Entries in MassPoliticsProfs by Maurice Cunningham

It's not so much Hillary Clinton's Party as the Party that is deciding on Hillary Clinton.

Governor Charlie Baker has been criticized for appointing a largely white male economic development council. He needs to add some diversity, especially with an important driver of our brainy economy – immigrants.

Donald Trump may have written The Art of the Deal, but he's an amateur at the Art of the Political Insult. He could learn a lot from the master, Boston's own James Michael Curley.

There are constitutional reasons for the lack of opposition politics on Beacon Hill, for sure. But there are also political reasons for the lack of partisan combat.

America’s first language is that of the market, reflected in poll driven language mouthed by political figures. Our second language, the language of spiritual morality, was evident in Pope Francis’s call for us to welcome immigrants. Congressional applause for the pontiff’s speech had barely died down when we returned to our first language.

Liberals want to claim Pope Francis for their issues and conservatives want to claim him as well. Some conservatives who are frustrated with the pope's positions on economics and the climate even call him a communist. Is Pope Francis a liberal, a conservative, or even a communist?

Don't keep partisan score in analyzing Pope Francis's influence on American politics, but remember this: The Republican Party's God is a God of judgment; Pope Francis's God is a God of mercy. 

Is our candidates learning? The second Republican debate and the fog of memory.

We have met the enemy and he is us. President Obama orders sanctions against the United States for violating democratic principles.

Hillary Clinton's campaign has recently been like a game of pinball, substance bouncing off trivia and back, over and over again. Bill Clinton was the Comeback Kid; is Hillary the Pinball Wizard?