Author: MassCommons

It was just over two years ago, shortly after Republicans had retaken control of the House and elected John Boehner speaker that Rachel Maddow first articulated her “John Boehner Is Bad At His Job” hypothesis....

Ron Fournier is editorial director of the National Journal and a veteran Washington reporter.  All the more reason why this recent column of his is an altogether depressing example of false equivalence journalism.  Let...

When gay Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco moved to Bethel, Maine three years ago, he stayed in the closet.  After all, Bethel is a small (population 2,600), socially conservative town nestled near the New Hampshire...

TPM reporter Sahil Kapur gets the context of this story just right, in my view: “After nearly a year of resistance that has damaged them politically with women voters, House Republicans have found a clever way to back down...

The crescendoing drumbeat in Washington over the sequester—$85 billion in federal spending cuts scheduled to start a week from today—obscures a key point:  the sequester is only Act 2 in a 3 act fiscal play set...