Author: MassCommons

Ed Kilgore’s entire TPM column on race, racists and racism is worth reading but this paragraph gets to the heart of the matter, politically speaking: Like a lot of bad ideas and bad behaviors, “racism” is not a...

What do you do when hard times don’t go away? If you’re Bruce Springsteen you put out High Hopes, his punk-influenced 18th studio album (and 11th to top Billboard’s album charts) in a recording career that...

Before raising the curtain on the opening chapter of his terrific new book (about which, more at another time), Nathaniel Philbrick orients the reader’s mind with three quotations, including this March 4, 1776 excerpt from...

It’s a Fox News nightmare.  Our local public high school held its holiday concerts this week. Why is it a Fox News nightmare?  Let us count the ways:     It’s a public school....

How extreme is today’s Republican party?  Extreme enough that longtime New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is today’s recipient of the Dionne Award (named for Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne and...