All throughout the Commonwealth, towns are holding local elections in April.  Generally speaking, turnout in these elections is dismal, which leads me to ask—is this any way to run an election? 

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.

Can you trust that canvasser who just knocked on your door with some campaign literature? It could be a dedicated volunteer - or a  hired contractor for dark money operation Democrats for Education Reform.

Yesterday's decision by the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance to stand aside as the Republican State Committee flouts state law was another great day for big money.

Move over Jeff Jacoby, Eric Fehrnstrom’s appears to be gunning for your beat over at the Globe. A couple weeks back I gently debunked Fehrnstrom’s transparently weak argument that Trump could beat Clinton. This week, he has published an even more transparently weak attack on Hillary Clinton’s candidacy that I will herein debunk a bit less gently. Frankly, Mr. Fehrnstrom writes like a graduating senior taking a course pass-fail, though I’m not sure he deserves credit for giving it “the old college try.”

Trumpism got you down? We can improve our politics by reading.

The Senate’s continued failure to do its job and hold a hearing on the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court now goes into its third week. Its recalcitrance fits the tenor of the Age of Trump: someone else started it.

Donald Trump loves to remind us that he is so rich he doesn't have to grovel to other billionaires for their financial support. Therein lies an important truth about American politics.