Entries in MassPoliticsProfs by Maurice Cunningham

Seven special elections introduced seven new white males to the State House. When it comes to representation the answer to the question, Are We Not a Little White for That Kind of Thing? appears to be a resounding No!

The vast right wing Department of Dubious Research churns out plenty of stuff about the glory of the free market, including in Jeff Jacoby's Boston Globe column. But our economy needs more regulation of free loaders like the Koch Brothers, not less.

This week's Boston Globe poll was very revealing. It revealed that the public cares about one set of issues, and the media and interests care about another set. The issues the public cares about least garner most of our attention.

As criticism mounts about the Massachusetts Republican Party's Barely Legal fundraising campaign, it's Governor Charlie Baker who is most at risk. He can start by reading the fund raising letters before they go out.

When Amazon stood for the purity of the not-so-hidden hand of the market, and Mayor Marty Walsh stood for morality, Mayor Walsh won. But it's never that simple.

Thomas Frank does an amateurish job bashing the Massachusetts Democrats. Could he be right anyway?

Need to make a self-interested policy sound like an altruistic contribution to the public good? A dark money investment can buy you a glowing research study, from the Department of Dubious Research.

Hillary Clinton's refusal to release her Goldman Sachs speeches reveals one thing: there's plenty America's oligarchs don't want us to see. We're all at the kid's table.

A lesson from Abraham Lincoln with an assist from John Locke: shouting down Governor Baker was impolitic and unjust.

One lesson from the First Suffolk & Middlesex special election is that voters should immediately toss out SuperPAC campaign literature from groups like Democrats for Education Reform and Mass Values.