... Adam Reilly filling in for Braude. Talking Lewandowski, impeachment, and Markey/Kennedy. Update: Here it is. Wish I could be as succinct as my co-panelists Michael Curry and Shannon O'Brien. There are two separate concerns: The … [Read more...]

While I'm waiting for video, or audio, or transcripts of this weekend's convention speeches from Markey and Joe Kennedy (and Pemberton and Liss-Riordan) ...  This is intended to re-introduce Markey to Massachusetts voters. I don't … [Read more...]

This isn't totally unexpected -- at least not by those who are plugged in, but it is very welcome indeed. The single most compelling communicator in the Democratic Party today, freshman phenom Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has endorsed Ed … [Read more...]

After giving unconscionably short shrift to climate change all of these years, CNN has arranged for a massive climate change Town Hall tonight -- with 40 minutes given to each of the qualifying Democratic candidates to talk up their plans. … [Read more...]

As I mentioned last post, there are indeed Democrats in Massachusetts’ congressional delegation who have shown signs of a shop-worn, dessicated political temperament: inertia; sloth; special interest capture; legal-but-seedy corruption; … [Read more...]

For a supposedly vulnerable incumbent, Ed Markey is taking care of business, racking up endorsements. This is not too surprising for someone who has been in office as long as he has. But some of his strongest support comes from insurgent … [Read more...]

(How's that for a mixed metaphor?) Charlie Baker is best understood as a conservative -- that is, someone who is risk averse; suspicious of innovation; reluctant to move too quickly. After losing as a Tea Party-esque Angry Conservative … [Read more...]

As I said, substance abuse is really hard for a city to confront. But abusive police vandalism is definitely not the answer, and DA Rollins strikes exactly the right note in response to the city's "Operation Clean Sweep": Public safety … [Read more...]

I had thought that the Walsh administration had come along since the precipitous closure of the Long Island facility left homeless people -- especially those with substance problems -- in grave danger. The city now seems to be engaged in a … [Read more...]

I came across a book of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's letters from prison recently. A major figure of resistance to the Nazis, Bonhoeffer was imprisoned in 1943, and executed in 1945, mere weeks before the fall of Berlin. This passage I've quoted … [Read more...]