Yvonne Abraham

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Metro Columnist at The Boston Globe

Metro columnist for the Boston Globe @BostonGlobe @AMEJA

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Trump won’t stop attacking Harvard. We need to treat it like an emergency. - The Boston Globe

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham

The Trump administration wants to destroy Harvard. The sooner we recognize what is actually happening here, the more hope we have of stopping this lawless regime and its authoritarian power grab. Attacks by President Trump and his lackeys against the country’s oldest university have been relentless, and come from all corners of the administration.
Cognitive dissonance: Biden is no longer president. Let’s talk about Trump’s mental acuity. - The Boston Globe

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham

OK, so now we do care about an aged president’s mental acuity? Sorry to ask, it’s just so hard to keep up. I know it was a very big deal last summer, when then-President Joe Biden delivered a confused and disastrous debate performance that made even former and future president Donald Trump look coherent. After that, many agreed that Biden was in cognitive decline and had to go. He eventually stepped aside to make way for then-VP Kamala Harris.
Trump’s NEA cuts hit hard - The Boston Globe

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham

They always attack the arts. Authoritarians know that cultural institutions can be places where dissent and resistance thrive. In museums and concert halls, on stages and streets, art can push boundaries and give voice to people on the margins. Of course, the Trump administration will have none of that. Now, art must be about satisfying Dear Leader, and reflecting his vision of Great America. What does that look like?
In Canada and Australia, cause for hope

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham

Among the many rambling statements President Donald Trump made in the Oval Office during his meeting with Canadian PM Mark Carney on Tuesday, one stood out: The president took credit for Carney’s come-from-behind electoral victory on April 28. “I think I was probably the greatest thing that happened to him,” Trump said. For once, the president was telling the truth. According to early polls, Carney and his Liberal Party seemed destined for a humiliating defeat.
Supreme Court backs Trump ban, but the harm goes far beyond the military - The Boston Globe

4 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham

The Trump administration’s persecution of trans people — endorsed by the extremists on the Supreme Court on Tuesday night — is not just about trans people.
New Bedford arrest video highlights cruelty of Trump immigration

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham

“They can’t do anything. We’re recording them.”There is so much to abhor in the footage of federal agents smashing a car window in New Bedford to seize a Guatemalan immigrant on Monday. In the video, obtained by The New Bedford Light, the armed agents try to coax him out at first – “I want to talk, just talk,” one says. The man and his wife do not fall for that lie. They ask to see an arrest warrant, and are ignored. They calmly say they will get out of the car when their immigration lawyer arrives.
With Trump and climate change, denial is a hell of a drug - The Boston Globe

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham

Facts can be awfully stubborn things. And they’re especially inconvenient for the Trump administration. Why bother with a debate over the facts when you can fix it so they don’t exist in the first place? It’s much easier to deem racial health disparities a myth if there’s no longer a massive reservoir of government data showing otherwise, for example. And it’s easier to suggest vaccines cause autism if you scrub the data suggesting that theory is a massive and deadly crock.
Trump’s performative cruelty on immigrants will cost us all - The Boston Globe

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham

When it comes to targeting immigrants, the second Trump administration — not yet 100 days old — has already achieved a level of sadism that makes its previous term look like a love-fest, family separations and all. In addition to detaining and disappearing students and migrants with valid visas and legal residency, Trump II is shredding constitutional rights and making a mockery of habeas corpus — assisted so far by the extremists on the Supreme Court who seem supremely disinclined to stop him.
Trump is tanking your 401k. You’re welcome! - The Boston Globe

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham

I see some of you are feeling queasy about the massive global trade war our great and glorious president unleashed on Wednesday. You’re worried inflation will skyrocket, and employment will crater. You’re angry about your tanking 401ks. You wouldn’t feel this way if you loved America more — if you truly wanted it to be Great Again. President Trump’s defenders keep telling you he knows exactly what he’s doing.
It’s not about antisemitism. Trump’s zealots want to gut Harvard. - The Boston Globe

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham

The Trump administration could not give a rat’s behind about antisemitism. They’re just using it as a pretext to stifle dissent and dismantle the colleges they see as hostile to their worldview. Their threats against scores of schools aren’t really about protecting Jewish students on campus.