We have systematically oppressed a group of people for 400 years — from the slave ships of 1619 to the Three-Fifths ...

With rare exceptions, anyone who resorts to such language isn’t trying to engage in debate; they are trying to shut off debate.

Jeff Jacoby wrote about the shifting of the “Overton window,” or how an utterly absurd idea, spoken by someone in power, can ...

I have long been opposed to naming public facilities for politicians. More than once I have fulminated that the fetish for ...

Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, spoke mostly about the need for unity in our polarized society and for ...

My father had entered Auschwitz the previous spring, together with his parents, his two brothers, and two of his three ...

Jeff Jacoby joined the Boston Globe as an op-ed columnist in 1994 and for three decades has provided readers with commentary that informs, interprets, inspires — and sometimes infuriates.