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Opinion

Your whereabouts are known at all times

Editorials and columns

"Big Brother is watching you" is no longer a fictional admonition. Everywhere you go, your location is recorded by phone technology, license plate readers, Uber and Lyft transactions, and cameras. Privacy? Forget about it. Your location history is in the hands of many tech companies. Can the ...

The Media Could Attempt a ‘Nonpartisan Bias’

Editorials and columns

The third dreadful assassination attempt against President Donald Trump was an opportunity to assess where we stand on the question of political violence. In this decade, the media has demonstrated a profound double standard. The horrible riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was a ...

You’re doing it wrong: Pants-washing edition

Editorials and columns

The article in The Washington Post pulled no punches. "You're probably washing your pants wrong," the headline informed me, with no small degree of smugness. "Here's how to do it right." As a woman and a parent, I am quite accustomed to being told that I'm doing something wrong, so, being ...

Why people hate?

Editorials and columns

On the last day for candidates to file for partisan office, I stood at the edge of the sidewalk at the entrance to the Montague Post Office with a clipboard, collecting signatures so a candidate could get on the ballot—so voters would have a choice. A man in a ball cap slowed, eyeing my ...

Colleges are making political violence worse

Editorials and columns

The ranks of would-be presidential assassins are a cavalcade of losers, yet the latest shooter who set out to murder Donald Trump -- the man who opened fire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Sunday -- turns out to have an elite educational background. Cole Allen is a graduate of ...