Author: MassCommons

Wading through the thicket of responses on National Review’s group blog, The Corner, to President Obama’s State of the Union was a dispiriting trudge.  The sheer volume of words from conservatives reacting to...

“Showing some South Side” is a phrase used by America’s second-most prominent African-American elected chief executive, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.  Unlike President Obama, Patrick actually grew...

Myrlie Evers-Williams has come in for some criticism for her invocation at President Obama’s inauguration on Monday.  Some is from those who think religion has no place in the public rituals of a republic whose...

This column by Slate columnist John Dickerson is getting more attention than others making the same point because Dickerson is also political director for CBS News—a fact that has right-wingers (with some reason)...

The question may be moot now that both the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve have publicly stated they think the law does not allow for the minting of a $1 trillion platinum coin to avoid a debt ceiling crisis, but...