Entries in MassPoliticsProfs by Maurice Cunningham

The intransigent defiance of many Bernie Sanders disciples demonstrates the tension of individualism versus membership in a political community.

The Republicans say goodbye to Cleveland and the Democrats say goodbye to Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Great Schools' kick-off rally featured Governor Charlie Baker and excited parents, but the hedge fund managers bankrolling this venture appeared nowhere in the campaign pictures. What's in it for them?

Common Cause Massachusetts says the 2014 Disclosure Act cast a light on political dark money, but there are plenty of loopholes yet to be closed.

While our attention has been diverted by other minor threats, America is being menaced by a more frightening danger: political correctness.

What caused the massacre at Pulse in Orlando? The answer is contingent and political.

Few political scientists or journalists foresaw the rise of Donald Trump. But Norman Ornstein did.

Today I take a day off from politics and as I've been doing since 2012, to brag about the wonderful students who are graduating from the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

It's great to have Bill Weld back in politics, but not at the cost of throwing the Presidential race into the dysfunctional House of Representatives.

Why would New York hedge fund managers care who represents Eastie in the Massachusetts senate? The answer is hidden in dark money, and our commonwealth teeters on the verge of becoming a dark money empire.