Author: MassCommons

With Hillary Clinton’s popular vote lead having blown past 2 million—and more ballots yet to count—it’s increasingly clear that the anti-democratic structures (most notably the electoral college) in the...

With Hillary Clinton’s popular vote lead having blown past 2 million—and more ballots yet to count—it’s increasingly clear that the anti-democratic structures (most notably the electoral college) in the...

It’s been just over a week since Donald Trump became president-elect, a week to begin absorbing the reality that on Jan. 20 the Republican party will have unchecked control of all three branches of the US federal...

376 days ago the Politics department here at MassCommons World Headquarters grudgingly posted its first—and last—piece about the 2016 US presidential election campaign. (And they remain oddly proud of their...

I don’t know why “everybody still treat(s) Donald Trump with kid gloves”, as the headline to this Kevin Drum post asserts.  And, to the (minimal) extent I’ve paid attention to the Republican...