Author: MassCommons

William Galston seems like a nice guy—thoughtful, considerate, member in good standing of the Clintonian reform-minded “New Democrat” faction of the Democratic Party. But, like a nervous tic or a compulsive...

This is the best news out of the US Senate in months: “An angry Harry Reid took to the floor Thursday and demanded changes to the Senate’s hallowed filibuster rules, siding with junior Democrats who have sought to...

Oddly enough, following one of the few days of his professional life when Curt Schilling refused to speak to the media, he hit something of a superfecta in our local newspaper, making the front pages of the news, metro, sports...

As Clay Shirky observes in Here Comes Everybody: The Power Or Organizing Without Organizations, “it’s not a revolution if nobody loses”.  What Shirky calls the new social tools (e.g., Google, Wikipedia,...

The flip side of the emerging Democratic majority so ably detailed by Ruy Texeira and John Judis is the ever-more-fearful-and-angry emerging Republican minority. Former Bush speechwriter and Iraq War cheerleader David...