| 单词 | boogeyman |
| 例句 | I am the boogeyman parents use to get their children to behave. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The other part runs screaming worse than a four-year-old begging her mama to chase the boogeyman out of the closet and off to a place where bad dreams don’t exist. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “And what boogeyman are you trying to kill with those things?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z From that day forward, it was apparent that Muslims had become the boogeyman in America. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Vonetta didn’t notice, or she pretended she didn’t notice, but Fern had stopped clinging to Uncle D. Fern heard him hollering at night like the boogeyman howling and rattling in the radiator pipes. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “There were?” says Garrett, wide-eyed, like someone just proved to him that the boogeyman was real. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The boogeyman has disappeared, but that doesn’t stop the pain. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “I know what that is! It’s a boogeyman! Had one under my bed for years!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio commentator who is a kind of a boogeyman to liberals, was honored Wednesday night with a children’s book award. Rush Limbaugh named kids' Author of the Year 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Don’t you know my brand of elocution Stresses that the boogeyman is near? Style Invitational Week 1310: The Year in Redo, Part 2 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z It’s easy to conjure a boogeyman, Scrivenor shows — “a dead-eyed man with a … plan and a knife and a shovel” — but it’s those who know and love us who are most likely to hurt us. Murder in the Brain-Broiling Heat and Red Dust of the Outback 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z For Republican politicians, cancel culture is a boogeyman of dazzling dexterity, capable of inflaming donors’ paranoia and opening their wallets. Perspective | Did Facebook ‘cancel Abe Lincoln’? The truth is complicated — and alarming. 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z It's taking on the boogeyman, and we all have our own experience with that now in a different way. Anthony Michael Hall on joining "Halloween Kills" & remembering John Hughes: "I genuinely miss him" 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z With the tan now a beauty boogeyman, some consumers are looking for different ways to enliven winter-dulled skin. Beauty Spots: Makeup That Can Enliven Winter Skin 2014-02-19T23:39:46Z Roles like that are few and far between, but Rourke continued to play to his strengths as a campy boogeyman villain in mainstream blockbusters like “Iron Man 2” and “The Expendables.” Mickey Rourke’s macho trainwreck: A Hollywood virility pageant gone wrong 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z “You might as well kiss this country goodbye,” Cruz recently told a crowd, relying on his experience in conservative boogeyman Fidel Castro’s Cuba to warn of impending doom with the election of Hillary Clinton. Rafael Cruz’s embellished biography comes under new scrutiny as his son Ted rises in the polls 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z The former boogeyman of the American left, once viewed as rash, incurious and overly trusting of his gut, has been eclipsed by an even more absurd, menacing figure. Perspective | George W. Bush’s wars are now over. He retreated a while ago. 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z “Every culture has some kind of boogeyman,” she said. Jackie Shane, a Transgender Soul Pioneer, Re-emerges After Four Decades 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z “You have a disgruntled competitor that is trying to explain their loss around the boogeyman that there were threats made that nobody can document,” said Daniel M. Wall, Live Nation’s antitrust lawyer. Live Nation Rules Music Ticketing, Some Say With Threats 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z Perhaps Juul is just the new boogeyman to replace all the old ones. We killed the cigarette. What we got in return is mango-flavored nicotine in ‘party mode.’ 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z But Einar’s death — in a rich part of Stockholm, rather than a suburb — has broadened the debate and finger-pointing, with some saying rap has become a convenient boogeyman, especially with elections scheduled for this year. After a Star’s Killing, Sweden Struggles With ‘Gangster Rap’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z How could it be, when the sentimental attachment to identity of any sort is precisely its boogeyman? Review: In ‘The Doctor,’ a Rare Case of Physician, Harm Thyself 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The website is one tangled net that almost seems like it is too much of an unbeatable boogeyman to kill or at least to gut out its rotting insides. Do audiences even trust movie critics anymore? The downfall of Rotten Tomatoes and media criticism 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z In Episode 7, we do identify a “boogeyman,” but then it turns out to be a straw man. In ‘The Baby,’ Killing With Cuteness 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Hart was also referred to as "a boogeyman" and was described by law enforcement as "a person who doesn't belong to what we accept as the normal human race." The 5 most shocking moments from “Keeper of the Ashes,” Hulu’s Oklahoma Girl Scouts murders doc 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z In practice, however, his theories – from his Freud-adjacent analysis of his characters’ dysfunctions to his portrayal of the media as the big bad boogeyman – feel simplistic and passé. Natural Born Killers at 25: the problem with Oliver Stone's hit film 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Harrison explains that telling her story through drawing was an act of taking back her power from her cancer, “the boogeyman.” Writers Recount Stories of Grief and Joy in Illustrated Panels 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z “Cannibalism was the great boogeyman trope of the Americas,” says Bleichmar. A bilingual painting and how the Huntington's ‘Visual Voyages’ changes the story of art and science 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z But six years after his retirement from boxing he's no longer a boogeyman, just a complicated, infuriating person whose biography humanizes his sins without excusing them. What Charlie Sheen can learn from Mike Tyson 2011-03-03T15:40:00Z “So thinking of evil and light and this idea of magical thinking — these things that we personify with the boogeyman or god or a shaman or the priest — this show is that.” Aliens, abstraction and Thomas Kinkade: An L.A. exhibition summons the spiritual and the fantastical 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z People just don’t like the mandate and the “ObamaCare” boogeyman as described by the right. Quinnipiac Poll: Swing-State Voters Think the Supreme Court Should Overturn All of Obamacare 2012-05-03T17:28:41Z Submission to the unseen, ever-present noose that hangs over him — “Every Black man’s boogeyman,” he calls it — has begun to seem like a comfort. ‘In the Southern Breeze’ Review: A Dark Night of the Soul 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z You mention that your character is the one who calls Michael Myers, also known as The Shape, the boogeyman. Anthony Michael Hall on joining "Halloween Kills" & remembering John Hughes: "I genuinely miss him" 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Here, the fable and boogeyman are one in the same: whiteness. The return of "Atlanta" is perfectly timed, delivering its sharp honesty when we need it most 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The dread inexorably builds in “Candyman,” which snaps into focus after Anthony learns of the boogeyman. ‘Candyman’ Review: Who Can Take a Sunrise, Sprinkle It With Blood? 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z This is the first time I can think of where the focus really did turn to the victims and their families, and this cipher, this boogeyman, became less of a player in it. Deborah Norville on the Gilgo Beach murders and what happens next 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z What the boogeyman was for these kids as toddlers, the school lockdown is for them now. The school shooting that wasn’t: When a lockdown isn’t worth it 2014-02-17T21:00:00Z But for me, the creature I put in "Bedfellows" was the boogeyman that I used to imagine as a kid. Interview with Drew Daywalt: Horror's great Internet age begins 2011-04-14T14:14:00Z As a kid in the original film, he says, "You can't kill the boogeyman." Anthony Michael Hall on joining "Halloween Kills" & remembering John Hughes: "I genuinely miss him" 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z “Toxic shame” is a phrase often invoked in the Antioch classrooms, a boogeyman for the students to hunt and destroy. The Couch in Rainbow Colors: ‘L.G.B.T.-Affirming’ Therapy 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z As portrayed by Tom Hardy, Capone is “a boogeyman bloated with body fluids,” according to Ben Kenigsberg’s review for The Times. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Capone’ and ‘The Titan Games’ 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z If ever there were evidence that "cancel culture" is a boogeyman made from straw, there it is. "The Nevers" is proof that cancel culture isn't really canceling the right people 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z Last week, Jones leaked an audio recording of what he said was a phone conversation with Kelly, heard promising she would not portray him as "some kind of boogeyman." Megyn Kelly Presses Alex Jones on Sandy Hook Denial 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Like a mythical boogeyman, he has stalked the culture for generations, occasionally appearing to impart a lesson on gender relations in his time. Pregnant Men Were a Movie Punchline. Now They’re Horror Villains. 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z At one time the late-night shows, because they were topical and fresh, were seen as protection against the encroachment of the chief boogeyman of network programming: the digital video recorder. Networks See Dip in Key Audiences for Late Shows 2010-07-07T22:43:00Z The word “socialism” is often used as a boogeyman to scare voters, with little or no reference to actual substance. ‘The Big Scary ‘S’ Word’ Review: Socialism for Beginners 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z I argued that a very strange thing happens in horror movies: people actually sort of identify with the boogeyman – it’s him they dress up as, not the victim. How we made Candyman: 'I got a $1,000 bonus for every bee sting' 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z The right is constantly impressing upon us the supposed cruelty and nastiness of cancel culture, their current boogeyman of choice. Kanye West and the smug cruelty of the anti-”cancel culture” movement 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Having coined the term yourself, what has your experience been as you’ve seen it become this sort of intellectual boogeyman? An architect of critical race theory: ‘We cannot allow all of the lessons from the civil rights movement forward to be packed up and put away for storage’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Trump railed about antifa and violence on the streets, while committing rhetorical violence, in effect demonstrating through his own misbehavior the very chaos he was holding up as a boogeyman to scare voters. Perspective | Think of the debate as a public park. The president was polluting it. 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z In a world like that, reality is almost more frightening than whomever current culture is depicting as the boogeyman. HBO's "The Outsider" to "Wrinkles the Clown" – why the boogeyman is all over our TVs 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The idea of tabloid TV as cultural boogeyman feels almost quaint now. New York Has Its ‘Jerry Springer’ Moment, With Arias and Dancing 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z It’s the mothers and fathers who simply don’t understand that HIV isn’t a viral boogeyman lurking on toilet seats or playground swings. 'My HIV Child Is Playing with Your Child, and You Don't Know It' 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z A second video posted the same day floats the conspiracy theory blaming the violence on the antifa boogeyman and Black Lives Matter activists. Let's all stop ignoring The Fandom Menace. It's real, and it's winning 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Nolan sees it differently: For him, Batman is Anonymous, a boogeyman working for the greater good. Is Hollywood Going to Kill Batman Next Week? 2012-07-11T12:00:53Z This far-right horror show’s boogeyman is equally within and without. Review | Extremism rules ‘Submission,’ but soul swings ‘Three Sistahs’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Instead of being raised with stories of the boogeyman, Nguyen was told that he was lucky not to be back in his homeland, fighting in a war with Cambodia. Viet Thanh Nguyen tackles Vietnam War's aftermath in 'The Sympathizer' 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z And, of course, the villain in this “false alarm,” the boogeyman for all of society’s ills, is the hyperventilating media. Are We Overreacting on Climate Change? 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z What’s more, using New York, which is keeping its infection rate low, as a boogeyman to rationalize their reckless behavior is a terrible argument. Do We Need to Tell Our Son That His Dad Has Coronavirus? 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Maybe our collective boogeyman rests in our own amnesia — our ignored, unspoken and festering histories — and thus the scourge of school violence is just another chapter in our refusal to hear one another speak. The school shooting that wasn’t: When a lockdown isn’t worth it 2014-02-17T21:00:00Z And a downtown gallery takes on the boogeyman. Datebook: Art about play, colorful yarn paintings, shows of abstraction and boogeymen 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z In a recent interview with Wall Street Journal Magazine, the actress said she had a gripe with the fictional boogeyman steeped at the center of America's culture wars: cancel culture. We need to talk about Jennifer Aniston's misguided take on cancel culture 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z All goes well when he helps a little boy battle the lizardlike boogeyman that inhabits his nightmares. DVDs: Al Jolson?s ?Mammy,? in New DVD Edition 2010-04-16T23:18:00Z Pitch is desperate for attention—supposedly no one believes in the boogeyman anymore, although the popularity of the Paranormal Activity series would suggest otherwise—and begins to cast a dark mood over children everywhere. Rise of the Guardians: Santa and His Superhero Posse on a Quest to Save Childhood Innocence 2012-11-21T16:15:34Z In “Memories of Murder,” the monster is the boogeyman, ripped from the headlines and hiding in the darkness. The 7 best movies new to Netflix in May 2019, from "Snowpiercer" to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Is leaving a child in a car considered riskier than driving him because the boogeyman you can’t see is scarier than dangers you face every day? The Criminalization of Parenthood 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z One reason could be that there was no obvious boogeyman this year as there was in 2019 when Amazon dumped $1 million into City Council campaigns and experienced a torrential backlash. Seattle City Council victories usher in a new era | Editorial 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z China makes for a good political boogeyman, said Andrew Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. China syndrome: Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley trade accusations of being too cozy with Beijing 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z I'm sure the boogeyman white supremacists exist somewhere in America. Rise of the Republican edgelord: If Trump is the GOP's present, Vivek Ramaswamy is its future 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z Like so many other children, the main tick-related boogeyman that I was taught to fear was the dreaded Lyme disease. Dogs have a Lyme disease vaccine, so why don't humans? 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z “They need somebody to make the boogeyman, and they’re making her the boogeyman,” she said. Battle over Wisconsin’s top elections official could have ripple effects for 2024 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z But the changeover is especially notable because it involves the elder Soros, whose unabashed support of liberal causes, to the tune of $1.5 billion a year, has long made him a boogeyman of the right. George Soros Gives Control of His $25 Billion Foundation to His Son 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z With their racist and sexist baggage, using “President Harris” as a boogeyman is especially disgusting. Biden must own 'President Harris' narrative | LZ Granderson 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z “It’s easy to caricature environmental legislation as the boogeyman.” Will Biden’s hard-hat environmentalism bridge the divide on clean energy future? 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Jonathan Majors was not afraid to admit it: He was terrified of the boogeyman. The dramatic rise and precipitous fall of Jonathan Majors 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z If prices go up, the industry is "fully expecting to once again to become the boogeyman," the executive said. Analysis: Biden's subdued reaction to OPEC+ cuts foreshadows economic slowdown, carries risk 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Republicans also have sought to link Bragg’s actions to George Soros, a billionaire Democratic fundraiser whom conservatives have turned into a boogeyman. After Trump indictment, Republicans focus ire on Manhattan DA Bragg 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z “Wagner has indeed become this new boogeyman,” said Wolfram Lacher, a researcher on Libya at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. Migration to Italy is soaring. And it’s still the off-season. 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Soros has given billions of dollars to liberal and anti-authoritarian causes all over the world, and as a result, he’s long been a boogeyman for conservatives. Republicans invoke Soros to steer narrative on Trump probe 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z “Though I’ve not seen the boogeyman, I know it’s out there,” Majors told the Associated Press in an interview published in March. The dramatic rise and precipitous fall of Jonathan Majors 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z The app’s status as a Washington boogeyman has catapulted it to the center of a political storm, which CEO Shou Zi Chew is expected to confront in a congressional hearing next week. Biden’s TikTok plan echoes failed Trump bid China called a ‘smash and grab’ 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z "In a lot of ways, electric vehicles are treated like the boogeyman to enthusiasts, as if they're coming to take away your internal combustion engines," said YouTube auto reviewer Nick Roman from Regular Car Reviews. Analysis: American carmakers muscle up on software, tech to keep horsepower wars going 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z “Though I’ve not seen the boogeyman, I know it’s out there,” Majors says, smiling. Jonathan Majors flexes his acting muscle, turns heavyweight 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Critical race theory was anthropomorphized into an anti-American boogeyman lurking in our schools and libraries. Opinion | Celebrate Black history. All of it. 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Few witnesses to this meteoric rise could have foreseen that the “boogeyman” he spoke of was so close around the corner, sending shock waves through the industry and potentially capsizing a promising career. The dramatic rise and precipitous fall of Jonathan Majors 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Koch, 47, is the daughter of Charles Koch, 87, the billionaire industrialist, climate change boogeyman and far-right political force. Elizabeth Koch Knows What You’re Thinking 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Since the shooting, her eldest has been experiencing severe anxiety that a shooter will come for her — so much so that she needs to know her mom is nearby, there if a bullet-spewing boogeyman arrives. Column: A school threat. Another reminder we are living in the age of gun trauma 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z I guess people are looking for the 'boogeyman' behind the curtain, the over-simplistic explanation. Bill Gates would rather pay for vaccines than travel to Mars 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z “And if something does happen, call us right away. I don’t know anybody, personally, who disappeared, but that was the boogeyman story that was out there.” Distrust of police: Black parents, children have ‘the talk’ 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z “Any time he wants to distract from his own failed record, he creates a new fake ‘woke’ boogeyman to battle.” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sworn in for second term 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z “Many of these performances are quite different than they’re presented,” said Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist who helped make “critical race theory” a Republican boogeyman and has spoken out against drag shows events for children. Fears of Violence Rise on New Front in Gender Debate: Drag Shows 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Hunter Biden himself has mostly stayed quiet as Republicans have worked to make him into a boogeyman. Nonprofits With Ties to Democrats Plan Counteroffensive Against Congressional Investigations 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z “It’s about how to get certain suburban white women to be so scared of the boogeyman that they vote for the Republican,” said Kellan White, a Democratic strategist in Philadelphia, who is African American. Oz Struggles to Woo Black Philadelphians in Senate Race 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z “Oh, wow, look at this. We have a deficit. Let’s cut Social Security. Let’s cut back Medicare. It is their boogeyman.” Former allies, Patty Murray and Tiffany Smiley face off for U.S. Senate 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z “Every time someone’s afraid, the boogeyman wins,” Laurie tells a police officer. Opinion | Traumatized? Horror like ‘Halloween Ends’ shows how to fight back. 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z But Republicans have used Mr. Sanders as a boogeyman in television ads in many races across the country and even some moderate Democrats have concerns that his campaigning in swing states could backfire. Bernie Sanders, Fearing Weak Democratic Turnout, Plans Midterms Blitz 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Despite Democrats’ decades of warnings that abortion access was at risk, many voters viewed such arguments as “a boogeyman under your bed that you didn’t take seriously,” Nalder said. Like 'two separate elections.' How abortion and inflation have taken over California political ads 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z The right wing is trying to turn environmental investing into a boogeyman, as it did with critical race theory. Column: How did America get addicted to a policy that fails everyone but the rich? 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z She excoriated “Brussels bureaucrats” and “emissaries” of George Soros, a favorite boogeyman of the nationalist right and conspiracy theorists depicting a world run by Jewish internationalist financiers. Giorgia Meloni May Lead Italy, and Europe Is Worried 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z “When there’s something positive, people laud that, but on the flip side, we’ve also become the boogeyman whenever it’s convenient,” she said. ‘Free Staters’ roil New Hampshire politics in ski area spat 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z Fauci continued to advise that people wear masks and socially distance even after many, particularly Republicans, had grown weary of restrictions, making him a boogeyman to the right. Fauci plans to step down in December after half a century in government 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z The closure of the carried interest loophole has been a boogeyman for Ms. Sinema from the beginning. Opinion | Don’t sink this bill, Sen. Sinema 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z The sale set off a firestorm, in part because a firm linked to George Soros, a boogeyman to the far right, is one of LMN’s investors. Opinion | Fake news speaks many languages, but it’s particularly fond of Spanish 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z For America’s foreign critics and foes, Bolton often plays the role of a boogeyman, representing the worst of U.S. foreign policy and neoconservative interventionism. John Bolton said he planned foreign coups. The global outcry was swift. 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Big Oil has been the go-to boogeyman for President Biden and Democrats over alleged “price gouging,” with “Putin’s price hike” a close runner-up. Big Oil profits aren’t driving gas prices, experts say, despite Biden’s ‘price gouging’ accusations 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z The person described by it becomes a boogeyman in the public imagination. When all else fails to explain American violence, blame a rapper and hip-hop music 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Under China’s current top leader, Xi Jinping, the party’s attitudes toward the private sector took a more hostile turn and made the entrepreneur class the boogeyman for social ills. A Chinese Entrepreneur Who Says What Others Only Think 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Because those who believe a boogeyman is lurking around every corner have agents walking the halls of our government to ensure that these shootings change nothing. Opinion | Why nothing will change after Uvalde 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Be sure to watch out for the boogeyman too. Letters to Sports: Trevor Bauer curse? Dodgers fans not so sure 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z But in today’s loaded climate, where critical race theory has become a boogeyman under the desk of every public school child, it’s not so easy. Column: How can we protect our kids from racism? Author Ibram X. Kendi has this advice 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z The blurriness of Elon Musk’s politics is turning the world’s richest man into both a hero and boogeyman in some of the nation’s most polarizing debates. Elon Musk’s foray into America’s free-speech wars rattles Democrats, enthralls Republicans 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z “Climate change is no longer the future boogeyman that it once was. It’s here,” said Kristopher Tjernell, deputy director of integrated watershed management at the California Department of Water Resources. California hikes costs for flood protections in farm country 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Stay with “Alone,” though, and you will be rewarded with a campfire story of a boogeyman that also offers grown-up pleasures. Review | Folk-horror film ‘You Won’t Be Alone’: Scares with a side of poetry 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z “It’s like blaming what’s happening in the world on a boogeyman that doesn’t exist,” said Michael Wara, director of the climate and energy policy program at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Muslim becomes the villain; Muslim becomes the boogeyman. Wajahat Ali on the ‘American Nightmare’ and the ‘American Dream’ of being a Muslim son of immigrants 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z And the Patriotic Millionaires, a group of wealthy people who want to pay more taxes, used Davos as its boogeyman in a new campaign calling for higher taxes. What Happened (and Didn’t) When Davos Disappeared 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z For Wisconsin Democrats, Mr. Johnson is both their strongest fund-raising boogeyman and a figure many of them view as an embarrassment to the state along the lines of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Ron Johnson, G.O.P. Senator From Wisconsin, Will Seek Re-election 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z Champions of those state laws often invoke California as the progressive boogeyman. Clash of the kitchens: California leads the way in a new climate battleground 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z “This administration should be looking at the chicken industry as a model of success, instead of creating a boogeyman to justify an unnecessary and expensive foray into our meat supply.” In latest effort to combat rising prices, White House to offer $1 billion in aid for smaller meat-industry producers 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z At the same time, Hamas furnishes Israeli leaders with a convenient boogeyman — how can the Palestinians be allowed statehood if they are divided between two governments, one of which steadfastly opposes Israel’s very existence? Defiant in war and isolation, Hamas plays long game in Gaza 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z President Biden’s energy chief extended an olive branch to the oil industry, telling executives a crude export ban is not under consideration, while assuring them that the administration was “not a boogeyman.” Shkreli goes on trial in FTC civil lawsuit over lifesaving drug Daraprim 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z “Critical race theory is a convenient boogeyman, but what are the limits you want to put on teachers?” said Joe Cohn, legislative director for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a civil liberties organization. In Texas, a Battle Over What Can Be Taught, and What Books Can Be Read 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z “It is not uncommon in the aftermath of historic chaos and disruption to look for a boogeyman,” his opening statement says. Rally Planner With Ties to G.O.P. Is Cooperating in Jan. 6 Inquiry 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z But the practice has become something of a boogeyman on TikTok, where having a video removed can mean losing a chance to go viral, build a brand or catch the eye of corporate sponsors. 'I need my girlfriend off TikTok': How hackers game abuse-reporting systems 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Extremists in both parties avoid serious consideration of complex issues and derail compromise by invoking the others’ boogeyman. Opinion | Both parties need to wake up 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z The Yellowstone supervolcano may sound frightening, but this cauldron does not deserve to be a boogeyman. lWhen Kilauea Erupted, a New Volcanic Playbook Was Written 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z It was a powerfully effective boogeyman, unleashed amid the backlash to critical race theory. Perspective | These stories are supposed to give you nightmares 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z “My opponent has been incredibly focused on boogeyman, divisive issues and people are tired of that,” Russo said. Ohio’s Shontel Brown wins Ohio House seat, as primary for House seat in Florida heads to a recount 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z When journalists and policy makers discuss migration crises, Neel Ahuja writes, they tend to blame the amorphous boogeyman of “climate change” without interrogating the web of underlying roots. Human Machinations around Animals, the Joy of Nature’s Eccentricities, and Other New Books 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z And behind all of this lurked the mythic outlaw biker — a boogeyman so bad to the bone that he could commit any sort of crime anywhere at any moment. I Fell in Love With Motorcycles. But Could I Ever Love Sturgis? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z It’s earned instant cult status among horror fans with its audacious twists, meme-able moments and memorable movie monster — a long-haired boogeyman named Gabriel with a penchant for murder and surprisingly agile parkour skills. Ignore the box office. James Wan's 'Malignant' is the cult horror film of the year 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z In other words, his influence elevates “Antlers” to a story that isn’t just about a boogeyman, but about addiction, codependence and the intergenerational legacy of abuse. Review | ‘Antlers’ is a creature feature, grounded in real-world horrors 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Texas Republicans went all out this year, emboldened by Democrats’ weak showing at the polls and a boogeyman in the White House. Texas is in my rearview mirror, but one-party control in Olympia is giving me déjà vu 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, leading the GOP opposition on the floor, called the probe an “illicit criminal investigation into American citizens” and said Bannon is a “Democrat party boogeyman.” House votes to hold Trump ally Steve Bannon in contempt 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “You can hear about the boogeyman all day along,” she said. They Resisted Getting Vaccinated. Here’s Why They Changed Their Minds. 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z That is a bigger boogeyman than talking about whether or not we should increase the minimum wage. The Zambian Economist at the Crossroads of Global Business 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z And who can forget about America’s favorite boogeyman, corporate greed? If toilet paper threw us into a tizzy, what will we do without bacon? 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z "Republicans have created a voter-fraud boogeyman to justify their voter suppression efforts, and they continue to feed it lies," Koleszar said in a statement. "Egregious": Michigan GOP needs just 340,000 signatures to get around Whitmer’s veto on voting bill 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Inflation — traditionally the Brazilian boogeyman for presidential approval ratings — is approaching double-digits, with higher costs for mainstays like food, gasoline and electricity. Brazil’s Bolsonaro seeks show of strength, risking backfire 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z The campaign also found an effective boogeyman in labor leaders. Newsom is taking cues from a tea party darling to fight the recall 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z And he suggested that people with a solid education in civics would be more concerned about his "favorite boogeyman – the unelected bureaucrat." 1776 Unites member blasts critical race theory but warns about 1619 Project too 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z Trump painted China as a boogeyman, first on trade when he ran for president in 2016 and then as the origin of the coronavirus when he was running for reelection in 2020. ‘America First Lite’: Afghanistan withdrawal brings a Biden Doctrine into focus 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z Sam Hunter, head of NCITE’s Leadership and Innovation Lab, said the idea is to “shake loose the boogeyman perspective if we can.” ‘Why Omaha?’: DHS bets on Nebraska as the future of terrorism research 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z “I am not a boogeyman,” she told them. Perspective | Inching toward equity in arts funding, thanks to a racial reckoning 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z The same group of Republicans found a new boogeyman to agitate against Thursday in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Capitol mask mandate. Gaetz, MTG turned away from jail during visit to Jan. 6 "political prisoners" 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z “There’s a fear of alumni and this boogeyman of will it impact donations and how favorably alumni view the school,” he said. Colorado leads the way in closing the door on legacy admission at public universities 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Ostensibly, these restrictions combat critical race theory, an academic notion turned into a boogeyman by Republican politicians and sympathetic groups. Opinion | Republicans are dismantling the right to vote. But they’ve enshrined the right to infect. 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z “Getting rid of surprise billing is like removing the boogeyman from your nighttime sleep.” For Surprise Medical Bills, It’s the Beginning of the End 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z "With mentions doubling month over month, the 'critical race theory' boogeyman is exploding on Fox News," the report noted. Fox News caught trying to pass off GOP operatives as parents "concerned" about critical race theory 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z “People see the unfairness in this reverse racism, and they are just trying to use a mythical boogeyman to divide the spoils.” Ex-Green Beret author sees threat from within U.S. among Antifa, Black Lives Matter 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z He agreed with Ms. Davis that the defense team had successfully dehumanized Mr. Small, transforming him into what Mr. Bragg called a “Black boogeyman,” a tactic that predated the modern criminal justice system. Why Police Accountability Is Personal for This Manhattan D.A. Candidate 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z China is not just a boogeyman to be invoked when convenient and ignored when reality might require Americans to change to compete. Opinion | The biggest threat to America is the Republican break with reality 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z They may not be the government overreach boogeyman raised by many conservative politicians, but there are lingering ethical questions around them. COVID-19 vaccine "passports" aren’t exactly like yellow fever certifications 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z “The fight must be personalized — there must always be a ‘boogeyman,’” the playbook, updated in 2008, teaches. Police Unions Won Power Using His Playbook. Now He’s Negotiating the Backlash. 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z “I don’t think it was the boogeyman they made it out to be.” Meet the GOP voters who could decide whether the U.S. reaches herd immunity 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z And it is not clear what role she might play in working through matters that will require some buy-in from Republicans on Capitol Hill, given her self-described role as “recyclable boogeyman” of the right. Taking on a New Role, Susan Rice is Asserting Herself 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z "The boogeyman when you're fighting systemic racism is implementation," Wright told Grist. What Biden could learn from Bill Clinton’s unfinished work on environmental justice 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z It also turned Mr. Ross, who has supported both former President Donald J. Trump and Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, into even more of a boogeyman for the left. These Groups Are Raising Millions to Sway the N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z And lastly, all of this requires our politicians and companies like Facebook to stop using China as a catchall boogeyman. Profits Steer Our Digital Future 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Well beg pardon, but “cancel culture” — like the War on Christmas — is little more than a chimerical boogeyman created to frighten and appall. Sen. Josh Hawley cries ‘victim’ 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z There’s good political reason to do this, as those complaining today about censorship are likely to turn tech bias into a boogeyman for voters. Opinion | Parler deserved to be taken down. We still need new rules for the Internet. 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z The nail in the coffin, he said, was the presidents’ statement on critical race theory, setting it up as a “boogeyman.” Several Black pastors break with the Southern Baptist Convention over a statement on race 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z They believe the president’s departure might allow Republicans to return to some of the themes that proved effective in down-ballot races last month, while also depriving Democrats of their most dependable boogeyman. A President Who Can’t Put Aside Grudges, Even for Good News 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z In Arizona, Democrats presented Trump as the boogeyman, getting voters to show up, while in south Florida, Republicans used socialism to drive voters to Trump, Shope said. To court Latinos, Democrats have to expand strategy in 2022 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z “Young men of color are the boogeyman. They are the personification of danger in the eyes of much of the public and the police,” he wrote in 2016. Black or blue: the complex double-lives of Oakland's Black police officers 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z In Omaha, at the Douglas County Election Commission office, a 72-year-old oral surgeon and former longtime Republican expressed disappointment with Trump’s handling of the pandemic, including his rhetoric blaming China as “a kind of boogeyman.” Trump’s health on voters’ minds as they cast early ballots: ‘God is telling Trump that anyone can get this’ 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z In fact, the firm has effectively become the boogeyman of surveillance tech. How controversial data firm Palantir hit $22bn 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z A boogeyman running the free world allows a much deeper rot within themselves to remain unexamined. How Trump’s Race-Baiting Lets Liberals Off the Hook 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z “I guess the question I’m asking myself is, who does the boogeyman become for both parties?” To court Latinos, Democrats have to expand strategy in 2022 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z For Giovanna, Vittoria is not just a disaffected relative, but a boogeyman, an amorphous danger, the embodiment of an ugliness beyond a child’s comprehension. Sex, lies and fraught family ties in Naples fill Elena Ferrante’s latest, ‘The Lying Life of Adults’ 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Violent protest clashes turned Portland into a ‘right-wing boogeyman.’ Portland police stand by as Proud Boys and far-right militias flash guns and brawl with antifa counterprotesters 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z For years, Trump built his political career by using Obama as a boogeyman — mostly as the lead public face of the racist birther movement. Analysis | 4 takeaways from the third night of the Democratic National Convention 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z “Monsters were real. The boogeyman had broken into my house.” ‘Monsters were real’: Victims confront the Golden State Killer for first time 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z George Soros, who turns 90 on Wednesday, may be the world’s most famous boogeyman. Perspective | Five myths about George Soros 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps they fear “voter fraud” – the ever-present boogeyman used to justify restrictions on voting. Editorial Roundup: 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Violent protests turned Portland into a right-wing boogeyman. Facing unrest on American streets, Trump turns Homeland Security powers inward 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z “You’re making some boogeyman about journalists rather than talking about the real situation.” How Clubhouse brought the culture war to Silicon Valley’s venture capital community 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z While Pope said some Democrats may perceive him as a “boogeyman” because of his record contributing to conservative causes, he believes he has done “nothing that the left doesn’t do.” GOP donor, ex-lawmaker Art Pope elected to join UNC board 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z It stems from people's deep desire to have a boogeyman that they can blame for everything and that they can attribute superpowers to. What's antifa? Journalist Talia Lavin on the reality behind the media's "pernicious lies" 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Now, of course, Gates is the boogeyman in the fevered minds of many a delusional Trumper. Bill Gates is the most interesting man in the world 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z "It challenges their assumption, so they've got to try and find a boogeyman." As Ron DeSantis hypes low numbers, Florida may be undercounting coronavirus deaths by up to 58% 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z “Wilson Goode for me has always been the boogeyman,” Mike Africa Jr said. The day police bombed a city street: can scars of 1985 Move atrocity be healed? 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z Democrats have long portrayed McConnell as a boogeyman, the groundskeeper of the Senate “graveyard” where House bills would go to die. Reporter's Notebook: As coronavirus sparks changes, DC blame game intensifies 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z And the background noise is like, "Well, this is the boogeyman, the anarchists. This is the antifa left." What's antifa? Journalist Talia Lavin on the reality behind the media's "pernicious lies" 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z A first-class stamp is the latest boogeyman voter suppression watchdogs see hiding in the shadows. Editorial Roundup: Georgia 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z “He’s able to function as kind of an abstract boogeyman.” Bill Gates, at Odds With Trump on Virus, Becomes a Right-Wing Target 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z After being batted around as a boogeyman in the Democratic primaries, super PACs are now fully in play. The most interesting takeaways from how 2020 candidates spent their money in January 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z For us, the boogeyman that forced us to leave El Salvador was not some drug kingpin with a quivering mustache like La Lechuza. Commentary: When Latinos are shut out of the book industry, you end up with 'American Dirt' 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z In Illinois, the fight was all about abortion — that was the big boogeyman opponents used to try to defeat the amendment. Perspective | The man celebrating Virginia’s historic Equal Rights Amendment vote 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z The trade war with China — a big boogeyman for investors — appears to be simmering down, and some companies claim to see an improving outlook for profits and the global economy. U.S. Stocks, in a Sweet Spot, Hit a Record 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Hoping for a comeback, a struggling Northern California town embraces its boogeyman: tsunamis. Newsletter: The best California writing of 2019 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z And so they have embraced their boogeyman: tsunamis. A struggling Northern California town hopes for a comeback by embracing its boogeyman: tsunamis 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z It’s played an outsize role in American political discourse — serving as both a boogeyman to conservatives, and an icon of judicial activism to those on the left. Trump might have his revenge on California as he remakes once-liberal 9th Circuit court 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z I don’t mean the fake boogeyman socialism that Republicans cry wolf about every time somebody proposes raising taxes to pay for a government program. In Seattle we like voting socialist, but how much do we mean it? We’re about to find out. 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z They accused their opponents of being part of a dark conspiracy, some linking it to the Hungarian-born philanthropist George Soros, who often serves as an all-purpose boogeyman for populists worldwide. Voters in Romania Reject Years of Scandals and Chaos 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Catholdi added, "To my knowledge, there has been no DNA evidence recovered from the home or on any piece of evidence that belongs to anybody else, so there is no boogeyman out there." New York man accused of wife's cold-case ax murder 37 years later 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z Other botlike accounts were resurfacing unfounded allegations of “voter intimidation” by George Soros, the billionaire Democratic donor and favorite boogeyman of the far right. Close Election in Kentucky Was Ripe for Twitter, and an Omen for 2020 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z As Acemoglu and Robinson note, threats to freedom don’t stem just from the overbearing state that is the boogeyman of most libertarian attacks on economic regulation. Review | In a healthy democracy, power starts at the top — and the bottom 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z George Soros is a billionaire philanthropist, a former currency trader, a liberal champion and — in certain circles — a boogeyman. George Soros Has Enemies. He’s Fine With That. 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Common Core, a boogeyman of conservative media in the years leading up to 2016, has faded from the spotlight. Analysis: Three years later, evaluating the 10 laws Trump said he’d pass in his first 100 days 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Winter sprite Jack Frost must save the day when an evil boogeyman schemes to stop the world’s children from believing in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and other immortal Guardians. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Is the author describing a deranged man who has found refuge in the forest, or the boogeyman who arises in our fertile imaginations when we hear a twig snap outside the tent late at night? With a new Northwest-set book, David Guterson meditates on uncertainty, time, primal fears 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z But they drifted apart, their memories of their childhood boogeyman and of one another fading the farther away they moved from Derry. Review: Overlong 'It Chapter Two' confronts scarier evils than Pennywise the clown 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z The conservative boogeyman of the tenured atheist radical who brainwashes innocent undergraduates is more myth than reality. Opinion | Can We Guarantee That Colleges Are Intellectually Diverse? 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Walker Foley, a senior organizer with Food and Water Action, said the DWP union’s political committee has been engaging in “red baiting,” relying on “the boogeyman of socialism and communism” to scare voters. L.A.'s Green New Deal is polarizing voters in a district haunted by environmental disaster 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z And when Life magazine featured a wild-eyed Manson on its Dec. 19, 1969, cover — an image that is famous to this day — U.S. audiences were handed their perfect boogeyman. At the Museum of Death, every day is like a Charles Manson anniversary 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z The White House’s insistence on going after a liberal boogeyman puts in jeopardy any attempt to confront the real threat of violent racism. Opinion | Trump can’t fight extremism and ‘anti-conservative bias’ at the same time 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Making China a boogeyman is overkill; it is unnecessary and will end up hurting America and especially Washington state. Clash of titans: Washington state has a stake in historic U.S.-China trade battle 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z A teenage girl under house arrest discovers that the nightmarish urban legend of the Mexican boogeyman, El Cucuy, is true. Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Aug. 4-10, 2019 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z In that movie, a shattering study of grief in the guise of a haunted-house chiller, she invested a storybook boogeyman with real metaphoric grandeur. Review: Jennifer Kent's 'The Nightingale' is a brilliant, horrifying tale of revenge 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z “Part of my self-assigned role is to provide some of the context, the nuance, where it makes sense again. Because it’s the straw man, it’s the boogeyman for an awful lot of people.” The Many, Tangled American Definitions of Socialism 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Uncle Sam kicked off a sequel to the Cold War with some of our southern neighbors, while resuscitating the boogeyman of socialism. Troika fever: Key American allies in the Middle East are the real tyrants 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z “This is the number-one problem around solving homelessness — getting people to come close enough to see the boogeyman, and realize he’s not actually there,” Hohlbein says. The patron saints of The Jungle: One couple’s private war on Seattle homelessness 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z Not as a Fox-induced boogeyman on the bar TV, one of those “coastal elites” dripping with contempt and condescension toward Middle America. Opinion | Can Bar-Stool Democracy Save America? 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z It further called the freshman lawmaker the conservative network's latest boogeyman, described as "someone for hosts and guests to demonize, knock down and refer to whenever grievances need to be aired against the Democratic Party." Breaking news: Fox News is obsessed with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, new study finds 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z "So when millennials talk about concepts like Democratic socialism, we're not talking about these kinds of 'Red Scare' boogeyman," she said. What is ‘Democratic socialism’? Bernie Sanders' political ideology explained 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Lately, he’s added another boogeyman to the bunch, one that’s supposedly homegrown: socialists. Opinion | Trump’s ‘socialist’ rhetoric is lazy name-calling from a lazy thinker 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The N.R.A., on the other hand, has long been a boogeyman for me. Opinion | The Black Gun Owner Next Door 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z He simply becomes the story’s boogeyman, ready to brutalize his former friend — both physically and psychologically — if that’s what it takes to prove that Franky is gay, and he isn’t. Review | ‘Giant Little Ones’ is a coming-out movie with one problem: No one actually comes out 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z This was a bizarre effort at trying to tar the Democratic Party with a boogeyman label that will appeal to Trump’s base. Why Trump downplayed foreign policy in the State of Union 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Brady may be the GOAT, but back where Beal is from, he’s the boogeyman who ruined childhoods. Bradley Beal can’t root for Tom Brady. So the St. Louis native is backing the Rams. 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z “We spent the evening with Zach, getting to know him and getting to know that he was not this boogeyman that people made him out to be,” Donovan recalled. His brother gunned down 17 people. But he’s the only family Zach Cruz has left. 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z In the horror stories that train riders in the New York area share, there is no more menacing boogeyman than the Portal Bridge. For 80,000 Commuters, One Nemesis: A 108-Year-Old Bridge 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z This was especially confusing, Robinson explained, since Soros — a liberal Jewish billionaire and right-wing boogeyman — was not even one of the organization’s top five biggest donors. A racial justice group got death threats after Facebook launched secret smear campaign 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Then, the boogeyman was Japan, which was going to take over the world via its large “Fifth Generation” government program. Opinion | The robo-pocalypse maybe isn’t at hand after all 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z They roared their approval when Mr. Trump began stirring up fears of angry, violent left-wing mobs, another far-right boogeyman. Far-Right Internet Groups Listen for Trump’s Approval, and Often Hear It 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z He even devoted his first speech as national security adviser to trashing the International Criminal Court, an obscure and ineffectual boogeyman that has long obsessed him. Opinion | On the INF Treaty, Trump finally gets something right 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z On Facebook, several conservative groups — including the GOP House campaign committee — are running ads that feature Soros as a boogeyman, according to a review of political ad data released by the social media company. Explosive device targets George Soros amid escalating political attacks against billionaire hedge fund founder 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z With European Parliament elections on the horizon in May, it doesn’t hurt their cause to reintroduce the specter of a bureaucratic boogeyman preventing them from stimulating the Italian economy and delivering on their campaign promises. Italy’s Populists Dig In After E.U. Rejects Their Budget as a Danger 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z As President Donald Trump embraces the role of electoral boogeyman, he’s making closing arguments to midterm voters that increasingly resemble a Halloween horror story. ‘Boogeyman’ Trump stokes fears in election closing arguments 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z A pair of tweens try to sacrifice a third to appease a creepy internet boogeyman in the new inspired-by-true-events TV movie “Terror in the Woods.” TV This Week, Oct. 14-20: 'The Rookie,' 'Charmed' and more - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Initially restraining his combative impulses and deferring to the Senate on process, the president ultimately followed his own gut as if he were, in the description of one aide, “a strategic boogeyman.” ‘Willing to go to the mat’: How Trump and Republicans carried Kavanaugh to the cusp of confirmation 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z What exactly is this seemingly all-powerful boogeyman among liberal Democrats? How 3 Little Letters (I.D.C.) Are Riling Up New York Progressives 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Like many slasher franchises, the Halloween films turned into a roller coaster ride over the years, with audiences cheering the boogeyman on as he snuffed out cookie-cutter characters in film after film. 2018’s Halloween is a slasher movie that actually has a message 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z In his unfortunate Prologue, Rich also describes the fossil fuel industry as “a common boogeyman.” The GOP and Big Oil can't escape blame for climate change | Dana Nuccitelli 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z We become the boogeyman against which Trump whips his crowds into a frenzy. Opinion | Journalists are playing into Trump’s hand 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The answer is of course, the big conservative boogeyman: taxes. Reporting on Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” is deeply flawed: Media forgets how math works 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Castle Rock seems to be moving in the direction of a more standard horror story, one with a kind of magical boogeyman lurking in the shadows. Castle Rock and Sharp Objects are the same show with different skins 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Michael Myers is no longer the morality boogeyman Michael doesn’t just focus on pot-smoking teenagers this time around; he’s an equal opportunity killer, happy to bludgeon housewives and children as well as the requisite babysitters. 2018’s Halloween is a slasher movie that actually has a message 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The fossil fuel industry is one exceptionally wealthy, influential, and powerful ‘boogeyman.’ The GOP and Big Oil can't escape blame for climate change | Dana Nuccitelli 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z “Frankly, I have been amused by the chatter suggesting that smoothing — or more accurately the failure to smooth — has now become some folks’ boogeyman de jure,” Roberts said in an email. Michele Roberts on N.B.A. Competitive Imbalance: Don’t Blame the Players 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z It’s too easy for politicians looking for a boogeyman to think of reporters as the shrill pundits arguing on TV. Perspective | I’m feeling like a kid in America after the shootings of my fellow journalists 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z To the left, Dr. Krauthammer was a boogeyman, most notably on the matter of President George W. Bush’s “war on terror” and the ultimately catastrophic efforts to democratize the Middle East. Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and intellectual provocateur, dies at 68 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z That turns the character from a morality boogeyman into a metaphor for the vicious, unexpected cruelty that ordinary life can bring. 2018’s Halloween is a slasher movie that actually has a message 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Comcast has a reputation as the industry boogeyman thanks to the cable company’s hard-nosed negotiations over rates it pays content companies to carry their TV channels. Two Titans’ Rocky Relationship Stands Between Comcast and Fox 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z “He’s for social progress, and we found over time he wasn’t a boogeyman and likes the books balanced.” Why this D.C. Council race is a proxy fight over the city’s future 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z “This Russia thing has been covered. I can give you countless examples, ridiculous examples, over and over and over again. To create a narrative is too weak of a word, to create a boogeyman. ...” The Risky Business of Speaking for President Trump 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z “Unfortunately we see people trying to point the finger at us and trying to call us the boogeyman for things they don’t like when it’s not true,” Mr. Hardin said. What Charles Koch and Other Donors to George Mason University Got for Their Money 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z “People referred to him as the boogeyman. It wasn’t a matter of if he was coming, it was when, because it happened so much and it went on for so long.” To find alleged Golden State Killer, investigators first found his great-great-great-grandparents 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Instead of addressing any of the important issues impacting the lives of all Alabamians, Ivey slams politicians’ favorite boogeyman, “special interests,” and decries “political correctness” in the ad. Alabama editorial roundup 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z It’s a popular theme, mostly because of the size and scope of the federal Godzilla in Washington that is everyone’s boogeyman. Georgia editorial roundup 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z It's a bold strategy that may short-circuit GOP efforts to use her as their boogeyman. Democratic candidates try something new to cope with anti-Pelosi campaign attacks: Disavowing her 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Hours later, the president echoed Mr. Dowd’s accusations of corruption in the theoretical “deep state” that Mr. Trump has long cast as a boogeyman working to undermine him. Trump Lawyer Says Special Counsel Inquiry Should Be Ended 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z “He is a ghost. He is a boogeyman,” said Zack Gold, an expert on Egypt’s militant groups at the Center for Naval Analyses. Militant threat emerges in Egyptian desert, opening new front in terrorism fight 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Sharpton is many things to many people — a freedom fighter, a boogeyman, a racial opportunist, an aging man just hanging on. Al Sharpton, Reconsidered 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Conservative economists, business executives and Republican elites who support free trade hate him for that, and they now speak of Navarro like he is a boogeyman. Analysis | The Daily 202: Peter Navarro gets his 15 minutes of fame as the salesman for the Trump tariffs 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Rep. Scott Taylor, Virginia Republican, said the NRA became the “boogeyman” after the killing last month of 17 people at a Parkland, Florida, high school. NRA spending pays off in elections 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z “There’s no boogeyman in the White House now to make people afraid of,” said Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, a gun control advocacy group. Where the N.R.A. Speaks First and Loudest 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z In that tiny second, Thone transforms Nixon from national boogeyman to something more pitiable, and more subtle: Shakespearean tragedy, fallen king and family ghost. Strawberry Theatre Workshop’s excellent ‘Frost/Nixon’ brims with power and pathos 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The fear of a boogeyman wearing a DEA jacket seems to be less serious than the fear of being left behind in a fast-paced market. The California pot industry isn’t afraid of the US Attorney General 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z “They have to point the finger at someone. They’ve got to say that someone is the big, bad boogeyman.” San Francisco Ousts a Mayor in a Clash of Tech, Politics and Race 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z E-commerce was both an aspiration and a boogeyman. At Retail Trade Show, Technology Is the Star 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Staff writer Julia Ioffe’s “What Putin Really Wants” goes beyond the conventional boogeyman image of Putin to document the range of challenges he faces in holding Russia together. From the Romanovs to Putin, these books offer insight into Russia’s history 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Outside of New York City, Republicans in the state have used the mayor as a liberal boogeyman. Bill de Blasio Wants to Be Heard. Is Anyone Listening? 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Guy Fawkes has long persisted as the outsize boogeyman of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to blow up England’s Parliament, widely considered the first premeditated, antistate terrorist attack. Kit Harington’s ‘Gunpowder’ Revisits One of the First Terrorist Attacks 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z California, the boogeyman of all conservatives, added a respectable 5.4 percent. If you seek opportunity, stick with a blue state 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z It defeated its North Division boogeyman twice in the same season. USC claims Pac-12 title with 31-28 defeat of Stanford – LA Times 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z To be sure, because Walker remains organized labor’s biggest boogeyman, unions and national Democrats will also go big here. Analysis | The Daily 202: Inside Scott Walker’s comeback strategy 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z “I’ve never called Seattle a boogeyman,” she taunted at a recent debate. Candidates to Seattle: It’s not us, it’s definitely you 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Democrats now suspect that Ryan, historically unpopular in national polling, might be a more effective boogeyman than Trump in TV ads against Republican incumbents. Analysis | Paul Ryan begins a make-or-break push for tax legislation — and his future 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z “That still means the boogeyman is out there.” California’s opioid death rate is among the nation’s lowest. Experts aren’t sure why 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z If Tuesday’s loss proves to be the Astros’ undoing in this series, it will be another Game 4 eighth-inning boogeyman they must confront. Yankees Feast on the Astros’ Bullpen in a Comeback Victory 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z But surely we still have the levity, and the taste buds, to look past the White House and beyond Hollywood and tremble before a lesser boogeyman. Opinion | Will Pumpkin Spice Destroy Us All? 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z But in making their boogeyman arguments, the two candidates lend credence to the sentiment that this race is about more than them individually. The Times recommends: Jinyoung Lee Englund for state Senate, 45th Legislative District 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Amazon eclipsed Barnes & Noble as the biggest boogeyman of the indie bookstore; for years, it fought bruising battles with the publishing industry over sales contracts that publishers said were too onerous. The Frightful Five Want to Rule Entertainment. They Are Hitting Limits. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z So what should you do if, like Oliver, you have a lingering childhood phobia, or one that sprung up on your adult life like a boogeyman jumping out of a closet? Kid Fears in Adults: The Dark and Other Phobias 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z “The Republican Congress has replaced President Obama as the boogeyman,” Steven Law, president of the McConnell-allied Senate Leadership Fund super PAC, wrote in a memo about the Alabama contest. With or without Trump, GOP insurgency plans for a civil war in 2018 midterms 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Alex said the ad falsely equates undocumented immigrants with gang members and is part of a broader Republican effort to turn MS-13 into a “Latino boogeyman.” Gillespie rolls out ‘Kill, Rape, Control’ attack ad against Northam 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z “The intense focus on MS-13 comes directly from the Trump White House, which has turned MS-13 into a Latino boogeyman,” he said. Virginia Republican’s ad ties opponent to MS-13. Democrats compare it to ‘Willie Horton’ 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Both on the left and the pro-Trump right, though, some skeptics complain that Moscow has become the automatic boogeyman, accused of misdeeds with little proof. On Facebook and Twitter, a Hunt for Russia’s Meddling Hand 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Others have vowed to take to the streets, and so has the outspoken Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whose far-left faction has sought to cast Macron as a neoliberal boogeyman out to launch a “social coup d’état.” Macron could succeed where other French presidents failed on labor reform 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z House Republicans unveiled a new website on Monday meant to provide counterprogramming that depicts an alternative 200-day timeline highlighting GOP accomplishments and building up a favorite Republican boogeyman: the media. GOP launches counteroffensive against the media — to distract America from its massive failure 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z “I’m sort of like the boogeyman,” he said. Psychic Saw a New Home in Her Future, Before Crossing Paths With Police 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z But in addition to being potentially counterproductive in less prosperous places, it is a boogeyman for the right, an example of government run dangerously rampant. Democrats’ economic agenda needs some work 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Through it all, the president’s allies continue to see Russia as a boogeyman for Democrats and a rapacious news media, an issue his core voters think is manufactured. Trump’s Deflections and Denials on Russia Frustrate Even His Allies 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z I’m not looking to portray you as some boogeyman or just any sort of gotcha moment. Megyn Kelly tells Alex Jones she won’t “portray you as some boogeyman” in leaked audio 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z In one way or another, politicians were often talking about the banlieues, which served as a kind of boogeyman, a stand-in for the social currents unsettling France. Can a New Generation in the Banlieues Change French Politics? 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z That one of them prefers to use Muslims as the boogeyman and the other Germans is irrelevant; both candidates represent a crisis for the EU in its heartland. Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen Advance in French Election 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z The commissioner has been a boogeyman for Republicans for years, because many in the party think that he has misled them over accusations that the agency overzealously audited certain conservative nonprofit groups. Up to 100,000 Taxpayers Compromised in Fafsa Tool Breach, I.R.S. Says 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Back in the 1980s, it was Japan that played the boogeyman in the American political conversation, the goliath believed to be gobbling up American prosperity with every Sony Walkman it sent toward American shores. Behind Trump’s Trade Deficit Obsession: Deficient Analysis 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z “To be blunt about it, this is a real-life boogeyman,” Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said at a news conference. Tornadoes hit New Orleans and other places in La., injuring 13 and destroying buildings and homes 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z But for our bearded boogeyman, who one character calls a priest and the devil in a single sentence, a shot to the head and one to the chest gets the job done quickly and efficiently. Review: ‘John Wick 2’ is an extravagantly violent good time 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z “To be blunt about it, this is a real-life boogeyman. This is your parents’ worst nightmare.” Details of Abuse, Written on Plywood, Lead to Pennsylvania Man’s Arrest 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z McAuliffe regularly uses North Carolina and its struggles with a “bathroom bill” as the boogeyman in warning lawmakers not to pass restrictions that will hurt the state’s ability to attract businesses and create jobs. Virginia House passes bill protecting groups that refuse to perform same-sex marriage 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Pleasing Slender Man, or Slenderman, a fictional boogeyman popularized through Internet forums, blogs and social media that the girls believed was real. 'Beware the Slenderman' is a chilling look at a crime inspired by the Internet 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z He was a version of the boogeyman and, even 220 miles away, he was impossible to escape. A Child Forged in Loss and Fury, in a City Far From Havana 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z The West, symbolized by the United States, is the perennial boogeyman. In its every recent crisis, Turkey sees hand of U.S. 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The resurgent Wizards flew to Houston on Sunday, where the boogeyman of any defensive scheme resides. Wizards face Rockets and an unleashed James Harden 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z Regulation also is the boogeyman of charter schools. Does Betsy DeVos have the answers for public schools? 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Trump made China a centerpiece of his campaign, decrying the world’s second-largest economy for stealing jobs, competing unfairly, suppressing its currency and generally serving as an economic boogeyman. Trump and China: America’s Most Important Economic Relationship Just Got Very Complicated 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z It is hardly the only assault on Mr. de Blasio, who has emerged as an all-purpose boogeyman for Republican strategists trying to maintain the party’s filament-thin hold on the New York Senate. Seeking to Keep Control of New York Senate, G.O.P. Finds a Villain: Bill de Blasio 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z He’s a boogeyman on a screen, a demagogic presence that solarizes onto your helmet’s view screen a handful of times to spout a few platitudes before vanishing back into the generic recursions of his nihilism. Review: 'Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare' Gets Lost in Space 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Thus a law intended to promote smart guns became a boogeyman holding them back. A 19-Year-Old Just Built the First Fingerprint-Reading Smart Gun 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Even Japan, a Trump boogeyman and the subject of much protectionist sentiment in the 1980s, gets much more positive than negative reviews as a trading partner. Americans actually don’t hate trade agreements 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Instead of falling for the critics' brazenly false scare tactics, let's put the midnight boogeyman to bed. Put the Midnight Boogeyman to Bed 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Even Italy’s 5 Star Movement—a favorite boogeyman of eurocritics—fully supports the EU. Britain Is Europe’s Reverse Domino 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z The Koch network funds an operation that has swelled to 1,600 paid employees in 38 states, an enormous footprint that has made the network a favorite boogeyman of the left. Despite Donald Trump cementing the GOP nomination, the Koch network keeps its distance 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Greengrass and Rouse build part of the plot around the familiar boogeyman of modern blockbuster-thrillers: the threat that the American government might create a perfect surveillance system, permanently ending citizen privacy. In the latest Jason Bourne movie, the former CIA assassin is just Batman on a bender 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Indeed, some observers believe that it is far more convenient for Erdogan to let Gulen stay on as the boogeyman in Pennsylvania whom he can blame for Turkey’s continuing problems. Turkey coup claims lack evidence 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z By the early ’90s, the term was reduced to an abbreviation and inflated into a right-wing boogeyman. How ‘Political Correctness’ Went From Punch Line to Panic 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z The strategy made a boogeyman out of Obama and helped Republicans make significant gains in the midterm election that year. How the GOP's rhetoric on immigration created a demagogue 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Some of the junta’s opponents call his move to invoke Mr. Thaksin as a boogeyman an effective tactic. Thai Junta Toughens Stance Toward Opponents 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z “They’re protectors. So we’re not the scary boogeyman that you might think we are. We are the people who kill the boogeyman.” Veterans returning to school fight stigmas, culture changes 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z We might get to explore cabinets or knock over imaginary blocks or fight a giant boogeyman or, in the case of Rez, travel through electronic space as a hovering body. PlayStation VR's most spectacular game is Thumper, a trippy ride through hell 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z It has become a boogeyman in public discourse: “mass incarceration.” The Myth of Mass Incarceration 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z The left hardly invokes the boogeyman of Uncle Sam’s mercenaries anymore. JAMES CARAFANO: ‘13 Hours’ Benghazi movie salutes defense contractors 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Isaac, a gifted actor with a startling range, seems to grasp his role as part boogeyman presence, part meta-villain, and he plays both elements with relish. 'Mojave' finds Garrett Hedlund and Oscar Isaac in a mix of thriller, western and noir 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Whenever the media fact-checks a statement, political correctness and that other boogeyman, “liberal media bias,” is to blame — and not their factually challenged statements. The GOP has become the party from George Orwell’s nightmares 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z “Rich countries are creating a boogeyman that doesn’t exist,” says Julie-Ann Richards, manager of international policy at the Climate Justice Programme, an environmental group based in Australia. Paris climate pact takes shape in new draft 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, he is also likely to project his economic discontent on immigrants, the default boogeyman for confused Jingoists. This is how Bernie Sanders wins: The appeal to Donald Trump voters that would turn 2016 upside down 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z “There are very real, internal political reasons to foster anti-Americanism, and to put the U.S. out there as a boogeyman, an opponent.” Has Putin Overplayed His Hand in Syria? 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Ten years ago, I couldn't shut up about the holiday boogeyman. The best gift for Christmas 2016: plush Krampus 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z There’s no boogeyman on the south side of the border. Build a wall on the border? No thanks, says San Diego. 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z The pro-tax coalition likes to call this a tax on “large and out-of-state corporations” and, to drive home the point, presents the Koch brothers boogeyman at every opportunity. Editorials from around Oregon 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Thimerosal is the real boogeyman, since it is a form of mercury, a known neurotoxin. How a Vaccine Is Like a Banana—and Why That's Good 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z That has made Mr. Trump, who after the pope’s remarks on Thursday again referred to the murder in San Francisco, the boogeyman of the Catholic left. Immigration Advocates in Philadelphia See Affirmation in Pope’s Visit 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z The propaganda is intended to strengthen one-party rule, enlist solidarity against a common external boogeyman and distract the public from thorny domestic issues, Cabestan said. China’s leadership fans smoldering antipathy toward Japan 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z I come from a world where ideas come from many different places and it is easy to blame the boogeyman as America. Discovery US boss: we’re in ‘hand to hand combat’ with Netflix 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z A boogeyman commonly invoked by luddites whose misplaced fear restrains the progress of human civilization. The New Devil’s Dictionary 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z But “sometimes I think the NSC just becomes kind of the boogeyman.” How the Obama White House runs foreign policy 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Nimby is the great boogeyman to many politicians. Energy Politics: Nothing Up Their Sleeves 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z This fear of the boogeyman extends well beyond China. Does Donald Trump Tap Into America's Underlying Xenophobia? 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Refreshingly, Ross, unlike many senior TV executives, is quite happy to say what he really thinks about what many media observers believe is the real American boogeyman, Netflix. Discovery US boss: we’re in ‘hand to hand combat’ with Netflix 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z We imagine they probably realized that people actually like those things, so they went for the traditional boogeyman: the IRS. Mike Huckabee’s fish fantasy: “I’d like to do the same thing to the IRS!” 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Given the turbulent state of affairs, Republicans believe the "Putin as boogeyman" theme serves well as a way to rally the party's base of supporters. With eye on U.S. election, Republicans assail Russia's Putin 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Common Core has become a boogeyman among grassroots conservatives who believe the initiative is tantamount to a federal takeover of education on what should be a local issue. As 2016 GOPers flee Common Core, Jeb Bush is the odd man out 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Under the guise of this ideology, American clergy began to demonize the state: individualism was exalted; secularism was synonymous with socialism; and collectivism became the preferred boogeyman of businessmen and Christians. Jesus is a political prisoner: An American history of Christianity’s corruption 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z The rest is history: by making the SNP the boogeyman, the Conservatives were successful in swinging marginal English voters against Labor. How to Win the Fight Over Gainful Employment (and the British Election) 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z But Gowdy is hardly the partisan boogeyman these Democrats would suggest. Benghazi, Clinton Investigator Trey Gowdy Plays It Straight 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Whether the death spiral is a real possibility or merely a utility-industry boogeyman is hotly debated. When conservation puts a squeeze on utilities 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Q. Do you need to hold up China as a boogeyman to get the votes to pass this? 10 Questions for President Obama’s Trade Negotiator 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z By turning net neutrality into "Obamacare for the Internet" these alarmists have given themselves a political boogeyman, something they can trot out to scare voters and raise campaign dollars. PSA: Net neutrality is not Obama’s secret plan to crush American innovation 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z “Heroin is the great big boogeyman,” he said. Overdose deaths from heroin galvanizing leaders in Maryland and Virginia 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z The Castros no longer can paint Washington as the boogeyman responsible for a languishing Cuban economy. Obama Cuba policy reversal excites U.S. businesses, ignites firestorm on Hill 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z As a result, they’ve become something of a boogeyman in corporate boardrooms, pushing for bigger buybacks, fatter dividends and sometimes new chief executives. Timken Bows to Activist Investors, and Splits in Two 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z “He will have to show he’s not the boogeyman they’ll make him out to be,” he says. It's Rousseff vs. a Surprise Opponent 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z But there’s little evidence to suggest voters will make up their minds based on the what the Washington Post referred to as “boogeyman politics.” Can Democrats make "Koch" happen? 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z The issue still galvanizes the Republican base, which is why it’s the subject of many campaign attacks on Democrats, but it’s lost its boogeyman edge. In one year, Obamacare goes from top congressional issue to barely mentioned Republicans insist that Democrats are simply creating a boogeyman to gin up their base—and fill their campaign coffers—in an election year. Is another government shutdown inevitable? 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z It was Israel’s policy before Hamas and its rudimentary rockets were Israel’s boogeyman of the moment, and before Israel turned Gaza into an open-air prison, punching bag, and weapons laboratory. Collective Punishment in Gaza 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z The other is a conservative boogeyman, the human representation of all they find evil. The ultimate guide to shutting down conservative anti-Piketty hysteria 2014-05-04T16:00:00Z The conservative boogeyman of “permissive” or “indulgent” parenting represents a third style,which Baumrind identified as responsive and undemanding. Chris Christie, crummy father: Outrageous award suggests out-of-touch GOP still wants gov 2014-04-23T12:30:00Z The word “boogeyman” is also inspired by fearsome pirates from an ethnic group in Indonesia known as the Bugis. Forget “Captain Phillips”: Piracy has a new world capital 2014-03-29T22:00:00Z In all three countries, Islam is often seen as the boogeyman of democracy, Dr. Nasr said. News Analysis: Other Nations Offer a Lesson to Egypt’s Military Leaders 2013-08-25T00:27:48Z They’ve gone from being the lurking boogeyman to being your obnoxious uncle who tries to regale you with stories of his high school football triumphs at Thanksgiving. To Reboot or Not To Reboot: That is Resident Evil's Question 2013-04-17T15:00:32Z They can officially go from the small school's inspiration to the small school's boogeyman — so mighty, so accomplished, so entrenched you think twice before saying you can be them. Be like Gonzaga? Zags can make imitation even more difficult 2013-03-21T02:57:04Z Politicians too easily make a boogeyman of American foreign aid, said Kerry, who was a politician for more than three decades, while the payoffs of engagement abroad are badly misjudged by many ordinary Americans. Kerry makes case for robust foreign aid 2013-02-20T18:51:00Z Which, although meant in earnest, again echoes the narrative function of zombies in cultural history — a shifting boogeyman against which existing society must be defended. Kansas militia prepares for zombies 2013-01-04T21:11:00Z To the uninitiated, Hopkins said, it appears that age crept up on fighters, like “some sort of boogeyman.” Aging Boxers Face a Fight Against Time 2012-12-08T01:15:25Z Fehr, for all the characterizations of him since the 1994 baseball strike as some kind of boogeyman, is an interesting character. Slap Shot: Q. and A. With Gary Bettman's Biographer 2012-10-01T20:42:41Z The company consequently became a Republican boogeyman of government waste and cronyism this summer. Deeper Look: Tesla's Big Loan Fumble 2012-09-28T20:30:00Z The opposition, he said, is “looking for a federal boogeyman under every piece of sagebrush.” Grand Junction Journal: Debating if Colorado National Monument Should Be a National Park 2012-06-16T15:12:40Z So, Hollywood, instead of going after the piracy boogeyman, why not focus your efforts on texters who instantly alert their friends that your latest blockbuster stinks. Why Hollywood is doomed 2012-05-15T17:14:08Z It’s very disturbing that Moussa is trying to use Sharia as the boogeyman here. The Lede Blog: Live Updates on Egypt's Presidential Debate 2012-05-12T00:13:51Z Now Goldman plays the boogeyman in his closing argument. Bracing for a Loss in Florida, Gingrich Reinvents Himself as a Grassroots Insurgent 2012-01-31T10:05:00Z The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 is a favorite boogeyman for some, despite the data that so easily disprove it as a cause. Examining the big lie: How the facts of the economic crisis stack up 2011-11-20T03:05:09Z “People really want to know what kind of boogeyman can we hang this on and video games are still the top choice when it comes to any type of tragedy,” said Ferguson. Expert Calls Blaming Video Games On Tragic Massacres Like Oslo And Columbine Racist 2011-07-28T20:37:22Z The New York Times' Michael Shear has a silly article up today in which he characterizes Democratic efforts to "demonize" Cantor as the new "boogeyman" as mere partisan maneuvering. Eric Cantor: The most dangerous whiner in America 2011-07-14T19:15:00Z We really don’t need the boogeyman of radiation poisoning to see that perhaps some caution and focus on legitimate fault tolerance is in order. Dot Earth: Is Nuclear Power Simply Too 'Brittle'? 2011-04-07T13:18:16Z Pelosi, evoking the administration as a sort of boogeyman, tried to rally her party's liberal base during an appearance before the 2,100 progressives gathered at the annual Netroots Nation convention. Pelosi calls for liberal activists to help keep Democrats in majority 2010-07-24T18:23:00Z In effect, the complaint conjures up an old-time boogeyman: the angry, gun-toting Black Panther given over to "anti-government and anti-law enforcement rhetoric" -- now dressed up with sympathy for Osama bin Laden. The FBI: Foiling its own plots since 2001 2010-07-06T22:07:00Z In other words the right and the center have used the powerless left as a boogeyman for nearly 30 years - but who has been running the country during that time? Why Rand Paul Is Right and Wrong 2010-05-21T21:36:00Z A Foe to Love Viktor Yanukovych, the former Russian puppet and boogeyman of Ukraine's Orange Revolution, will use the presidency to steer his country away from the West. Obama and Ukraine's Fruitful New Disagreements 2010-04-12T20:38:00Z |
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