Author: MassCommons

When Sen. George Mitchell receives Commonweal’s Catholic in the Public Square Award later this month, there will be little—and perhaps no—mention of his work on the Iran-contra committee and his July 13, 1987...

There’s a nice little story in our local paper about the Kennedy family delivering its Profile in Courage award to former president George H. W. Bush for his role in the 1990 budget compromise that cut spending, raised...

For those who’ve watched his public career over the years, the three-part essay just published by the Boston Globe on the need for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian standoff, and the importance of...

In the wake of the Boston Tea Party—as Nathaniel Philbrick makes vividly clear throughout the opening pages of Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution—the British government had to take action. The Tea Party was...

One of Ed Kilgore’s many talents that serves him well in his current gig as lead political blogger for Washington Monthly is he has a memory like…well…an elephant. His post earlier today reminded everyone that...