Jim Dao
@jimdao
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Editorial Page Editor, The Boston Globe; NYT alum. I comment on the news, just not on Twitter.
Joined January 2009
RT @KevinDSack: I'll be discussing "Mother Emanuel" at @HarvardBooks in Cambridge with @jimdao, editorial page editor of @BostonGlobe, on 6….
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RT @robkhenderson: My latest for the @BostonGlobe: . "The battle against misinformation isn’t won by gatekeeping online speech. Instead, it….
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Fake news doesn’t actually change people's minds as much as it confirms what they already thought.
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Here’s an explanation of why @GlobeOpinion still endorses in local - and presidential - elections.
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A Q&A with editorial page editor James Dao about the Boston Globe Opinion section, the editorial board, and its process for making decisions.
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RT @GlobeOpinion: From @GlobeIdeas: Remarkably, Trump is using the abortion issue to his benefit
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Trump plays down the radical nature of Republican positions — and Supreme Court rulings give those claims a veneer of plausibility.
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RT @GlobeOpinion: What could you buy at Boomerangs, the local thrift store chain that announced Wednesday it would close in June, writes Al….
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The thrift shop chain will close in June, after years of supplying the community with used books and records, oddball furniture, and a vast number of mugs.
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. of international law or as an act of war our aid to the democracies which dare to resist their aggression. Such aid is not an act of war, even if a dictator should unilaterally proclaim it so to be."
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EnlargeDownload Link Citation: Franklin D. Roosevelt Annual Message to Congress, January 6, 1941; Records of the United States Senate; SEN 77A-H1; Record Group 46; National Archives. View All Pages
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What FDR said in his State of the Union address of 1941, later known as his Four Freedoms speech, delivered months before Pearl Harbor, while Germany was marching through Europe. "We will not be intimidated by the threats of dictators that they will regard as a breach. .
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Set aside everything else for a few minutes and pay attention to this:
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The risk of nuclear conflict is rising. It’s time for the world to pull itself back from the edge.
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It's almost Lunar New Year. Here's a great conversation about Chinese food and family traditions, entrepreneurship, and the wonderfulness of Chinese dumplings, with Irene Li, cofounder of Mei Mei Dumplings in South Boston. @GlobeOpinion
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RT @GlobeOpinion: On the latest episode of the "Say More" podcast the Globe's @BrianBergstein joins @superwuster, the father of “net neutra….
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RT @GlobeOpinion: On a bonus episode of “Say More with Shirley Leung,” Boston Globe politics reporter Emma Platoff introduces us to three N….
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RT @GlobeOpinion: Why President Biden should lean in to, rather than move away from, his immigration wins, writes @marcela_elisa. https://t….
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Taking stock of Biden and the Democrats’ record on immigration policy ahead of the pivotal New Hampshire primary.
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For Buffalo Bills fans, the curse of the placekicker lives on via @BostonGlobe.
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This Bills loss had all the familiar, painful themes, and marked the third time the Chiefs eliminated the Bills in four years.
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Is Nikki Haley really a RINO? Only in a world where Republicanism has been redefined by Trump. @GlobeOpinion re https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/01/20/opinion/nikki-haley-new-hampshire-primary-events-conservatives-rino/?event=event25 via @BostonGlobe.
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Because it is so powerful, I'm reupping this piece about the scandalous way a scandalous school for youths with intellectual disabilities was ransacked after its closing. @GlobeIdeas @GlobeOpinion via @BostonGlobe.
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The institution for ‘feeble-minded boys’ named for my great-great-grandfather closed in 2014. Why are confidential and sensitive patient records strewn all over the abandoned campus?
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How Twitter broke Elon Musk, according to author Ben Mezrich
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Fans of Mezrich will recognize his penchant for dramatic narrative nonfiction that Hollywood loves to make into movies and TV series.
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Before you go crazy on Black Friday, read this series.
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How to be fashionable and equitable while saving the planet from climate change.
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"If a campus is a place where vitriolic protests are encouraged but faculty and students fear having complex, difficult conversations, that is a damning indictment of what higher education has become." @GlobeOpinion
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Professors should teach students how to have respectful dialogue.
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RT @leung: For #HipHop History Month, I talked to the incomparable and encyclopedic @Dart_Adams on Boston musicians' role in shaping hip ho….
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