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One very good thing Email to a Friend President-elect Joe Biden during COVID-19 briefing in Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday.Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post Re “What was great about 2020“ (Opinion, Dec. 30): Jeff Jacoby lists a number of things we should be grateful for in this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year, but he leaves out one very significant thing: Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection, notwithstanding his and his sycophants’ baseless claims of election fraud. We should be grateful that, as of noon on Wednesday, Jan. 20, we will have an experienced, compa...

Have yourself a Jewish little Christmas 12/14/2020 at 6:44 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe, December 14, 2020 For Jews in old Europe, the Christmas season was a time to be watchful and wary and to keep out of sight. For their descendants in America, the Christmas season — which is also the season of Chanukah, of course — is a time to celebrate and give thanks for the freedom of religion that protects the menorah in their living room window no less than the Christmas tree in their neighbor’s. In medieval and early modern Europe, this time of year often ...

Unpardonably yours, Mr. Donald J. Trump Updated December 11, 2020, 1:16 p.m. Email to a Friend For sake of our republic, indict him and let process play out Jeff Jacoby’s argument that Joe Biden should pardon Donald Trump is odious (”Biden promised not to pardon Trump. Maybe he should do so anyway,” Opinion, Dec. 9). Jacoby writes that “the question for Biden isn’t what Trump deserves, but what the nation needs.” What this country really needs now — after a long nightmare of corrupt, inept governing; cynically nurtured polarization; and trumpeted misinforma...

And how much he loved the retail politics there and the mixing it up and stump speeches, jeff jacoby calls him new hampshire's third senator. what are your thoughts? >> that's very accurate. you know, if you're involved in politics at all in new hampshire, you certainly do get to know at least on some level those who are running for president. and john mccain grew to embrace the style of campaigning that works well in new hampshire. the last time i saw him, for any significant amount of time was when he came up the campaign for kelly ayotte in 2016 and we spent a full day -- i was trying to he...