They know that the more that Americans are preoccupied by false enemies and straw men, the more vulnerable we will be to their campaign to dismantle our democracy, strip us of our rights and our privacy, and funnel wealth from everyday Americans to the billionaire class.
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The threat to democracy is not over
AS I WRITE these lines, it is not clear who is in charge of our country. Beware of anyone who would have you believe that we are going to get out of this crisis unscathed because we are exceptional. Beware of anyone who tries to convince you that all is back under control and […]
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Trump made gains in urban areas of Mass.
VOTING TRENDS THAT showed shifts in heavily Hispanic communities in Massachusetts toward President Trump in this month’s election are also apparent in other urban areas, including huge swaths of Boston, results that seem to defy expectations that four years of often racially-charged rhetoric from the president would further depress his already weak standing in communities […]
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Trump is biggest presidential loser since Hoover
DONALD TRUMP’S FAILURE to recognize his electoral defeat belies that he turned in the worst performance for an incumbent president with only one main opponent since Herbert Hoover. Trump was also outpaced by many Republican Senate and House candidates in states like Maine and districts he needed to win, which serves as a repudiation of […]
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Trump or Biden? Big impact looms on state budget, health care, immigration
AS VOTERS ACROSS the nation wait eagerly for the results of Tuesday’s presidential election, here in Massachusetts the race could have major trickle-down effects. In addition to the question of whether any Massachusetts politicians might jump to a Biden administration – Sen. Elizabeth Warren is reportedly lobbying Biden to become treasury secretary – there are major policy implications. The biggest […]
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Republican challenger struggles for foothold in ‘purple’ Andover-based rep district
AGAINST A GENERALLY bleak landscape for Massachusetts Republicans in state legislative races next month, the contest for an Andover-based state representative seat seems like it ought to offer some hope to the state’s beleaguered GOP. It’s a rare swing district, where a Democrat was ousted 10 years ago by a conservative Republican who held the […]
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Trump’s fake Bible
After returning to the White House following his walk to St John’s Episcopal Church on Monday where he held a Bible aloft for cameras, President Trump put in a call to Ferry Jalwell, Jr., the president of Freedom University. We have obtained a transcript of that call. Trump: Hello, Ferry, you know what I did […]
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Study finds no benefit of anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine promoted by Trump
THE LARGEST STUDY to date of hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug touted by President Trump as a potential “game-changer” in the treatment of coronavirus, found no evidence of a benefit in treating severely ill COVID-19 patients. The study, published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, looked at the drug’s effect on COVID-19 patients admitted […]
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What Joe McCarthy and Donald Trump have in common
McCarthy: Power Feeds on Fear is a new documentary nationally available from PBS. The film details Joe McCarthy’s rise in the late 1940s from political obscurity in Wisconsin to become the most famous and intimidating US Senator. He achieved that distinction by promoting and exploiting the “Red Scare” fear of communist subversion that existed in […]
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Impeachment fundamentally about preserving voting rights
A UNITED STATES attorney general once said: “From a civil liberties standpoint, the greatest danger to our free system is that the incumbent government use the apparatus of the state… in a way that could affect the outcome of an election.” That attorney general was William Barr. And he said it last week, on the […]