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A made-in-the-mainstream-media squall is causing sports broadcaster Sean McDonough some heartache because he had a little fun with a Pakistani surname during a Boston Red Sox broadcast. Yet this one doesn't pass the old David Letterman test: Is this anything?
Editorials
In September 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain traveled to Munich to meet Adolf Hitler. There, Chamberlain, and ministers from other Western nations, signed the Munich Pact, handing over the Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia, to Germany. Czechoslovakia was not even invited to the talks. The Munich Pact was England&
Editorials
In any healthy, well-functioning democracy, when things go terribly wrong, heads roll. Not literally, of course. People resign. The military leaders and government officials honorably take the responsibility for the disaster and resign. And if they don't resign, they are fired.
Commentary
School districts all over Massachusetts are reflexively reinstating mask mandates for K-12 students and staff as the new school year draws near. Worcester, the second-largest school district in Massachusetts, is mandating masks for all staff and students, vaccinated or not, following the path paved by Boston Public Schools. The city&
Commentary
Bloomsbury Publishing Company is developing a series of books that presents research studies about re-inventing teacher education. Everybody know that teachers need better training than they're getting now. But for some reason many people don't seem to know what sort of training that should be. Most
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The school year is beginning, but with fewer Catholic schools. Hundreds closed last year in the United States. Maybe more should shut their doors, according to one popular American bishop.
Commentary
When the people speak, lawmakers ought to respect those decisions. Unfortunately, that doesn't always happen on Beacon Hill.
Politics
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy To Replace America As The Global Superpower By Michael Pillsbury 428 pages Macmillan It is hard not to notice how China has changed in the past half dozen years. China has cracked down on the country's 80-plus million Christians, persecuting
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