Author: MassCommons

It’s one of the tensions community organizers live with:  how much do you boast about your accomplishments? On the one hand, if you (and by “you”, I mean the organization and the leaders the organizer...

The latest Dionne Award—presented at the whim of this blog to a “habitually even-tempered and fair-minded commentator for excellence in expressing moral outrage”—goes to the nameless editors of The...

And by tomorrow I mean next week. Earlier this year there was a fair amount of chortling (by Republicans) and hand-wringing (by Democrats) over the Obama campaign’s inability to decide on a slogan for its re-election...

I’m not saying I believe God sent Hurricane Isaac to torment the Republican Party for the sin of putting the former head of the International Arabian Horse Association in charge of FEMA when News Orleans drowned during...

If you’re only going to read one long-form piece of political journalism before summer ends, allow me to suggest you make it Ta-Nihisi Coates’ “Fear Of A Black President”, the cover story in...