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JEFF JACOBY

As ‘Taxachusetts’ is being revived, residents are fleeing

The level of out-migration from Massachusetts is the highest in 30 years.
MARCELA GARCÍA

How to protect undocumented workers from exploitation

People should try to get word to workers to contact local legal advocates, immigrant activists, or community organizations so they can explain to the workers what their rights are, what the risks are, and what legal avenues exist to help them.
Alex Beam

Everyone is getting into the trademark game

Because — why not? There is ample precedent for what sound like frivolous filings with the US Patent and Trademark Office.
RENÉE GRAHAM

How Tina Turner helped Black girls and women feel free

The iconic performer followed no path but her own and gave many of us the courage to do the same.

op-eds

Vincent D. Rougeau

Clarence Thomas was a beneficiary of race-based admissions at my school

He will probably be among the Supreme Court’s majority in the next few weeks when it is expected to strike down the use of affirmative action in college admissions.
Natasha Warikoo

If affirmative action in college admissions ends, here’s who will fill those spots

States with existing bans make that outcome clear.
Alex Shieh

Affirmative action hurts Asian American kids like me

Asian American students are forced to achieve higher grades and test scores in order to overcome negative racial stereotypes.
John Kelly

Federal agency should honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice

American Battle Monuments Commission should help Gold Star families honor the fallen buried overseas by reinstating, and encouraging the use of, its discontinued floral program.

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RENÉE GRAHAM

How Tina Turner helped Black girls and women feel free

The iconic performer followed no path but her own and gave many of us the courage to do the same.

SCOT LEHIGH

Ron DeSantis’s ill-conceived campaign

The Florida governor tries to take on Trump without offending MAGA.

Joan Wickersham

Don’t call my breasts ‘boobs.’ It’s degrading.

The tone of the word “boobs” is jaunty and jokey and a little bit tough: women taking back and wielding a word that was once used to demean us. But the word is still degrading.

Lydia Edwards

Rachael Rollins is a flawed messenger but her message is not

We must look past her to the policies she advocates and measure those policies against ongoing challenges.

SCOT LEHIGH

Dan Payne, a political consultant in a league of his own

Millions of Americans have no doubt chuckled over a Payne TV spot, for Dan used humor to clarifying effect in political ads that imparted both a laugh and a message.

JEFF JACOBY

There is no ‘14th Amendment option’ to raise the debt ceiling

It will take an act of Congress to set a new borrowing limit — and it will take good faith negotiation to pass an act of Congress.

NEWSLETTERS

To the moon, Mad Men

Look! Up in the sky! It’s an ad!

Hugh Courtney

An Alzheimer’s drug is slowing my disease, but Medicare and Medicaid won’t cover it

The fact that most people cannot access these treatment breakthroughs dulls the brighter future offered by these treatments.