Iraq's courageous peacemakers? The Boston Globe October 6, 2021
As murders increase, support for the death penalty will too The Boston Globe October 3, 2021
As Washington debates the debt limit, the hypocrisy is at flood tide The Boston Globe September 26, 2021
Will Bobby Kennedy's killer go free? Washington Examiner September 25, 2021
The sins we commit with words The Boston Globe September 15, 2021
Since 9/11, Americans have embraced their Muslim neighbors The Boston Globe September 5, 2021
Sirhan should die behind bars The Boston Globe September 1, 2021
What would Bin Laden say? Arguable August 30, 2021
Should the unvaccinated pay the price for their folly? The Boston Globe August 29, 2021
New Zealand is back in a lockdown time warp The Boston Globe August 25, 2021
Love across the color line The Boston Globe August 22, 2021
Afghanistan and the 'forever war' myth The Boston Globe August 17, 2021
The virtue-signaling stock exchange The Boston Globe August 15, 2021
The census is too nosy The Boston Globe August 12, 2021
The eviction moratorium and the rule of lawlessness The Boston Globe August 8, 2021
The grievance industry vs. the Boston Marathon The Boston Globe August 4, 2021
The very racist history of gun control The Boston Globe August 1, 2021
Harry Truman conned us all The Boston Globe July 28, 2021
Blood, sweat, and beauty Arguable July 26, 2021
No ministry of culture, please, we're American The Boston Globe July 25, 2021
Communism, not the US embargo, is the cause of Cuban suffering The Boston Globe July 21, 2021
It's not the government's job to turn Americans into voters Divided We Fall July 18, 2021
The history of pandemics is a history of denial The Boston Globe July 18, 2021
Beacon Hill, hoarding billions in surplus dollars, won't give taxpayers a break The Boston Globe July 14, 2021
How to speak out against antisemitism The Boston Globe July 11, 2021
Lincoln was the best. Buchanan was the worst. What about the others? The Boston Globe July 4, 2021
Democrats discover that 'defund the police' is political poison The Boston Globe July 1, 2021
Online Lottery games would be a bad bet The Boston Globe June 27, 2021
Again the Supreme Court defends religious believers. Again it's unanimous The Boston Globe June 23, 2021
Women don't register for the draft, and men shouldn't either The Boston Globe June 20, 2021
Biden stays out of our face. Isn't it great? The Boston Globe June 16, 2021
The political myth that demography is destiny The Boston Globe June 13, 2021
A 'millionaires tax' is still a terrible idea The Boston Globe June 9, 2021
The Down syndrome bigotry of an Oxford biologist Arguable June 7, 2021
A letter to Prince Harry The Boston Globe May 30, 2021
When Jews are attacked in America's streets, who speaks out? The Boston Globe May 26, 2021
My three trips to Gaza Arguable May 24, 2021
Which party gains if Roe goes down? The Boston Globe May 23, 2021
In nature and in government, sunsets are beautiful The Boston Globe May 16, 2021
A Democrat in the White House? Cue the FDR analogies The Boston Globe May 12, 2021
Cancelling 'anti-Semitism' The Boston Globe May 9, 2021
Is America racist? Kamala Harris and Tim Scott say no. The Boston Globe May 5, 2021
A jewel in the crown of California's democracy The Boston Globe May 2, 2021
Welcome to the promised land The Boston Globe April 28, 2021
My favorite Sargent painting Arguable April 25, 2021
Thirty seconds over Mars The Boston Globe April 25, 2021
Biden's blunder in Afghanistan The Boston Globe April 21, 2021
Religion in America is fading, but true believers are everywhere The Boston Globe April 14, 2021
Jim Crow was a horror. Don't trivialize it Arguable April 12, 2021
Supersize the House The Boston Globe April 11, 2021
The problem with Holocaust education The Boston Globe April 7, 2021
No! It's too soon for the 2024 campaign The Boston Globe April 2, 2021
Death is the right penalty for Tsarnaev The Boston Globe March 28, 2021
Does the GOP have a problem with the vaccine? The Boston Globe March 24, 2021
This is no time to bring back earmarks The Boston Globe March 21, 2021
Move the Beijing Olympics — or shun them The Boston Globe March 17, 2021
Frederick Douglass takes on cancel culture Arguable March 15, 2021
Heed the science and abolish daylight saving time The Boston Globe March 14, 2021
Biden, like Trump, embraces the 'Buy American' folly The Boston Globe March 10, 2021
Arlene Jacoby, 1932-2021 Arguable March 8, 2021
Race-based admissions are wrong, and it's time the Supreme Court said so The Boston Globe March 7, 2021
For Biden, a better way forward on Taiwan The Boston Globe February 21, 2021
Don't get hooked on executive orders The Boston Globe February 17, 2021
The racial decency — and irony — of Rutherford Hayes The Boston Globe February 14, 2021
The cruelty of a higher minimum wage The Boston Globe February 10, 2021
Mark Jacoby, 1925-2021 Arguable February 8, 2021
Billionaires and multimillionaires don't need a government pension The Boston Globe January 27, 2021
The politics of an Auschwitz survivor's son The Boston Globe January 24, 2021
Inaugurate a human rights policy, President Biden The Boston Globe January 19, 2021
Why New Hampshire is suing Massachusetts The Boston Globe January 17, 2021
Freedom of association and the Big Tech purge The Boston Globe January 13, 2021
So much losing The Boston Globe January 10, 2021
A new Legislature convenes and three pay hikes kick in. Only in Massachusetts The Boston Globe January 6, 2021
More than politics divides us, national identity unites us The Boston Globe January 3, 2021
What was great about 2020 The Boston Globe December 30, 2020
"Mostly Peaceful": from 2020's Words of the Year The Boston Globe December 28, 2020
My JD doesn't make me a doctor. Jill Biden's EdD doesn't make her one, either Arguable December 14, 2020
Why Beethoven still endures The Boston Globe December 14, 2020
Biden promised not to pardon Trump. Maybe he should do so anyway The Boston Globe December 9, 2020
Congress goes after forced labor, and big business objects The Boston Globe December 6, 2020
From the White House, one last push to impede immigrants The Boston Globe December 2, 2020
The common tongue The Boston Globe November 29, 2020
The coronavirus curfews make no sense Arguable November 25, 2020
The Iran nuclear deal is dead. Let it stay that way The Boston Globe November 25, 2020
A student debt bailout would be unjust and unwise The Boston Globe November 22, 2020
'Whatever helps Democrats the most' The Boston Globe November 18, 2020
If you love this country, Mr. President, concede defeat The Boston Globe November 15, 2020
Were California voters confused? Arguable November 9, 2020
Ignore the hotheads: America just voted for less drama and strife The Boston Globe November 8, 2020
All Trump had to do was act presidential The Boston Globe November 4, 2020
Job 1 for the next president: Bind the wounds of a polarized nation The Boston Globe November 1, 2020
Biden is right to be leery of court-packing The Boston Globe October 28, 2020
Trump, the anti-Gipper, has turned young voters against the GOP The Boston Globe October 21, 2020
The Israeli actress and the Egyptian queen The Boston Globe October 18, 2020
The most important election (since the last election) The Boston Globe October 14, 2020
Michigan and Pennsylvania courts struck down pandemic orders. Will the SJC? The Boston Globe October 11, 2020
On California's ballot, an invitation to legalize discrimination The Boston Globe October 8, 2020
How not to squander your vote The Boston Globe October 4, 2020
Expect liberal rulings from the 'most conservative' Supreme Court The Boston Globe September 27, 2020
Scrap life terms for Supreme Court justices The Boston Globe September 23, 2020
Ranked choice is the wrong choice The Boston Globe September 20, 2020
Our guest speaker today, class, is a Jew-hating terrorist The Boston Globe September 16, 2020
A plea for humility from America's first superstar The Boston Globe September 13, 2020
Baker's pandemic orders were tough, but were they lawful? The Boston Globe September 9, 2020
The Kennedy dynasty (finally) wears out its welcome The Boston Globe September 6, 2020
The Christian flag and the Boston flagpole The Boston Globe August 30, 2020
Honey, they shrunk the GOP platform The Boston Globe August 26, 2020
Why I'm not going postal The Boston Globe August 23, 2020
From Israel and the Emirates, a lesson in Middle East diplomacy The Boston Globe August 18, 2020
Sexism and the female running mate Arguable August 17, 2020
Here come the dumbest presidential debates in history The Boston Globe August 9, 2020
A defeat for the cancel culture The Boston Globe August 5, 2020
Americans don't trust the media Arguable August 3, 2020
The ballpark is no place for the national anthem The Boston Globe July 31, 2020
Is English grammar racist? Arguable July 27, 2020
Fear of speech is replacing freedom of speech The Boston Globe July 26, 2020
Voting is a privilege that prisoners rightly forfeit The Boston Globe July 23, 2020
In the race for the White House, it's protectionist vs. protectionist The Boston Globe July 15, 2020
As night descends on Hong Kong, the UN raises no objection The Boston Globe July 12, 2020
The enduring value of the Electoral College The Boston Globe July 9, 2020
Like the nation's founders, Americans say: 'More immigrants, please' The Boston Globe July 5, 2020
Trump's 'Roger Mudd' moment augurs ill for his reelection The Boston Globe July 1, 2020
'Cancel culture' grows increasingly cruel Arguable June 29, 2020
From Saudi Arabia, a welcome call for tolerance and moderation The Boston Globe June 28, 2020
Black and white Americans are embracing the Second Amendment The Boston Globe June 24, 2020
The Constitution says no to DC statehood The Boston Globe June 21, 2020
Don't reform police unions. Abolish them The Boston Globe June 17, 2020
Statue-toppling, right and wrong The Boston Globe June 14, 2020
Republicans will never turn against Trump. Or will they? The Boston Globe June 10, 2020
The week the looters came The Boston Globe June 7, 2020
Open America's doors to refugees from Hong Kong The Boston Globe June 4, 2020
Indecent cops, indecent rioters Arguable June 1, 2020
College admissions cheating is sleazy, but it shouldn't be a federal case The Boston Globe May 27, 2020
Israeli annexation may give Palestinians the push they need The Boston Globe May 24, 2020
The enemies of Prop 209 The Boston Globe May 20, 2020
The 'Great Pope' who changed the world Arguable May 18, 2020
Biden's best VP choice: Val Demings The Boston Globe May 17, 2020
The pernicious Logan Act should have been scrapped long ago The Boston Globe May 13, 2020
State lawmakers need to have more say in a crisis The Boston Globe May 10, 2020
Justin Amash won't 'spoil' the election, he'll enhance it The Boston Globe May 6, 2020
Keep politicians' names off relief checks. And everything else. The Boston Globe May 3, 2020
Only regime change can end North Korea's nuclear threat The Boston Globe April 30, 2020
Locking out immigrants will make the crisis worse The Boston Globe April 26, 2020
Would Biden want Warren for VP? Don't count on it. The Boston Globe April 22, 2020
No lockdown in Sweden The Boston Globe April 8, 2020
This too shall pass (over) The Boston Globe April 5, 2020
Excluding Taiwan from the WHO is a political and medical outrage The Boston Globe April 1, 2020
A civil liberties pandemic The Boston Globe March 29, 2020
Coronavirus has forced Biden far from his comfort zone — and it shows The Boston Globe March 25, 2020
The Equal Rights Amendment died in 1979. Let it rest in peace. The Boston Globe March 22, 2020
When demand soars, prices should too The Boston Globe March 18, 2020
A self-quarantine that changed the world Arguable March 16, 2020
I'm skeptical about climate alarmism, but I take coronavirus fears seriously The Boston Globe March 15, 2020
'Moderate' Joe Biden has moved way to the left The Boston Globe March 11, 2020
Beacon Hill to riders and drivers: Drop dead The Boston Globe March 8, 2020
The shallow symbolism of fossil fuel divestment The Boston Globe March 1, 2020
Arguable: Vote in haste, repent at leisure Arguable February 24, 2020
The president who was not a politician The Boston Globe February 16, 2020
Should it be illegal to sit out an election? The Boston Globe February 12, 2020
'Birth tourism' isn't a serious problem. The White House attack on it is The Boston Globe February 10, 2020
More impeachments, please The Boston Globe February 9, 2020
The State of the Union? Let's get it in writing The Boston Globe January 29, 2020
My father survived the Holocaust. That molded my worldview Arguable January 27, 2020
'Never Again,' again and again The Boston Globe January 27, 2020
As Harry and Meghan 'step back,' Queen Elizabeth steps up The Boston Globe January 22, 2020
The war to liberate Iraq was just, even if it's no longer popular to say so The Boston Globe January 19, 2020
Democratic debate so white? So what? The Boston Globe January 14, 2020
Make presidential debates worth watching The Boston Globe January 12, 2020
No matter what candidates say, America isn't leaving the Middle East anytime soon The Boston Globe January 8, 2020
Politicians are only human The Boston Globe January 5, 2020
Jew-haters, right and left The Boston Globe December 31, 2019
'Squad': from "2019's Words of the Year" The Boston Globe December 30, 2019
What was so great about the 2010s The Boston Globe December 29, 2019
When Massachusetts was the battlefield in the war on Christmas The Boston Globe December 25, 2019
The slaves of Nubia Arguable December 23, 2019
To make Congress better, make it (a lot) bigger The Boston Globe December 22, 2019
Warren ducked the toughest questions in the Democratic debate The Boston Globe December 20, 2019
Lindsey Graham and the impeachment pearl-clutchers The Boston Globe December 18, 2019
Actually, class warriors, skyrocketing inequality may be a myth The Boston Globe December 15, 2019
The welfare state 'Brezhnev Doctrine' The Boston Globe December 11, 2019
What are the odds of ending lottery advertising? Arguable December 9, 2019
A tide of contempt is corroding our politics The Boston Globe December 8, 2019
Team Warren plays the "sexism" card The Boston Globe November 20, 2019
Missing David Brudnoy Arguable November 18, 2019
Are hate crimes up or down? The government has no idea The Boston Globe November 17, 2019
The counterproductive cruelties of occupational licensing The Boston Globe November 13, 2019
America stood down as the Berlin Wall went up Arguable November 12, 2019
A century ago, the science was settled: Immigrants had to be kept out The Boston Globe November 10, 2019
Leave adoption out of the culture wars The Boston Globe November 6, 2019
'Kill yourself,' she texted, and he killed himself. Does that make her a killer? The Boston Globe November 3, 2019
Coolidge and FDR were right about government workers and unions The Boston Globe October 30, 2019
Republicans made a mistake in 2016. They don't have to repeat it in 2020 The Boston Globe October 27, 2019
Amid rising anti-Semitism, the People of the Book rejoice with the Law The Boston Globe October 20, 2019
The right choice Mishpacha October 10, 2019
The autobiographical fictions of Elizabeth Warren Arguable October 10, 2019
Impeachment is as legitimate as the Electoral College (and vice versa) The Boston Globe October 9, 2019
Blessed are the retractors The Boston Globe October 6, 2019
Instead of resurrecting the 'People's Pledge,' let's bury it for good The Boston Globe September 29, 2019
How Israelis could benefit from US-style politics The Boston Globe September 25, 2019
Where's the clamor over our disastrous national debt? The Boston Globe September 22, 2019
The Republican Party has no 'bedrock principles.' The Democratic Party doesn't either. The Boston Globe September 18, 2019
Beto O'Rourke's gift to the GOP Arguable September 16, 2019
The case against fracking is based on ideology, not science The Boston Globe September 15, 2019
Why Hong Kong's protesters fly the Stars and Stripes The Boston Globe September 12, 2019
'Price gouging' during natural disasters isn't a problem. It's part of the solution The Boston Globe September 10, 2019
To Hell with Robert Mugabe Arguable September 9, 2019
We've had enough arrogant presidents. We need a humble one The Boston Globe September 4, 2019
Newsrooms won't be saved by Bernie Sanders' socialist nostrums The Boston Globe September 1, 2019
Abolishing birthright citizenship would be 'frankly ridiculous' — and profoundly un-American The Boston Globe August 28, 2019
The slaves of 2019 Arguable August 26, 2019
Statehood for DC? That's a nonstarter The Boston Globe August 11, 2019
No, expanded background checks wouldn't prevent mass shootings The Boston Globe August 7, 2019
Our world has serious problems. Having more babies can help solve them The Boston Globe August 4, 2019
When murders increase, so does support for the death penalty The Boston Globe July 31, 2019
A new study says? Don't believe it Arguable July 29, 2019
The sheer ingratitude of Dennis Prager The Boston Globe July 28, 2019
Behind Bibi's longevity The Boston Globe July 24, 2019
Trump blasts 'the Squad' for not loving America. Does he? The Boston Globe July 21, 2019
How Democrats and Republicans rig the rules against independents The Boston Globe July 17, 2019
What to Frederick Douglass is the "Douglass Plan"? Arguable July 15, 2019
George Washington was right about 'baneful' two-party politics The Boston Globe July 14, 2019
Your legislature in inaction The Boston Globe July 10, 2019
'Proclaim Liberty': How the Hebrew Bible molded revolutionary America The Boston Globe July 7, 2019
Biden was right. Busing was wrong The Boston Globe July 3, 2019
Democrats are having a socialist moment, but it won't last The Boston Globe June 30, 2019
The day Fox News was on the TV in my gym The Boston Globe June 26, 2019
Would-be presidents can't wait to rule by fiat The Boston Globe June 23, 2019
De-link driver's licenses from the immigration wars The Boston Globe June 19, 2019
Temptation, the Talmud, and the Pope Arguable June 17, 2019
Hong Kong is being strangled, and the free world just watches The Boston Globe June 16, 2019
A grievous sinner, and a great American The Boston Globe June 9, 2019
Non-diversity and the spelling bee The Boston Globe June 5, 2019
Remembering Ray Shamie Arguable June 3, 2019
With the market making parental leave routine, who needs Congress? The Boston Globe June 2, 2019
A bigger NATO has been a better NATO The Boston Globe May 26, 2019
Nancy Pelosi, profile in courage? Hardly The Boston Globe May 22, 2019
Presidents always leave when their time is up The Boston Globe May 8, 2019
'Unplanned' tells an essential truth about abortion: It is violent The Boston Globe May 5, 2019
When terrorists killed his daughter, his long crusade for justice began The Boston Globe April 28, 2019
The banishing of Kate Smith isn't 'sensitive' — it's ridiculous The Boston Globe April 24, 2019
Mueller's report means impeachment won't happen The Boston Globe April 21, 2019
Those imprisoned for breaking laws should have no say in making laws The Boston Globe April 17, 2019
Don't dump the filibuster — restore it to its former glory The Boston Globe April 14, 2019
No, President Trump, our country isn't full The Boston Globe April 10, 2019
On the folly of rent control, right and left agree The Boston Globe April 7, 2019
Special Olympics can soar on its own The Boston Globe April 3, 2019
Reparations for slavery are unworkable — and unjust The Boston Globe March 31, 2019
Israel's Golan sovereignty should have been recognized years ago The Boston Globe March 27, 2019
Column-writing in the Internet age is much better. And much worse. The Boston Globe March 24, 2019
Gavin Newsom's death-row betrayal The Boston Globe March 20, 2019
Lower the voting age? Let's raise it instead The Boston Globe March 17, 2019
Why the 'excellent' Electoral College is well worth keeping The Boston Globe March 13, 2019
Good policy, bad policymaking, and the 2020 census fight The Boston Globe February 24, 2019
Voter ID laws aren't worth fighting over The Boston Globe February 21, 2019
The Republican president who alienated Republicans The Boston Globe February 17, 2019
To soak the rich, keep tax rates low The Boston Globe February 10, 2019
The government shutdown was expected to damage the economy. It didn't. The Boston Globe February 6, 2019
Bill Weld's true north is that he has no true north The Boston Globe February 3, 2019
In the Balkans, diplomacy wins a round The Boston Globe January 30, 2019
If Trump backs down on a wall, MAGA Nation won't bolt The Boston Globe January 27, 2019
A less religious America will be a less generous America The Boston Globe January 23, 2019
As MLK foresaw, racism in America has been largely overcome The Boston Globe January 20, 2019
In extolling 'honorable' tyrants, Trump shames America The Boston Globe January 16, 2019
The PC commissars vs. Bryan Cranston The Boston Globe January 13, 2019
Is the bike-lane fever breaking? The Boston Globe January 9, 2019
The US is not a house. It doesn't need a wall The Boston Globe January 6, 2019
Your guess is as good as theirs The Boston Globe January 2, 2019
Net neutrality is gone, but the Internet is fine The Boston Globe December 30, 2018
Apollo 8's perfect Christmas message The Boston Globe December 23, 2018
A liberal channels James Madison, and conservatives lose their minds The Boston Globe December 19, 2018
A war memorial is in the form of a cross. Is that a problem? The Boston Globe December 16, 2018
America needs more immigrants and less welfare The Boston Globe December 12, 2018
Break the Iowa/New Hampshire duopoly The Boston Globe December 6, 2018
We gather together to give Thanksgiving its meaning The Boston Globe November 20, 2018
The kosher-industrial complex The Boston Globe November 18, 2018
Three cheers for congressional gridlock The Boston Globe November 14, 2018
Three reasons to vote No on Question 3 The Boston Globe November 4, 2018
A massacre in Pittsburgh and the 'hardening' of Jewish America The Boston Globe October 29, 2018
Outraged — but only when it's convenient The Boston Globe October 24, 2018
Enlightened despots are never enlightened The Boston Globe October 21, 2018
Elizabeth Warren, typical white person The Boston Globe October 17, 2018
Look what you made Taylor Swift do The Boston Globe October 14, 2018
Victims may be sincere, but memory is fallible The Boston Globe October 10, 2018
Columbus sailed the ocean blue Arguable October 8, 2018
America has grown. Its highways should, too. The Boston Globe October 7, 2018
Collins falsely cries 'bribery!' in crowdfunded political theater The Boston Globe September 19, 2018
California's bad idea: gender quotas for corporate boards The Boston Globe September 16, 2018
Celebrity gossip may entertain, but it makes our whole culture sick The Boston Globe September 9, 2018
The White House handshake that made everything worse The Boston Globe September 5, 2018
In easing up on mileage rules, the Trump administration gets one right The Boston Globe September 2, 2018
Why is a great Senate office building named for a modern racist? The Boston Globe August 29, 2018
John McCain: New Hampshire's third senator The Boston Globe August 27, 2018
No, 60 million abortions didn't make America richer The Boston Globe August 22, 2018
From child refugee to Green Beret — to Congress? The Boston Globe August 19, 2018
San Francisco employees eat at work. City Hall wants to punish them The Boston Globe August 15, 2018
Short live the Legislature! The Boston Globe August 12, 2018
At Smith College, the racist incident that wasn't The Boston Globe August 8, 2018
The insidious metaphor of trade as 'war' The Boston Globe July 29, 2018
Trump doesn't care about Montenegro. He should. The Boston Globe July 25, 2018
Why Democrats should hope Roe is overruled The Boston Globe July 22, 2018
The transgender posse vs. Scarlett Johansson The Boston Globe July 18, 2018
How the polling industry hurts itself The Boston Globe July 17, 2018
Anthony Kennedy answered tough questions. Judge Kavanaugh should, too The Boston Globe July 11, 2018
70 years ago, Mayor Humphrey changed the Democratic Party The Boston Globe July 8, 2018
The businessman in the cassock The Boston Globe June 24, 2018
The cynical 'millionaires tax' didn't fool the SJC The Boston Globe June 20, 2018
Leave Google alone The Boston Globe June 17, 2018
The real significance of the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision The Boston Globe June 6, 2018
If politics worked the way the Food Network works The Boston Globe June 3, 2018
Your father's Republican Party has vanished. His Democratic Party has, too The Boston Globe May 30, 2018
Amnesty for 'Dreamers' is in the GOP's finest tradition The Boston Globe May 27, 2018
Make more babies, America The Boston Globe May 24, 2018
Want to fire your congressman? There's a fund for that The Boston Globe May 20, 2018
The world needs a policeman, and there is no alternative to America The Boston Globe May 16, 2018
The Palestinians' real 'nakba' The Boston Globe May 13, 2018
What's so great about John McCain? The Boston Globe May 9, 2018
If Trump wants to be the Deregulator-in-Chief, his work is just beginning The Boston Globe April 24, 2018
Our @&*!^$^# public discourse The Boston Globe April 22, 2018
Snobs rage, but the Berkshire Museum's future looks bright The Boston Globe April 18, 2018
Her 'Little Pink House' was her castle — until the government said it wasn't The Boston Globe April 15, 2018
The misleading case for a millionaires' surtax The Boston Globe April 11, 2018
The concocted uproar over 'privatizing' the VA The Boston Globe April 8, 2018
The citizenship question isn't the only one the Census should scrap The Boston Globe April 4, 2018
Passover and the secret of Jewish longevity The Boston Globe April 1, 2018
Registering to vote should be your choice, not the state's The Boston Globe March 28, 2018
The undeferred dreams of Elias Howe and Madame C. J. Walker The Boston Globe March 25, 2018
The death penalty, humane and painless The Boston Globe March 21, 2018
Clinton tumbles down the 'marriage gap' The Boston Globe March 18, 2018
Deval Patrick for president? Democrats could do a lot worse The Boston Globe March 14, 2018
China's corporate tools The Boston Globe March 11, 2018
The 'scandal-free' Obama administration? An urban legend The Boston Globe March 7, 2018
Government unions play politics with unconstitutional dollars The Boston Globe February 28, 2018
The hack who repented The Boston Globe February 18, 2018
The Tea Party, RIP The Boston Globe February 14, 2018
Poland and Israel need friendship, not a bitter fight over history The Boston Globe February 7, 2018
A 'Wall of Shame' on the Mexican border The Boston Globe February 4, 2018
Trump protects Americans from affordable washing machines The Boston Globe January 31, 2018
Arts elitists to Berkshire Museum: Drop dead The Boston Globe January 28, 2018
In an age of e-commerce, the 'Quill rule' is more vital than ever The Boston Globe January 21, 2018
That GOP 'tax scam' is putting money in millions of workers' pockets The Boston Globe January 17, 2018
Oprah for president — or for queen? The Boston Globe January 14, 2018
As a matter of fact, minimum wage laws hurt the poor The Boston Globe January 10, 2018
Taiwan isn't China, and Taiwanese aren't Chinese The Boston Globe January 7, 2018
'Path of Totality' The Boston Globe December 31, 2017
Voter suppression? Alabama election exposed a myth The Boston Globe December 31, 2017
Trump's Russia policies are proving surprisingly tough The Boston Globe December 27, 2017
Nikki Haley, the Trump administration's breakout star The Boston Globe December 24, 2017
Canadians wait — and wait — to see the doctor The Boston Globe December 20, 2017
This is your brain on social media The Boston Globe December 17, 2017
If the SJC sticks to precedent, the 'millionaire tax' is going nowhere The Boston Globe December 13, 2017
Abortion politics and the Alabama race The Boston Globe December 10, 2017
The blessings of climate change The Boston Globe December 6, 2017
What the Constitution says about cakes and compelled speech The Boston Globe December 3, 2017
The marvelously 'wild richness of American philanthropy' The Boston Globe December 1, 2017
Scrap the Obamacare mandate The Boston Globe November 26, 2017
The Mayflower Compact and the seeds of American democracy The Boston Globe November 21, 2017
Trump is wrong on terror and the green-card lottery The Boston Globe November 5, 2017
Tolls on the highways? Repeal the gas tax first The Boston Globe November 1, 2017
Life is annoying. Don't make it worse The Boston Globe October 29, 2017
Spain clamors for a 'two-state solution' — but not in Catalonia The Boston Globe October 25, 2017
Liberate government workers from forced union fees The Boston Globe October 22, 2017
On the death penalty, Francis is going where no pope has gone before The Boston Globe October 18, 2017
If you can pay for aspirin, you can pay for birth control The Boston Globe October 11, 2017
Abusive gerrymandering can be stopped, but not by judges The Boston Globe October 4, 2017
'Lies' in political campaigns should be refuted, not prosecuted The Boston Globe October 1, 2017
Let's stop taking the national anthem out to the ballgame The Boston Globe September 27, 2017
As Kurds vote for independence, Americans should cheer The Boston Globe September 20, 2017
In defense of Chief Wahoo Arguable September 18, 2017
Above the Arctic Circle, a Cold War Rosh Hashana The Boston Globe September 17, 2017
Bribes — er, incentives — for Amazon The Boston Globe September 13, 2017
A chance for Congress to get its mojo back The Boston Globe September 10, 2017
America's melting pot and America's Muslims The Boston Globe September 3, 2017
Why do presidents have unfettered power to pardon? The Boston Globe August 30, 2017
While Trump tweets, Amazon hires The Boston Globe August 27, 2017
A free-speech rally, minus the free speech The Boston Globe August 22, 2017
Freedom of association is for businesses, too The Boston Globe August 20, 2017
Prevent Korean War II with a regime-change strategy for Pyongyang The Boston Globe August 16, 2017
At the Berkshire Museum, a display of backbone The Boston Globe July 30, 2017
Research isn't tainted just because industry picks up the tab The Boston Globe July 26, 2017
'Let Obamacare fail,' says Trump. It already has. The Boston Globe July 23, 2017
The collapse of the taxi-medallion shakedown The Boston Globe July 19, 2017
A nation on the verge of a nervous breakdown The Boston Globe July 16, 2017
What Rick Perry really said about supply and demand The Boston Globe July 12, 2017
From normalizing Bill Clinton to normalizing Donald Trump The Boston Globe July 9, 2017
When I ride the T, I miss my auto-nomy The Boston Globe July 2, 2017
The left's health-care rhetoric is unhinged The Boston Globe June 28, 2017
Venezuelan bonds are a fabulous investment, if you don't mind the starvation The Boston Globe June 25, 2017
An 80% tax surcharge on millionaires? Don't fall for it, voters The Boston Globe June 21, 2017
When good things come from bad people The Boston Globe June 18, 2017
Let's do air-traffic control the Canadian way The Boston Globe June 14, 2017
Sorry, class warriors, unions aren't coming back The Boston Globe June 11, 2017
The victory that astonished the world The Boston Globe June 7, 2017
How do we encourage terrorism? Let us count the ways The Boston Globe June 1, 2017
One of the best ideas in human history The Boston Globe May 28, 2017
Loving across the color line The Boston Globe May 24, 2017
Be wary of a Trump feeding frenzy The Boston Globe May 21, 2017
Drag away the statues The Boston Globe May 17, 2017
A health-care debate to die for The Boston Globe May 14, 2017
A back-of-the-bus human rights policy The Boston Globe May 10, 2017
Freedom of speech, even in therapy The Boston Globe May 7, 2017
Trump's tariff will hurt Americans The Boston Globe May 3, 2017
Obama's third term The Boston Globe April 30, 2017
Automatic forgiveness makes the world more dangerous The Boston Globe April 26, 2017
Don't nuke the filibuster — restore it The Boston Globe April 5, 2017
Thirty years of 'varsity academics' The Boston Globe April 2, 2017
An Orthodox journalist in the secular media Mishpacha April 2017
When presidents break big promises The Boston Globe March 29, 2017
Deliver us from Scripture-citers The Boston Globe March 26, 2017
Gorsuch says judges aren't 'secret legislators'. Actually, they legislate all the time The Boston Globe March 22, 2017
Ditch Obamacare, and don't stop there The Boston Globe March 19, 2017
Climate models fail so often because climate science is so incomplete The Boston Globe March 15, 2017
In the land where Jews are welcome, anti-Semitism is on the rise The Boston Globe March 12, 2017
Immigrant heroes save American lives The Boston Globe March 8, 2017
If Trump goes to war against freedom of the press, who wins? The Boston Globe March 5, 2017
Scrap the NEA, and America's arts scene will thrive The Boston Globe March 1, 2017
An echo of Trump in the last of the Whigs The Boston Globe February 19, 2017
What Obamacare's drafters could have learned from a hairdresser The Boston Globe February 15, 2017
School choice keeps the peace The Boston Globe February 12, 2017
Trump is right: Settlements don't impede peace The Boston Globe February 8, 2017
Is that sermon political? The Boston Globe February 5, 2017
No men need apply The Boston Globe February 3, 2017
Make SCOTUS nominees answer the tough questions The Boston Globe January 29, 2017
Trump's 'Buy American' call is economic folly The Boston Globe January 25, 2017
Delete your commission (and boards and task forces, too) The Boston Globe January 22, 2017
The fabulous wealth of the 'Oxfam 8' The Boston Globe January 18, 2017
Like a fish needs a treadmill The Boston Globe January 15, 2017
Racist opinions are hateful. That shouldn't make them crimes The Boston Globe January 11, 2017
Barack Obama's legacy of failure The Boston Globe January 8, 2017
What experts predict, reality will contradict The Boston Globe January 1, 2017
Freedom of association isn't just for the Rockettes The Boston Globe December 28, 2016
As socialism shattered Venezuela, the useful idiots applauded The Boston Globe December 25, 2016
Trump's envoy to Israel is ready to slay some sacred cows The Boston Globe December 21, 2016
Pearl Harbor's uplifting lesson The Boston Globe December 18, 2016
Why Miss World silences Anastasia Lin The Boston Globe December 14, 2016
Healey's Exxon witch-hunt The Boston Globe December 11, 2016
One China, one Taiwan The Boston Globe December 7, 2016
In China, prisoners of conscience are literally being butchered The Boston Globe December 4, 2016
Memo to the next ex-president: Be a Bush, not a Carter The Boston Globe November 30, 2016
Less Frank Costanza, more Mike Pence The Boston Globe November 27, 2016
Is Thanksgiving constitutional? The Boston Globe November 23, 2016
Eminent injustice in cranberry country The Boston Globe November 20, 2016
In defense of the Electoral College The Boston Globe November 16, 2016
Conservatives vs. Trump The Boston Globe November 13, 2016
Shocking, yes. Looming dictatorship? No. The Boston Globe November 9, 2016
Another campaign ends, and my wishes didn't come true The Boston Globe November 6, 2016
Don't raise the charter-school cap. Eliminate it The Boston Globe November 2, 2016
Minimum-wage laws: Good intentions, bad results The Boston Globe October 30, 2016
Dennis Prager doth protest too much The Boston Globe October 23, 2016
The candidates' high court priority — and the Constitution's The Boston Globe October 20, 2016
How the religious right embraced Donald Trump and lost its moral authority The Boston Globe October 16, 2016
Hurricane Matthew's nonexistent silver lining The Boston Globe October 12, 2016
A degrading spectacle in St. Louis The Boston Globe October 10, 2016
Congress unleashes the Furies, but never at itself The Boston Globe October 9, 2016
In an election about character, Trump and Clinton are beyond the pale The Boston Globe September 30, 2016
Obama has shed his vanity. Just ask him The Boston Globe September 27, 2016
Boston can learn from Houston's (nonexistent) zoning code The Boston Globe September 21, 2016
A long way from the Chinese Exclusion Act The Boston Globe September 18, 2016
What if Hillary collapsed after winning the election? The Boston Globe September 13, 2016
On Election Day, it's OK not to vote. Really. The Boston Globe September 10, 2016
Three prescriptions for a shorter campaign The Boston Globe September 7, 2016
Israel doesn't need American foreign aid The Boston Globe September 4, 2016
Campaigns so long they make children cry The Boston Globe August 31, 2016
Does the death penalty deter? Of course The Boston Globe August 28, 2016
Have more kids; save the world The Boston Globe August 24, 2016
Voters Trump drives from the GOP aren't likely to return The Boston Globe August 21, 2016
Let us now praise famous nonpoliticians The Boston Globe August 17, 2016
Reward organ donors, and thousands of lives will be saved The Boston Globe August 7, 2016
Palestinian athletes deserve better than Jibril Rajoub The Boston Globe August 3, 2016
Last call for Frederick Weller The Boston Globe July 31, 2016
Parties change. Not always for the better The Boston Globe July 27, 2016
A hater's guide to Hillary The Boston Globe July 24, 2016
Failure of Turkey's coup was no victory for democracy The Boston Globe July 20, 2016
Real debates illuminate issues. Presidential 'debates' debase them The Boston Globe July 17, 2016
Making college 'free' will only make it worse The Boston Globe July 13, 2016
Lottery games online? Scratch that idea The Boston Globe July 10, 2016
Elie Wiesel's love of America The Boston Globe July 4, 2016
The Leave campaign of 1776 reverberates to this day The Boston Globe July 3, 2016
Cigarettes are hazardous, but some lawmakers are worse The Boston Globe June 29, 2016
More firepower than the Marines The Boston Globe June 26, 2016
Rubio said he was leaving. That's why he should leave The Boston Globe June 21, 2016
Does it matter how many women sit on corporate boards? The Boston Globe June 19, 2016
Payday loans are a poor option. No payday loans would be worse The Boston Globe June 12, 2016
A civil rights hero? Muhammad Ali was anything but The Boston Globe June 8, 2016
Should you need the government's permission to work? The Boston Globe June 5, 2016
In Clinton, Americans don't trust The Boston Globe June 1, 2016
Up and down — but mostly up — the income ladder The Boston Globe May 29, 2016
Weld for VP? He'd get my vote The Boston Globe May 25, 2016
Why 'antidumping' tariffs should be dumped The Boston Globe May 22, 2016
A terrible weapon that achieved much good The Boston Globe May 15, 2016
Killing us softly with overregulation The Boston Globe May 11, 2016
The end of Holocaust remembrance The Boston Globe May 1, 2016
Let patients pay the piper, and the price of health care will fall The Boston Globe April 24, 2016
Delegate rules aren't 'rigged' just because Trump doesn't like them The Boston Globe April 20, 2016
The Obama doctrine has made the world more dangerous The Boston Globe April 17, 2016
The happiest of happy warriors The Boston Globe April 11, 2016
If you don't rent to criminals, are you a racist? The Boston Globe April 10, 2016
Houses of worship are more than pews and prayerbooks The Boston Globe April 5, 2016
Authoritarian-in-chief The Boston Globe April 3, 2016
Our embassy in Israel belongs in Israel's capital The Boston Globe March 30, 2016
Why there are Muslim ghettos in Belgium, but not in the US The Boston Globe March 27, 2016
Mass deportations would leave America poorer The Boston Globe March 24, 2016
Sex is etched in our DNA, but race is all in our heads The Boston Globe March 20, 2016
Vote early, vote foolish The Boston Globe March 15, 2016
A lesson for Trump in Bulger's rejected appeal The Boston Globe March 9, 2016
Samantha Power's squandered moral authority The Boston Globe March 6, 2016
Why this Reagan conservative voted for Bernie The Boston Globe March 2, 2016
If the Supreme Court had term limits, confirmations wouldn't be so bloody The Boston Globe February 28, 2016
Obama's Cuba trip is a reward to dictators The Boston Globe February 24, 2016
The president without a party The Boston Globe February 14, 2016
New Hampshire Republicans stain their credibility The Boston Globe February 10, 2016
For Americans, global freedom is a mission that crosses party lines The Boston Globe February 7, 2016
Ambition vs. conviction on the debate stage The Boston Globe February 4, 2016
Does Hillary's résumé make her the 'best-qualified' candidate? The Boston Globe February 3, 2016
The extraordinary generosity of ordinary Americans The Boston Globe January 31, 2016
Dream question was asked, but not answered The Boston Globe January 28, 2016
36 hours in New Jersey bolster Christie's pitch in New Hampshire The Boston Globe January 26, 2016
Obama regrets polarized rancor. He should. The Boston Globe January 24, 2016
GE, Massachusetts, and the corruption of crony capitalism The Boston Globe January 20, 2016
On immigration, I've become a dissident on the right The Boston Globe January 13, 2016
State of the Union spectacle would appall Thomas Jefferson The Boston Globe January 10, 2016
The weakest economic recovery in modern times The Boston Globe January 7, 2016
2015 was an awful year? Look again. The Boston Globe December 30, 2015
Obama's Cuba policy makes life worse for Cubans The Boston Globe December 27, 2015
Shock and awe over Agrabah The Boston Globe December 23, 2015
Our inalienable right to free trade The Boston Globe December 20, 2015
'Mismatched' black students pay the price of affirmative action The Boston Globe December 16, 2015
The right way to apologize for slavery The Boston Globe December 13, 2015
Guns and the 'No-Fly' grandstanders The Boston Globe December 9, 2015
Garrett Swasey's final sermon The Boston Globe December 6, 2015
Christie's coveted, meaningless prize The Boston Globe December 4, 2015
Three cheers for cultural appropriation The Boston Globe December 2, 2015
The beauty queen that China is desperate to stifle The Boston Globe November 29, 2015
Palestinian terror kills another American The Boston Globe November 25, 2015
At 60, National Review's battle of ideas is as spirited as ever The Boston Globe November 22, 2015
Obama can't rewrite immigration law, even for the better The Boston Globe November 15, 2015
Another TSA debacle. Is anyone surprised? The Boston Globe November 11, 2015
Take the journalists off the debate stage The Boston Globe November 8, 2015
The brutal horror of China's one-child policy The Boston Globe November 4, 2015
US intelligence is no match for Iranian deception The Boston Globe November 1, 2015
Biggest loser in the CNBC debate? The media The Boston Globe October 29, 2015
So what if Ben Carson is a creationist? The Boston Globe October 28, 2015
Would Rabin have pulled the plug on a 'peace process' that failed? The Boston Globe October 25, 2015
In ego, Obama and Trump are two of a kind The Boston Globe October 23, 2015
Make redistricting better by making it color-blind The Boston Globe October 21, 2015
No, Bernie Sanders, Scandinavia is not a socialist utopia The Boston Globe October 18, 2015
Playboy covers up — and declares victory The Boston Globe October 15, 2015
The power to regulate is the power to destroy The Boston Globe October 14, 2015
Many presidents have known the grief of burying a child The Boston Globe October 11, 2015
Free your eyes from the shackles of the shutter The Boston Globe October 4, 2015
Abbas should have been jeered, not applauded, at the UN The Boston Globe September 30, 2015
When the General Assembly votes, the US should abstain The Boston Globe September 28, 2015
Bulger wasn't hardwired to be a murderer. No one is The Boston Globe September 23, 2015
Opinion polling's heyday has come and gone The Boston Globe September 20, 2015
The Iran deal bait-and-switch The Boston Globe September 13, 2015
A Palestinian 'Samaritan' teaches a lesson in humanity The Boston Globe September 9, 2015
Strike down the Supreme Court's 'buffer zone' The Boston Globe September 6, 2015
Bicycles don't belong on busy city streets The Boston Globe September 2, 2015
Something worse than the IRS awaits greedy televangelists The Boston Globe August 30, 2015
Donald Trump, eminent-domain abuser The Boston Globe August 26, 2015
'Sesame Street' moves to HBO, and everyone wins The Boston Globe August 19, 2015
American politics needs more civility, not less The Boston Globe August 16, 2015
Jindal puts the emphasis on assimilation The Boston Globe August 12, 2015
China has its own horrors to atone for The Boston Globe August 2, 2015
The return of the grad-tax hustle The Boston Globe July 29, 2015
Iran can buy a lot of terror with $100 billion The Boston Globe July 26, 2015
Planned Parenthood videos should appall even pro-choice advocates The Boston Globe July 22, 2015
A Nobel prize for an ignoble deal? The Boston Globe July 19, 2015
Life without parole is no substitute for death The Boston Globe July 16, 2015
The Confederate flag is anti-American The Boston Globe July 12, 2015
Cubans pay the price for Obama's 'engagement' with the Castros The Boston Globe July 8, 2015
'Declaration of Independence' preserves the patriots' faces The Boston Globe July 5, 2015
How judges corrode the rule of law The Boston Globe July 2, 2015
It'll take more than tanks to keep Putin from the Baltics The Boston Globe June 28, 2015
A moral world requires moral violence The Boston Globe June 25, 2015
From beyond the fringe, it's Donald Trump The Boston Globe June 21, 2015
Life without libraries? Unthinkable The Boston Globe June 18, 2015
Free Roxbury with free enterprise The Boston Globe June 14, 2015
American millennials rethink abortion, for good reasons The Boston Globe June 10, 2015
The case for Israel is rooted in more than security The Boston Globe June 7, 2015
Freedom for Iran's hostages should trump any nuclear deal The Boston Globe June 3, 2015
It's socialism, not deodorant, that starves the poor The Boston Globe May 31, 2015
Millionaire ex-presidents can pay their own way The Boston Globe May 24, 2015
Iraq and the White House time machine The Boston Globe May 21, 2015
Patriot Act's most controversial section fades to black The Boston Globe May 17, 2015
A fitting sentence for the Boston Marathon terrorist The Boston Globe May 15, 2015
Repeal that law school The Boston Globe May 13, 2015
When US troops left too soon The Boston Globe May 10, 2015
Gender is no credential for the White House The Boston Globe May 7, 2015
Thuggish censors in the marketplace of ideas The Boston Globe May 3, 2015
Strawberry field hands forever? The Boston Globe April 29, 2015
Politicians, 'profiteers,' and public health The Boston Globe April 26, 2015
Death or life for Tsarnaev? The Boston Globe April 22, 2015
Does Tehran mean what it says? Oh, yes The Boston Globe April 19, 2015
The Armenian genocide was also a jihad The Boston Globe April 15, 2015
Obama's hypocritical attack on Netanyahu The Boston Globe March 29, 2015
The House of Tudor didn't get the last word The Boston Globe March 26, 2015
It's Election 'Day' for a reason The Boston Globe March 22, 2015
Back to firing squads? Thank death-penalty foes The Boston Globe March 18, 2015
Campaign contributions and double standards The Boston Globe March 15, 2015
Take Daylight Saving Time. Please The Boston Globe March 11, 2015
Keolis agreed to high standards — not impossible ones The Boston Globe March 7, 2015
Putin's Russia is a gangster regime The Boston Globe March 4, 2015
The squabble over Bibi's speech The Boston Globe March 1, 2015
Look who's making an issue of Obama's religion The Boston Globe February 25, 2015
Could 'Grover the Good' win the White House today? The Boston Globe February 15, 2015
A valentine for fossil fuels The Boston Globe February 12, 2015
'I see parchment burning, but the letters are soaring free' The Boston Globe February 8, 2015
Weapons, not blankets, are what Ukraine needs now The Boston Globe February 4, 2015
No, 2014 wasn't the 'warmest year in history' The Boston Globe February 1, 2015
Spare the blogger and lash us instead The Boston Globe January 28, 2015
On immigration, it's GOP v. GOP The Boston Globe January 25, 2015
Gun rights should cross state lines The Boston Globe January 21, 2015
American to the core The Boston Globe January 19, 2015
A tip for Deval Patrick: Be like Bush The Boston Globe January 16, 2015
The antisemitic derangement The Boston Globe January 14, 2015
Justices don't belong at the State of the Union pep rally The Boston Globe January 11, 2015
Deconstructing Baker's inaugural speech The Boston Globe January 8, 2015
Dying of laughter in North Korea The Boston Globe January 7, 2015
White racism has all but disappeared from US politics The Boston Globe January 4, 2015
The politician, the coach, and the Founding Father The Boston Globe January 2, 2015
Be less romantic about the past The Boston Globe December 28, 2014
A happy Christmas for the Castro regime The Boston Globe December 21, 2014
When 'justice' trumps accuracy, journalism loses The Boston Globe December 14, 2014
China's economy isn't No. 1 — but if it were, so what? The Boston Globe December 11, 2014
The good that results from US 'boots on the ground' The Boston Globe December 7, 2014
An unlawful scheme to raise legislators' pay The Boston Globe December 3, 2014
As two-parent families decline, income inequality grows The Boston Globe November 30, 2014
Who'll be looking down on Baker? The Boston Globe November 28, 2014
The Jewish state's newest hero wasn't Jewish The Boston Globe November 23, 2014
Buy your health insurance out of state The Boston Globe November 19, 2014
Gas is cheaper. Where are the grandstanding politicians? The Boston Globe November 12, 2014
We worship our politicians — and we despise them The Boston Globe November 5, 2014
No wonder voters like a candidate who knows how to castrate hogs The Boston Globe November 2, 2014
A Clinton vs. Bush race? Again? The Boston Globe October 29, 2014
Same-sex weddings, and the right not to perform them The Boston Globe October 26, 2014
In politics, patience isn't overrated – but loyalty often is The Boston Globe October 22, 2014
A logic gap on the 'gender gap' The Boston Globe October 15, 2014
Wrong sperm, right baby. Why the lawsuit? The Boston Globe October 12, 2014
Running from the 'R' word The Boston Globe October 8, 2014
Dr. Emanuel's death wish The Boston Globe October 6, 2014
'Who will rest and who will wander' The Boston Globe October 1, 2014
For casinos — and for repealing the casino law The Boston Globe September 29, 2014
Why beheading? The Boston Globe September 22, 2014
DA's abuse of discretion should be condemned, not cheered The Boston Globe September 17, 2014
Don't count on an election-day tsunami The Boston Globe September 14, 2014
Drink to your health The Boston Globe September 10, 2014
An 'LBJ law' for Kentucky? The Boston Globe September 7, 2014
A 'right' to recline? The Boston Globe September 3, 2014
I'm unenrolled. I'm conservative. Which Democrat should I vote for? The Boston Globe August 31, 2014
Your strategy was wrong, Mr. President The Boston Globe August 27, 2014
This is no time to avert our gaze The Boston Globe August 24, 2014
Hillary's Delphic politics The Boston Globe August 20, 2014
How about a year-round tax holiday? The Boston Globe August 10, 2014
They're so vain, they probably think this bridge is about them The Boston Globe August 2, 2014
'God bless America,' with irony The Boston Globe July 30, 2014
Nixon: Painfully shy, but craving great purpose The Boston Globe July 27, 2014
No, inverters aren't 'deserters' The Boston Globe July 23, 2014
On Israel, Democrats are losing moral clarity The Boston Globe July 21, 2014
Don't like the Constitution? Amend it The Boston Globe July 16, 2014
Cleveland, no need to swoon over the RNC The Boston Globe July 13, 2014
If Hillary runs, it won't be as a Clinton Democrat The Boston Globe July 9, 2014
Dissenters in a one-party statehouse The Boston Globe July 6, 2014
Blinders and buffer zones The Boston Globe July 4, 2014
The stolen job myth The Boston Globe July 2, 2014
Thad Cochran's voting-rights victory The Boston Globe June 29, 2014
Lift the embargo – but liberate Cuba first The Boston Globe June 25, 2014
The rudeness of registries The Boston Globe June 22, 2014
Marriage and the 'wrong side of history' The Boston Globe June 18, 2014
Credit cards have expiration dates. Laws should too The Boston Globe June 16, 2014
Peace? When Palestinians accept Jews as neighbors The Boston Globe June 11, 2014
A 'classic sweetheart deal' The Boston Globe June 4, 2014
Tax the roads, not the fuel The Boston Globe June 2, 2014
The vaunted 'competence' of Barack Obama The Boston Globe May 25, 2014
How political insiders control the ballot The Boston Globe May 21, 2014
Pfizer and the flight from punitive taxes The Boston Globe May 18, 2014
Fossil-free isn't folly free The Boston Globe May 14, 2014
US legal bubble can't pop soon enough The Boston Globe May 12, 2014
Japan has outgrown its "Peace Constitution" The Boston Globe May 7, 2014
The prison door keeps revolving The Boston Globe May 4, 2014
Sterling's words were vulgar and bigoted, but private The Boston Globe April 30, 2014
Amid Holocaust remembrance, antisemitism adapts and thrives The Boston Globe April 27, 2014
Goldwater lost in a landslide – and won the GOP future The Boston Globe April 20, 2014
Islam, 'honor' violence, and the silence of the progressives The Boston Globe April 13, 2014
Unity in the death of a colleague The Boston Globe April 9, 2014
Money in politics? McCutcheon's foes don't always say no The Boston Globe April 6, 2014
Why no wine online in Massachusetts? The Boston Globe April 2, 2014
How unborn babies become 'clinical waste' The Boston Globe March 30, 2014
Democrats' ObamaCare albatross The Boston Globe March 27, 2014
Public-sector pensions are eating taxpayers alive The Boston Globe March 23, 2014
This is no time to go wobbly on Ukraine The Boston Globe March 19, 2014
The punchline is the president's dignity The Boston Globe March 16, 2014
Eminent disaster The Boston Globe March 12, 2014
'Six Californias' instead of one? The Boston Globe March 9, 2014
Obama's fantasy Middle East The Boston Globe March 5, 2014
The value in preaching to the unconverted The Boston Globe March 2, 2014
Where is our shame? The Boston Globe February 26, 2014
The man who didn't want to be president The Boston Globe February 16, 2014
No, death isn't 'too good' for Tsarnaev The Boston Globe February 12, 2014
Political values aren't coded in skin color The Boston Globe February 9, 2014
The Bay State's model of health care 'reform': Wait for it The Boston Globe February 5, 2014
'Leading from behind' to a new world disorder The Boston Globe February 2, 2014
Income gap? Not many are obsessed The Boston Globe January 29, 2014
The Court, the buffer zone, and the marketplace of ideas The Boston Globe January 26, 2014
Blessed by an 'amazing community' The Boston Globe January 22, 2014
Buffering out the right to hear The Boston Globe January 5, 2014
Four New Year's resolutions for the press The Boston Globe January 1, 2014
The Castro tyranny turns another year older The Boston Globe December 29, 2013
The radical dream of 'peace on earth' The Boston Globe December 25, 2013
Francis (n.) The Boston Globe December 22, 2013
Another slip down the slope from gay marriage The Boston Globe December 22, 2013
Impeach Obama? Not a chance The Boston Globe December 18, 2013
John Kerry's wrongheaded priority The Boston Globe December 15, 2013
Faked hate? The Boston Globe December 11, 2013
Majority rules on climate science? The Boston Globe December 4, 2013
'Tis better to give, but some give more The Boston Globe December 1, 2013
When there was no going home The Boston Globe November 27, 2013
A pro-terror rally on a Palestinian campus The Boston Globe November 24, 2013
When the joke was on JFK The Boston Globe November 20, 2013
Marketplace changes have made ENDA superfluous The Boston Globe November 17, 2013
Typhoon Haiyan and the old, old problem of evil The Boston Globe November 13, 2013
Does the First Amendment stop at 35 feet? The Boston Globe November 10, 2013
The bitter pill of failed state tax incentives The Boston Globe November 6, 2013
Which ObamaCare shoe will drop next? The Boston Globe November 3, 2013
The Saudis' UN snub was a message meant for Obama The Boston Globe October 27, 2013
Manufactured indignation The Boston Globe October 23, 2013
Would Democrats embrace a JFK today? The Boston Globe October 20, 2013
The problem is the debt, not the debt ceiling The Boston Globe October 16, 2013
Compromise with Republicans, don't demonize them The Boston Globe October 9, 2013
A cup of civility The Boston Globe October 6, 2013
Binding arbitration is a sucker's game for taxpayers The Boston Globe October 2, 2013
It's not the pope's culture war The Boston Globe September 25, 2013
Wellesley faculty defend an endangered 'colleague' – in China The Boston Globe September 18, 2013
From the Iraqi pullout to the disaster in Syria The Boston Globe September 15, 2013
The handshake delusion The Boston Globe September 11, 2013
Darwin's conundrum: Where does compassion come from? The Boston Globe September 4, 2013
Logan Airport is too important to be run by the state The Boston Globe September 1, 2013
When 'never again' turns into 'yet again' The Boston Globe August 28, 2013
Does a police officer's race matter? The Boston Globe August 25, 2013
How to fix presidential debates The Boston Globe August 21, 2013
An invitation from the Sunshine State The Boston Globe August 18, 2013
Fort Hood's casualties have earned the Purple Heart The Boston Globe August 14, 2013
Government is dangerous. Handle with care. The Boston Globe August 11, 2013
There oughta be a law? Don't be so sure The Boston Globe July 28, 2013
Don't be so trashy The Boston Globe July 24, 2013
Mandela's moral leap The Boston Globe July 21, 2013
A quintessentially American hall of fame The Boston Globe July 14, 2013
Supreme Court life tenure needs a rethink The Boston Globe July 10, 2013
What is Islam? The Boston Globe July 7, 2013
Words to transform the world The Boston Globe July 3, 2013
Voting rights and the chains of memory The Boston Globe June 30, 2013
Demography doesn't threaten the Jewish state The Boston Globe June 26, 2013
Political elite should shun Bill Bulger The Boston Globe June 23, 2013
Two pandering poseurs at the final Senate debate The Boston Globe June 19, 2013
Employers are not immigration officers The Boston Globe June 16, 2013
A conservative's case for confirming Samantha Power The Boston Globe June 12, 2013
Some questions they weren't expecting The Boston Globe June 9, 2013
Washington booms – thanks to other people's money The Boston Globe June 5, 2013
Is this any way to help the poor? The Boston Globe June 2, 2013
How far does 'marriage equality' go? The Boston Globe May 29, 2013
The most useless job in the state The Boston Globe May 26, 2013
At Harvard, the right not to be offended trumps academic freedom The Boston Globe May 22, 2013
Terrorism is never justified The Boston Globe May 15, 2013
Secure the border? That's what the US has done The Boston Globe May 12, 2013
Dzokhar Tsarnaev and the death penalty The Boston Globe May 8, 2013
Can Gabriel Gomez crack the code? The Boston Globe May 5, 2013
Winslow's media endorsements were no game changer The Boston Globe May 1, 2013
There's nothing fair about the Marketplace Fairness Act The Boston Globe April 24, 2013
On North Korea, Kerry muddles the message The Boston Globe April 21, 2013
Things will be the same again The Boston Globe April 16, 2013
King's 'Letter' and the law The Boston Globe April 14, 2013
The essence of Thatcherism The Boston Globe April 10, 2013
Boston's taxicab mess – and the oligopoly behind it The Boston Globe April 7, 2013
Lynch's vote showed backbone The Boston Globe March 24, 2013
On balance, was the Iraq war worth it? The Boston Globe March 20, 2013
Supreme, yes. But infallible? The Boston Globe March 17, 2013
Useful idiots, then and now The Boston Globe March 13, 2013
Education liberation The Boston Globe March 10, 2013
Americans speak every language, but only English unites us The Boston Globe March 6, 2013
Europe's Hezbollah cowardice The Boston Globe March 3, 2013
Still obsessed with Citizens United The Boston Globe February 27, 2013
After the 'toughest' gun law, gun crime rose The Boston Globe February 17, 2013
Abolition, word by word The Boston Globe February 13, 2013
Boston's commuters could learn something from Tokyo's The Boston Globe February 10, 2013
A guaranteed flop The Boston Globe February 6, 2013
A popular secretary of state, not a great one The Boston Globe February 3, 2013
Freedom? In Japan, conservatives don't mention it The Boston Globe January 30, 2013
Bad guys' lawyers The Boston Globe January 13, 2013
'People's Pledge' made the Warren-Brown race worse The Boston Globe January 9, 2013
People are truly good at heart? Sadly, no The Boston Globe January 2, 2013
What is the future of conservatism? Commentary January 2013
Kerry's 'realism' slips into callousness The Boston Globe December 30, 2012
Those endless, onerous presidential campaigns The Boston Globe December 26, 2012
A party that doesn't think with its skin The Boston Globe December 23, 2012
Good laws will never abolish all evil The Boston Globe December 19, 2012
The baby bust generation The Boston Globe December 16, 2012
Freedom from union compulsion The Boston Globe December 12, 2012
Powerball's other big winner: the taxman The Boston Globe December 9, 2012
Grant's greatest regret The Boston Globe December 5, 2012
What Medicare needs is a consumer-driven market The Boston Globe November 28, 2012
Yes, slash farm subsidies — but don't stop there The Boston Globe November 25, 2012
A vast moral difference The Boston Globe November 21, 2012
Incumbents forever The Boston Globe November 18, 2012
Gay marriage at the ballot box The Boston Globe November 14, 2012
Rx for the Mass. GOP: clarity and conviction The Boston Globe November 11, 2012
One of civilization's wonders The Boston Globe November 7, 2012
Voting is a right, not a duty The Boston Globe October 28, 2012
The real George McGovern The Boston Globe October 23, 2012
Can a conscientious liberal back Obama? The Boston Globe October 21, 2012
What would Hippocrates do? The Boston Globe October 17, 2012
The moral giant and the leftist creep The Boston Globe October 14, 2012
Warren tries to have it both ways The Boston Globe October 11, 2012
What's the real race issue here? The Boston Globe October 7, 2012
Romney left Obama on the ropes The Boston Globe October 4, 2012
Unintimidable: Boston University's 'silver unicorn' The Boston Globe September 28, 2012
Obama, the great divider The Boston Globe September 26, 2012
The ghosts of Jimmy Carter The Boston Globe September 23, 2012
Just as intended, teachers strike hurts families The Boston Globe September 16, 2012
The higher-ed bubble is bound to burst The Boston Globe September 12, 2012
Politics and the G-word The Boston Globe September 9, 2012
News media need to own their biases The Boston Globe September 5, 2012
Time to shelve the conventions The Boston Globe September 2, 2012
Political fidelity is a virtue -- sometimes The Boston Globe August 29, 2012
Which party is extreme on abortion? They both are The Boston Globe August 26, 2012
Stingy liberals The Boston Globe August 22, 2012
Unlikely bedfellows on immigration reform The Boston Globe August 19, 2012
After the Olympics: Where's the humility? The Boston Globe August 15, 2012
Why should Massachusetts beg anyone to vote? The Boston Globe August 12, 2012
The rich pay their fair share in taxes — and then some The Boston Globe August 8, 2012
Public discourse, without the 'hard zinger' The Boston Globe July 25, 2012
In refusing moment of silence for Munich victims, Olympic organizers show their lack of spine The Boston Globe / The Angle July 23, 2012
How the marriage gap favors Obama The Boston Globe July 22, 2012
A slow reader's lament The Boston Globe July 18, 2012
Life terms for teen killers: neither cruel nor unusual The Boston Globe July 15, 2012
Minimum-wage laws are costly for the unemployed The Boston Globe July 11, 2012
Broaden the immigration debate -- and abolish the quotas The Boston Globe July 8, 2012
Celebrating, royal-free The Boston Globe July 4, 2012
No danger in a nuclear Iran? Seriously? The Boston Globe July 1, 2012
America the non-racist The Boston Globe June 27, 2012
What Brown lost in the debate over the debate The Boston Globe June 24, 2012
Forget the research; our minds are made up The Boston Globe June 20, 2012
The #%@*&! problem The Boston Globe June 17, 2012
A free market brings down health costs The Boston Globe June 13, 2012
The end nears for a 50-year mistake The Boston Globe June 10, 2012
Facebook's expatriate and the Senate's demagogues The Boston Globe June 3, 2012
When 'minority' is a trick of definition The Boston Globe May 27, 2012
The peace process battered Israel's reputation The Boston Globe May 23, 2012
Two is enough The Boston Globe May 20, 2012
Health care: No, the state doesn't know best The Boston Globe May 16, 2012
What if Obama's 'evolution' had been sincere? The Boston Globe May 13, 2012
The ghastly hellhole of Camp 14 The Boston Globe May 9, 2012
'The defining issue of our time'? Hardly The Boston Globe May 6, 2012
What Brown's and Warren's tax returns really show The Boston Globe May 2, 2012
The government's college money pit The Boston Globe April 29, 2012
Jim McGovern's war on the Constitution The Boston Globe April 25, 2012
Obama is a unifier? Hardly. The Boston Globe April 22, 2012
'Victims' who persecute The Boston Globe April 18, 2012
Freedom of association, even for Augusta National The Boston Globe April 11, 2012
An uncivil income tax system The Boston Globe April 4, 2012
With sunny authenticity, Reagan wooed the young The Boston Globe March 28, 2012
Romney, Republicans, and the young The Boston Globe March 25, 2012
A safer society with guns The Boston Globe March 21, 2012
On the health-insurance mandate, Romney plays both sides The Boston Globe March 18, 2012
On trial at Rutgers: hate crime or thought crime? The Boston Globe March 14, 2012
Taxi medallions shackle cabbies The Boston Globe March 11, 2012
Apologize like you mean it, Rush The Boston Globe March 7, 2012
Santorum's 'snob' was no gaffe The Boston Globe March 4, 2012
Outraged by Mormon proxy baptism? Not this Jew The Boston Globe February 29, 2012
Quakers, conscience, and contraception The Boston Globe February 15, 2012
A second look at 'The Third Jihad' The Boston Globe February 12, 2012
Ganging up on Ginsburg The Boston Globe February 8, 2012
Is a long primary fight good for the GOP? The Boston Globe February 5, 2012
'Right-to-work' means freedom and choice The Boston Globe February 1, 2012
Why should the state license drivers? The Boston Globe January 29, 2012
Shut up, they explained The Boston Globe January 25, 2012
Tom Menino, cable guy? The Boston Globe January 22, 2012
Burning with despair The Boston Globe January 18, 2012
In New Hampshire, 'acceptable' is pronounced 'winner' The Boston Globe January 11, 2012
A 'referendum' on Romney The Boston Globe January 7, 2012
Pull the parachute The Boston Globe January 4, 2012
The Supreme Court's judgment isn't absolute The Boston Globe January 1, 2012
Not-Mitt (n.) The Boston Globe December 31, 2011
The gift of giving The Boston Globe December 28, 2011
'Dysfunctional' government is a feature, not a bug The Boston Globe December 25, 2011
The affirmative-action myth The Boston Globe December 23, 2011
An 'end point' for race-based admissions The Boston Globe December 18, 2011
E-mail isn't killing the Post Office The Boston Globe December 11, 2011
For Arab Christians, a wintry 'spring' The Boston Globe December 7, 2011
Frank's sneering insults won't be missed The Boston Globe December 4, 2011
In Oregon, a profile in incoherence The Boston Globe November 30, 2011
Making Americans The Boston Globe November 23, 2011
Memo to Washington: Kick the spending habit The Boston Globe November 20, 2011
Is America past its prime? The Boston Globe November 16, 2011
A deep breath for free speech The Boston Globe November 13, 2011
A nuclear Iran would be the gravest threat The Boston Globe November 9, 2011
Medallion madness The Boston Globe November 6, 2011
Occupiers, Tea Partiers, and the Tenth Commandment The Boston Globe November 2, 2011
Losing the peace in Iraq? The Boston Globe October 30, 2011
Romney's threat to China The Boston Globe October 26, 2011
Cain wasn't ready with a '9-9-9' defense The Boston Globe October 19, 2011
Too steep a price for Shalit's release The Boston Globe October 18, 2011
The Cairo pogrom The Boston Globe October 12, 2011
The left, the race card, and Herman Cain The Boston Globe October 9, 2011
The search for meaning in mortality The Boston Globe October 5, 2011
Professor Warren's ire The Boston Globe September 28, 2011
Climate skeptics don't 'deny science' The Boston Globe September 24, 2011
A Palestinian state? Don't count on it The Boston Globe September 21, 2011
For Elizabeth Warren, a story from 1984 The Boston Globe September 18, 2011
Liberty's resilience, even after 9/11 The Boston Globe September 14, 2011
The war on terror is a war of ideas The Boston Globe September 11, 2011
Uncle Sam's IOUs can't save Social Security The Boston Globe September 7, 2011
A Ponzi scheme? That's not the point The Boston Globe September 4, 2011
Anti-religious diatribes come in different forms The Boston Globe August 31, 2011
Disaster isn't a stimulus package The Boston Globe August 28, 2011
The Sage of Omaha speaks, but his actions speak louder The Boston Globe August 24, 2011
When 'inconsequential' means 'better' The Boston Globe August 21, 2011
Making Washington inconsequential The Boston Globe August 17, 2011
Tea Partiers sound an urgent alarm The Boston Globe August 14, 2011
The spurned millionaire's vendetta The Boston Globe August 10, 2011
'Energy independence' is a pipe dream The Boston Globe August 7, 2011
Smearing the Tea Party The Boston Globe August 3, 2011
Migraines, Michele, and me The Boston Globe July 24, 2011
Population boon The Boston Globe July 20, 2011
How many lawmakers does it take to. . . . The Boston Globe July 17, 2011
Close the door on public-sector unions The Boston Globe July 13, 2011
Let convicts choose: Prison or the lash? The Boston Globe July 10, 2011
Philosophy, faith, and the Fourth of July The Boston Globe July 3, 2011
Marriage cannot be redefined The Boston Globe June 29, 2011
Good intentions, bad health policy The Boston Globe June 26, 2011
The world's best policeman The Boston Globe June 22, 2011
Who cares about US history? The Boston Globe June 19, 2011
Outrage that misses the target The Boston Globe June 17, 2011
The tax break game The Boston Globe June 12, 2011
Slash spending and the economy will bloom The Boston Globe June 8, 2011
No blind eye to the 'worst of the worst' The Boston Globe June 5, 2011
Cooler heads contend with climate panic The Boston Globe June 1, 2011
Much ado about Bibi and Barack The Boston Globe May 29, 2011
A ban on circumcision? The Boston Globe May 25, 2011
Gingrich and 'the party of food stamps' The Boston Globe May 22, 2011
Romney stands steadfast for a bad idea The Boston Globe May 18, 2011
Obama's inexcusable indecision on Syria The Boston Globe May 15, 2011
Bin Laden's death doesn't vindicate torture The Boston Globe May 11, 2011
The debt-ceiling scaremongers The Boston Globe May 4, 2011
Finally, justice is done boston.com May 2, 2011
Hitler is dead. Hitlerism lives on The Boston Globe May 1, 2011
Why the 2012 hopefuls don't inspire The Boston Globe April 24, 2011
There's no fairness in taxing e-sales The Boston Globe April 17, 2011
The myth of 'Herbert Hoover economics' The Boston Globe April 13, 2011
The indispensable freedom of association The Boston Globe April 10, 2011
Judge Goldstone takes it back The Boston Globe April 6, 2011
Shaking the house that Assad built The Boston Globe March 30, 2011
Gingrich vs. Gingrich The Boston Globe March 26, 2011
The convention-center follies The Boston Globe March 23, 2011
This time, don't betray the rebels The Boston Globe March 20, 2011
Massacre of the innocents The Boston Globe March 16, 2011
What NPR needs is a little tough love The Boston Globe March 13, 2011
A RomneyCare fix for Romney The Boston Globe March 9, 2011
Separation of Jesus and Congress The Boston Globe March 6, 2011
Union 'rights' that aren't The Boston Globe March 2, 2011
Lara Logan and Egyptian liberation The Boston Globe February 20, 2011
Retire the racial bean-counters The Boston Globe February 16, 2011
Why are the zealots obsessed with smoking? The Boston Globe February 13, 2011
No room at the table for the Muslim Brothers The Boston Globe February 9, 2011
Made in the U.S.A. The Boston Globe February 6, 2011
Egypt and the 'freedom agenda' The Boston Globe February 2, 2011
The case for mercenaries in Somalia The Boston Globe January 30, 2011
Abortion's awful euphemisms The Boston Globe January 26, 2011
Obama, the Great Deregulator? The Boston Globe January 23, 2011
Voices of patience and wisdom The Boston Globe January 16, 2011
Arbitration's intolerable bind The Boston Globe January 12, 2011
The widening fight against public-sector unions The Boston Globe January 9, 2011
Commemorating secession, with sorrow and honesty The Boston Globe January 5, 2011
Beacon Hill's 'old school' corruption The Boston Globe January 2, 2011
Retweet (v.) The Boston Globe December 31, 2010
A House poorly divided The Boston Globe December 26, 2010
Looting Lorillard The Boston Globe December 22, 2010
Mitt Romney does the health-care straddle The Boston Globe December 19, 2010
Yes, genocide is 'an American concern' The Boston Globe December 15, 2010
Why do the liberals rage? The Boston Globe December 12, 2010
The 'Islamophobia' myth The Boston Globe December 8, 2010
Is capital punishment racist? The Boston Globe December 5, 2010
North Korea runs unchecked The Boston Globe December 1, 2010
No subsidy for NPR The Boston Globe November 24, 2010
TSA: One step behind the terrorists The Boston Globe November 21, 2010
Warning labels and the nanny-state The Boston Globe November 17, 2010
Created by God to be good The Boston Globe November 14, 2010
The GOP gets a second chance The Boston Globe November 7, 2010
Europe says no to deficit-spending 'stimulus' The Boston Globe November 3, 2010
The 'big dog' of campaign spending The Boston Globe October 30, 2010
Condescension and comeuppance The Boston Globe October 27, 2010
Yes on 3: Four reasons to roll back the sales tax The Boston Globe October 24, 2010
Fannie, Freddie, Frank, and fiction The Boston Globe October 20, 2010
The undeniable Jewish state The Boston Globe October 17, 2010
ObamaCare blowback The Boston Globe October 13, 2010
The most conservative court? Hardly The Boston Globe October 10, 2010
What public-sector unions have wrought Commentary October 2010
Congress beats the trade-war drum The Boston Globe October 6, 2010
Ultimate evil calls for ultimate punishment The Boston Globe September 29, 2010
The waste of recycling The Boston Globe September 22, 2010
Get excited about recycling? Not me The Boston Globe September 19, 2010
Lessons of the Koran's non-burning The Boston Globe September 15, 2010
The man out to topple Barney Frank The Boston Globe September 8, 2010
Victims on the road to 'peace' The Boston Globe September 5, 2010
'Clunkers' was a classic government folly The Boston Globe September 1, 2010
Let the private sector fund stem-cell research The Boston Globe August 29, 2010
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Giving thanks for the 'invisible hand' The Boston Globe November 27, 2003
The timeless meaning of marriage The Boston Globe November 16, 2003
The race-baiter in the campaign The Boston Globe November 9, 2003
Give the new tunnel a nonpolitical name The Boston Globe October 26, 2003
Put Nobel laureates to the test -- of time The Boston Globe October 16, 2003
A bum 'bigotry' rap on Rush The Boston Globe October 5, 2003
When murderers die, innocents live The Boston Globe September 28, 2003
Taiwan deserves a UN seat The Boston Globe September 18, 2003
The war didn't begin on 9/11 The Boston Globe September 11, 2003
Tolls, but no tollbooths The Boston Globe September 4, 2003
More prisoners, less crime The Boston Globe August 28, 2003
The unbearable dullness of economic writing The Boston Globe August 21, 2003
Drives, desires, and DNA The Boston Globe August 17, 2003
The guns of August 1968 The Boston Globe August 14, 2003
Out of a job he should never have had The Boston Globe August 10, 2003
The death of American racism The Boston Globe July 13, 2003
A miracle in Massachusetts The Boston Globe June 26, 2003
Pipes's effective path to peace The Boston Globe June 22, 2003
Israel's unshakable allies The Boston Globe May 15, 2003
Hooked on a cruel sport The Boston Globe May 11, 2003
Meanwhile, in Cuba, the tyranny goes on The Boston Globe April 10, 2003
Explaining the war to a six-year-old The Boston Globe April 3, 2003
'You are effectively saving Saddam' The Boston Globe February 20, 2003
The neverending voyage The Boston Globe February 6, 2003
This hasn't been a 'rush to war' The Boston Globe February 2, 2003
How not to win the war The Boston Globe January 26, 2003
Al Sharpton: The Democrat's David Duke The Boston Globe January 16, 2003
A disgrace to a grand old party The Boston Globe December 12, 2002
The blessing of private property The Boston Globe November 28, 2002
Murder at a kibbutz The Boston Globe November 14, 2002
Will they gut Question 2? The Boston Globe November 7, 2002
Saddam's shop of horrors The Boston Globe October 31, 2002
Making the case for Question 1 The Boston Globe October 27, 2002
Diplomats of uncommon courage The Boston Globe October 20, 2002
Jimmy Carter's ignoble prize The Boston Globe October 17, 2002
Romney's secret 'R' The Boston Globe October 6, 2002
English 101 The Boston Globe October 3, 2002
The face of antisemitism The Boston Globe September 26, 2002
Starving time in Zimbabwe The Boston Globe September 20, 2002
Saudi Arabia: "Eternal friend' or repressive foe? The Boston Globe September 1, 2002
Kerry's betrayal of Vietnam The Boston Globe August 25, 2002
Bonnie, get your gun The Boston Globe August 22, 2002
A screenwriter's remorse The Boston Globe August 18, 2002
The dangerous 'one China' myth The Boston Globe August 15, 2002
Jews among Arabs, Arabs among Jews The Boston Globe July 18, 2002
The new civil rights champions The Boston Globe July 11, 2002
'Under God' The Boston Globe July 4, 2002
Frisking the innocent The Boston Globe June 20, 2002
Looking at the horror The Boston Globe June 13, 2002
Cuba's jailed heroes The Boston Globe May 9, 2002
The canary in Europe's mine The Boston Globe April 28, 2002
The road to war The Boston Globe April 4, 2002
Decency matters most, Caleb The Boston Globe March 26, 2002
The US embargo and Cuba's future The Boston Globe March 21, 2002
The keepers of Cuba's conscience The Boston Globe March 17, 2002
A walk in Havana The Boston Globe March 14, 2002
Buchanan's blind spot on immigration The Boston Globe February 24, 2002
Steven Emerson and the NPR blacklist The Boston Globe February 7, 2002
The permissive parents of the 'American Taliban' The Boston Globe December 13, 2001
The wit and wisdom of Bastiat The Boston Globe December 9, 2001
The Palestinians' real objective The Boston Globe December 6, 2001
The war against Israel goes on The Boston Globe December 2, 2001
Bikers demand their 'civil rights' The Boston Globe November 29, 2001
Keeping cool on global warming The Boston Globe November 16, 2001
Rush Limbaugh's ear The Boston Globe October 14, 2001
We fight now because we didn't fight then The Boston Globe September 20, 2001
Our enemies meant what they said The Boston Globe September 13, 2001
Shrugging at genocide The Boston Globe August 30, 2001
Remembering the 'wall of shame' The Boston Globe August 20, 2001
If I were the transportation czar The Boston Globe August 13, 2001
The threat from same-sex 'marriage' The Boston Globe August 6, 2001
The battle of Fort Trumbull The Boston Globe July 26, 2001
Do these cabbies look like bigots? The Boston Globe July 12, 2001
'Defeated in the bedroom' The Boston Globe July 9, 2001
Who's white? Who's Hispanic? Who cares? The Boston Globe July 5, 2001
Bigoted man on campus The Boston Globe July 2, 2001
Still appeasing China's dictators The Boston Globe June 28, 2001
Boston's premier talker The Boston Globe June 14, 2001
An award JFK would have liked The Boston Globe May 24, 2001
Tax internet sales? No way! The Boston Globe May 21, 2001
Just another nontraditional family The Boston Globe May 17, 2001
Olympics 2008: Say no to Beijing The Boston Globe May 7, 2001
The inhumane society The Boston Globe April 2, 2001
To have a friend, be a friend The Boston Globe March 30, 2001
Ending the Clinton appeasement The Boston Globe March 22, 2001
Kennedy vs. Kennedy The Boston Globe March 15, 2001
The Taliban's wrecking job The Boston Globe March 8, 2001
How Jimmy Carter got his good name back The Boston Globe February 19, 2001
Good-bye, Bill Clinton, and good riddance The Boston Globe January 25, 2001
Ashcroft's Enemies Are The Zealots The Boston Globe January 18, 2001
Her Only Crime: Being Charitable The Boston Globe January 11, 2001
When Jerusalem Was Divided The Boston Globe January 8, 2001
They never forgot thee, O Jerusalem The Boston Globe January 4, 2001
Slander Is Just Fine When The Left Does It The Boston Globe December 28, 2000
If Pell grants are lawful, vouchers are too The Boston Globe December 14, 2000
The Wrong Man To Run The State Department The Boston Globe December 7, 2000
The 'MCAS' teens give each other The Boston Globe December 4, 2000
Clinton Lets Down Vietnamese Once Again The Boston Globe November 30, 2000
Why were the Pilgrims thankful? The Boston Globe November 23, 2000
'Peace Process' In Middle East Brings Only War The Boston Globe November 20, 2000
Gore's mark on history The Boston Globe November 16, 2000
My hero, my father The American Enterprise September 2000
Ballot initiatives keep democracy on track The Boston Globe June 5, 2000
Routed in Lebanon The Boston Globe May 29, 2000
Normal trade when China is normal The Boston Globe May 22, 2000
Why we fought in Vietnam The Boston Globe May 4, 2000
The unbearable lightness of being Canadian The Boston Globe April 20, 2000
The Holocaust deniers' real goal The Boston Globe April 17, 2000
Memoirs of a man with one foot still in Auschwitz The Boston Globe April 3, 2000
Memoirs of a man with one foot still in Auschwitz The Boston Globe April 3, 2000
A world full of unsettling messages The Boston Globe March 20, 2000
The accuracy of capital punishment The Boston Globe February 28, 2000
John McCain: How straight a shooter? The Boston Globe January 27, 2000
Who says it's wrong to ban gay marriage? The Boston Globe January 24, 2000
Islam's unheard moderates The Boston Globe January 6, 2000
Man of the millennium The Boston Globe December 20, 1999
Thankful for our immigrants The Boston Globe November 25, 1999
The wall came tumbling down The Boston Globe November 8, 1999
A 'beached whale' for South Boston The Boston Globe November 1, 1999
Putin's cruel war is fueled by US dollars The Boston Globe October 28, 1999
Who's afraid of the Southern Baptists? The Boston Globe September 13, 1999
The grand old spending party The Boston Globe August 26, 1999
The media love McCain, but will Republicans? The Boston Globe August 2, 1999
The end of 'One China' The Boston Globe July 19, 1999
10 years after Tiananmen, Beijing's tyranny is unchanged The Boston Globe June 3, 1999
Ray Shamie's last campaign The Boston Globe May 24, 1999
Where were the adults? The Boston Globe April 26, 1999
Renounce the racists, Senator Lott The Boston Globe April 19, 1999
My father's shoes The Boston Globe April 15, 1999
Say what, Mr. Gore? The Boston Globe April 5, 1999
Return these exiles to Greece The Boston Globe April 1, 1999
The ghost of Papandreou hovers over Greece The Boston Globe March 29, 1999
Double standards, left and right The Boston Globe March 15, 1999
Every word counts, Caleb The Boston Globe March 11, 1999
Kazan's lifetime achievement The Boston Globe March 8, 1999
Serious artists don't need the NEA The Boston Globe March 4, 1999
Rape? Sounds like our Bill. The Boston Globe March 1, 1999
Murder over the high seas The Boston Globe February 25, 1999
Why we need a bigger House The Boston Globe February 15, 1999
A convert to peacemaking The Boston Globe February 11, 1999
Papal interference in Missouri The Boston Globe February 4, 1999
It wasn't the N-word The Boston Globe February 1, 1999
Term limits turncoats The Boston Globe January 21, 1999
The antisemitism the West ignores The Boston Globe January 18, 1999
The secret of Clinton's popularity The Boston Globe January 14, 1999
Who will bring Castro to justice? The Boston Globe January 11, 1999
Busing's legacy: racial isolation The Boston Globe January 7, 1999
Garrity's folly: 25 years after busing began The Boston Globe January 4, 1999
A liberal double standard on hate speech The Boston Globe December 31, 1998
The US suffered through turmoil in '98. That is, 1798. The Boston Globe December 28, 1998
Is Andy Young deaf? The Boston Globe December 24, 1998
The real racism in 'Nappy Hair' The Boston Globe December 21, 1998
The case against censure The Boston Globe December 17, 1998
Give the tobacco windfall back to the taxpayers The Boston Globe December 10, 1998
Jews can set a moral example with Holocaust funds The Boston Globe December 7, 1998
Inmates on death row are more likely to walk than die The Boston Globe November 30, 1998
US trade barriers are bad — for the US The Boston Globe November 19, 1998
Finish the job that Bush left undone in Iraq The Boston Globe November 16, 1998
The bullies' next target: junk food The Boston Globe November 12, 1998
Who wrecked the Massachusetts GOP? The Boston Globe November 9, 1998
Scientists don't agree on global warming The Boston Globe November 5, 1998
What real hate speech sounds like The Boston Globe November 2, 1998
The disastrous Wye accord The Boston Globe October 29, 1998
Voting devalued: from ballot box to mailbox in Oregon The Boston Globe October 26, 1998
Microsoft's real crime: success The Boston Globe October 22, 1998
In academia, free speech is out and speech codes are in The Boston Globe October 19, 1998
The lessons of Laramie The Boston Globe October 15, 1998
Question 2: An insult to honest politics The Boston Globe October 1, 1998
A black student destroyed by racism. Or was he? The Boston Globe September 28, 1998
Still we sing: 'S wonderful! 'S marvelous! The Boston Globe September 24, 1998
What kind of kindness? The Boston Globe September 21, 1998
With Primakov, it's back to the Cold War The Boston Globe September 17, 1998
His moral authority is gone. He should be, too The Boston Globe September 14, 1998
In the 8th District, it makes no difference who wins The Boston Globe September 10, 1998
Shorter and sweeter on Beacon Hill The Boston Globe September 7, 1998
Yandle belongs in prison for life The Boston Globe September 3, 1998
The blacklisting of an investigative journalist The Boston Globe August 31, 1998
What Malone knows and Cellucci doesn't The Boston Globe August 27, 1998
The automobile inspection rip-off The Boston Globe August 24, 1998
A presidency of lies The Boston Globe August 20, 1998
Palestinian kids spend their summer learning to hate The Boston Globe August 13, 1998
The unjust logic of sparing murderers The Boston Globe August 10, 1998
75 years of underestimating Calvin Coolidge The Boston Globe August 6, 1998
The results of Clinton's kowtow to China The Boston Globe August 3, 1998
Patriotism and the Fortune 100 The Boston Globe July 30, 1998
Boston's 'lost' conventions The Boston Globe July 27, 1998
Poisonous rhetoric from a would-be president The Boston Globe July 23, 1998
Kennedy's destructive hate crimes bill The Boston Globe July 20, 1998
What decency requires of the Swiss The Boston Globe July 18, 1998
A sure cure for 'Registry rage' The Boston Globe July 13, 1998
Labor's deceit on Proposition 226 The Boston Globe July 9, 1998
What the media don't admit: Guns make us safer The Boston Globe June 18, 1998
Due process, even for Big Tobacco The Boston Globe June 16, 1998
Antitax group giving up? The Boston Globe June 11, 1998
Why the tizzy over the trade deficit? The Boston Globe June 9, 1998
PC police are spoiling it for kids who play soccer The Boston Globe June 2, 1998
The classroom culture that spawned Kip Kinkel The Boston Globe May 28, 1998
Bill Clinton will have a great fall The Boston Globe May 26, 1998
The Endangered Species Act needs an overhaul The Boston Globe May 21, 1998
What did India do wrong? The Boston Globe May 19, 1998
Overpopulation? The Boston Globe May 15, 1998
The Arab jihad against Israel The Boston Globe May 12, 1998
Suspicions about the statewide tests The Boston Globe May 7, 1998
The wrong way to protect paychecks The Boston Globe May 5, 1998
American leftists were Pol Pot's cheerleaders The Boston Globe April 30, 1998
Horror at Ebensee The Boston Globe April 28, 1998
What would Justice Holmes say about taxes now? The Boston Globe April 9, 1998
Massive anti-smoking campaign is a massive flop The Boston Globe April 7, 1998
The Cuban embargo's moral justification The Boston Globe April 2, 1998
Dear Caleb: Has it been a year already? The Boston Globe March 31, 1998
What the antismoking zealots really crave The Boston Globe March 24, 1998
Why Johnny can't read more than three 'white' books The Boston Globe March 19, 1998
Why did Joe Kennedy ever run in the first place? The Boston Globe March 17, 1998
Who's afraid of CO2? The Boston Globe March 12, 1998
Ivan the terrible, US citizen The Boston Globe March 10, 1998
Charter schools' misguided foes The Boston Globe March 5, 1998
Sid Blumenthal, the reporter's friend? The Boston Globe March 3, 1998
Thank you notes from Saddam The Boston Globe February 26, 1998
Charter schools offer 'a ray of hope' The Boston Globe February 19, 1998
A disabling law The Boston Globe February 17, 1998
Now we know: Rent control critics were right The Boston Globe February 12, 1998
Clinton's worst judicial nomination The Boston Globe February 10, 1998
We're left with one option: Get rid of Saddam The Boston Globe February 5, 1998
Clinton's other whopper The Boston Globe February 3, 1998
Query for liberals: Should incest be a crime? The Boston Globe January 27, 1998
What Arafat could learn on his visit to the Holocaust Museum The Boston Globe January 22, 1998
What hath Roe wrought The Boston Globe January 20, 1998
Speaker Finneran to Massachusetts taxpayers: Drop dead The Boston Globe January 15, 1998
The loss of presidential dignity The Boston Globe January 13, 1998
Latrena Pixley and the downward slide of American jurisprudence The Boston Globe January 9, 1998
'Their blood flowed red, too' The Boston Globe January 6, 1998
Not another honor for W.E.B. DuBois The Boston Globe January 2, 1998
Cellucci, Malone, and the Republican Future CommonWealth Summer 1998
More hate speech from the left The Boston Globe December 30, 1997
A revolutionary Christmas tale The Boston Globe December 25, 1997
Animal crazy The Boston Globe December 23, 1997
Ashcroft may be just what Republicans need: a man of deep principles The Boston Globe December 18, 1997
True to the God of their mother — despite their father's wish The Boston Globe December 16, 1997
In Arabic, not a word of peace from Arafat The Boston Globe December 9, 1997
Charitable Southerners, stingy New Englanders The Boston Globe December 4, 1997
The government's air bag failure The Boston Globe November 20, 1997
If race shouldn't count, then why count it? The Boston Globe November 18, 1997
See how they lie The Boston Globe November 13, 1997
Pol Pot's clear conscience The Boston Globe November 4, 1997
Lower deficit, bigger government The Boston Globe October 30, 1997
Another week of oppression The Boston Globe October 28, 1997
An inspirational teacher of law The Boston Globe October 16, 1997
Christopher Columbus, hero The Boston Globe October 9, 1997
Visiting Luhyna, revisiting a horror The Boston Globe September 23, 1997
At the right time, he did the right thing The Boston Globe September 2, 1997
Despite its promises, the NEA remains unchanged The Boston Globe August 21, 1997
Affirmative action can be fatal The Boston Globe August 14, 1997
Bush laid the ground for budget deal? Nonsense The Boston Globe August 12, 1997
Mass transit: wave of the past The Boston Globe August 7, 1997
'Mr. Magoo' brings out the PC police The Boston Globe August 5, 1997
Justice Brennan's legacy is an imperious judiciary The Boston Globe July 31, 1997
Wannabe Weld, pot-stirrer The Boston Globe July 29, 1997
Why the IRA can't make peace The Boston Globe July 24, 1997
GOP pays the price for its tax deal with Clinton The Boston Globe July 22, 1997
The fall of term limits — and the SJC The Boston Globe July 17, 1997
Death of a message The Boston Globe July 15, 1997
PLO propagandists rewrite Jewish history The Boston Globe July 10, 1997
Raises for Finneran's pals, but no relief for taxpayers The Boston Globe July 8, 1997
The Framers would have voted to abolish the NEA The Boston Globe July 3, 1997
Hong Kong is swallowed up The Boston Globe July 1, 1997
In defense of 'an eye for an eye' The Boston Globe June 24, 1997
When smoking is outlawed, only lawmakers will smoke The Boston Globe June 19, 1997
Mr. President, you're no racial healer The Boston Globe June 17, 1997
It takes a man — not a single mother — to be a good dad The Boston Globe June 12, 1997
Rewarding deadbeats The Boston Globe June 10, 1997
Want to rent an ex-president? Call George Bush The Boston Globe June 5, 1997
At UMass, student lawbreaking has grown routine The Boston Globe June 3, 1997
On college campuses, all is not yet lost The Boston Globe May 29, 1997
Clinton's own deeds merit an apology The Boston Globe May 22, 1997
In D.C., a change of heart on the death penalty The Boston Globe May 20, 1997
The tyranny of the IRS The Boston Globe May 13, 1997
Though officials deny it, apartheid rules at UMass-Amherst The Boston Globe May 8, 1997
A double standard for Arafatland The Boston Globe May 6, 1997
Webster's diplomacy — and ours The Boston Globe April 22, 1997
Kids learn nothing from TV, and that includes 'Sesame Street' The Boston Globe April 17, 1997
Art without the NEA The Boston Globe April 15, 1997
If the city can't plow the streets, how is Boston 400 going to work? The Boston Globe April 10, 1997
Of course tobacco execs lied. So? The Boston Globe April 8, 1997
The Kennedys and women The Boston Globe April 3, 1997
Farrakhan and the slave traders The Boston Globe April 1, 1997
A message to my newborn son The Boston Globe March 27, 1997
Tax relief is indispensable. Newt Gingrich isn't The Boston Globe March 25, 1997
Bigotry in black and white The Boston Globe March 11, 1997
Who needs the Registry? The Boston Globe March 6, 1997
The partial-truth abortion debate The Boston Globe March 4, 1997
A blind eye to Deng's atrocities The Boston Globe February 27, 1997
A lesson from Birmingham Jail The Boston Globe February 25, 1997
Bring back flogging The Boston Globe February 20, 1997
Rx for the House: Enlarge it The Boston Globe February 18, 1997
A commercial jewel in PBS's crown The Boston Globe February 13, 1997
The deceiving of Madeleine Albright The Boston Globe February 11, 1997
Education inflation The Boston Globe February 6, 1997
Menino's abandoned tax-cut brainstorm The Boston Globe February 4, 1997
In Jones vs. Clinton, hypocrisy left and right The Boston Globe January 30, 1997
Tsongas's shining hour The Boston Globe January 28, 1997
The self-esteem movement goes off the deep end The Boston Globe January 23, 1997
Out of the mouths of liberals comes hate speech The Boston Globe December 31, 1996
The real obstacle to Mideast peace The Boston Globe December 26, 1996
Christian suffering is on the rise The Boston Globe December 24, 1996
Santa, 2014: slim, smoke-free, and P.C. The Boston Globe December 19, 1996
The false gods of popular culture The Boston Globe December 17, 1996
Willful murderers deserve death, not compassion The Boston Globe December 12, 1996
Why is the state so secretive about its standardized tests? The Boston Globe December 10, 1996
Disney's courage, Mandela's caution The Boston Globe December 5, 1996
Lower the flag, South Carolina The Boston Globe December 3, 1996
The faith that links Thanksgiving and Chanukah The Boston Globe November 28, 1996
Good riddance to a disgraceful speaker The Boston Globe November 26, 1996
The sky didn't fall on black congressional candidates The Boston Globe November 21, 1996
'Motor voter' dumbs down democracy The Boston Globe November 12, 1996
Rejoice, conservatives: You carried the day The Boston Globe November 7, 1996
Wang's sacrifice for the right to vote The Boston Globe November 5, 1996
Moakley doesn't know when to quit The Boston Globe October 31, 1996
Why Johnny still can't read (or write or do math) The Boston Globe October 29, 1996
US Postal Service slips closer to irrelevance The Boston Globe October 24, 1996
From whites-only trains to blacks-only classrooms The Boston Globe October 22, 1996
Dole's word vs. Clinton's The Boston Globe October 17, 1996
The low state of higher education The Boston Globe October 15, 1996
For the Palestinians, peace is but a tactic The Boston Globe October 11, 1996
Imagine, a candidacy based on principle The Boston Globe October 8, 1996
The message is clear: Dole's the better man The Boston Globe October 7, 1996
A letter to Johnathan The Boston Globe October 3, 1996
40 more reasons to fire Bill Clinton The Boston Globe October 1, 1996
Four ways to jump-start the Kerry campaign The Boston Globe September 26, 1996
A cardinal's compassion for a killer The Boston Globe September 24, 1996
Four more years? Here are 40 reasons to say no The Boston Globe September 12, 1996
A nominee of a different color The Boston Globe September 10, 1996
The suffering of a mother bird The Boston Globe September 5, 1996
The party of gun-haters The Boston Globe September 3, 1996
Paying the price for faith The Boston Globe August 29, 1996
California's colorblind proposition The Boston Globe August 27, 1996
Embers from the Holocaust The Boston Globe August 18, 1996
African Americans find a home in the GOP The Boston Globe August 15, 1996
Dole unfurls the Reaganite flag The Boston Globe August 13, 1996
Why the voters should judge the judges The Boston Globe August 8, 1996
A welfare catastrophe? No, it's a modest reform The Boston Globe August 6, 1996
'I am not going to stay in the same room as this Israeli' The Boston Globe August 1, 1996
Bob Dole? A tax cutter? The Boston Globe July 30, 1996
Waging hypocrisy The Boston Globe July 25, 1996
Gingrich was right about White House drug users The Boston Globe July 23, 1996
Making it too easy to vote The Boston Globe July 18, 1996
No marriage license for Barney Frank The Boston Globe July 16, 1996
Cut the fawning over Justice Liacos The Boston Globe July 11, 1996
Behind Bibi's style, a new message about peace The Boston Globe July 9, 1996
The founders' formula: faith and liberty The Boston Globe July 4, 1996
Germans face big bills for decades of social spending The Boston Globe July 2, 1996
Liberal media bias? Of course there is The Boston Globe June 11, 1996
Welcome, immigrants -- but don't expect any giveaways The Boston Globe June 6, 1996
At least Israel puts it to a vote The Boston Globe June 4, 1996
A day of hope and courage The Boston Globe May 30, 1996
In the best interests of Baby Lonnie? The Boston Globe May 23, 1996
The flag in the toilet The Boston Globe May 21, 1996
Kerry's charity gap The Boston Globe May 16, 1996
Of Hindu extremists and a prince's privacy The Boston Globe May 14, 1996
The teachers we remember The Boston Globe May 9, 1996
Who really drove up the price of gasoline? The Boston Globe May 7, 1996
New tortures for landlords The Boston Globe May 2, 1996
Rent control, RIP The Boston Globe April 30, 1996
100 years after Plessy, and we're still counting by race The Boston Globe April 25, 1996
Are environmentalists responsible for the Unabomber? The Boston Globe April 23, 1996
There's a remedy for incompetent judges The Boston Globe April 18, 1996
'The killers were so many' The Boston Globe April 16, 1996
Minimum wage, maximum pain The Boston Globe April 11, 1996
A worried John Kerry The Boston Globe April 9, 1996
Finneran: speaker of the House, not the Democratic caucus The Boston Globe April 4, 1996
Silence on slavery The Boston Globe April 2, 1996
Intolerance at Brookline High The Boston Globe March 19, 1996
U.S. ambiguity on Taiwan invites aggression The Boston Globe March 14, 1996
Let's end corporate welfare as we know it The Boston Globe March 12, 1996
Rx for the Legislature: Trim the fat The Boston Globe March 7, 1996
Legislative greed The Boston Globe March 5, 1996
In London, Cuba, Israel: the bombs of 'peace' The Boston Globe February 29, 1996
Why Buchanan is going nowhere The Boston Globe February 27, 1996
The mugging of the Palm The Boston Globe February 22, 1996
Political notes for a shabby season The Boston Globe February 20, 1996
Minister of treason The Boston Globe February 15, 1996
Bill Weld's shifting standards The Boston Globe February 13, 1996
Flat tax is the fairest of them all The Boston Globe February 8, 1996
'Alarming facts' about boys and girls The Boston Globe February 6, 1996
Elections by mail? Here's a no vote The Boston Globe February 1, 1996
The body's delicate balancing act The Boston Globe January 30, 1996
What happened when ABC was caught in a lie? It covered up The Boston Globe January 25, 1996
A killer lives; a child dies The Boston Globe January 12, 1996
Have a drink, live a little (longer) The Boston Globe January 9, 1996
Homage to a crooner The Boston Globe January 4, 1996
Bill Weld's Revolution that Wasn't City Journal Winter 1996
Another year of liberal libels The Boston Globe December 21, 1995
The vandals of history The Boston Globe December 19, 1995
The flames of hatred in the Age of Farrakhan The Boston Globe December 14, 1995
A ban on negative ads, Sen. Kerry? Why wait? The Boston Globe December 12, 1995
To the victims of Communism: lest we forget The Boston Globe December 7, 1995
Break open the taxicab monopoly The Boston Globe December 5, 1995
Recipe for a debacle The Boston Globe November 30, 1995
Another blow to UMass's reputation The Boston Globe November 28, 1995
The power of a 'compassion tax credit' The Boston Globe November 23, 1995
Ethical clouds over the Clinton cabinet The Boston Globe November 21, 1995
The shutdown has me worried sick The Boston Globe November 16, 1995
Expressway HOV lane: a highly offensive venture The Boston Globe November 14, 1995
While Milosevic shops The Boston Globe November 9, 1995
Rabin is not the first victim of this ancient scourge The Boston Globe November 7, 1995
So Weld is downsizing government? Seeing is believing The Boston Globe November 2, 1995
Musings, random and otherwise The Boston Globe October 31, 1995
Should discrimination against homosexuals be illegal? The Boston Globe October 26, 1995
Cleveland's comeback The Boston Globe October 24, 1995
Straight talk about 'choice' The Boston Globe October 19, 1995
As taxes have climbed, families have paid the price The Boston Globe October 17, 1995
Choking off immigration The Boston Globe October 5, 1995
When murder makes page 1, is the blood any redder? The Boston Globe October 3, 1995
The terrible crimes of Ivan The Boston Globe September 28, 1995
Who is Bush to fault Clinton? The Boston Globe September 14, 1995
If Packwood isn't fit to be a senator, why is Kennedy? The Boston Globe September 12, 1995
The Supreme Court doesn't have the final word The Boston Globe September 7, 1995
A third-party president? Forget it The Boston Globe September 5, 1995
Unions replace solidarity with coercion The Boston Globe August 31, 1995
Lesson for liberals: the riches of a Mississippi washerwoman The Boston Globe August 29, 1995
Peace process? What peace process? The Boston Globe August 24, 1995
Crime is down. Why don't we don't feel safer? The Boston Globe August 17, 1995
Bigotry in banking? No, just good judgment The Boston Globe August 15, 1995
Macworld's lesson for the megaplex debate The Boston Globe August 10, 1995
Love my auto-nomy The Boston Globe August 8, 1995
Clinton won't let us end welfare as we know it The Boston Globe August 3, 1995
Targeting the pay raisers The Boston Globe August 1, 1995
Stopping PIRG's scam The Boston Globe July 27, 1995
Arts money for arts insiders The Boston Globe July 25, 1995
When will we stop the 'ethnic cleansing' in Bosnia? The Boston Globe July 20, 1995
A catastrophe in foster care The Boston Globe July 18, 1995
The curtain isn't going up in Allston The Boston Globe July 13, 1995
What Jesse Helms should have said The Boston Globe July 11, 1995
Enola Gay: Plane and simple The Boston Globe July 6, 1995
Religion and the American idea The Boston Globe July 4, 1995
Politics and Higher Ed 101 The Boston Globe June 22, 1995
The sorry state of state colleges The Boston Globe June 20, 1995
The immigrant-bashing frenzy The Boston Globe June 15, 1995
Time has improved Yandle, but it hasn't lessened his crime The Boston Globe June 13, 1995
A desensitized society drenched in sleaze The Boston Globe June 8, 1995
Communist chic, or, Why do they swoon for Fidel? The Boston Globe June 6, 1995
The government's assault on higher education The Boston Globe June 1, 1995
The chaos facing the White House The Boston Globe May 30, 1995
Freedom is the loser with a government-run 'megaplex' The Boston Globe May 25, 1995
Bully Japan, hurt US The Boston Globe May 23, 1995
Profiles in arrogance and failure, not courage The Boston Globe May 18, 1995
Feel their pain, Mr. President The Boston Globe May 9, 1995
All the wrong moves in Moscow The Boston Globe May 4, 1995
Whose parade? Whose message? The Boston Globe May 2, 1995
A suspension of barbarity The Boston Globe April 27, 1995
Combatting the anti-Arab stereotype The Boston Globe April 25, 1995
Tax code tyranny The Boston Globe April 18, 1995
A two-front war against MassPIRG's duplicity The Boston Globe April 13, 1995
What does Harvard have against teen killers? The Boston Globe April 11, 1995
A bloody peace The Boston Globe April 6, 1995
Stop-at-nothing zealots exploit the ADA The Boston Globe March 23, 1995
Race doesn't matter The Boston Globe March 16, 1995
A GOP dive on term limits? The Boston Globe March 14, 1995
BC's snub can't hurt Thatcher's reputation The Boston Globe March 9, 1995
When the lesson is sensitive, parents should be in charge The Boston Globe March 7, 1995
Iran's high-octane blood money The Boston Globe March 2, 1995
There's no place in America for a ministry of culture The Boston Globe February 23, 1995
The one thing the MDC excels at -- protecting itself The Boston Globe February 21, 1995
The morality of abortion, not its legality, is the issue The Boston Globe February 16, 1995
What love is — and isn't The Boston Globe February 14, 1995
Let competition move the mail The Boston Globe February 9, 1995
The Smithsonian still doesn't get it The Boston Globe February 7, 1995
Riches rain on Doctor Doom The Boston Globe February 2, 1995
No freedom to mangle the First Amendment The Boston Globe January 31, 1995
Liberals' arguments can just kill you The Boston Globe January 26, 1995
How the NEA pollutes American culture The Boston Globe January 24, 1995
Chechnya: The fruits of US silence The Boston Globe January 19, 1995
What 'Facing History' really teaches The Boston Globe January 17, 1995
A year of character-assassination from the left The Boston Globe December 27, 1994
How to fix Social Security The Boston Globe December 22, 1994
The Social Security scam The Boston Globe December 20, 1994
From the 'Dopes' file The Boston Globe December 15, 1994
Convention wisdom The Boston Globe December 13, 1994
The Nobel after Arafat The Boston Globe December 8, 1994
Governor Weld: Just another hack The Boston Globe December 6, 1994
America -- the superpower wimp The Boston Globe December 1, 1994
Face it: Rent control is dead The Boston Globe November 29, 1994
Light's victory over darkness The Boston Globe November 24, 1994
Legislative pay hike is a done deal The Boston Globe November 22, 1994
Judging policy passed at the polls The Boston Globe November 17, 1994
Are there limits to congressional power? The Boston Globe November 15, 1994
Why is this state different from all other states? The Boston Globe November 10, 1994
The wrong target The Boston Globe November 8, 1994
Mired in Kennedy country The Boston Globe November 3, 1994
In the 9th district, a fine candidate going nowhere The Boston Globe November 1, 1994
Questions 4 and 5: power to the people The Boston Globe October 28, 1994
The prosecutor returns The Boston Globe October 27, 1994
Ted's spear: broken The Boston Globe October 26, 1994
The Third District's gamble on Blute pays off The Boston Globe October 25, 1994
The en-Nobeling of Arafat The Boston Globe October 20, 1994
A sleepwalk for Weld The Boston Globe October 19, 1994
Nature's best protector The Boston Globe October 18, 1994
A fondness for Brezhnev, and other Kennedy curiosities The Boston Globe October 6, 1994
The bread police The Boston Globe October 4, 1994
Pro-grad-tax crowd play a cynical, greedy game The Boston Globe September 29, 1994
Seeking justice for crimes of the past The Boston Globe September 27, 1994
Bulger 'mafia' spurs Keating turnaround The Boston Globe September 20, 1994
Why I'm voting for Bachrach; or, adventures on the Democratic ballot The Boston Globe September 15, 1994
Harping on Romney's religion The Boston Globe September 13, 1994
At stake in Question 9: fairness for property owners The Boston Globe September 8, 1994
Why the 'troubles' will go one . . . and on The Boston Globe September 6, 1994
Wrongly presuming that people are a problem The Boston Globe September 1, 1994
Drowning in crime The Boston Globe August 30, 1994
Unbuckling the voters The Boston Globe August 25, 1994
Racism is now the exception The Boston Globe August 23, 1994
Crime bill hypocrites The Boston Globe August 19, 1994
Smithsonian drops a bomb in WW2 exhibit The Boston Globe August 16, 1994
Treat Iran as a vicious outlaw, not a business partner The Boston Globe August 9, 1994
Just say no to 'Clinton lite' The Boston Globe August 4, 1994
A roll call for murderers The Boston Globe August 2, 1994
Bureaucrats battle over electric cars The Boston Globe July 28, 1994
Obstructionists fuel the welfare revolt The Boston Globe July 26, 1994
Chappaquiddick's unanswered questions The Boston Globe July 21, 1994
Let the Haitians in The Boston Globe July 19, 1994
Raze the old Registry The Boston Globe July 14, 1994
Lessons for Romney in Kennedy's success The Boston Globe July 12, 1994
Insufferable art The Boston Globe July 7, 1994
When judges blunder, the remedy is impeachment The Boston Globe June 28, 1994
False doubts about breast implants The Boston Globe June 23, 1994
Without the death penalty, innocents will die The Boston Globe June 21, 1994
CNN's odd juxtaposition The Boston Globe June 16, 1994
The twice-curs'd welfare treasure trove The Boston Globe June 14, 1994
Clinton, Haiti, and the lessons of D-Day The Boston Globe June 9, 1994
Speaking of the smell test, Governor Dukakis . . . The Boston Globe June 7, 1994
Look what's missing from Lani Guinier's book The Boston Globe June 2, 1994
Arafat's treachery makes a mockery of peace The Boston Globe May 31, 1994
Hotel was unfairly pilloried The Boston Globe May 26, 1994
What's morality got to do with it? The Boston Globe May 24, 1994
Illegitimacy -- a deadly risk for infants The Boston Globe May 19, 1994
Clinton in court over a come-on? Come on! The Boston Globe May 17, 1994
Want to win? Don't get the convention endorsement The Boston Globe May 12, 1994
The Left hates that Kirkpatrick was right The Boston Globe May 10, 1994
Euthanasia: barbarism cloaked in compassion The Boston Globe May 5, 1994
In Brookline, a gang that can't count straight The Boston Globe May 3, 1994
Defeating the Blob that runs the public schools The Boston Globe April 28, 1994
Nixon: A kindred spirit for the 'silent majority' The Boston Globe April 26, 1994
An off-key note at Symphony Hall The Boston Globe April 21, 1994
Getting Barrett's drift The Boston Globe April 19, 1994
When taxes come close to legalized theft The Boston Globe April 14, 1994
Will the real Bill Weld please stand up? The Boston Globe April 12, 1994
The day the Nazis came for my father's family The Boston Globe April 7, 1994
Why did Reverend Williams die? The Boston Globe April 5, 1994
A recipe for calamity in Somalia The Boston Globe March 31, 1994
Scrooge doesn't live here The Boston Globe March 29, 1994
A 39-point blueprint for ignorance The Boston Globe March 24, 1994
The House is unrepresentative The Boston Globe March 22, 1994
A great day for the Irish, but not for Flynn The Boston Globe March 17, 1994
Farrakhan: A hatred-hustling huckster The Boston Globe March 15, 1994
A glib excuse to crash the St. Pat's parade The Boston Globe March 10, 1994
A blunt, ugly truth: Abuse and welfare are connected The Boston Globe March 8, 1994
From Foxboro, foul play on the taxpayers The Boston Globe March 3, 1994
Disarm the settlers? They aren't the danger The Boston Globe March 1, 1994
Welcome to the much-maligned world of the conservative The Boston Globe February 24, 1994
Five very strange bedfellows The Boston Herald November 17, 1993
He's just a senator who cain't say no The Boston Herald October 12, 1993
Can this marriage survive? The Boston Herald September 14, 1993
Coldness on the editorial page The Boston Herald June 10, 1993
Once in a while, it's really true: Opposites attract The Boston Herald May 10, 1993
How does a Holocaust happen? The Boston Herald March 30, 1992
The rules according to Silber The Boston Herald March 14, 1992
The public be swayed The Jerusalem Report February 13, 1992
A blacker shade of racist The Boston Herald September 16, 1991
This apartheid foe says sanctions hurt The Boston Herald May 8, 1991
Old school, new look The Jerusalem Report April 4, 1991
The governor who was a president The Jerusalem Report January 10, 1991
Quirky Turki The Jerusalem Report December 20, 1990

Book Reviews

Book Title Publication Date
Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship
by Meir Y. Soloveichik
Commentary October 2023
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
by Jonathan D. Sarna
Commentary magazine May 2012
When They Come For Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
by Gal Beckerman
Commentary March 2011
Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity
by Lila Corwin Berman
Commentary October 2009
Why Are Jews Liberals?
by Norman Podhoretz
The Boston Globe September 20, 2009
Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage
by Jeff Benedict
Commentary May 2009
Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment
by Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Joseph N. Cappella
Commentary October 2008
Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry
by Samuel G. Freedman
Azure Winter 2002
One Nation, Two Cultures
by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Azure Winter 2001
Kaddish
by Leon Wieseltier
Azure Autumn 1999
What's Going On
by Nathan McCall
The Weekly Standard October 13, 1997
Messages From My Father: A Memoir
by Calvin Trillin
The Boston Globe June 14, 1996
Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics
by Larry J. Sabato
Reason June 1992

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