Boston Globe reporter Jon Chesto had a great story on Sunday about how Gov. Baker is floating a plan to sharply increase the per-employee fee on companies that don't provide health coverage. I'm greatly summarizing, but MassHealth … [Read more...]

If it's going to lead to sustained success and create lasting change, the movement to resist Trump needs infrastructure - meetings, regularly-updated online information, people willing to organize both - not just in Boston and its suburbs … [Read more...]

You wouldn't expect a science controversy at the PBS station in a place like Boston - never mind at the national science-producing hotspot behind shows like NOVA. But yet again, here we are asking what WGBH is thinking. As the Boston … [Read more...]

Trump is not a normal president. Be suspicious of anyone who treats him as normal. Trump is not strong. He never takes on anyone more powerful than he is. He only targets the weak (clean air and Big Bird are among his first targets). … [Read more...]

One of global warming's most inconvenient truths is that it's already beginning to put some of America's most valuable real estate under water. Never mind storms - even high tides now swamp some low-lying areas. As the New York Times … [Read more...]

Congressional Republicans are gearing up to not only strip health care from the 20 million Americans who get it through Obamacare - they've announced plans to kill Medicare as well. You may hear reporters calling it "phasing out," … [Read more...]

FBI Director James Comey hasn't even gotten a warrant to read the possibly-related-to-Hillary-possibly-not emails in question, yet he's already gone running to Congressional Republicans to talk about them. Comey's actions directly … [Read more...]

Joe Kennedy beat David Rosa by more than 210,000 votes in 2012. But if Kennedy beats Rosa again this time around, clearly it will be the result of voter fraud! That's what Rosa tells Will Richmond of the Fall River Herald-News: The … [Read more...]