OPINION

A WEEK OF GLOBE OP-ED COLUMNS

Money, machine, but no message

After a week in which Rick Santorum scored a Colorado-Minnesota-Missouri hat trick, beating Mitt Romney in two states he had carried in 2008, it’s time to put Mitt under the microscope. (By Scot Lehigh, Globe Columnist)

Gaffe gives Romney chance to redesign safety net

Mitt Romney should show that he cares about the very poor, by attacking the status quo. (By Edward L. Glaeser, Boston Globe)

A valentine to Ella

My patron saint of Valentine’s Day is Ella Fitzgerald, whose singing makes you believe love makes sense. (By Joan Wickersham, Boston Globe)

Why scientists are boycotting a publisher

A major scientific publisher is charging exorbitant rates to see its articles, and scientists, including some at MIT and Harvard, are crying foul. (By gareth cook, Boston Globe)

Fair-trade pornography

WE HAVE fair-trade coffee and humanely raised chicken. So why can’t we create a market for ethically sourced pornography? (By Erika Christakis, Boston Globe)

Tweeting with a pile of Saudi money

The investment of a Saudi prince in Twitter is an indication of how the site is expanding its reach around the globe. (By Juliette Kayyem, Globe Columnist)

Ganging up on Ginsburg - way too quickly

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke about the US Constitution recently, and conservatives aren't giving those remarks a fair consideration. (By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist)

DeLeo’s success with health reform

House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo set the tone in enacting reforms that have saved cities and towns in the state hundreds of millions in health plan costs. (By Scot Lehigh, Globe Columnist)

An environmental chain reaction

New research into mercury pollution shows that the toxin is more widespread that previously thought and is being found in more bird species. (By Derrick Z. Jackson, Globe Columnist)

The art of the deal, Boston-style

The announcement that Millennium Partners is taking control of the stalled Filene’s redevelopment from Vornado Realty Trust is a case study in the kind of transformative developments the city can spur when it's serious about making a deal. (By Paul McMorrow, Boston Globe)

Facebook angst for the millions

Plenty of folks, it turns out, have reason to feel left behind when a company like Facebook hits the IPO stratosphere. (By Joanna Weiss, Globe Columnist)

Keep religion out of the marriage debate

While we are “one nation under God,’’ no one set of religious values is or ever has been the basis of the law of our land. (By Gene Robinson, Boston Globe)

In television, both mirror and catharsis

In America, the problem of what — if anything — the next generation will inherit resonates loudly. (By James Carroll, Boston Globe)

Not just a game

In Egypt, the soccer riot and its aftermath has a much deeper meaning. (By Juliette Kayyem, Globe Columnist)

Let the Volcker rule go the way of the mullet

The Volcker rule, which is meant to keep banks from jeopardizing depositors’ money with risky trades, could turn out to be more trouble than it was worth. (By John E. Sununu, Boston Globe)

And now, battles with hardly any rules

The perceived low risk to our own forces makes it much easier to launch armed attacks using unmanned drones. But in the absence of declared war, it is not clear who is in charge or accountable. (By Linda J. Bilmes, Boston Globe)

Robot ethics won’t clean up combat

Whether it’s being fought with sticks and stones or Predator drones, war is still a story of humans: our causes, our decisions, our losses, and our ethics. (By Peter Warren Singer, Boston Globe)

What’s so good about a long GOP primary fight?

If Newt Gingrich is serious about having it out with Mitt Romney in a long, grueling slog for the Republican nomination, the next several months will be increasingly bitter. Would that be good for the GOP? (By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist)

A condition for pilots: ‘existential conflict’

Little is known about the psychological impact of the US drone war on the pilots who steer the unmanned weapons through the skies of Afghanistan and Pakistan from the safety of a military base in the Nevada desert. (By Farah Stockman, Boston Globe)

A good week for Planned Parenthood

This turns out to have been the best week Planned Parenthood has had in years, in which the organization got precisely the publicity it needs. (By Joanna Weiss, Globe Columnist)

Weld’s obsession: Getting Kevin White

Getting White was William F. Weld’s almost pathological obsession as an ambitious US attorney. The incessant headlines about the probe contributed to the feeling that it was time for White to leave the political stage. (By Joan Vennochi, Globe Columnist)

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