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Last in a proud line of Weld Republican governors, Charlie Baker is leaving office for good. The result? The death of the state’s GOP.

Although Texans make good friends, they make even better enemies.

Rush Limbaugh, America's Anchorman and Doctor of Democracy, is known as the pioneer of AM radio. Limbaugh revolutionized the media and political landscape with his unprecedented combination o f serious discussion of political, cultural and social issues along with satirical and biting humor.

Twenty-four years ago, Emily Rooney — whose long-running media-criticism program, "Beat the Press," on which I was a panelist, was canceled last week by GBH News — was just beginning a new phase of her career, as host and executive editor of the news and public-affairs program "Greater Boston." I wrote a piece for The…

The tenure question Updated May 14, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend Students on the lawn outside the Charles Deering Library at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., in September 2020. Because of the pandemic, Northwestern and other universities extended deadlines for faculty members to publish work that would help them earn tenure.OLIVIA OBINEME/NYT Bid to limit years of service wrongly blames faculty for woes in higher education The May 9 editorial “Academic tenure is in desperate need of reform” (May 9, 2021) could not be more correct in identifying the need for more â�...