Massachusetts
Giving thanks
Editor's note: This editorial was first published on Thanksgiving 2015. Our modern Thanksgiving narrative harkens back to the 1621 autumnal feast at Plimouth Plantation in celebration of the harvest.
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Sanctuary cities trampling the rule of law
A cardinal feature which has distinguished the American democratic experiment from most other nations in the modern era is that we have, with several major exceptions such as the Civil War, been a society under the rule of law. The best known expression of this principle is that the rule
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The zen of Thanksgiving
Editor's Note: The following is a revised version of a column first published in November 2002. Thanksgiving is the most American of holidays. But there is something almost un-American about it. It is a day opposed to striving, to getting more. We stop adding up the numbers on
Thanksgiving
A Thanksgiving prayer
If you spend any time on social media, it is easy to see the divisions in our country, in our communities, in our families. Although every four years, emotions run high and partisan tempers flare, this year did seem different. I have had good friends literally suffer physically from their
Donald Trump
The ghost of Pauline Kael
In February, I wrote a public cautionary note to my liberal friends, warning them to to take Donald Trump seriously and predicting that, if nominated, Trump would beat Hillary Clinton in November. Below is that column. To my liberal friends:
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The next education frontier: Classroom choice
Little birds are flying around everywhere these days, tweeting "school choice" as the last hope for education reform. We find it praised on the editorial pages of Education Next, in a book by DC-based self-styled education policy expert Chester Finn, and by Donald J. Trump, the next president
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Trump: A blessing in disguise for conservatives
It is easy to imagine that the publishers of National Review, the Weekly Standard and the Wall Street Journal – bastions of conservativism, all – must have been in a dark mood early in the morning of November 9. Two things had happened that seemed to diminish the influence of conservatism in
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Baker’s precarious popularity
If Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker had to defend his incumbency in the cataclysmic election last week he likely would have lost. Baker can only hope that the political landscape for his reelection in 2018 is like 2014, not 2016, to ensure victory. In Massachusetts, being moderate and popular can be
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