Writings by Topic: National Politics
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| Title |
Publication |
Date  |
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| America's most enduring bipartisan tradition: political hypocrisy |
The Boston Globe |
January 22, 2025 |
| Go home, Massachusetts lawmakers |
The Boston Globe |
December 15, 2024 |
| When Obama was the divider-in-chief |
Arguable |
October 29, 2024 |
| If you're crushing on a political candidate, you're doing democracy wrong |
The Boston Globe |
August 25, 2024 |
| Will Trump's near-assassination jolt Americans into cooling their apocalyptic rhetoric? |
The Boston Globe |
July 15, 2024 |
| The solution to America's gerontocracy |
The Boston Globe |
July 3, 2024 |
| How nostalgia warps our politics |
Arguable |
June 18, 2024 |
| If you can wager on the price of orange juice, why not on elections? |
The Boston Globe |
June 2, 2024 |
| A cynical Washington Post tells Biden: Nothing matters more than beating Trump |
The Boston Globe |
May 15, 2024 |
| The phony feeding frenzies over 'bloodbath' and 'hamstringing' |
The Boston Globe |
March 24, 2024 |
| The critics were right about 'Old Tippecanoe' |
The Boston Globe |
February 18, 2024 |
| I was a young Republican. Now I want nothing to do with either party. |
The Boston Globe |
February 11, 2024 |
| America's elites live in a world of their own |
The Boston Globe |
January 24, 2024 |
| The schoolboy and the Gadsden flag |
Arguable |
September 5, 2023 |
| The Celtics, the Mavericks, and the "millionaire's tax" |
Arguable |
July 11, 2023 |
| A brutal attack in the Senate chamber |
Arguable |
May 16, 2023 |
| A national divorce would solve nothing |
The Boston Globe |
March 5, 2023 |
| When 'whataboutism' is appropriate |
The Boston Globe |
January 15, 2023 |
| The case for term limits is as strong as ever |
The Boston Globe |
January 11, 2023 |
| The Revolution was America's first civil war |
The Boston Globe |
July 3, 2022 |
| I'm right, and you're an evil monster |
The Boston Globe |
June 5, 2022 |
| Georgia voters expose the 'Jim Crow' smear as a lie |
The Boston Globe |
May 25, 2022 |
| Sorry, Tom Cotton: Trump is no Reagan |
The Boston Globe |
March 13, 2022 |
| A peaceful Supreme Court confirmation, for a change |
The Boston Globe |
February 2, 2022 |
| Biden is failing because he abandoned his mandate |
The Boston Globe |
January 19, 2022 |
| Nobody knows anything |
The Boston Globe |
January 2, 2022 |
| F-bombing the president |
The Boston Globe |
November 7, 2021 |
| The rise of the 'school board voters' |
The Boston Globe |
November 3, 2021 |
| Afghanistan and the 'forever war' myth |
The Boston Globe |
August 17, 2021 |
| Democrats discover that 'defund the police' is political poison |
The Boston Globe |
July 1, 2021 |
| A Democrat in the White House? Cue the FDR analogies |
The Boston Globe |
May 12, 2021 |
| So much losing |
The Boston Globe |
January 10, 2021 |
| More than politics divides us, national identity unites us |
The Boston Globe |
January 3, 2021 |
| Ignore the hotheads: America just voted for less drama and strife |
The Boston Globe |
November 8, 2020 |
| Job 1 for the next president: Bind the wounds of a polarized nation |
The Boston Globe |
November 1, 2020 |
| The most important election (since the last election) |
The Boston Globe |
October 14, 2020 |
| Scrap life terms for Supreme Court justices |
The Boston Globe |
September 23, 2020 |
| A plea for humility from America's first superstar |
The Boston Globe |
September 13, 2020 |
| The Kennedy dynasty (finally) wears out its welcome |
The Boston Globe |
September 6, 2020 |
| The enduring value of the Electoral College |
The Boston Globe |
July 9, 2020 |
| The Equal Rights Amendment died in 1979. Let it rest in peace. |
The Boston Globe |
March 22, 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 |
| A tide of contempt is corroding our politics |
The Boston Globe |
December 8, 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 |
| Trump blasts 'the Squad' for not loving America. Does he? |
The Boston Globe |
July 21, 2019 |
| How Democrats and Republicans rig the rules against independents |
The Boston Globe |
July 17, 2019 |
| George Washington was right about 'baneful' two-party politics |
The Boston Globe |
July 14, 2019 |
| Mueller's report means impeachment won't happen |
The Boston Globe |
April 21, 2019 |
| If Trump backs down on a wall, MAGA Nation won't bolt |
The Boston Globe |
January 27, 2019 |
| Your guess is as good as theirs |
The Boston Globe |
January 2, 2019 |
| Three cheers for congressional gridlock |
The Boston Globe |
November 14, 2018 |
| Why Democrats should hope Roe is overruled |
The Boston Globe |
July 22, 2018 |
| 70 years ago, Mayor Humphrey changed the Democratic Party |
The Boston Globe |
July 8, 2018 |
| If politics worked the way the Food Network works |
The Boston Globe |
June 3, 2018 |
| Your father's Republican Party has vanished. His Democratic Party has, too |
The Boston Globe |
May 30, 2018 |
| Clinton tumbles down the 'marriage gap' |
The Boston Globe |
March 18, 2018 |
| The hack who repented |
The Boston Globe |
February 18, 2018 |
| Oprah for president — or for queen? |
The Boston Globe |
January 14, 2018 |
| From normalizing Bill Clinton to normalizing Donald Trump |
The Boston Globe |
July 9, 2017 |
| A health-care debate to die for |
The Boston Globe |
May 14, 2017 |
| Barack Obama's legacy of failure |
The Boston Globe |
January 8, 2017 |
| Another campaign ends, and my wishes didn't come true |
The Boston Globe |
November 6, 2016 |
| Minimum-wage laws: Good intentions, bad results |
The Boston Globe |
October 30, 2016 |
| Campaigns so long they make children cry |
The Boston Globe |
August 31, 2016 |
| Delegate rules aren't 'rigged' just because Trump doesn't like them |
The Boston Globe |
April 20, 2016 |
| The president without a party |
The Boston Globe |
February 14, 2016 |
| For Americans, global freedom is a mission that crosses party lines |
The Boston Globe |
February 7, 2016 |
| Obama regrets polarized rancor. He should. |
The Boston Globe |
January 24, 2016 |
| Shock and awe over Agrabah |
The Boston Globe |
December 23, 2015 |
| Garrett Swasey's final sermon |
The Boston Globe |
December 6, 2015 |
| Take the journalists off the debate stage |
The Boston Globe |
November 8, 2015 |
| American politics needs more civility, not less |
The Boston Globe |
August 16, 2015 |
| Patriot Act's most controversial section fades to black |
The Boston Globe |
May 17, 2015 |
| Obama's hypocritical attack on Netanyahu |
The Boston Globe |
March 29, 2015 |
| No wonder voters like a candidate who knows how to castrate hogs |
The Boston Globe |
November 2, 2014 |
| A Clinton vs. Bush race? Again? |
The Boston Globe |
October 29, 2014 |
| Democrats' ObamaCare albatross |
The Boston Globe |
March 27, 2014 |
| Marketplace changes have made ENDA superfluous |
The Boston Globe |
November 17, 2013 |
| How to fix presidential debates |
The Boston Globe |
August 21, 2013 |
| Secure the border? That's what the US has done |
The Boston Globe |
May 12, 2013 |
| Those endless, onerous presidential campaigns |
The Boston Globe |
December 26, 2012 |
| The rich pay their fair share in taxes — and then some |
The Boston Globe |
August 8, 2012 |
| Public discourse, without the 'hard zinger' |
The Boston Globe |
July 25, 2012 |
| How the marriage gap favors Obama |
The Boston Globe |
July 22, 2012 |
| Minimum-wage laws are costly for the unemployed |
The Boston Globe |
July 11, 2012 |
| Forget the research; our minds are made up |
The Boston Globe |
June 20, 2012 |
| Liberty's resilience, even after 9/11 |
The Boston Globe |
September 14, 2011 |
| Tea Partiers sound an urgent alarm |
The Boston Globe |
August 14, 2011 |
| Smearing the Tea Party |
The Boston Globe |
August 3, 2011 |
| How many lawmakers does it take to. . . . |
The Boston Globe |
July 17, 2011 |
| Much ado about Bibi and Barack |
The Boston Globe |
May 29, 2011 |
| The debt-ceiling scaremongers |
The Boston Globe |
May 4, 2011 |
| Finally, justice is done |
boston.com |
May 2, 2011 |
| Why the 2012 hopefuls don't inspire |
The Boston Globe |
April 24, 2011 |
| The GOP gets a second chance |
The Boston Globe |
November 7, 2010 |
| Condescension and comeuppance |
The Boston Globe |
October 27, 2010 |
| What public-sector unions have wrought |
Commentary |
October 2010 |
| Born in the U.S.A. |
The Boston Globe |
August 15, 2010 |
| Electoral College bypassers should be careful what they wish for |
The Boston Globe |
August 1, 2010 |
| A Boston Tea Party |
The Boston Globe |
April 14, 2010 |
| The 2000s: A descent into incivility |
The Boston Globe |
December 31, 2009 |
| 'Don't call people bigots just because you disagree with them' |
The Boston Globe |
November 11, 2009 |
| 'Kennedy' once meant 'tax-cutter' |
The Boston Globe |
August 30, 2009 |
| The future of talk radio |
The Boston Globe |
May 4, 2009 |
| Farewell to 43 |
The Boston Globe |
January 21, 2009 |
| The great Bush 'deregulation' myth |
The Boston Globe |
November 19, 2008 |
| Don't sell Sarah Palin short |
The Boston Globe |
November 16, 2008 |
| The world won't love Obama forever |
The Boston Globe |
November 9, 2008 |
| Silver linings, even on the right |
The Boston Globe |
November 5, 2008 |
| The 'dictator' label |
The Boston Globe |
October 29, 2008 |
| 'Guilt by association?' Think again |
The Boston Globe |
October 15, 2008 |
| A vote for voting on Election Day |
The Boston Globe |
October 12, 2008 |
| Her chance to shine |
The Boston Globe |
October 3, 2008 |
| Enough of the Palin feeding frenzy |
The Boston Globe |
September 17, 2008 |
| Seeing through Obamanomics |
The Boston Globe |
September 14, 2008 |
| McCain's maverick pick |
The Boston Globe |
August 31, 2008 |
| Interview with Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe |
WRKO: Pundit Review Radio |
August 25, 2008 |
| Hindsight isn't 20-20 |
The Boston Globe |
August 17, 2008 |
| The brilliance of the Electoral College |
The Boston Globe |
July 16, 2008 |
| Democrats, the military, and McCain |
The Boston Globe |
July 13, 2008 |
| Dancing on the grave of Jesse Helms |
The Boston Globe |
July 9, 2008 |
| Michelle Obama is fair game |
The Boston Globe |
May 25, 2008 |
| When judicial restraint goes too far |
The Boston Globe |
May 14, 2008 |
| Interview on the race for president and more |
WRKO |
March 24, 2008 |
| General Patton and the campaign of '08 |
The Boston Globe |
March 16, 2008 |
| The irrelevance of Obama's color |
The Boston Globe |
February 10, 2008 |
| The mystery in the voting booth |
The Boston Globe |
February 6, 2008 |
| A conservative's case for McCain |
The Boston Globe |
February 3, 2008 |
| Congress helps itself, again |
The Boston Globe |
January 30, 2008 |
| The dominant Clinton |
The Boston Globe |
January 27, 2008 |
| Let Hillary be Hillary |
The Boston Globe |
January 9, 2008 |
| No ordinary candidate |
The Boston Globe |
December 26, 2007 |
| Interview on The Boston Globe's Endorsement for President |
WRKO |
December 17, 2007 |
| The Mitt and Rudy smackdown |
The Boston Globe |
October 14, 2007 |
| Good news, but not for Democrats |
The Boston Globe |
August 29, 2007 |
| Anti-Mormonism gets personal |
The Boston Globe |
July 1, 2007 |
| One party's fringe is the other's mainstream |
The Boston Globe |
May 20, 2007 |
| What drives the Democrats? |
The Boston Globe |
April 29, 2007 |
| Segregation on Capitol Hill |
The Boston Globe |
January 31, 2007 |
| Democrats' silence on jihad is deadly |
The Boston Globe |
January 24, 2007 |
| The debate shifts to the left |
The Boston Globe |
January 7, 2007 |
| We'd elect a black president? Old news |
The Boston Globe |
December 27, 2006 |
| A debacle for Republicans, not for conservatives |
The Boston Globe |
November 12, 2006 |
| Are you a 'chicken hawk?' |
The Boston Globe |
July 23, 2006 |
| The crumbling GOP base |
The Boston Globe |
May 31, 2006 |
| Notes from Harry Browne |
The Boston Globe |
March 8, 2006 |
| Bringing faith into contempt |
The Boston Globe |
January 8, 2006 |
| Abortion's paradoxical politics |
The Boston Globe |
December 4, 2005 |
| Mitt Romney, cover candidate |
The Boston Globe |
June 5, 2005 |
| Big loss for the Bush haters |
The Boston Globe |
November 4, 2004 |
| Democratic Convention Analysis with Joan Vennochi and Jeff Jacoby |
Fox News |
July 29, 2004 |
| Bush haters do Kerry no favors |
The Boston Globe |
July 25, 2004 |
| The decline of assimilation |
The Boston Globe |
January 11, 2004 |
| Al Sharpton: The Democrat's David Duke |
The Boston Globe |
January 16, 2003 |
| Gore's mark on history |
The Boston Globe |
November 16, 2000 |
| Democratic cynicism on the test-ban treaty |
The Boston Globe |
October 21, 1999 |
| Why we need a bigger House |
The Boston Globe |
February 15, 1999 |
| Term limits turncoats |
The Boston Globe |
January 21, 1999 |
| Question 2: An insult to honest politics |
The Boston Globe |
October 1, 1998 |
| Ashcroft may be just what Republicans need: a man of deep principles |
The Boston Globe |
December 18, 1997 |
| GOP pays the price for its tax deal with Clinton |
The Boston Globe |
July 22, 1997 |
| Rx for the House: Enlarge it |
The Boston Globe |
February 18, 1997 |
| Tsongas's shining hour |
The Boston Globe |
January 28, 1997 |
| 40 more reasons to fire Bill Clinton |
The Boston Globe |
October 1, 1996 |
| A welfare catastrophe? No, it's a modest reform |
The Boston Globe |
August 6, 1996 |
| Who really drove up the price of gasoline? |
The Boston Globe |
May 7, 1996 |
| Another year of liberal libels |
The Boston Globe |
December 21, 1995 |
| The shutdown has me worried sick |
The Boston Globe |
November 16, 1995 |
| A GOP dive on term limits? |
The Boston Globe |
March 14, 1995 |
| The morality of abortion, not its legality, is the issue |
The Boston Globe |
February 16, 1995 |
| A year of character-assassination from the left |
The Boston Globe |
December 27, 1994 |
| Crime bill hypocrites |
The Boston Globe |
August 19, 1994 |
| Nixon: A kindred spirit for the 'silent majority' |
The Boston Globe |
April 26, 1994 |
| The House is unrepresentative |
The Boston Globe |
March 22, 1994 |
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Book Reviews |
| Book Title |
Publication |
Date |
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Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics
by Larry J. Sabato |
Reason |
June 1992 |
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