Don Feder

Don Feder is a graduate of Boston University College of Liberal Arts and BU Law School. He’s admitted to the practice of law in New York and Massachusetts. For 19 years, he was an editorialist and staff columnist for the Boston Herald, New England’s second-largest newspaper. During those years, the Herald published over 2,000 of his columns. Mr. Feder is currently a consultant and coalitions director of the Ruth Institute.

Columns by Don Feder

National Marriage Week may soon be a thing of the past

As we end National Marriage Week (Feb. 7-14), is it unreasonable to ask if we'll be celebrating it in five years -- or in 10?

February 14, 2022

Five myths of gun control

President Biden was in New York last week for a photo-op with the new mayor and to push the left's favorite anti-crime panacea - more gun control.

February 10, 2022

Norman Rockwell celebrated the American dream

Norman Rockwell, who was born on this day in 1894, reflected the American spirit with canvas and paint as surely as Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt did with words.

February 2, 2022

America’s homeless policy: The cruelty of compassion

If the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same things and expect different results, our homeless policy belongs in a padded cell.

January 31, 2022

Pope Francis is right: Pets are no substitute for children

Pope Francis spoke truth to the self-centered and incurred the wrath of the woke.

January 18, 2022

Is America dying?

Is the United States about to limp off the stage of history? The answer is yes - and no.

January 11, 2022

Democrats rush to their extinction

The Democratic Party of the 21st century needs a new symbol that reflects its commitment to self-destruction. Instead of the donkey, how about the dodo?

January 4, 2022

Biden’s voodoo crime control: Americans have more reason to own a gun than ever before

President Biden has returned to an old standby for liberal crime fighters - more gun control.

December 28, 2021

Demographic winter: The plague of the century

Billionaire iconoclast Elon Musk had it right when he told a Wall Street Journal forum last week: "One of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birth rate and rapidly declining birthrate."

December 14, 2021

Why Christmas is good for America

I once interviewed Elyakim Haetzni, then a member of the Knesset, who told me that he always supported higher subsidies for religious education in Israel.

December 8, 2021

In thinking about Taiwan, don’t forget the 24 million Taiwanese

Discussions of Taiwan usually focus on the island's strategic importance, its contributions to international trade and the need to draw a line in the sand regarding China's growing military might and territorial ambitions.

November 30, 2021