Scot Lehigh
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RECENT COLUMNS
Obama's summer of success
IT'S A tricky time, the period from the end of the primary season to the start of the political conventions. (Boston Globe, 7/18/08)
What's so shocking about satire?
ANOTHER DAY, another campaign kerfuffle. The latest tempest in a teapot is over a New Yorker magazine cover that shows Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim, in an Oval Office where an American flag burns in the fireplace, a picture of Osama bin Laden hangs above the mantel, and a radical, assault-rifle-toting Michelle Obama gives him a fist bump. (Boston Globe, 7/16/08)
McCain's budget figures don't add up
FICTION MAY require a willing suspension of disbelief, but presidential campaigns shouldn't. Yet here's the fanciful proposition John McCain wants us to swallow: that he can extend the Bush tax cuts, pile other tax breaks and revenue reductions atop them - and still balance the federal budget in four years. (Boston Globe, 7/11/08)
The push for a popular vote
THIS MONTH, the Massachusetts Legislature can help nudge the nation into the modern age by taking a stand in favor of a national popular vote for president - and against that most antiquated of arrangements, the Electoral College. (Boston Globe, 7/9/08)
Safeguarding liberty and justice for all
THE CUSTOMARY July Fourth column is an essay celebrating our tradition of liberty. But this Fourth, let's tackle a harder issue: How much do we actually value that tradition? (Boston Globe, 7/4/08)
Making (no) sense of police details
IT'S A CAUSE without a rebel - and I've set out to recruit one. So I'm on the phone with Barbara Anderson, trying to persuade her to launch a ballot-question crusade to rein in police details. (Boston Globe, 7/2/08)
Seeking to explain a heartless crime
THERE'S something riveting about the moment in a murder trial when the jury delivers a verdict that could send the defendant to prison for the rest of his life. And about the minutes when the judge imposes a sentence that does just that. (Boston Globe, 6/27/08)
Seeking to explain a heartless crime
THERE’S something riveting about the moment in a murder trial when the jury delivers a verdict that could send the defendant to prison for the rest of his life. And about the minutes when the judge imposes a sentence that does just that. (Boston Globe, 6/26/08)
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