James Dao
Editorial Page Editor at The Boston Globe
Editorial Page Editor, The Boston Globe; NYT alum. I comment on the news, just not on Twitter.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | James Dao
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 24 episode of the “Say More” podcast. James Dao: Welcome to “Say More” from Boston Globe Opinion. I’m Jim Dao, editorial page editor. If it’s an important slice of American history, you can bet Ken Burns has made a documentary about it. The list is nearly endless. From baseball to jazz, Mark Twain to Ernest Hemingway, the Civil War to the Dust Bowl.
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1 month 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.
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2 months ago |
bostonglobe.com | James Dao
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the March 13 episode of the “Say More” podcast. James Dao: Welcome to “Say More” from Boston Globe Opinion. I’m Jim Dao, the editorial page editor. There used to be a saying, “When the United States sneezes, the world catches a cold.” But you could say that is true of China today. Its economy could well surpass the US in a few years. So could its military. Even in AI and other tech industries, it is now rivaling the US.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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.
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