Author: MassCommons

Robert McIntyre of Citizens for Tax Justice wins the prize for Most Succinct Summary of House Budget Committee Chairman’s FY 2013 Budget Plan released on Tuesday:  “He’s a phony.  But he’s...

Back in the 1980s, longtime political pundit Michael Kingsley wrote that, “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth – some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.”  That’s what Romney...

In the “liberals who understand the conservative movement” category, Rick Perlstein is at or near the top.  Author of Before The Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus and Nixonland:...

Okay, so the Missouri Republican Party decided for reasons of its own to hold a “beauty contest” primary on Feb. 7.  Turnout was drastically lower than in previous years, and Rick Santorum won...

Boston College professor Thomas H. O’Connor is the dean of local historians in these parts.  The following excerpt from the introduction to his fine book, The Boston Irish:  A Political History, makes for good...