Derrick Z. Jackson
Derrick Z. Jackson is a columnist for the Boston Globe and can be reached at jackson@globe.com.
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Views Friday, February 03, 2017 Kraft, Belichick, and Brady — All the President’s Men As certain as it is that Robert Kraft, Bill Belichick, and Tom Brady will one day be in pro football’s hall of fame, they are no profile in courage. They are delivering, on sport’s biggest stage, a textbook example of enabling a bully. On the eve of their seventh Super Bowl together as the... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 17, 2016 Hillary Clinton’s Black Conversion Failing to win white voters in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton needs her black firewall like never before. Her speech yesterday in Harlem touched on criminal justice and economic opportunity. Those remarks follow a stop in majority-black Flint, Mich., to decry its lead-water crisis, and a debate in... Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 13, 2016 Supreme Court Thumbs Its Nose at a Clean Energy Future The Supreme Court's stay of President Obama’s Clean Power Pla n is not the final blow to the Obama administration’s climate change policy, but it seems directly aimed at tarnishing the president’s environmental legacy. The ruling virtually guarantees that, even if the plan survives court challenges... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 20, 2015 Memo to Hillary Clinton: What’s Not to Like About Denmark? Dear Hillary Clinton, You looked so proud of yourself when you threw Denmark under the bus at last week’s presidential debate. You couldn’t wait to jump all over Bernie Sanders’ suggestion that the United States should look to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway as models of free health care, free... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 31, 2014 ‘Broken Windows,’ Broken Policy The deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and others at the hands of police demonstrate that the “broken windows’’ theory of policing doesn’t work and should be eliminated. The theory that targeting low-level crimes will reduce major ones has led to the deaths of unarmed blacks by police over petty... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 25, 2014 Hysteria over Ferguson Grand Jury an Indictment of America Even though a grand jury did not indict a white police officer in the killing of an unarmed black 18-year-old man in Ferguson, Missouri, the national hysteria leading up to decision is a fresh indictment of America. The core issue was a charge of police brutality by a white officer shooting an... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 09, 2013 All of Earth Now a Mercury Hotspot Nearly a year ago, I interviewed David Evers, the executive director of Maine’s Biodiversity Research Institute, on the revelation that insect-eating inland songbirds can accumulate mercury at dangerous levels every bit as much as fish-eating river and coastal birds. He called the findings a “game-changing paradigm shift” for understanding mercury’s pernicious presence. Read more |
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Views Sunday, May 22, 2011 US Arms Sales at Odds with Words ON THE same day President Obama pressed again for peace in the Middle East, the Associated Press reminded us that the United States cannot help itself from flooding the region with the instruments of war, reporting that the nation is “quietly expanding defense ties on a vast scale’’ with Saudi Arabia. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 08, 2011 Don’t Out-Educate Other Countries, Join Them Today, President Obama will visit TechBoston Academy, where he “will continue to build on his State of the Union call for America to out-educate the competition to win the future,’’ says White House press secretary Jay Carney. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 07, 2010 Still Needed: A Responsible Path to Energy Independence In reversing controversial plans last week to expand offshore drilling off the Atlantic coast and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said, "As a result of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill we learned a number of lessons, most importantly that we need to proceed with caution.'' Salazar said the Obama administration is now laying out "a careful, responsible path for meeting our nation's energy needs while protecting our oceans and coastal communities.'' Read more |