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...]

Bumping up the link to this thoughtful Guardian piece that Charley included in a comment in order to to test the waters -- can we resolve the left/liberal divide or is our future to be fratricide (and boredom)?   … [Read more...]

I am pressed for time, but here is my thesis statement: As much as we can enjoy watching the Republicans collide with each other and try to deal with a President who doesn't even honor the deals he makes with them, let alone us, this is all … [Read more...]

Tammy Baldwin and Elizabeth Warren Sherrod Brown and Elizabeth Warren There has been legitimate criticism here recently about the DNC and why we should avoid making contributions to it. I just received a fund-raising email from … [Read more...]

Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown and current US Ambassador to New Zealand & Samoa is under investigation by the State Department for ... well, I'll let Scott tell you: Brown said the official complaints related to comments he had … [Read more...]

The Globe reports this morning that nine of the state's eleven District Attorneys have penned a six-page letter to the State Senate largely opposing the Senate's criminal justice reform bill that will be debated on Thursday. The most … [Read more...]

America's public schools are not failing, American communities are failing.  Our public schools in well-to-do neighborhoods are doing just fine, thank you.  Our problem with children's education in some area has nothing to do with public … [Read more...]

The right to vote is sacred in our democracy. Like so many other fundamental American values, that right is under attack by the Trump administration. Trump’s sham “voter fraud” commission uses outright lies as a pretext for pushing laws … [Read more...]