Menu
News
As shocking as it is that a public official would publicly tip off lawbreakers about secret law enforcement activity, the subsequent public comments of Massachusetts state Representative Michelle DuBois are almost as shocking. On Tuesday, DuBois posted on her Facebook page that she had heard a rumor of a forthcoming
Commentary
Do you think the school bus driver in Chelmsford who told the cops he'd just smoked marijuana is in trouble? Legally, it's cloudy.
Commentary
Having just spent the last week on the rugged, spectacularly beautiful island of Crete 150 miles north of the coast of Libya, I have come away with a key observation about the crisis of Muslim refugees flooding the Western world. There are only a few, if any, Muslim refugees seeking
Commentary
In the nascent days of post-World War II conservatism, Senator Barry Goldwater coined a phrase that defined the limited political goals of moderate Eisenhower-era Republicans. Goldwater referred to the Administration of Republican President Dwight Eisenhower as a "dime-store New Deal." Disappointed in the GOP's contentment with
Commentary
To say that Americans are divided over politics is to give too much credit to the substantive merits of the role of ideas in the formation of public opinion and not enough to the erosion of the language through which such ideas are discussed. We have learned from a generation
Commentary
The students who run the newspaper at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts want to ditch "Crusader" as the paper's name. The president of the college wants to get rid of it, too, as the school's mascot and nickname for sports
Commentary
When politicians pass laws and regulators make rules aimed at punishing corporations, the big companies usually aren't the ones that really feel the pain. The real victims are small businesses — often with no more than 50 employees — who don't have armies of lobbyists to create special
Commentary
Donald Trump ran for office promising to crush the Islamic State, end the influx of illegal immigration from Mexico, and stop the flight of American manufacturing jobs to China. Now that he's in office, he seems to be focusing on a different set of targets: Public television'
Advertisement
