Columnist

Jeff Jacoby

An Op-Ed columnist and nationally recognized conservative voice, Jacoby was hired from the Boston Herald in 1987. He briefly practiced law and was a commentator for WBUR-FM. His awards include the 1999 Breindel Prize and the 2004 Thomas Paine Award.

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Two pandering poseurs

By Jeff Jacoby , Globe Columnist

Candidates asking to be entrusted with senatorial authority ought to be willing to think and speak more seriously than Gabriel Gomez and Edward Markey.

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Employers are not immigration officers

By Jeff Jacoby , Globe Columnist

Immigration enforcement is the government’s job, not the private sector’s, and no employer should be punished because of an employee’s immigration problems.

JEFF JACOBY

Samantha Power is good choice for UN

By Jeff Jacoby , Globe Columnist

Power would be unafraid to condemn the world’s most bloodthirsty regimes and would be a UN envoy who all Americans could value.

Gomez’s responses to Jacoby’s questionnaire

By Jeff Jacoby , Globe columnist

Here are Republican Gabriel Gomez’s responses to Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby’s questionnaire.