Author: MassCommons

Sarah Palin’s mockery of Barack Obama’s brief community organizing career during her acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican national convention was typical of how many conservatives treated his experience then, and...

Congressional Republicans have apparently decided that a (previously) bipartisan package of tax breaks making its way through the lame-duck session will be the (first?) vehicle for venting their rage at President Obama’s...

In the wake of their resounding victory at the polls three weeks ago today, conservatives could be forgiven for expecting a chastened President Obama to lower his ambitions for the next two years and begin sending out signals of...

“(T)he biggest single under-discussed aspect of contemporary national politics is the consistent disparity in turnout patterns between presidential and non-presidential elections, which at the moment happen to align almost...

Put me in Kevin Drum’s camp when it comes to what yesterday’s elections mean nationally: Look: every election cycle features different candidates. Obviously it’s possible that, on average, this year’s...