Author: MassCommons

You’d never guess from the way this Washington Post story starts off, but yesterday was a remarkable day in the US Senate. First, the Senate took a simple majority vote on two bills, just the way the Founders intended....

(One in an occasional series of posts on removing cars from their privileged place in American society.) This is the kind of story that confirms everything Texas conservatives suspect and fear about Massachusetts liberals:...

When Mitt Romney left the Massachusetts governor’s office in early 2007, he and his aides “erased much of the internal documentation of Romney’s four-year tenure as governor”, wiping emails off state...

Brian Williams of NBC News, Eric Alterman of The Nation, Jon Stewart of Comedy Central.  I could go on, but you get the idea.  Frankly, it’s a little disturbing how many of the middle-aged white men shaping our...

Kudos to Slate’s Dave Weigel for coining a useful new phrase—the “magic word gaffe”—in the jargon of contemporary American politics.  He did so in explaining how and why conservative...