More Opinion Columns
David Hogg and John Rosenthal
Even after the Supreme Court’s decision, Massachusetts gun laws may be safe — for now
While both laws give police some discretion in issuing firearm licenses, the discretion in the New York law was based on the applicant’s stated reason for carrying a firearm outside the home.
Kimberly Atkins Stohr
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer lays bare the reality of gun violence
Breyer not only focused unflinchingly on the gun violence that is happening in real time. He also laid bare the fallacies and disingenuous reasoning of the court’s majority in striking down the New York gun law.
RENÉE GRAHAM
Jan. 6 hearings won’t sway Trump supporters. That’s OK.
Investigating the insurrection isn’t about waking Republicans from their stupor. It’s about holding Trump and his co-conspirators accountable.
Michelle A. Williams
The Supreme Court is misinformed on eugenics
Justice Alito’s leaked draft opinion nodded approvingly to the discredited theory that those who promote access to birth control and abortion have a eugenicist motive to limit reproduction in Black communities.
JOAN WICKERSHAM
The Herculean task facing the Jan. 6 committee
The cleansing surge of water — the public outrage — that we hope will come and sweep out the dung may not come.
Joan Vennochi
What’s really going on at the factory that’s building the T’s new subway cars?
No one on Beacon Hill seems to be asking the tough questions that need to be asked: Why is it taking so long to produce these subway cars? And why are there so many issues with the ones already delivered?
JEFF JACOBY
Even Democrats now agree: Biden is too old for his job
Everyone can see the toll that age is taking on the president.
SCOT LEHIGH
Integrity and honor didn’t matter to Trump, but it did to GOP officials in Georgia and Arizona
Will voters show the same character when it comes to their own role in our democracy?