Writings by Topic: Crime and punishment
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Publication |
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| The high cost of letting passengers evade transit fares |
The Boston Globe |
September 1, 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 |
| The Boston Tea Party was a crime |
The Boston Globe |
December 14, 2023 |
| As capital punishment fades, progressives take aim at life without parole |
The Boston Globe |
August 6, 2023 |
| Oakland's NAACP blames out-of-control crime on left-wing policies |
The Boston Globe |
August 2, 2023 |
| Unabomber's death calls to mind a tale of two brothers |
The Boston Globe |
June 14, 2023 |
| Rachael Rollins was a disgrace |
The Boston Globe |
May 21, 2023 |
| Did the Varsity Blues prosecutions really belong in federal court? |
The Boston Globe |
May 17, 2023 |
| Felons are locked up for a reason, and it isn't so they can vote |
The Boston Globe |
April 19, 2023 |
| Prisoners who donate a lifesaving organ ought to be rewarded |
The Boston Globe |
February 9, 2023 |
| Republicans' 'banana republic' charge is bananas |
The Boston Globe |
August 14, 2022 |
| Alive and well and living on death row |
The Boston Globe |
July 24, 2022 |
| Attacks on pregnancy centers, like attacks on abortion clinics, should be intolerable |
The Boston Globe |
July 17, 2022 |
| Execute Tsarnaev |
The Boston Globe |
March 9, 2022 |
| When racial hate turns out to be faked |
Arguable |
December 14, 2021 |
| As murders increase, support for the death penalty will too |
The Boston Globe |
October 3, 2021 |
| Will Bobby Kennedy's killer go free? |
Washington Examiner |
September 25, 2021 |
| Sirhan should die behind bars |
The Boston Globe |
September 1, 2021 |
| Democrats discover that 'defund the police' is political poison |
The Boston Globe |
July 1, 2021 |
| Death is the right penalty for Tsarnaev |
The Boston Globe |
March 28, 2021 |
| "Mostly Peaceful": from 2020's Words of the Year |
The Boston Globe |
December 28, 2020 |
| Voting is a privilege that prisoners rightly forfeit |
The Boston Globe |
July 23, 2020 |
| Statue-toppling, right and wrong |
The Boston Globe |
June 14, 2020 |
| The week the looters came |
The Boston Globe |
June 7, 2020 |
| Indecent cops, indecent rioters |
Arguable |
June 1, 2020 |
| The pernicious Logan Act should have been scrapped long ago |
The Boston Globe |
May 13, 2020 |
| Are hate crimes up or down? The government has no idea |
The Boston Globe |
November 17, 2019 |
| 'Kill yourself,' she texted, and he killed himself. Does that make her a killer? |
The Boston Globe |
November 3, 2019 |
| No, expanded background checks wouldn't prevent mass shootings |
The Boston Globe |
August 7, 2019 |
| When murders increase, so does support for the death penalty |
The Boston Globe |
July 31, 2019 |
| Those imprisoned for breaking laws should have no say in making laws |
The Boston Globe |
April 17, 2019 |
| Gavin Newsom's death-row betrayal |
The Boston Globe |
March 20, 2019 |
| The US is not a house. It doesn't need a wall |
The Boston Globe |
January 6, 2019 |
| A massacre in Pittsburgh and the 'hardening' of Jewish America |
The Boston Globe |
October 29, 2018 |
| The death penalty, humane and painless |
The Boston Globe |
March 21, 2018 |
| Trump is wrong on terror and the green-card lottery |
The Boston Globe |
November 5, 2017 |
| On the death penalty, Francis is going where no pope has gone before |
The Boston Globe |
October 18, 2017 |
| Automatic forgiveness makes the world more dangerous |
The Boston Globe |
April 26, 2017 |
| Immigrant heroes save American lives |
The Boston Globe |
March 8, 2017 |
| Racist opinions are hateful. That shouldn't make them crimes |
The Boston Globe |
January 11, 2017 |
| Does the death penalty deter? Of course |
The Boston Globe |
August 28, 2016 |
| If you don't rent to criminals, are you a racist? |
The Boston Globe |
April 10, 2016 |
| A lesson for Trump in Bulger's rejected appeal |
The Boston Globe |
March 9, 2016 |
| Guns and the 'No-Fly' grandstanders |
The Boston Globe |
December 9, 2015 |
| Garrett Swasey's final sermon |
The Boston Globe |
December 6, 2015 |
| Bulger wasn't hardwired to be a murderer. No one is |
The Boston Globe |
September 23, 2015 |
| Life without parole is no substitute for death |
The Boston Globe |
July 16, 2015 |
| A fitting sentence for the Boston Marathon terrorist |
The Boston Globe |
May 15, 2015 |
| Death or life for Tsarnaev? |
The Boston Globe |
April 22, 2015 |
| Back to firing squads? Thank death-penalty foes |
The Boston Globe |
March 18, 2015 |
| Gun rights should cross state lines |
The Boston Globe |
January 21, 2015 |
| When 'justice' trumps accuracy, journalism loses |
The Boston Globe |
December 14, 2014 |
| Fossil-free isn't folly free |
The Boston Globe |
May 14, 2014 |
| The prison door keeps revolving |
The Boston Globe |
May 4, 2014 |
| Government is dangerous. Handle with care. |
The Boston Globe |
August 11, 2013 |
| Political elite should shun Bill Bulger |
The Boston Globe |
June 23, 2013 |
| Dzokhar Tsarnaev and the death penalty |
The Boston Globe |
May 8, 2013 |
| After the 'toughest' gun law, gun crime rose |
The Boston Globe |
February 17, 2013 |
| Bad guys' lawyers |
The Boston Globe |
January 13, 2013 |
| Good laws will never abolish all evil |
The Boston Globe |
December 19, 2012 |
| Life terms for teen killers: neither cruel nor unusual |
The Boston Globe |
July 15, 2012 |
| A safer society with guns |
The Boston Globe |
March 21, 2012 |
| On trial at Rutgers: hate crime or thought crime? |
The Boston Globe |
March 14, 2012 |
| In Oregon, a profile in incoherence |
The Boston Globe |
November 30, 2011 |
| Let convicts choose: Prison or the lash? |
The Boston Globe |
July 10, 2011 |
| Abortion's awful euphemisms |
The Boston Globe |
January 26, 2011 |
| The 'Islamophobia' myth |
The Boston Globe |
December 8, 2010 |
| Is capital punishment racist? |
The Boston Globe |
December 5, 2010 |
| Ultimate evil calls for ultimate punishment |
The Boston Globe |
September 29, 2010 |
| Instruments of crime are instruments, not crimes |
The Boston Globe |
June 20, 2010 |
| Huckabee's deadly gamble |
The Boston Globe |
December 9, 2009 |
| With imprisonment up, crime is down |
The Boston Globe |
August 5, 2009 |
| Getting Away with Murder in Mass. |
Solomonia.com |
July 19, 2009 |
| Aren't all violent crimes 'hate' crimes? |
The Boston Globe |
May 17, 2009 |
| 'Honor' killing comes to the US |
The Boston Globe |
August 10, 2008 |
| Immigrants in prison? Not likely |
The Boston Globe |
March 5, 2008 |
| Life and death in New Jersey |
The Boston Globe |
December 19, 2007 |
| Bloodshed in black America is self-inflicted |
The Boston Globe |
September 5, 2007 |
| Do some victims deserve less justice? |
The Boston Globe |
May 16, 2007 |
| A time for tears and silence, not politics |
The Boston Globe |
April 22, 2007 |
| More relief than regret |
The Boston Globe |
January 3, 2007 |
| Undeserved forgiveness |
The Boston Globe |
October 8, 2006 |
| The 'throw-away-the-key' fallacy |
The Boston Globe |
February 8, 2006 |
| The wrong way to restore the death penalty |
The Boston Globe |
May 15, 2005 |
| A phony 'consensus' on youthful killers |
The Boston Globe |
March 6, 2005 |
| Musings, random and otherwise |
The Boston Globe |
December 23, 2004 |
| Old enough to kill. Old enough to die? |
The Boston Globe |
October 21, 2004 |
| The cancer of anti-Semitism in Europe |
The Boston Globe |
March 14, 2004 |
| When murderers die, innocents live |
The Boston Globe |
September 28, 2003 |
| More prisoners, less crime |
The Boston Globe |
August 28, 2003 |
| Out of a job he should never have had |
The Boston Globe |
August 10, 2003 |
| Bonnie, get your gun |
The Boston Globe |
August 22, 2002 |
| Do these cabbies look like bigots? |
The Boston Globe |
July 12, 2001 |
| The accuracy of capital punishment |
The Boston Globe |
February 28, 2000 |
| Would we care about Buford Furrow if he hadn't used a gun? |
The Boston Globe |
August 23, 1999 |
| A dozen cabbies have been attacked. Does anybody care? |
The Boston Globe |
June 10, 1999 |
| Where were the adults? |
The Boston Globe |
April 26, 1999 |
| Murder over the high seas |
The Boston Globe |
February 25, 1999 |
| Papal interference in Missouri |
The Boston Globe |
February 4, 1999 |
| Inmates on death row are more likely to walk than die |
The Boston Globe |
November 30, 1998 |
| The lessons of Laramie |
The Boston Globe |
October 15, 1998 |
| Yandle belongs in prison for life |
The Boston Globe |
September 3, 1998 |
| The unjust logic of sparing murderers |
The Boston Globe |
August 10, 1998 |
| Kennedy's destructive hate crimes bill |
The Boston Globe |
July 20, 1998 |
| What the media don't admit: Guns make us safer |
The Boston Globe |
June 18, 1998 |
| The classroom culture that spawned Kip Kinkel |
The Boston Globe |
May 28, 1998 |
| Latrena Pixley and the downward slide of American jurisprudence |
The Boston Globe |
January 9, 1998 |
| 'Their blood flowed red, too' |
The Boston Globe |
January 6, 1998 |
| Pol Pot's clear conscience |
The Boston Globe |
November 4, 1997 |
| In defense of 'an eye for an eye' |
The Boston Globe |
June 24, 1997 |
| At UMass, student lawbreaking has grown routine |
The Boston Globe |
June 3, 1997 |
| In D.C., a change of heart on the death penalty |
The Boston Globe |
May 20, 1997 |
| Bring back flogging |
The Boston Globe |
February 20, 1997 |
| Willful murderers deserve death, not compassion |
The Boston Globe |
December 12, 1996 |
| A letter to Johnathan |
The Boston Globe |
October 3, 1996 |
| A cardinal's compassion for a killer |
The Boston Globe |
September 24, 1996 |
| The party of gun-haters |
The Boston Globe |
September 3, 1996 |
| A killer lives; a child dies |
The Boston Globe |
January 12, 1996 |
| The flames of hatred in the Age of Farrakhan |
The Boston Globe |
December 14, 1995 |
| When murder makes page 1, is the blood any redder? |
The Boston Globe |
October 3, 1995 |
| Crime is down. Why don't we don't feel safer? |
The Boston Globe |
August 17, 1995 |
| Time has improved Yandle, but it hasn't lessened his crime |
The Boston Globe |
June 13, 1995 |
| The chaos facing the White House |
The Boston Globe |
May 30, 1995 |
| What does Harvard have against teen killers? |
The Boston Globe |
April 11, 1995 |
| Seeking justice for crimes of the past |
The Boston Globe |
September 27, 1994 |
| Drowning in crime |
The Boston Globe |
August 30, 1994 |
| Crime bill hypocrites |
The Boston Globe |
August 19, 1994 |
| A roll call for murderers |
The Boston Globe |
August 2, 1994 |
| Without the death penalty, innocents will die |
The Boston Globe |
June 21, 1994 |
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