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Title Publication Date
The phony feeding frenzies over 'bloodbath' and 'hamstringing' The Boston Globe March 24, 2024
The critics were right about 'Old Tippecanoe' The Boston Globe February 18, 2024
I was a young Republican. Now I want nothing to do with either party. The Boston Globe February 11, 2024
America's elites live in a world of their own The Boston Globe January 24, 2024
The schoolboy and the Gadsden flag Arguable September 5, 2023
Th Celtics, the Mavericks, and the "millionaire's tax" Arguable July 11, 2023
A brutal attack in the Senate chamber Arguable May 16, 2023
A national divorce would solve nothing The Boston Globe March 5, 2023
When 'whataboutism' is appropriate The Boston Globe January 15, 2023
The case for term limits is as strong as ever The Boston Globe January 11, 2023
The Revolution was America's first civil war The Boston Globe July 3, 2022
I'm right, and you're an evil monster The Boston Globe June 5, 2022
Georgia voters expose the 'Jim Crow' smear as a lie The Boston Globe May 25, 2022
Sorry, Tom Cotton: Trump is no Reagan The Boston Globe March 13, 2022
A peaceful Supreme Court confirmation, for a change The Boston Globe February 2, 2022
Biden is failing because he abandoned his mandate The Boston Globe January 19, 2022
Nobody knows anything The Boston Globe January 2, 2022
F-bombing the president The Boston Globe November 7, 2021
The rise of the 'school board voters' The Boston Globe November 3, 2021
Afghanistan and the 'forever war' myth The Boston Globe August 17, 2021
Democrats discover that 'defund the police' is political poison The Boston Globe July 1, 2021
A Democrat in the White House? Cue the FDR analogies The Boston Globe May 12, 2021
So much losing The Boston Globe January 10, 2021
More than politics divides us, national identity unites us The Boston Globe January 3, 2021
Ignore the hotheads: America just voted for less drama and strife The Boston Globe November 8, 2020
Job 1 for the next president: Bind the wounds of a polarized nation The Boston Globe November 1, 2020
The most important election (since the last election) The Boston Globe October 14, 2020
Scrap life terms for Supreme Court justices The Boston Globe September 23, 2020
A plea for humility from America's first superstar The Boston Globe September 13, 2020
The Kennedy dynasty (finally) wears out its welcome The Boston Globe September 6, 2020
The enduring value of the Electoral College The Boston Globe July 9, 2020
The Equal Rights Amendment died in 1979. Let it rest in peace. The Boston Globe March 22, 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
A tide of contempt is corroding our politics The Boston Globe December 8, 2019
Impeachment is as legitimate as the Electoral College (and vice versa) The Boston Globe October 9, 2019
Where's the clamor over our disastrous national debt? The Boston Globe September 22, 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
George Washington was right about 'baneful' two-party politics The Boston Globe July 14, 2019
Mueller's report means impeachment won't happen The Boston Globe April 21, 2019
If Trump backs down on a wall, MAGA Nation won't bolt The Boston Globe January 27, 2019
Your guess is as good as theirs The Boston Globe January 2, 2019
Three cheers for congressional gridlock The Boston Globe November 14, 2018
Why Democrats should hope Roe is overruled The Boston Globe July 22, 2018
70 years ago, Mayor Humphrey changed the Democratic Party The Boston Globe July 8, 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
Clinton tumbles down the 'marriage gap' The Boston Globe March 18, 2018
The hack who repented The Boston Globe February 18, 2018
Oprah for president — or for queen? The Boston Globe January 14, 2018
From normalizing Bill Clinton to normalizing Donald Trump The Boston Globe July 9, 2017
A health-care debate to die for The Boston Globe May 14, 2017
Barack Obama's legacy of failure The Boston Globe January 8, 2017
Another campaign ends, and my wishes didn't come true The Boston Globe November 6, 2016
Minimum-wage laws: Good intentions, bad results The Boston Globe October 30, 2016
Campaigns so long they make children cry The Boston Globe August 31, 2016
Delegate rules aren't 'rigged' just because Trump doesn't like them The Boston Globe April 20, 2016
The president without a party The Boston Globe February 14, 2016
For Americans, global freedom is a mission that crosses party lines The Boston Globe February 7, 2016
Obama regrets polarized rancor. He should. The Boston Globe January 24, 2016
Shock and awe over Agrabah The Boston Globe December 23, 2015
Garrett Swasey's final sermon The Boston Globe December 6, 2015
Take the journalists off the debate stage The Boston Globe November 8, 2015
American politics needs more civility, not less The Boston Globe August 16, 2015
Patriot Act's most controversial section fades to black The Boston Globe May 17, 2015
Obama's hypocritical attack on Netanyahu The Boston Globe March 29, 2015
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
Democrats' ObamaCare albatross The Boston Globe March 27, 2014
Marketplace changes have made ENDA superfluous The Boston Globe November 17, 2013
How to fix presidential debates The Boston Globe August 21, 2013
Secure the border? That's what the US has done The Boston Globe May 12, 2013
Those endless, onerous presidential campaigns The Boston Globe December 26, 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
How the marriage gap favors Obama The Boston Globe July 22, 2012
Minimum-wage laws are costly for the unemployed The Boston Globe July 11, 2012
Forget the research; our minds are made up The Boston Globe June 20, 2012
Liberty's resilience, even after 9/11 The Boston Globe September 14, 2011
Tea Partiers sound an urgent alarm The Boston Globe August 14, 2011
Smearing the Tea Party The Boston Globe August 3, 2011
How many lawmakers does it take to. . . . The Boston Globe July 17, 2011
Much ado about Bibi and Barack The Boston Globe May 29, 2011
The debt-ceiling scaremongers The Boston Globe May 4, 2011
Finally, justice is done boston.com May 2, 2011
Why the 2012 hopefuls don't inspire The Boston Globe April 24, 2011
The GOP gets a second chance The Boston Globe November 7, 2010
Condescension and comeuppance The Boston Globe October 27, 2010
What public-sector unions have wrought Commentary October 2010
Born in the U.S.A. The Boston Globe August 15, 2010
Electoral College bypassers should be careful what they wish for The Boston Globe August 1, 2010
A Boston Tea Party The Boston Globe April 14, 2010
The 2000s: A descent into incivility The Boston Globe December 31, 2009
'Don't call people bigots just because you disagree with them' The Boston Globe November 11, 2009
'Kennedy' once meant 'tax-cutter' The Boston Globe August 30, 2009
The future of talk radio The Boston Globe May 4, 2009
Farewell to 43 The Boston Globe January 21, 2009
The great Bush 'deregulation' myth The Boston Globe November 19, 2008
Don't sell Sarah Palin short The Boston Globe November 16, 2008
The world won't love Obama forever The Boston Globe November 9, 2008
Silver linings, even on the right The Boston Globe November 5, 2008
The 'dictator' label The Boston Globe October 29, 2008
'Guilt by association?' Think again The Boston Globe October 15, 2008
A vote for voting on Election Day The Boston Globe October 12, 2008
Her chance to shine The Boston Globe October 3, 2008
Enough of the Palin feeding frenzy The Boston Globe September 17, 2008
Seeing through Obamanomics The Boston Globe September 14, 2008
McCain's maverick pick The Boston Globe August 31, 2008
Interview with Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe WRKO: Pundit Review Radio August 25, 2008
Hindsight isn't 20-20 The Boston Globe August 17, 2008
The brilliance of the Electoral College The Boston Globe July 16, 2008
Democrats, the military, and McCain The Boston Globe July 13, 2008
Dancing on the grave of Jesse Helms The Boston Globe July 9, 2008
Michelle Obama is fair game The Boston Globe May 25, 2008
When judicial restraint goes too far The Boston Globe May 14, 2008
Interview on the race for president and more WRKO March 24, 2008
General Patton and the campaign of '08 The Boston Globe March 16, 2008
The irrelevance of Obama's color The Boston Globe February 10, 2008
The mystery in the voting booth The Boston Globe February 6, 2008
A conservative's case for McCain The Boston Globe February 3, 2008
Congress helps itself, again The Boston Globe January 30, 2008
The dominant Clinton The Boston Globe January 27, 2008
Let Hillary be Hillary The Boston Globe January 9, 2008
No ordinary candidate The Boston Globe December 26, 2007
Interview on The Boston Globe's Endorsement for President WRKO December 17, 2007
The Mitt and Rudy smackdown The Boston Globe October 14, 2007
Good news, but not for Democrats The Boston Globe August 29, 2007
Anti-Mormonism gets personal The Boston Globe July 1, 2007
One party's fringe is the other's mainstream The Boston Globe May 20, 2007
What drives the Democrats? The Boston Globe April 29, 2007
Segregation on Capitol Hill The Boston Globe January 31, 2007
Democrats' silence on jihad is deadly The Boston Globe January 24, 2007
The debate shifts to the left The Boston Globe January 7, 2007
We'd elect a black president? Old news The Boston Globe December 27, 2006
A debacle for Republicans, not for conservatives The Boston Globe November 12, 2006
Are you a 'chicken hawk?' The Boston Globe July 23, 2006
The crumbling GOP base The Boston Globe May 31, 2006
Notes from Harry Browne The Boston Globe March 8, 2006
Bringing faith into contempt The Boston Globe January 8, 2006
Abortion's paradoxical politics The Boston Globe December 4, 2005
Mitt Romney, cover candidate The Boston Globe June 5, 2005
Big loss for the Bush haters The Boston Globe November 4, 2004
Democratic Convention Analysis with Joan Vennochi and Jeff Jacoby Fox News July 29, 2004
Bush haters do Kerry no favors The Boston Globe July 25, 2004
The decline of assimilation The Boston Globe January 11, 2004
Al Sharpton: The Democrat's David Duke The Boston Globe January 16, 2003
Gore's mark on history The Boston Globe November 16, 2000
Why we need a bigger House The Boston Globe February 15, 1999
Term limits turncoats The Boston Globe January 21, 1999
Question 2: An insult to honest politics The Boston Globe October 1, 1998
Ashcroft may be just what Republicans need: a man of deep principles The Boston Globe December 18, 1997
GOP pays the price for its tax deal with Clinton The Boston Globe July 22, 1997
Rx for the House: Enlarge it The Boston Globe February 18, 1997
Tsongas's shining hour The Boston Globe January 28, 1997
40 more reasons to fire Bill Clinton The Boston Globe October 1, 1996
A welfare catastrophe? No, it's a modest reform The Boston Globe August 6, 1996
Who really drove up the price of gasoline? The Boston Globe May 7, 1996
Another year of liberal libels The Boston Globe December 21, 1995
The shutdown has me worried sick The Boston Globe November 16, 1995
A GOP dive on term limits? The Boston Globe March 14, 1995
The morality of abortion, not its legality, is the issue The Boston Globe February 16, 1995
A year of character-assassination from the left The Boston Globe December 27, 1994
Crime bill hypocrites The Boston Globe August 19, 1994
Nixon: A kindred spirit for the 'silent majority' The Boston Globe April 26, 1994
The House is unrepresentative The Boston Globe March 22, 1994

Book Reviews

Book Title Publication Date
Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics
by Larry J. Sabato
Reason June 1992

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