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Lock and load for gun control


It appears that Congress, in an epic fit of bloody-mindedness that reflects the nation's delusional subservience to the National Rifle Association's death cult, will fail to outlaw semiautomatic weapons and high-capacity ammo clips.
By: EDITORIAL  |  January 15, 2013
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Some Frank Talk for Governor Patrick


Media tea leaves suggest the odds are long that you will act on former Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank's suggestion to appoint him to fill the temporary vacancy that will result when Senator John Kerry's appointment as secretary of state is confirmed, as it is expected to be.
By: EDITORIAL  |  January 08, 2013
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Can gun reform misfire?


If, in the wake of the mass killings in Newtown, Connecticut, Congress does not summon the will to vote to ban semiautomatic weapons with large-capacity clips, then the institution will have blood on its hands.
By: EDITORIAL  |  December 26, 2012
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The GOP's new Kommissar


The Washington establishment got all riled up last week at the news that South Carolina Republican Jim DeMint was leaving the US Senate to take charge of the Heritage Foundation, a once-respected conservative think tank that today is largely — but not yet exclusively — a shill for right-wing revolutionaries and a toady for the greediest and most socially insensitive corporations in America.
By: EDITORIAL  |  December 12, 2012
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The case for John Kerry


Despite it being against Massachusetts's best interests, our view is that Senator John Kerry is about as perfect a candidate to be the nation's top diplomat as can be found in either political or policy circles.
By: EDITORIAL  |  December 04, 2012
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What's wrong with the Palestinians' U.N. gambit

A dangerous charade
The United Nations recently voted to extend Permanent Observer status to the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
By: EDITORIAL  |  November 30, 2012
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Gaza: What next?


Widespread hopes among democracy-loving Europeans and Americans that the grassroots revolt against authoritarian governments of various stripes would usher in a new era of tolerance, peace, and understanding have not gone according to script.
By: EDITORIAL  |  November 27, 2012
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Crabby old men


Washington is gripped with Benghazi Fever. It is a tricky and treacherous disease.
By: EDITORIAL  |  November 19, 2012
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The Fiscal Cliff: What's at stake


If the just-concluded national election proves anything, it is that the Republican Party lives in a parallel universe, with its own brand of reality that is dangerously disconnected from the experience of most Americans.
By: EDITORIAL  |  November 14, 2012
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Climate change is forever


You have to be a fool, a charlatan, or seriously uninformed to deny the reality of climate change.
By: EDITORIAL  |  November 07, 2012
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The Obama imperative


Two things stand between almost certain economic and social catastrophe: the prospect of the Democrats maintaining — or expanding — their majority in the Senate, and the reelection of President Barack Obama.
By: EDITORIAL  |  November 05, 2012
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Tierney for Congress


The most closely watched congressional race in Massachusetts is being fought in the Sixth District, on Boston's North Shore, between Democratic incumbent John Tierney and his Republican challenger Richard Tisei.
By: EDITORIAL  |  November 05, 2012
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Warren for Senate


When voters go to the polls on November 6 to choose between incumbent Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Elizabeth Warren, they will be doing more than casting a ballot for one of Massachusetts's two US senators.
By: EDITORIAL  |  November 05, 2012
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Resetting Boston's schools


Between now and the end of the year, Boston will wrestle with one of the most important policy decisions it has faced in years: reinventing the 23-year-old system used to assign 56,000 public-school students to 129 schools.
By: EDITORIAL  |  October 09, 2012
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New York's police riot


Will New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ever be held accountable?
By: EDITORIAL  |  September 28, 2012
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Bradley Manning’s sacrifice


Twenty-four-year-old Private First Class Bradley Manning must be the loneliest man in America.
By: EDITORIAL  |  September 18, 2012
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Warren's transgender transgression

What we can learn from the Senate candidate's alarming remark
To understand Chief US District Judge Mark Wolf's landmark ruling ordering the state of Massachusetts to provide taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery for a transgender prisoner, you need to understand this: a "sex-change operation" is not cosmetic surgery.
By: EDITORIAL  |  September 13, 2012
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Tampa vs. Charlotte

Plus, Mitt Romney's biggest lie
Compare the Democratic National Convention, now in progress in Charlotte, North Carolina, with the recently concluded Republican show in Tampa, Florida, and you find a world of instructive difference.
By: EDITORIAL  |  September 05, 2012
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Why Menino should veto the redistricting plan; plus, the GOP’s Tampa exploits

Minority report
You didn't need a PhD in political science to predict that the Boston City Council's redraft of the boundaries delineating neighborhood council seats would meet with shouts of protest.  
By: EDITORIAL  |  August 29, 2012
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Akin is the GOP

And don't be fooled — Romney and Ryan are enemies of women
Republican Congressman and Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin is only guilty of saying what the Republican Party officially thinks.
By: EDITORIAL  |  August 22, 2012
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