Jeff Jacoby

Beginning with FDR, politicians have promoted fables and fibs about the nation’s largest spending program.

We asked four Globe Opinion writers to explain whether they take Trump seriously about all his promises, threats, and bluster. Here’s what they said.

Antisemitism, the great evil that Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned of, has spread across the globe.

Biden ought to apologize for his role in promoting such an ugly libel about Georgia's election law.

Giving in to Trump was good for business.

Politicians can promise lots of things in exchange for votes, but it’s a crime to offer cash. Exactly why is a puzzle.

To my mind, a Trump presidency would be unthinkable. A Harris presidency would be too.

On a per-capita basis America remains vastly more economically productive than Canada.

Does the First Amendment allow states to discriminate against schools run by a church?

Before a crowd of MAGA locals in North Carolina, former president Donald Trump vowed that if he returns to the White House, the region’s biggest military installation — Fort Liberty — will regain its former name. Not likely.

How one Globe columnist us voting on the Massachusetts ballot issues.

Even in America, the old patterns of Jewish history cannot be escaped.

The most audacious falsehoods about Jews have the most power.

My high opinion of Calvin Coolidge is shared by a former Massachusetts governor — one I would never have predicted: Michael S. Dukakis.

A one-time vote is no way to uphold workplace democracy.

Who won the presidential debate? Grading the performances of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

There is no shortage of serious reasons to oppose Harris’s campaign for the White House. But those who deride her candidacy as anti-democratic are arguing in bad faith.

Rather than distance herself from the ignominious catastrophe, she has doubled down in backing it.

The terrorist organization will be defeated on the battlefield, or it won’t be defeated at all.

A new study finds that of 1,500 government efforts to reduce carbon emissions, only 63 had a meaningful impact.