Editorial Team

It's hard to be shocked anymore by the headlines. The news stories of masked immigration authorities in unmarked cars shooting and harming people who appear not to pose any imminent threat — and in some cases who are right next to children — seem all too frequent. So do the deaths of people in immigration detention. So, too, is the detention of ... U.S. citizens.

Some people who attended recent Newton School Committee meetings didn’t get the memo: Going after teachers, especially young, newly hired ones, isn’t a good look. This is especially true when the main reason for the supposed outrage over the hiring of the teacher is because the teacher in question wrote a thesis about a university's response to campus protests that referred to the genocide in Gaza as a war turned genocide. We’re not going to name the teacher in question here. They were already “

Will future powerhouse CEOs or their parents decide they want to brave the risks of an America that gives federal agents the ability to grab and shock into painful submission those it decides to detain and deport for whatever reason?