Great Schools Massachusetts has some dicey dark money allies in its campaign for more charter schools, like Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance. Our democracy is transforming into a dark money farce-ocracy.

Eric Fehrnstrom thinks that Donald Trump could beat Hillary Clinton. Barring the unforeseeable, he’s wrong, and more importantly for my purposes here, including the unforeseeable in ostensibly serious political analysis kind of negates the point of offering serious political analysis. 

Winter break? February break?  Summer break?  When should schools take breaks and for how long?  These sorts of questions are at the heart of Boston Public Schools Superintendent Tommy Chang’s proposed changes to the Boston school calendar.

The Republican Party, like Humpty Dumpty, is poised for  a disastrous fall. Can all the king's horses and all the king's men put the GOP back together again?

Conservative social scientist Charles Murray and progressive economist Thomas Piketty come to different conclusions about the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

I never took Mitch McConnell for a progressive. But his call to “let the American people” decide the next Justice of the Supreme Court brings to mind one of the most radical proposals of the early progressive movement.

For Trump, political interests and principles are just variables in a market analysis.  He jumped into presidential politics this year because he saw very friendly market conditions. He recognized the timing was good for responding to the pent up political demands of a certain type of voter, and that in 2016 at least he is more well positioned to exploit that demand in the short run than are the professional pols on the national stage.

President Barack Obama is following the constitutional process for nominating a Supreme Court justice and the American people want the Senate to hold hearings. The holdup is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's toadying to his party's radical rich.

Inflammatory language, baiting protesters, and brawls are a constant threat at Donald Trump's campaign events. We've seen this act before - at George C. Wallace's rallies in 1968.