Carine Hajjar

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Joan Vennochi |Alan Wirzbicki |Carine Hajjar

On Monday, Mike Kennealy, a former adviser to the state’s most recent Republican governor, Charlie Baker, announced his candidacy for governor in the 2026 election. A well-known figure in Republican politics and a favorite of the moderate Baker camp, he faces two stiff challenges: first, winning the Republican primary, where conservative voters tend to dominate, and second, taking on the incumbent Democrat, Governor Maura Healey. Can he do it? Three Globe Opinion writers have thoughts.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Carine Hajjar |James Dao

Governor Gavin Newsom, Democrat of California, surprised many people and outraged some of his most liberal supporters by saying recently that it was “deeply unfair” to allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s youth and college sports. Globe Opinion writer Carine Hajjar here argues that even if Newsom was simply bending to political winds after President Trump’s victory, he is prompting a useful debate for the Democrats.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | David Shribman |Joan Vennochi |Carine Hajjar

The British had advance word of George Washington’s famous crossing of the Delaware on Christmas night in 1776. A week later, Washington was handed a map that showed the location of the British positions in Princeton, N.J., before the critical battle there. Union general George McClellan had Confederate general Robert E. Lee’s battle plan, found in a field and wrapped around three cigars, before the pivotal 1862 Battle of Antietam.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | David Shribman |Carine Hajjar |Joan Vennochi |James Dao

Elon Musk has never been known to play second fiddle. That’s how he ran his companies. And that may be why Vivek Ramaswamy, his original partner in the Department of Government Efficiency, was pushed out before it even got to work. How then could he possibly get along with President Trump? Recent tensions between Musk and several Trump cabinet members — and questions about DOGE’s work from some Republican members of Congress — have fueled more doubts.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Carine Hajjar |Joan Vennochi |James Dao

A weekly SCOTUS explainer newsletter by columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr. Those are the facts. And yet one needs more than facts in a fight with Republicans. Wu is walking into a hearing designed for political theater, not truth-seeking. The GOP-led House Oversight Committee will rely on loaded questions, out-of-context statistics, and scare tactics to sell its dystopian vision of liberal cities in collapse — an attack on Democratic governance as much as immigration itself.