It began not in Malmö, but in Massachusetts. In a quiet courtroom, under the cold fluorescence of due process, a series of decisions were made that now define the fault line in America’s immigration debate. Local authorities, bound by Massachusetts’s…
Women in Boston are gathering to sip Chardonnay and pack abortion pills for women living in states where abortions are illegal or difficult to obtain. On today’s episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast, Ellie Gardey Holmes and Aubrey Gulick discuss…
The Boston Red Sox and Major League Baseball took a page from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) playbook in their response to outfielder Jarren Duran making an “anti-gay slur” toward a fan who was heckling him as he stepped to…
When considering political violence and its validity, matters of degree, intent, and scope are of vital importance. As we celebrate the Boston Tea Party, it’s worth delineating why the Bostonians’ actions have merit while many other forms of destructive protest…
“Happy Holidays From Mayor Wu,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator, Dec. 14, 2023.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu remains unapologetic for her decision to host a holiday party on Wednesday at which only “electeds of color” were welcome. “I am honored to be a part of this group,” she told the media outside Parkman…
A devoted follower and defender of Louis Farrakhan manages outreach for the district attorney responsible for prosecuting criminals in Boston, Massachusetts, and several communities north of the city. Farrakhan is the leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), a black-supremacist…
The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City By Scott Peeples (Princeton University Press, 224 pages, $25) The writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) spent his entire life searching for a place that he could call home. Born…
Did we judge 2020’s statue vandals too harshly? Boston’s Martin Luther King Jr.–Coretta Scott King “Embrace” sculpture with any luck coaxes a comeback. Alternatively, locals might imitate their Puritan forefathers, who essentially evicted the only European settler, William Blaxton, from…
