Happy New Year and Bombogenesis Day, everyone. No time like the present to try to divine the future; with every new Trump blowup, it's easy to neglect that we've actually got two major races this November -- Governor and Senator -- and … [Read more...]
DNC: Ugly, but “rigged”?
I don't mean to steal the fire of Mark's excellent post on the Donna Brazile article. Brazile paints a dire picture of the mismanagement and neglect at the DNC, and the Clinton campaign's bailout/takeover starting in 2015. The most … [Read more...]
Paging Sen. Warren and Sen. Markey: Join Rand Paul
Sen. Rand Paul is entirely right that the AUMF passed right after 9/11 needs to be repealed. It has been the blank check and permission to endless war Rep. Barbara Lee warned us against when she was the lone vote against it in 2001. The … [Read more...]
Elizabeth Warren “open to” voting yes on Question 4, marijuana legalization
Asked her thoughts on Question 4, which would legalize and regulate marijuana in Massachusetts, Senator Elizabeth Warren did not quite say she's voting yes — but she did make some very supportive statements and say she is "open to" voting … [Read more...]
Warren Takes Down Krugman
Much has been made of the twin takedowns of Sanders last week. First there was the Daily News story which was spun by many in the media and the Hillary camp as a disaster, but if you read and understood the actual content it wasn't a … [Read more...]
Elizabeth Warren endorses Martha Coakley
I'm sure the campaign will put out a professional video of this fabulous endorsement, including a great story about how Elizabeth first got to know Martha eight years ago, but I was near the front and captured the closing few minutes of … [Read more...]
The day I met Ted Kennedy
When I was a law professor, I spent years studying why middle class families were going broke. I went into this area of study believing the hype – that people who were declaring bankruptcy must be gaming the system and going on too many … [Read more...]
Talk to me right-winger
Ed. Ed. Ed, and some more Ed. Broom the vanity and ego aside to get to a vignette from MSNBC's The Ed Show. There, the former right-wing talker but a left-wing talker for the past 16 years, Ed (of course) Schultz did his usual … [Read more...]
Herding Cats: Progressive Massachusetts Holds Second Annual Conference to Standing Room Audience
A few years back, some progressive Democrats were sitting around talking about important issues facing both Massachusetts and the United States more broadly. Tired of mere talk, this group of committed social activists decided to do … [Read more...]
Will Millennials Carry Warren to White House in 2016?
At the close of his must-read The Rise of the New New Left, Peter Beinart at The Daily Beast makes the case that the Democratic Party's presumed standard-bearer in 2016 may be vulnerable to a challenge from the left - in particular, from … [Read more...]
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