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Yvonne Abraham grew up in Sydney, Australia, and has been working at the Globe since 1999. She has covered national and local politics, immigration, and just about everything else over those years.
She has been a Metro columnist since 2007. She writes about local and national politics, the people who make Boston Boston, the ways in which big, abstract decisions affect the lives of actual people (especially women), and whatever else catches her eye.
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Yvonne Abraham
Michelle Carter’s out of jail, but not out of the spotlight
By Yvonne Abraham , Globe Staff
It takes nothing away from the tragedy of Roy’s death, or the harm of Carter’s texts, to say that the reality of their relationship was far more complicated than it appeared, far less amenable to easy narratives and sermons about our unhinged times.
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Hey Log Cabin Republicans, Trump is not your friend
By Yvonne Abraham , Globe Columnist
Three years into his disastrous reign, it takes some pretty serious mental and moral gymnastics to ignore indisputable facts and argue for this president’s fitness for office. Enter the Log Cabin Republicans.
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Stealing signs and heroes
By Yvonne Abraham , Globe Columnist
It’s Little League registration time. This year, thanks to Major League Baseball’s sign-stealing scandal, the path from January snow to April sunshine passes through yet another episode of “Professional athletes are definitely not your best role models.”
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Other voters’ sexism
By Yvonne Abraham , Globe Columnist
Can a woman win the presidency? In 2020, that maddening, dispiriting question isn’t just about gender. It’s also about how broken we are as a country.