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2016: A Conservative Odyssey

With Donald Trump's rise to the top of the Republican presidential ticket, conservatives find themselves in an awkward position. For months, most of us could not conceive of a Trump candidacy as anything more than a flash-in-the-pan publicity stunt designed to produce ratings. Others believed the GOP'

Democrats

Harvard faculty tilts decidedly left in political giving

CAMBRIDGE – Harvard University faculty who made political donations at the federal level overwhelmingly contributed to Democrats or liberal organizations, a review of data from the Federal Election Commission shows. As an institution, Harvard has long had a reputation for leaning left. The campaign finance data provide a limited but revealing

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Top 10: A conservative’s summer reading list

As Bay Staters escape from the realities of all things Trump and transgender this weekend to the refuge of beaches and barbecues this summer, here is a list of must-reading for proper conservatives. In anticipation of the upcoming political conventions, these selections are exceptional primers for those camp fire conversations,

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Dartmouth students demand end to coddling, focus on learning

HANOVER, N.H. – Alleging that Dartmouth College administrators have increasingly "assumed the role of paternalistic babysitters," students at the Ivy League institution have launched an online petition that aims to refocus the school on education and the free exchange of ideas. The "Take Back Dartmouth" petition,

Republicans

House GOP gives election-year airing to IRS gripes

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans gave an election-year airing to their complaints about Internal Revenue Service chief John Koskinen Tuesday, telling a GOP-run House committee that he should be impeached for lying to lawmakers and destroying evidence. "Mr. Koskinen was sent to the IRS to clean it up but it'

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WATCH: Braceras talks Zuckerberg meeting at Facebook on WGBH’s ‘Greater Boston’

NewBostonPost Editor Jennifer C. Braceras stopped by WGBH's "Greater Boston" Monday evening to discuss last week's meeting in Silicon Valley between Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and conservative media leaders. [perfectpullquote align="full" cite="" link="" color="" class=

GOP

Zuckerberg’s conservative battle: Where there’s smoke, there’s fire

Mark Zuckerberg and his massive social-media site Facebook have come under strong criticism for allegedly suppressing stories of interest for conservative readers from its influential "trending" news section. Facebook has roughly 1.6 billion users worldwide, 167 million of whom are in the United States. Its "trending&

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Jason Riley and the Left’s conservative minority problem

Jason Riley must be suffering from whiplash. This spring, the Wall Street Journal columnist and scholar with the prestigious Manhattan Institute was invited, then disinvited, and now finally re-invited to give a lecture at Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business as part of its Distinguished Lecture series. Why