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David Scharfenberg

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Reporter at The Boston Globe

Staff writer for the Boston Globe Ideas section

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  • 2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | David Scharfenberg

    It’s enough to make you wonder: How long can this tariff thing last? On Wednesday, Trump pulled back on some of his most punitive levies. And it’s not hard to imagine the next president — Democrat or Republican — making a hard pivot to free trade. One of the most important developments in American politics over the last decade — easy to forget amid all the outrage over Trump’s trade war — is the bipartisan turn to protectionism.

  • Mar 19, 2025 | bostonglobe.com | David Scharfenberg

    The WNBA’s Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese have become household names. And college phenom Paige Bueckers looks like she could be next. For millions of women and girls in America, it’s been a joy. For some, it’s felt like a liberation. But in their punchy new book “Open Play,” the academics Sheree Bekker and Stephen Mumford argue that women’s sports are something else entirely: a cage. They get the appeal. They’re fans themselves.

  • Mar 9, 2025 | bostonglobe.com | David Scharfenberg

    And if public health officials made some mistakes — you might be convinced, by this point, that they kept schools closed too long — you’re willing to cut them some slack. People like infectious disease chief Anthony Fauci were doing the best they could with the information they had. They were following the science. And we got to the other side in better shape than we might have.

  • Feb 4, 2025 | bostonglobe.com | David Scharfenberg

    There was the petty withdrawal of federal security protection from three former Trump administration officials facing credible death threats from Iran — the president effectively inviting murder.

  • Nov 27, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | David Scharfenberg

    His hometown of Maceo, Ky., he writes, was “100 percent white.” His mother attended an evangelical church. And as a kid, he recalls, he’d listen along as conservative talk radio king Rush Limbaugh mocked the “welfare moochers who sponged off hardworking Americans” — never doubting that his family was among the hardworking, even as they relied on food stamps and the government-issued cheese that arrived at the doorstep wrapped in tinfoil.

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David Scharfenberg
David Scharfenberg @dscharfGlobe
16 Apr 25

RT @SSNScholars: Tariffs have caused a stir recently. @dscharfGlobe sat down with @toddntucker (@RooseveltFwd) to unpack the bipartisan emb…

David Scharfenberg
David Scharfenberg @dscharfGlobe
4 Mar 25

So proud of my big bro for his new podcast on the Catholic Left, the FBI, the Vietnam War, and a priest’s unlikely love story https://t.co/wgpbc09jjV

David Scharfenberg
David Scharfenberg @dscharfGlobe
10 Oct 24

When you die, your dog might eat you. My latest: https://t.co/0lNXoUEMKl