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'It's Halftime in America'

Plus, same-sex marriage's latest boost
Karl Rove is pissed off, and for once we can understand why.

By EDITORIAL | February 08, 2012

The paradox of the White years
Tuesday's Parkman House wake on Beacon Hill for former Boston Mayor Kevin H. White, who died last week at age 82 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease, was more than a tribute to the colorful and resilient politician who led the city during historic years of downtown rejuvenation and racial strife.

By PETER KADZIS | February 01, 2012

Obama's Vision: ''An America Built to Last''

Plus, Deval Patrick
By any measure, President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech would have been considered a political winner, but coming just one day after the Republicans' constipated Florida-primary debate, Obama scored an undeniable triumph.

By EDITORIAL | January 25, 2012

Stopping SOPA

The fight for lasting internet freedom — and security — has only just begun
You can almost breathe a sigh of relief, though the fight is long from over. As of this writing, it looks increasingly as if Congress will — miraculously — fail to break the Internet.

By EDITORIAL | January 18, 2012

Romney's secret formula

Don't be fooled — Mitt is the one
The Republican nomination thing may not be as complicated as the media is making it out to be, but it sure is fun.

By EDITORIAL | January 12, 2012

How 'three strikes' legislation fails

A bad pitch
Despite evidence that "three strikes" mandatory sentencing laws don't work, are punishingly expensive for taxpayers, and make an already unfair criminal-justice system even more irrational and racist, the Massachusetts legislature seems hell-bent on enacting one.

By EDITORIAL | January 04, 2012

Boenher's shame: The putrid politics of Republican negativity.

Or, the GOP’s Payroll-Tax screw-up explained
Pity John Boehner. By rights, as Speaker of the House of Representatives, Boehner should be considered one of Washington's most powerful leaders.

By EDITORIAL | December 21, 2011

Iraq: A monumental and historic blunder

Tough truths
President Barack Obama is ending George W. Bush's war.

By EDITORIAL | December 14, 2011

Coakley's true grit

In a move that sparked national applause, the Attorney General goes after five financial giants for subprime fraud
Three recent developments suggest that the worm is turning and that the criminal behavior of the nation's huge money-center banks might finally suffer something approaching real justice.

By EDITORIAL | December 07, 2011

Why the people are more important than Wall Street

Obama's Osawatomie Moment
President Barack Obama travelled to Osawatomie, Kansas, the other day and delivered an unequivocal rebuke to current economic thinking.

By EDITORIAL | December 07, 2011

Barney's Big Surprise

A working-class hero goes down kvetching. Plus, new hope in the fight against AIDS.
Long before The Sopranos and Jersey Shore introduced the nation to the ripe effusions of the New Jersey personality, voters in and around greater Boston had accepted Barney Frank as one of the more unusual players in the political game.

By EDITORIAL | November 30, 2011

Stop SOPA

Old-media corporate giants seek censorship through a web-based blacklist. Plus, #occupy brutality, and D.C. deadlock.
The dinosaurs of the entertainment world ( i.e. , Hollywood movie studios and national music companies) have joined with the Business Software Alliance (which represents tech giants such as Apple, Microsoft, and Intel) to sponsor an insidious piece of legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

By EDITORIAL | November 22, 2011

Evicting Occupy

Boston's challenge. Plus, pedophilia and justice, and transgendered progress.
At some point during the online reaction to the New York Police Department's eviction of Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park, someone wrote: "Knock over the hive and even more bees will swarm."

By EDITORIAL | November 16, 2011

Probing the pain of urban violence

Anonymous Boston
To comprehend that violence takes on our minority neighborhoods — and the skewed distortions the media conveys of those tragedies — you could begin by visiting the exhibition now on display at the Fourth Wall Project, 132 Brookline Avenue, near Kenmore Square.

By EDITORIAL | November 09, 2011

Fenway rip-off

Sweetheart deal screws taxpayers
The eye-opening report by Northeastern University's Initiative for Investigative Reporting details how the steely-eyed management of the Boston Red Sox, lined its own pockets with sums totaling an estimated $45 million.

By EDITORIAL | November 09, 2011