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@Leung
talks to the doers and thinkers behind the biggest ideas and debates of our time.
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@GlobeOpinion
endorses: Run, don't walk, to your polling place and vote for
@HillaryClinton
for president.
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The
@BostonGlobe
editorial board endorses Elizabeth Warren as the Democratic nominee for president.
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The Boston Globe Editorial Board endorses Ed Markey in the Massachusetts Senate primary.
#Election2020
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.
@elizadushku
responds to what happened at CBS: “I took a job and because I did not want to be harassed, I was fired.”
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Do mass deportations trigger riots and curfews under
@realDonaldTrump
in 2017?
#immigration
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Former Portsmouth, N.H. mayor and 2018 gubernatorial candidate
@marchandsteve
is endorsing
@AndrewYang
for president. Here’s why.
#election2020
#YangGang
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Did you see
@ProjectLincoln
’s ad on
@realdonaldjtrump
’s response to the
#coronavirus
, the one he tweeted about at 1 a.m.? Here's why it struck a nerve, writes
@nhjennifer
.
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Ngozi Fulani, who refused to accept racist treatment at Buckingham Palace, is being subjected to "horrific abuse" online. But,
@reneeygraham
writes, calling out racism in a racist society is often punished as a greater sin than racism itself.
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@dontlookupfilm
succeeds not because it’s funny and entertaining, but because it’s serious sociopolitical commentary posing as comedy, writes
@penn_state
professor
@MichaelEMann
.
#climatecrisis
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If a politician is lying, call it a lie — don't give them credit for lying with style.
@speechboy71
on the
#VPDebate
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Attorney General William Barr has dismantled the
@TheJusticeDept
’s independence from partisan politics and the president’s political interests. He must be removed.
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Let’s call
@BernieSanders
latest campaign move, rallies in
@ewarren
and
@amyklobuchar
’s homestates, what it is: Shabby, says
@GlobeScotLehigh
.
#Election2020
#SuperTuesday
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The US has been pummeled by gun violence since the assault weapons ban expired in 2004. We can
#MakeitStop
.
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Finally, a place where
@MikeBloomberg
’s billions couldn’t help him — the
#DemDebate
. Read
@reneeygraham
’s latest.
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Editorial: Donald Trump came into office with unprecedented conflicts of interest and made no efforts to minimize them. By the time he was running for reelection, he was over $400 million in debt. To whom? The public only partially knows.
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Editorial: Can this administration sink any lower than threatening to deport kids with cancer?
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If Republicans actually care about the national debt, they can do what generations of politicians have refused to do — finally agree that billionaires and giant corporations should pitch in just like everyone else, writes
@SenWarren
.
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“Amy’s ability to bring people with her is not just important to beat Trump and unite the country, but is also an essential piece in our country’s march toward progress.” Read N.H. State Representative
@LathaMangipudi
’s endorsement of
@amyklobuchar
.
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As I assume the responsibilities of mayor, I promise bold, courageous leadership and a citywide agenda of recovery, reopening, and renewal, writes incoming acting Boston mayor
@Kim_Janey
.
#bospoli
#Boston
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The presidency must never become a get-out-of-jail-free card for all crimes committed in one’s lifetime, writes
@tribelaw
.
@realDonaldTrump
must be prosecuted.
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The nation should not return to its normal practice of reacting to fear by bulk-buying
#guns
and sending anxious people with firearms back to their homes, writes
@RaniaBatrice
.
#COVID19
#coronavirus
#DomesticViolence
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The normalization of Stephen Miller reflects not only media amnesia, but also the new obsession with the border, writes
@marcela_elisa
.
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While society yawns, impatient to move on from the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans still play disability roulette,
@WesElyMD
writes.
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This year, we won’t be endorsing a Democratic presidential candidate ahead of the New Hampshire primary. Instead, we’re calling for the end of that first-in-the-nation primary.
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Warren will fight for the integrity of our democracy and for our society’s most vulnerable. Massachusetts – and for that matter, South Carolina and other Super Tuesday states – should give her the chance to keep doing it.
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"The Founders didn’t shelter freedom of speech and the press primarily from fear that tyrants would otherwise undermine American liberties," writes
@Jeffy_Jacoby
. "They did so because they knew that ordinary officials would seek to do so."
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.
@davidhogg111
,
@WhipKClark
, and more than 350 others agree: It’s time for Congress to ban military-style assault weapons.
#ENOUGH
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Editorial: The Globe editorial board endorses
@JoeBiden
for president. He can restore the integrity of the presidency and set the country on a better path.
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Editorial: Norms in a democracy are only as good as our willingness to enforce them. Read Future-proofing the presidency, Part 6: The case for prosecuting Donald Trump.
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Editorial: A commander in chief tried his very best to subvert democracy. He attacked his own country. Five people died. Allowing Donald Trump to go unpunished would set a far more dangerous precedent than having Trump stand trial.
#January6thInsurrection
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We're looking at the most profound political crisis that this country has faced since Watergate.
#Inauguration
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The closure of child care centers because of
#COVID19
has forced a profound reckoning about the state of the American child care system, write
@SenWarren
,
@RepJoeKennedy
,
@RepKClark
,
@RepPressley
and their partners.
#coronavirus
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“The candidate who presents the toughest match-up for Trump is the same person with the boldest plans to address the root causes that led to Trump’s election in the first place.” Read
@marchandsteve
’s endorsement of
@AndrewYang
.
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Editorial: Moderna must acknowledge that its pursuit of profits is unnecessarily leaving many people unprotected from this still-deadly disease — particularly people who are poor, whether in the United States or abroad.
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10 years after
#LehmanBrothers
, Washington should be pushing for stricter oversight and more accountability for giant banks.
From
@SenWarren
:
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Democrats have never lacked for programs. What’s been missing is a unifying vision. For
@RepSwalwell
, it’s restoring “the freedom to dream.”
From
@RicPatterson
:
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A new study suggests that people suffering from long COVID end up with reservoirs of active SARS-CoV-2 virus, writes
@WesElyMD
. A year after becoming infected, patients’ levels can sometimes remain as high as were found during early infection.
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Shanika Amarakoon, secretary of
@PortsDems
, is endorsing
@PeteButtigieg
for president. Here’s why.
#election2020
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Bill Weld is a solid, substantive, hyper-smart figure. We urge Republicans to embrace his candidacy on Super Tuesday.
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Pete Buttigieg says if he’s president, “no one living with diabetes will die from rationing insulin.”
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The
#FreePress
is necessary to a free society because it does not implicitly trust leaders — from the local planning board to the White House.
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@JohnKasich
Before
@JohnKasich
speaks at the Democratic Convention tonight, take a look back at what he wrote last month in
@GlobeOpinion
about a better path forward for America.
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New data show that Massachusetts is the state with the least amount of gun violence per capita and has the lowest-in-the-nation per capita costs from gun violence. Other states should follow our example, writes
@GlobeScotLehigh
.
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Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s big debate moments established him as a forceful presence, expanded his distinctive ideological space, distinguished him from the top tier candidates, and reinforced his persona as a political pragmatist.
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.
@SenSanders
: Corporate greed must end, and we must end the war on the middle class
#uspoli
http://t.co/Zu0zhnuWCc
http://t.co/OroDCwgb63
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Next week, the
@BostonGlobe
editorial board is announcing our endorsement in the presidential primary. Sign up for our newsletter and be the first to know.
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Editorial: Donald Trump showed impeachment is a far weaker deterrent to abuse of presidential power than once believed. Now Congress and the Department of Justice have to show there are real consequences when a president breaks the law.
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He's received death threats, been harassed while leaving prayer services, but
@celtics
forward
@EnesKanter
will not be silenced.
#Turkey
#Erdogan
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As a descendant of survivors of the
#Armenian
Genocide, I think it's clear that a people’s right to self-determination counts far more than territorial integrity, especially when the alternative is annihilation, writes novelist
@ChrisBohjalian
.
#Armenia
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Trump’s Big Lie about voter fraud was based on little lies the GOP has told for years. Call them all out. |
@KimberlyEAtkins
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To label the press “the enemy of the people” is as un-American as it is dangerous to the civic compact we have shared for more than two centuries. See how 350+ newsrooms around the country are defending the
#FreePress
in their own words.
There is nothing that I would want more for our Country than true FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. The fact is that the Press is FREE to write and say anything it wants, but much of what it says is FAKE NEWS, pushing a political agenda or just plain trying to hurt people. HONESTY WINS!
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Nominating Bill Weld would move the Republican Party back to the traditional tenets and propriety of the office of the president.
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Editorial: If
@POTUS
Biden wants to make good on his promise to fight corruption at home and abroad, the White House ought to get on board with giving
@TheJusticeDept
’s inspector general more authority.
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Editorial:
@Facebook
isn’t doing enough to protect democracy, and it probably never will if users don’t demand it or the government doesn’t do anything about it.
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The president of the United States has for the past two years — and in plain sight — been a de facto agent of the Russian government, writes
@SpeechBoy71
.
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“America, we’ve lost our way.” Read
@JohnKasich
on how Americans must unite to create a better path forward.
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Everyone ought to have a right to access their city in its entirety — all of it, writes
@abdallah_fayyad
.
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President Biden needs to cancel even more student loan debt, write Elizabeth Warren and Charles E. Schumer.
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.
@GlobeWasserman
on
#Patriots
punishment in
#Deflategate
http://t.co/rQbeykd6kB
http://t.co/cuxZjmw9pI
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"Walter J. Shaub Jr. said that
@realDonaldTrump
’s plan fails the standard met by every president since Watergate."
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Studies suggest that voting is habit-forming. Letting 16- and 17-year-olds vote would be good for our democracy, says
@jessica_lander
.
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For the ad industry to continue its relationship with Fox News Digital is not only a violation of its supply policies, it’s a violation of trust with consumers, writes
@nandoodles
.
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The objection isn’t with what Black women say or how we say it, writes
@reneeygraham
. It’s that we dare to exist at all.
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At this stage of global geopolitical upheaval and reshuffling of alliances, the survival of a small democracy in the Caucasus very much depends on whether Western states decide to act, write
@ardemp
and
@YesVicken
.
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Editorial: President Biden should ask Congress to repeal the Jones Act, which continues to be a hindrance every time disaster strikes islands.
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When
@POTUS
told the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by," it was "yet another cold reminder that in the horror story of the Trump presidency, the calls for violence are coming from inside the White House," writes
@reneeygraham
.
#Vote
#Debates2020
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.
@SenMarkey
is not past his time. Rather, his time may finally have arrived. The
@BostonGlobe
Editorial Board endorses Ed Markey for US Senate.
#Election2020
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Editorial: If Congress doesn’t curb nepotism now, Donald Trump’s White House will only serve as a blueprint for other corrupt families to exploit the presidency.
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In less than two generations, the United States transformed itself from a largely racist society to a largely non-racist one, writes
@Jeff_Jacoby
.
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Marijuana "legalization would guide states choosing to move forward with strong and clear national standards meant to ensure that all Americans are protected fully and equally," writes
@RepJoeKennedy
in
@statnews
.
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El Salvadoran president
@nayibbukele
’s gamble on cryptocurrency has failed — his nation is yet another casualty of the great crypto crash of 2022, writes
@marcela_elisa
.
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The rise of the COVID-19 delta variant is causing confusion about how best to avoid getting sick and spreading the disease.
How should Americans navigate this?
@ashishkjha
provides some advice in
@GlobeOpinion
.
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"Some still want to believe that
@NikkiHaley
is better than this. She’s not." And
@reneeygraham
goes on from there. We can all agree, though, that
@reneeygraham
is good at this. Very.
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A person who is fully vaccinated and encounters the delta variant is about 90% less likely to be infected than an unvaccinated person and extremely unlikely to get very sick.
But,
@ashishkjha
writes, "90 percent is not 100 percent."
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What’s happening to Ukrainians is very similar to what happened to Armenians, writes Stephan Pechdimaldji. These are not mutually exclusive events. The parallels could not be starker.
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"Very strong answer from Buttigieg on the state of the economy – and he actually references poverty in America," says Michael A. Cohen (
@speechboy71
). He's live-blogging the
#DemDebate
. Follow along:
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George W. Bush’s record of failure is unmatched in US presidential history, writes
@speechboy71
.
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Teachers must have the courage to assign low grades when students do poorly without fear of punishment — and students need to develop the ability to take responsibility for failure, writes Maitland Jones Jr.
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A mask mandate lifted in the middle of winter could result in a reversal of the positive trajectory we are witnessing today and a widening of health inequities, writes
@FXBHarvard
director
@DrNataliaLinos
.
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“The wild ride we’ve all been on since January 2017 doesn’t need to be our path going forward,” writes
@JohnKasich
. “We must choose another path, the path of unity.”
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Ending the public health emergency represents backward progress on health justice, and as the federal COVID response is wound down, the virus will continue to enact a heavy cost, write
@AShihipar
,
@william_goedel
, and Abigail Cartus.
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The television cameras that are typically tightly controlled by the House itself are, for the moment, staffed by C-SPAN journalists,
@brianstelter
writes. For news junkies, it’s the best new show of the year.
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In 2016,
@BernieSanders
wanted super delegates at the Democratic convention to ignore the plurality of the delegates in the hopes of becoming the nominee. He’s singing a different tune now, says Michael A. Cohen (
@speechboy71
).
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Editorial: The Boylston Street bike lane proposal will obviously not address all the dangers Boston’s biking commuters face. But as part of the city’s broader effort to add safe passageways for cyclists, it's a big step in the right direction.
#bospoli
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To label the
#FreePress
as “the enemy of the people” is as un-American as it is dangerous to the civic compact we have shared for more than two centuries.
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