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Iraq and a hard place

The Democratic presidential candidates must articulate clear exit strategies
Getting out of Iraq is going to be more difficult than getting in.
By EDITORIAL  |  August 01, 2007

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Why ‘fairness’ fails

The excesses of right-wing talk radio have sparked a move to re-impose an equal-time doctrine. It’s a bad idea.
Anyone who has ever sampled the auditory sewer that is right-wing talk radio can understand the impulse to reinstate the so-called “fairness doctrine.”
By EDITORIAL  |  July 25, 2007

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Placing a bet on gambling

Plus, coming to grips with murder in Boston
Both Maine and Rhode Island in recent years have rejected proposals that would have brought casino gambling to those states.
By EDITORIAL  |  July 18, 2007

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Media monopolies kill

How Time Warner — and other conglomerates — threatens freedom of the press
Anyone who doubts that big media monopolies are bad for democracy should take a look at how much the Post Office charges magazines to mail issues to subscribers.
By EDITORIAL  |  July 13, 2007

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Expanding the cloak of secrecy

Bush’s unrivaled claims to executive privilege deprive Americans of the basic info they need to act as citizens
Make no mistake: the Bush administration is attempting to codify Nixonian secrecy as official constitutional doctrine.
By EDITORIAL  |  July 03, 2007

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The many reasons for Liquarry Jefferson’s death

Responsibility for gun control begins at home and extends all the way to the federal government
As of press time, it appears that a 15-year-old left his handgun where a seven-year-old picked it up and killed an eight-year-old with it.
By EDITORIAL  |  June 27, 2007

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Rushdie’s courage

Why Sir Salman’s knighthood matters
Bombay-born Salman Rushdie, educated at Rugby and Cambridge, is now Sir Salman Rushdie.
By EDITORIAL  |  June 20, 2007

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Jubilation!

Today Massachusetts, tomorrow the world
We can all thank the conservatives who several years ago controlled the state legislature for the fact that Massachusetts citizens have same-sex- marriage rights.
By EDITORIAL  |  June 14, 2007

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The mess at UMass

Picking up the pieces in the wake of a destructive power play. Plus, the immigration debate.
Before he terminated his do-little term as governor to kick off his presidential campaign, Mitt Romney planted a ticking time bomb at the University of Massachusetts.
By EDITORIAL  |  June 13, 2007

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The debates so far

Why the Republican performance is so dangerous
Watching the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates debate this week in New Hampshire leaves an uncomfortable but undeniable impression.
By EDITORIAL  |  June 06, 2007

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Casino gambling: Yes

The question should not be if , but how. Plus, Cape Wind now.
The debate about casino gambling in Massachusetts has arrived.
By EDITORIAL  |  May 30, 2007

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The sense of it

History, biology, and demographics all favor same-sex marriage, but decency compels it
First, a brief history lesson: Massachusetts was the second of the original 13 colonies to abolish slavery.
By EDITORIAL  |  May 23, 2007

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Darfur: The only hope

It is time for corporations and investors to disinvest in Sudan
The genocide in Darfur continues.
By EDITORIAL  |  May 16, 2007

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Global warming

Some reasons for hope. Plus, Susan Passoni for boston City Council
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is one of those broad-based, high-minded, outfits that drive the Bush White House crazy.
By EDITORIAL  |  May 09, 2007

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Four years later

Bush's bullshit
In the aftermath of a surprise attack by Egypt and Syria that overwhelmed Israeli forces in 1973, a special commission was convened to determine what went wrong.
By EDITORIAL  |  May 02, 2007

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Death by handguns

What the murders at Virginia Tech and on Boston’s streets have in common
The only difference between the carnage wrought on the Virginia Tech campus and the ongoing plague of murders bloodying Boston’s streets is one of intensity.
By EDITORIAL  |  April 25, 2007

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Lender bending

It’s time to rein in the student-loan industry. Plus, trying to make sense of the horror at Virginia Tech.
It should come as little surprise that financial institutions resort to heavy-handed and ethically shady tactics to increase their share of the student-loan business.
By EDITORIAL  |  April 18, 2007

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Ho, ho, ho

Thoughts on watching the media culture that Don Imus helped spawn turn on the aging turkey
Unless you’ve been busy catching up on your Kierkegaard, you know that radio shock jock Don Imus is in a heap of trouble.
By EDITORIAL  |  April 11, 2007

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The painful truth

Boston’s murder crisis underscores the need to reform its police force
If it is painful to try to make sense of the ongoing plague of murders in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan, try to imagine what it is like to live there.
By EDITORIAL  |  April 04, 2007

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Beacon Hill flux

Travaglini exits, Murray ascends, Patrick innovates
“Style,” according to Alfred North Whitehead, “is the ultimate morality of the mind.”
By EDITORIAL  |  March 28, 2007
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