Writings by Topic: Donald Trump
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Publication |
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| The high cost of 'I'm glad he's dead' |
The Boston Globe |
March 25, 2026 |
| The line even the Know Nothings didn't cross |
Arguable |
March 24, 2026 |
| A hawk makes the case for restoring the olive branch |
Arguable |
March 17, 2026 |
| The immigration crackdown that's breaking the GOP |
The Boston Globe |
January 28, 2026 |
| The Founding Fathers warned this could happen |
The Boston Globe |
January 21, 2026 |
| Trump's ego isn't just unpresidential. It's un-Republican. |
The Boston Globe |
December 31, 2025 |
| The potty-mouthing of American life doesn't signal 'authenticity.' It signals decay. |
The Boston Globe |
December 14, 2025 |
| Citizenship by birth is America at its best |
The Boston Globe |
December 10, 2025 |
| Trump's Ukraine 'peace' plan makes Russia great again |
The Boston Globe |
December 3, 2025 |
| So many column ideas, so little time |
The Boston Globe |
October 29, 2025 |
| It's time to end presidential pardons |
The Boston Globe |
October 22, 2025 |
| Heads Trump. Tails Trump. |
The Boston Globe |
October 19, 2025 |
| Pull the plug on the FCC |
Arguable |
September 23, 2025 |
| We betrayed Russians in 1945. We're doing it again in 2025. |
The Boston Globe |
September 14, 2025 |
| Trump and the not-so-noble Nobel |
Arguable |
August 19, 2025 |
| Who really suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome? |
The Boston Globe |
August 17, 2025 |
| No, Mr. President, race is not a biological reality |
The Boston Globe |
July 27, 2025 |
| Trump's attack on in-state tuition for Dreamers is bad law — and worse policy |
The Boston Globe |
July 20, 2025 |
| Trump makes treason great again, one Army base at a time |
The Boston Globe |
June 22, 2025 |
| Israel's war against Iran is America's war, too |
The Boston Globe |
June 18, 2025 |
| Ukraine the indomitable |
The Boston Globe |
June 8, 2025 |
| When it comes to promoting US values, Trump is no JFK or Reagan |
The Boston Globe |
May 25, 2025 |
| Why Musk flopped |
The Boston Globe |
May 18, 2025 |
| Memo to Secretary Hegseth: There are no snowflakes in Annapolis |
The Boston Globe |
May 14, 2025 |
| The tone-deafness of 'just two dolls' |
The Boston Globe |
May 11, 2025 |
| What part of 'unjust law' don't you understand? |
The Boston Globe |
May 7, 2025 |
| A 'baby bonus' won't solve the nation's birthrate problem |
The Boston Globe |
May 4, 2025 |
| Trump's first 100 days: So much losing |
The Boston Globe |
April 30, 2025 |
| The purpose of manufacturing is to make things, not jobs |
The Boston Globe |
April 27, 2025 |
| The firebombing of Gov. Shapiro's home was a test of Trump's anti-antisemitism |
The Boston Globe |
April 23, 2025 |
| No tariffs without representation |
The Boston Globe |
April 20, 2025 |
| Dictators rejoice as Voice of America and Radio Free Europe are silenced |
The Boston Globe |
March 19, 2025 |
| The US betrays Ukraine |
The Boston Globe |
March 16, 2025 |
| Mar-a-Lago's 'trade deficit' isn't a problem. Neither is America's. |
The Boston Globe |
March 9, 2025 |
| A pox on both sides in the 'Gulf of America' brawl |
The Boston Globe |
February 19, 2025 |
| Franklin Pierce lusted for foreign territory — and squandered his presidency |
The Boston Globe |
February 16, 2025 |
| A harsh immigration crackdown is a strange way to show love |
The Boston Globe |
February 12, 2025 |
| The invincible incoherence of Trump's tariff obsession |
The Boston Globe |
February 5, 2025 |
| What MAGA really hated about Bishop Budde's homily |
The Boston Globe |
February 2, 2025 |
| Back, at last, to the color-blind principle |
The Boston Globe |
January 26, 2025 |
| It's not just illegal immigrants Trump is after |
Right, Left, and Center |
January 22, 2025 |
| America's most enduring bipartisan tradition: political hypocrisy |
The Boston Globe |
January 22, 2025 |
| Trump, Greenland, and the power of the bully pulpit |
The Boston Globe |
January 19, 2025 |
| Abolish the presidential pardon power |
The Boston Globe |
January 12, 2025 |
| Birthright citizenship is a constitutional right that Trump can't revoke |
The Boston Globe |
December 11, 2024 |
| No, Trump didn't earn an 'unprecedented and powerful' mandate |
The Boston Globe |
November 20, 2024 |
| Should we take Trump at his word? |
The Primary Source |
November 13, 2024 |
| For many leading conservatives, 'Never Trump' didn't mean never |
The Boston Globe |
November 10, 2024 |
| Why I'm not voting for president |
The Boston Globe |
October 30, 2024 |
| When Obama was the divider-in-chief |
Arguable |
October 29, 2024 |
| Hispanic voters flock to the GOP, exploding the 'great replacement' theory |
The Boston Globe |
October 23, 2024 |
| If you're crushing on a political candidate, you're doing democracy wrong |
The Boston Globe |
August 25, 2024 |
| Harris's flip-flops have been shameless. So have Trump's. |
The Boston Globe |
August 18, 2024 |
| Alas, Trump has already won on the issue of immigration |
The Boston Globe |
July 21, 2024 |
| Will Trump's near-assassination jolt Americans into cooling their apocalyptic rhetoric? |
The Boston Globe |
July 15, 2024 |
| Before there was Trump there was James Michael Curley |
Arguable |
June 4, 2024 |
| The border needs fixing, but not because migrants are dangerous |
The Boston Globe |
March 31, 2024 |
| Beware any candidate who values loyalty above all else |
The Boston Globe |
January 10, 2024 |
| Donald Trump, man of — faith? |
Arguable |
January 9, 2024 |
| The indictment against Trump arrives as the political winds are shifting |
The Boston Globe |
June 9, 2023 |
| Birthright citizenship is safe from Donald Trump's whims |
The Boston Globe |
June 7, 2023 |
| Republicans can spare the country a rematch it doesn't want |
The Boston Globe |
April 30, 2023 |
| Mental competency tests for aging politicians? Don't count on it. |
The Boston Globe |
March 8, 2023 |
| Trump, Biden, and the double standard on mishandling classified documents |
The Boston Globe |
January 25, 2023 |
| In Iran and China, protesters plead for liberty. Where is the leader of the free world? |
The Boston Globe |
December 11, 2022 |
| DeSantis is an improvement over Trump, but the GOP can do better |
The Boston Globe |
November 13, 2022 |
| Don't blame Mitt Romney if Mike Lee goes down |
The Boston Globe |
October 26, 2022 |
| Republicans' 'banana republic' charge is bananas |
The Boston Globe |
August 14, 2022 |
| Country before party. GOP before Trump. |
The Boston Globe |
July 20, 2022 |
| 'Great replacement' theories, as old as America, have always been nonsense |
The Boston Globe |
June 1, 2022 |
| Sorry, Tom Cotton: Trump is no Reagan |
The Boston Globe |
March 13, 2022 |
| It isn't tax cuts that are driving federal deficits |
The Boston Globe |
October 20, 2021 |
| As Washington debates the debt limit, the hypocrisy is at flood tide |
The Boston Globe |
September 26, 2021 |
| The eviction moratorium and the rule of lawlessness |
The Boston Globe |
August 8, 2021 |
| Does the GOP have a problem with the vaccine? |
The Boston Globe |
March 24, 2021 |
| For Biden, a better way forward on Taiwan |
The Boston Globe |
February 21, 2021 |
| Don't get hooked on executive orders |
The Boston Globe |
February 17, 2021 |
| Billionaires and multimillionaires don't need a government pension |
The Boston Globe |
January 27, 2021 |
| Freedom of association and the Big Tech purge |
The Boston Globe |
January 13, 2021 |
| So much losing |
The Boston Globe |
January 10, 2021 |
| Biden promised not to pardon Trump. Maybe he should do so anyway |
The Boston Globe |
December 9, 2020 |
| From the White House, one last push to impede immigrants |
The Boston Globe |
December 2, 2020 |
| If you love this country, Mr. President, concede defeat |
The Boston Globe |
November 15, 2020 |
| Ignore the hotheads: America just voted for less drama and strife |
The Boston Globe |
November 8, 2020 |
| All Trump had to do was act presidential |
The Boston Globe |
November 4, 2020 |
| Job 1 for the next president: Bind the wounds of a polarized nation |
The Boston Globe |
November 1, 2020 |
| Trump, the anti-Gipper, has turned young voters against the GOP |
The Boston Globe |
October 21, 2020 |
| Honey, they shrunk the GOP platform |
The Boston Globe |
August 26, 2020 |
| Here come the dumbest presidential debates in history |
The Boston Globe |
August 9, 2020 |
| In the race for the White House, it's protectionist vs. protectionist |
The Boston Globe |
July 15, 2020 |
| Trump's 'Roger Mudd' moment augurs ill for his reelection |
The Boston Globe |
July 1, 2020 |
| Republicans will never turn against Trump. Or will they? |
The Boston Globe |
June 10, 2020 |
| Keep politicians' names off relief checks. And everything else. |
The Boston Globe |
May 3, 2020 |
| Locking out immigrants will make the crisis worse |
The Boston Globe |
April 26, 2020 |
| Coronavirus has forced Biden far from his comfort zone — and it shows |
The Boston Globe |
March 25, 2020 |
| 'Birth tourism' isn't a serious problem. The White House attack on it is |
The Boston Globe |
February 10, 2020 |
| More impeachments, please |
The Boston Globe |
February 9, 2020 |
| The State of the Union? Let's get it in writing |
The Boston Globe |
January 29, 2020 |
| No matter what candidates say, America isn't leaving the Middle East anytime soon |
The Boston Globe |
January 8, 2020 |
| Lindsey Graham and the impeachment pearl-clutchers |
The Boston Globe |
December 18, 2019 |
| The welfare state 'Brezhnev Doctrine' |
The Boston Globe |
December 11, 2019 |
| Republicans made a mistake in 2016. They don't have to repeat it in 2020 |
The Boston Globe |
October 27, 2019 |
| Impeachment is as legitimate as the Electoral College (and vice versa) |
The Boston Globe |
October 9, 2019 |
| Where's the clamor over our disastrous national debt? |
The Boston Globe |
September 22, 2019 |
| The Republican Party has no 'bedrock principles.' The Democratic Party doesn't either. |
The Boston Globe |
September 18, 2019 |
| Why Hong Kong's protesters fly the Stars and Stripes |
The Boston Globe |
September 12, 2019 |
| We've had enough arrogant presidents. We need a humble one |
The Boston Globe |
September 4, 2019 |
| Abolishing birthright citizenship would be 'frankly ridiculous' — and profoundly un-American |
The Boston Globe |
August 28, 2019 |
| When murders increase, so does support for the death penalty |
The Boston Globe |
July 31, 2019 |
| Trump blasts 'the Squad' for not loving America. Does he? |
The Boston Globe |
July 21, 2019 |
| Would-be presidents can't wait to rule by fiat |
The Boston Globe |
June 23, 2019 |
| Hong Kong is being strangled, and the free world just watches |
The Boston Globe |
June 16, 2019 |
| Presidents always leave when their time is up |
The Boston Globe |
May 8, 2019 |
| Mueller's report means impeachment won't happen |
The Boston Globe |
April 21, 2019 |
| No, President Trump, our country isn't full |
The Boston Globe |
April 10, 2019 |
| Israel's Golan sovereignty should have been recognized years ago |
The Boston Globe |
March 27, 2019 |
| Good policy, bad policymaking, and the 2020 census fight |
The Boston Globe |
February 24, 2019 |
| The government shutdown was expected to damage the economy. It didn't. |
The Boston Globe |
February 6, 2019 |
| If Trump backs down on a wall, MAGA Nation won't bolt |
The Boston Globe |
January 27, 2019 |
| In extolling 'honorable' tyrants, Trump shames America |
The Boston Globe |
January 16, 2019 |
| The US is not a house. It doesn't need a wall |
The Boston Globe |
January 6, 2019 |
| Net neutrality is gone, but the Internet is fine |
The Boston Globe |
December 30, 2018 |
| America needs more immigrants and less welfare |
The Boston Globe |
December 12, 2018 |
| The insidious metaphor of trade as 'war' |
The Boston Globe |
July 29, 2018 |
| Trump doesn't care about Montenegro. He should. |
The Boston Globe |
July 25, 2018 |
| Amnesty for 'Dreamers' is in the GOP's finest tradition |
The Boston Globe |
May 27, 2018 |
| The world needs a policeman, and there is no alternative to America |
The Boston Globe |
May 16, 2018 |
| If Trump wants to be the Deregulator-in-Chief, his work is just beginning |
The Boston Globe |
April 24, 2018 |
| A 'Wall of Shame' on the Mexican border |
The Boston Globe |
February 4, 2018 |
| Trump protects Americans from affordable washing machines |
The Boston Globe |
January 31, 2018 |
| Oprah for president — or for queen? |
The Boston Globe |
January 14, 2018 |
| Trump's Russia policies are proving surprisingly tough |
The Boston Globe |
December 27, 2017 |
| Nikki Haley, the Trump administration's breakout star |
The Boston Globe |
December 24, 2017 |
| Trump is wrong on terror and the green-card lottery |
The Boston Globe |
November 5, 2017 |
| As Kurds vote for independence, Americans should cheer |
The Boston Globe |
September 20, 2017 |
| A chance for Congress to get its mojo back |
The Boston Globe |
September 10, 2017 |
| Why do presidents have unfettered power to pardon? |
The Boston Globe |
August 30, 2017 |
| While Trump tweets, Amazon hires |
The Boston Globe |
August 27, 2017 |
| From normalizing Bill Clinton to normalizing Donald Trump |
The Boston Globe |
July 9, 2017 |
| Be wary of a Trump feeding frenzy |
The Boston Globe |
May 21, 2017 |
| A back-of-the-bus human rights policy |
The Boston Globe |
May 10, 2017 |
| Trump's tariff will hurt Americans |
The Boston Globe |
May 3, 2017 |
| Obama's third term |
The Boston Globe |
April 30, 2017 |
| In the land where Jews are welcome, anti-Semitism is on the rise |
The Boston Globe |
March 12, 2017 |
| Immigrant heroes save American lives |
The Boston Globe |
March 8, 2017 |
| If Trump goes to war against freedom of the press, who wins? |
The Boston Globe |
March 5, 2017 |
| An echo of Trump in the last of the Whigs |
The Boston Globe |
February 19, 2017 |
| Trump is right: Settlements don't impede peace |
The Boston Globe |
February 8, 2017 |
| Trump's 'Buy American' call is economic folly |
The Boston Globe |
January 25, 2017 |
| Freedom of association isn't just for the Rockettes |
The Boston Globe |
December 28, 2016 |
| Trump's envoy to Israel is ready to slay some sacred cows |
The Boston Globe |
December 21, 2016 |
| One China, one Taiwan |
The Boston Globe |
December 7, 2016 |
| In defense of the Electoral College |
The Boston Globe |
November 16, 2016 |
| Conservatives vs. Trump |
The Boston Globe |
November 13, 2016 |
| Shocking, yes. Looming dictatorship? No. |
The Boston Globe |
November 9, 2016 |
| Dennis Prager doth protest too much |
The Boston Globe |
October 23, 2016 |
| The candidates' high court priority — and the Constitution's |
The Boston Globe |
October 20, 2016 |
| How the religious right embraced Donald Trump and lost its moral authority |
The Boston Globe |
October 16, 2016 |
| A degrading spectacle in St. Louis |
The Boston Globe |
October 10, 2016 |
| In an election about character, Trump and Clinton are beyond the pale |
The Boston Globe |
September 30, 2016 |
| Voters Trump drives from the GOP aren't likely to return |
The Boston Globe |
August 21, 2016 |
| Parties change. Not always for the better |
The Boston Globe |
July 27, 2016 |
| A hater's guide to Hillary |
The Boston Globe |
July 24, 2016 |
| Weld for VP? He'd get my vote |
The Boston Globe |
May 25, 2016 |
| Delegate rules aren't 'rigged' just because Trump doesn't like them |
The Boston Globe |
April 20, 2016 |
| Authoritarian-in-chief |
The Boston Globe |
April 3, 2016 |
| Mass deportations would leave America poorer |
The Boston Globe |
March 24, 2016 |
| A lesson for Trump in Bulger's rejected appeal |
The Boston Globe |
March 9, 2016 |
| New Hampshire Republicans stain their credibility |
The Boston Globe |
February 10, 2016 |
| In ego, Obama and Trump are two of a kind |
The Boston Globe |
October 23, 2015 |
| Opinion polling's heyday has come and gone |
The Boston Globe |
September 20, 2015 |
| Donald Trump, eminent-domain abuser |
The Boston Globe |
August 26, 2015 |
| From beyond the fringe, it's Donald Trump |
The Boston Globe |
June 21, 2015 |
| Made in the U.S.A. |
The Boston Globe |
February 6, 2011 |
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