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Toxic partisanship in the United States is not a new problem.
Bay State lawmakers blow off their deadline. So what else is new?
The Continental Congress in Philadelphia approved the final text of the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July, but it wasn't until July 8, 1776 that the historic document had been printed and could be publicly read.
"Vice President Biden," demanded Kamala Harris in the climactic encounter of last Thursday's Democratic debate, "do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in America then?"
In the summer of 2009, a few months into Barack Obama's first term, posters bearing the caption "Socialism" appeared, on which the president was depicted as the Joker from the Batman movie The Dark Knight.
I'd occasionally seen him in the gym — we both work out at the same Brookline Village health club — but we had never previously had occasion to speak.
"After four years of Donald Trump," declared Senator Amy Klobuchar in a statement on Tuesday, "a new president can't wait for a bunch of congressional hearings to act." To that end, the Minnesota Democrat, who hopes to become the new president in January 2021, issued a 16-page list of all the "concrete steps she will take in her first 100 days" if she is elected to the White House.
New York's long, polarizing war over issuing driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants was finally resolved on Monday.
More than a million marchers flooded Hong Kong's streets at the start of the week, far and away the biggest protests the territory has ever seen.
It was March 3, 1968, and America's most influential pastor, the preeminent leader of the civil rights movement, was in the pulpit of Atlanta's Ebenezer Bapist Church.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee makes news every year, but this year's competition was epic.
It isn't the job of the federal government to provide, mandate, or encourage paid leave for new parents, and there was a time when Republican politicians would have said so.
This season marks the 20th anniversary of one of the greatest feats of statesmanship since the end of the Cold War: the opening of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
I wonder sometimes whether officials at the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, which presents the annual Profile in Courage Award, have ever read Profiles in Courage.
Another news cycle, another round of anti-Trump hyperventilation, this time over the prospect that the 45th president of the United States won't leave the White House when it's time to make way for the 46th.
In a January profile of Leana Wen, Planned Parenthood's new president, BuzzFeed News reported that she intended to start shifting the organization's focus away from abortions.
I learned of Sunday's horrific suicide bombings in Sri Lanka just as I was finishing a new book about an earlier instance of terror.
The closest thing to a bombshell in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report is an Oval Office curse word.
In the world according to Bernie Sanders, billionaires, insurance companies, gun owners, and Wall Street have too much political power.
Several of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are calling for an end to the filibuster, the Senate rule that makes it possible to keep any matter from coming to a vote unless a three-fifths majority — 60 senators — agrees to invoke "cloture" and cut off debate.
