Beacon Hill: where the coffee is strong and so are the Women Politicians are human. Occasional bad behavior should come as no surprise. What matters is what is done about it. And recently sworn-in Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa (D-Northampton) and … [Read more...]

I've met Elizabeth Warren. And let me tell you, she's likable. She doesn't send me Christmas cards, and she doesn't remember me. But I've spoken to her and had my picture taken with her at a rally hosted by my friend and state senator Eric … [Read more...]

"We need New Politics because our current politics isn’t working." — Congressman Seth Moulton In the 1980s, Patrick Caddell, pollster for Gary Hart's presidential campaign, parlayed the idea of a "new idea" into one of the biggest … [Read more...]

L'enfer, c'est les autres. --Sartre Claims of Native American ancestry were once common in New England. My mother's family, for example, still claims that my great-grandfather's mother was Native American. I've done a fair amount of … [Read more...]

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition … [Read more...]

There  are enough conflicts of interest in Methuen to make a porn star, if not a mayor or city councilor, blush. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has very specific laws (not to mention a joke of quiz that all public employees are required … [Read more...]

"No man who calls himself a progressive should be running against any qualified woman for Senate seats in Massachusetts, period." --Jennifer Taub, Vermont Law School professor Granted, the district includes Northampton and Amherst, but … [Read more...]

Someone is finally taking Jill Stein and the Green Party seriously: the United States Senate's Intelligence Committee. Buzzfeed reports: The top congressional committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election … [Read more...]

We are living extraordinarily turbulent political times. If the Trump presidency and disintegration of the Republican Party were not enough, we are now living through a number of earth-shaking revelations of sexual harassment. Although all … [Read more...]