Now is the right time for progressives to take the lead by filing legislation that would replace the ACA with Medicare. Would it pass the House and Senate and be signed into law? No, but it would reframe the debate and give … [Read more...]

Jobs in wind and solar are both growing like gangbusters and comprise the majority of jobs in the electric-power sector, according to the US Department of Energy (motto: Not Eliminated Yet). If the above chart does not reproduce, … [Read more...]

The mid-term elections will soon be upon us, so it will be a good idea to get our house in order, and work though whatever painful but necessary conflicts sooner rather than later. Of the two ways forward, resumption of incrementalism … [Read more...]

...knocks it out of the ballpark, really: Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media. People are tired of working … [Read more...]

Spoiler: What matters is replacing Scalia. The Supreme Court has been depicted in terms of a continuum from left to right, most recently in a New York Times graphic purporting to show Judge Garland as exactly splitting the ideological … [Read more...]

It's not that I am voting for Sanders, right? Nothing peculiar about that, at least in these quarters. It's that I honestly never imagined he would win. Not that he has not exceeded expectations, and I'm very glad of that. You should … [Read more...]

Elect Bernie Sanders. The Senate will confirm Obama's nominee quicker than you can say "Oyez, oyez.". … [Read more...]

and not get it, than to vote for what you don't want and get it." The quote is attributed to Eugene Debs, but oddly the first time it ever came to mind for me as a voter was when I cast my vote for Hillary Clinton in the 2008 … [Read more...]

There's like 5 people who want the Olympics in Boston and they're all getting paid.— Fresh New England (@freshnewengland) July 1, 2015 … [Read more...]

UrtheCast has published the first of a series of videos of cities as seen from the International Space Station. These are cities like London and Barcelona. Bu the first one is Boston, with a view that centers on the Kenmore Square … [Read more...]