Impressive work, for its content, and for its remarkable use of the Internet to distribute an innovative way to make an editorial point ("The GOP must stop Trump"), from the newspaper currently being lionized around the world for its … [Read more...]

Another week, another icon of the left disses the Democratic Socialist. What I think has happened here is that Sanders decided that he might actually win the nomination and went negative -- "unqualified!" (an absurd, even insulting, and … [Read more...]

Enriched with Twitter. Enjoy! … [Read more...]

San Francisco has it, California has it, Europe has had it for years (16 weeks at 70 percent of full pay in France, for example), but Massachusetts is grotesquely deficient in this important indicator for economic competitiveness and the … [Read more...]

An excellent Op-Ed a few weeks ago in the LA Times by University of Chicago law professor Justin Driver puts current Supreme Court jurisprudence in historical context: On March 12, 1956, the majority of Southern senators and congressmen … [Read more...]

A selection from The Onion's How A Contested Convention Would Work explainer: Q. What is an unbound delegate? A. A national party representative who is allowed to undermine the democratic process if they feel like it. Q: What happens … [Read more...]

Slate (Hat tip, Jaclyn Reiss in the Globe): Isaac Chotiner: What do you make of Bernie Sanders’ success thus far, even if he is likely to come up short in terms of delegates? Barney Frank: Remember he’s way behind not just in delegates … [Read more...]

Good for her. Email from Mimi Lemay, mother of a transgender child, sent to the AG's list of supporters on her stationery: There’s a bill in Massachusetts that would fix this situation. Similar legislation has passed in 18 other states … [Read more...]

In "Why Have Democrats Failed in the State Where They’re Most Likely to Succeed? Massachusetts should be a model state for liberal public policy, but instead it is one of the country’s most unequal" for The Nation, adapted from his new … [Read more...]