I’m back at the Boston Globe, writing for the Ideas section. My first piece is about how we can still lose our freedom even if legal protections like the First Amendment remain intact: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/19/o...

There’s also a gap between what Democrats say and what they do. In recent weeks, more Dems have made statements about the famine Israel engineered in Gaza, but just this month, party leaders met with Netanyahu—a man who is charged with using starvation as a weapon of war and other crimes.

www.vox.com/politics/418...

Wrote about what the racist DOGE tweets tell us about the Republican view of free speech: the freedom to say the most offensive, racist things without getting any pushback, while also using the power of the state to suppress speech that they personally don’t like. www.vox.com/politics/398...

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