TOM BRADY FOUND himself at the center of a storm over his possible vote for his friend Donald Trump for president. But it turns out his ballot may not even be counted. […]
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The shock heard ‘round the world
DONALD TRUMP WAS elected president, upending the expectations set by virtually every poll going into Tuesday’s election. He won despite alienating and attacking everyone from Hispanics to Gold Star families, […]
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A web of lies
Donald Trump is being paid millions of dollars by the Russian government, according to ABC News, showing why he’s been deferential to Vladimir Putin. “October Surprise: ABC Uncovers ‘Millions’ of Payments […]
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Billy Bush goes bye-bye
Donald Trump is still hanging tough in the race for the White House, but it looks like the television career of Billy Bush, the other man on the now infamous […]
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Trump needs a debate win. Bigly.
DONALD TRUMP SORELY needs to turn in a strong debate performance this weekend. The last two weeks have brought a near-constant stream of bad news for the Republican candidate: After […]
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Covering Trump
Jim Rutenberg, media columnist for the New York Times, posed a question in yesterday’s paper that has been looming over the presidential contest: “If you’re a working journalist and you […]
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Mercurial candidate fires mercurial campaign manager
We don’t know whether Donald Trump’s dismissal of campaign manager Corey Lewandowski followed the script of his old reality TV show The Apprentice. We don’t know whether Trump uttered the […]
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A Trumped-up convention
So how, in a year in which there is no statewide election, with a Republican governor sailing along with near-historic approval ratings, does a Massachusetts Democratic convention get attention? Trump. […]
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Voters trump media predictions
There’s nothing those in the media like reading and writing more than “we got it wrong” stories, provided they have company. And in the case of Donald Trump, there are […]
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Man vs Woman
Well, there’s no more skirting around about how the presidential election will play out between now and November. “She is a woman. She is playing the woman card left and right,” […]
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Is the media to blame for Trump?
It’s become almost accepted wisdom that the news media have fanned the flame of Donald Trump, basking in his click-bait commentary and covering his every move as if he was […]
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Warren’s end game
In a series of tweets and Facebook posts, US Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday pounded away at GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. Borrowing a page from Trump’s rhetorical playbook, Warren […]
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Trump’s health plan folly
ON MARCH 14, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a bipartisan federal budget watchdog group, released an economic analysis of the recent health proposals made by Republican presidential […]
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For the record, Trump is a little off-base
Word leaked out several days ago a recent meeting Donald Trump held with the New York Times editorial board included assertions by the bombastic billionaire that what he’s saying on […]
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The GOP’s no-win proposition
Barney Frank once shared this bit of wisdom with a would-be candidate for a seat on the Boston City Council: You could lose or, even worse, you might win. For […]
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Clinton v. Trump: What they said and how they said it
Someone tuning in Tuesday night to the nation’s presidential race saw two frontrunners on television who couldn’t have been more different stylistically and politically. Hillary Clinton hosted a traditional campaign […]
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Baker’s Trump problem
Charlie Baker, like the Republican Party nationally, doesn’t know what to do about Donald Trump. Like a runaway train, Trump increasingly seems like he’s headed for victory in today’s Super […]
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Outsiders are in
New Hampshire voters did not deliver a shocker yesterday as much as they put an exclamation mark on the wacky ways of the 2016 presidential race. Donald Trump’s solid win […]
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Trump and The Surprise Doctrine
The Boston Globe’s Ideas section on Sunday offered a look at Donald Trump’s America. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a whole lot to it because Trump is so adept at talking in […]
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The “logic” of Trump
Donald Trump came to Lowell on Monday, packing the Tsongas Center and once again befuddling those who ask, perfectly legitimately, why so many people are drawn to a candidate who […]
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Trump knows what he’s doing
For months, Donald Trump has been defending his plan to deport illegal immigrants by following the lead of former President Dwight Eisenhower, who took action to oust 1.5 million undocumented aliens […]