IS A WEALTHY businessman from New York the right presidential candidate to defeat another wealthy businessman from New York? In the eyes of Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, national co-chair […]
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Simplistic theories won’t beat Trump
THE DRIVING FORCE in the Democratic presidential contest is the near-obsession of many voters with choosing a candidate who can beat Donald Trump. Nearly two-thirds of voters (63 percent) in […]
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Americans evenly divided on impeachment
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE TRUMP-UKRAINE story are coming at a breakneck pace, and so now are national polls asking about whether the President should be impeached. There are enough impeachment polls […]
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Trump reverses course on immigrant medical program
IN AN ABRUPT about-face, the Trump administration is reversing course on the recent declaration that it was ending a policy that allows seriously ill immigrants to remain in the country legally […]
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Trump administration changes course on immigrant patients
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION abruptly changed course on Monday, allowing immigrants with serious illnesses to have their denied cases to remain in the US reopened, instead of being moved into deportation […]
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Immigrant patients who stay will face deportation
AFTER SEVERAL DAYS OF CONFUSION and mixed messages between federal agencies over responsibility for oversight of a controversial immigration policy change, the two agencies confirmed Friday that the government is ending a program that […]
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Legislators: Trump admin. gutting asylum process in New England
SENS. ED MARKEY and Elizabeth Warren and US Rep. Ayanna Pressley are accusing the Trump administration of gutting the immigration asylum process in New England by directing the agency’s Boston […]
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ACLU files suit to block restrictive new asylum rules
THE AMERICAN CIVIL Liberties Union, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Center for Constitutional Rights filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday to block sweeping new asylum restrictions announced by the Trump […]
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Mass. Republican elected leaders decry Trump’s remarks
THE BAY STATE’S three most powerful elected Republicans have now each criticized President Trump to varying degrees for his recent racist exhortations, but other top members of the president’s party […]
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Mass. businesses paid $180 million by border patrol agency
LAST WEEK’S WALKOUT by workers at Boston-based Wayfair put a spotlight on the issue of businesses contracting to provide goods to detention facilities on the US-Mexican border. But the online retailer’s sale of $200,000 of bedroom furniture to […]
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Supreme Court holds up citizenship question on census
IN A BLOW TO THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, the Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a citizenship question from being added to the 2020 Census, partially because the Commerce Department’s initial explanation for why it decided to include it appeared to […]
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Undocumented abuse survivors break silence on bus
THE PARKING LOT STOOD EMPTY Wednesday morning, but then women in groups of two or three, dressed in white shirts, began streaming in, murmuring about the humidity in Spanish. A yellow school bus pulled […]
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For Mashpee Wampanoag, land rights, casino back on the table
A WEEK AFTER a tweet by President Trump derailed efforts by the Mashpee Wampanoag to build a $1 billion casino in Taunton, the US House of Representatives has revived the tribe’s gaming prospects. Last Wednesday, after Trump […]
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RFK, Jr.’s anti-vaccine campaign is reckless and wrong — say three Kennedys
OF ALL THE WRINKLES in the emerging measles crisis and spotlight it has put on families who have caused the outbreak by refusing to vaccinate their children, the most curious […]
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RFK, Jr.’s anti-vaccine campaign is reckless and wrong — say three Kennedys
Of all the wrinkles in the emerging measles crisis and spotlight it has put on families who have caused the outbreak by refusing to vaccinate their children, the most curious […]
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Bill Weld’s longshot candidacy begins
THE PUBLIC MARVELED when Bill Weld dove into the Charles River in the summer of 1996. Now the two-time Massachusetts governor and former US attorney is plunging into an even […]
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Bill Weld’s longshot candidacy begins
The public marveled when Bill Weld dove into the Charles River in the summer of 1996. Now the two-time Massachusetts governor and former US attorney is plunging into an even […]
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Weld looks to make trouble for Trump
BILL WELD ISN’T going to be president. He isn’t going to be the Republican nominee for president. In the one-in-a-hundred, best case scenario, he will win New Hampshire and then […]
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All the president’s mess
IT’S ABSURD to think a president could ever be impeached for lying about sex. Or so was the prevailing wisdom until it happened in 1998 to Bill Clinton. Twenty years […]
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House’s Trump working group hasn’t done much
LAST MARCH, a self-described “deeply worried” Speaker Robert DeLeo created a nine-member working group to guide responses to the “unprecedented actions” of the Trump administration. The group, led by House […]
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NFL owners yield to Trump, bottom line
In the end, the megamillionaire NFL owners decided to take a knee. Not a knee of protest or principle, as some of their employees pursued last season, but a knee […]
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NFL owners yield to Trump, bottom line
In the end, the megamillionaire NFL owners decided to take a knee. Not a knee of protest or principle, as some of their employees pursued last season, but a knee […]
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Democrats have a lot to learn from Trump
OUR DAILY FOCUS on Donald Trump’s narcissistic behavior diverts attention from something much more significant: the likelihood that his presidency may constitute an important historical transition for the United States. It […]
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Draining the swamp? Not so much.
If there was one thing that a sharply divided electorate agreed on in 2016, says Diane Hessan, it was on the need to “drain the swamp.” The corrupted stew of […]