The contrast couldn't be starker. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh was the de facto political leader of Massachusetts today: protecting our livelihoods and ideals by defending immigrants and standing up to an unpopular and incompetent president who … [Read more...]

Trump made abundantly clear on the campaign trail that he wasn't up to the job of being president: ignorance of important basic facts about the U.S. and the world, prone to incoherent rages laced with fabrications, and a pathetic six-time … [Read more...]

PoliticsCentral: Top Trump campaign aide in Michigan guilty on 10 felony counts Brandon Hall, the controversial west Michigan blogger who served as a key figure in the Donald Trump campaign’s organizing efforts across the state, was … [Read more...]

Columbia professor Mark Lilla argues in the NYT "One of the many lessons of the recent presidential election campaign and its repugnant outcome is that the age of identity liberalism must be brought to an end." He continues: A … [Read more...]

She's right, of course: Bernie, while admirable in many ways, couldn't even win a majority of Democrats. To the Editor: Frankly, Bernie Sanders’ told-you-so message is graceless. It adopts his lone-wolf moralistic tone to suggest that … [Read more...]

Charlie Baker is up for re-election in 2018, the second year of President Trump, who has made "Republican" a synonym for "racist misogynist" and ridden that label to the White House, despite losing the election, because of our … [Read more...]

From a letter to her supporters: And to all the young people in particular, I want you to hear this. I’ve spent my entire adult life fighting for what I believe in. I’ve had successes and I’ve had setbacks -– sometimes really painful … [Read more...]

We won. He lost. Yet Hillary Clinton has conceded and he will be president. The system let the people of the country down. Our Constitution has openly subverted the will of the people twice in 20 years -- 2000 and 2016 -- and done it … [Read more...]

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Open thread for all of your interesting election day stories. Paul Krugman cogently explains how to rig an election. Go Secretary Clinton! … [Read more...]