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A harsh immigration crackdown is a strange way to show love

February 12, 2025  •  The Boston Globe


IN A recent Fox News interview, Vice President JD Vance defended the Trump administration's severe immigration policies by suggesting only crazed leftists could object to them.

"There's something very deranged in the mind of the far left in this country," he told interviewer Sean Hannity. "I really do think that they feel more of a sense of compassion for illegal aliens who have no right to be in this country than they do their fellow citizens, and that really has to change."

A moment later, citing what he called "a very Christian concept," he amplified the point.

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The invincible incoherence of Trump's tariff obsession

February 5, 2025  •  The Boston Globe


WHEN HE met with reporters in the Oval Office on Friday, President Trump was asked if there was anything Canada, Mexico, or China could do to avert the punitive new tariffs he intended to announce. "No, nothing," he answered firmly. The impending tariffs were not intended as a negotiating tool, he avowed. "We're not looking for a concession."

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The intellectual blackmail of 'people will die'
Plus: Dopplegangers

February 4, 2025  •  Arguable

PAUL KRUGMAN, the prolific liberal economist and Nobel Prize recipient, left The New York Times at the end of 2024 because, he said, the editorial constraints placed on his columns had become "extremely intrusive" and "intolerable." He writes now for his own eponymous Substack, where he is free of such constraints and can express his views exactly as he wishes.

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What MAGA really hated about Bishop Budde's homily

February 2, 2025  •  The Boston Globe


DONALD TRUMP'S inaugural ceremony featured the kind of Christian minister he approves of — the kind who is besotted with him. The Rev. Franklin Graham, who had appeared at Trump rallies during the campaign and prayed aloud for his election, delivered an invocation before Trump took the oath of office on Jan. 20 in which he equated the president's victory with God's blessing.

"Mr. President, the last four years there were times I'm sure you thought it was pretty dark, but look what God has done," Graham exulted. Then he addressed the Almighty: "Father, when Donald Trump's enemies thought he was down and out, you and you alone saved his life and raised him up with strength and power by your mighty hand."

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Life is for the living. The names on public buildings shouldn't be.

January 29, 2025  •  The Boston Globe

WHEN HE died in 1959, John Foster Dulles was justly admired. He had been one of America's most renowned statesmen, a leading architect of US foreign policy after World War II, a Medal of Freedom recipient, and, though a lifelong Republican, a trusted adviser to presidents of both parties. Three years after his death, at a dedication ceremony presided over by President John F. Kennedy, a new airport outside Washington, D.C., was named Dulles International Airport.

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