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...]

As someone who supported Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders, I'd rather not have to talk about my regrets. I've had a few, but not to few, or small, to mention. Clinton would have been a better president than Trump. Then again most of my … [Read more...]

The Moral of the Story One of the two major United States parties nominated a candidate in spite of the fact that he was clearly compromised by and enamored of an authoritarian oligarchy that has been actively working against not only our … [Read more...]

A couple of weeks ago, Cambridge public school librarian LIZ PHIPPS SOEIRO wrote an open letter to First Lady Melania Trump in which she rejected the donation of ten Dr. Seuss books. Soeiro's letter turned out to be politically (and … [Read more...]