Whether it is a takeover of the Republican State Committee or pushing charter schools, Governor Charlie Baker's political and policy fights in 2016 are being fueled by dark money.

When Mitt Romney set out the reasons why the Republican Party must not nominate Donald Trump, he was playing the role of party elder statesman. Now that Romney has spoken, who else does the GOP have to take that role?

Chris Christie and Charlie Baker face very similar political circumstances – Republican Governors in deeply blue Northeastern states.  Mitt Romney strongly considered Christie for his presidential ticket.  But when all three had to decide on a Donald Trump Presidency, at one of the last junctures where he can be derailed from the GOP nomination, only the Massachusetts men said “no.”  If Trump wins, Christie is culpable.  Governors Baker and Romney decided quite differently.

So, yes, the GOP needs more Baker and more Romney.  It needs more Massachusetts and far less Jersey. 
 

Boston University's Andrew Bacevich writes that a President Trump would permanently degrade our constitutional structures. We must heed this argument before it is too late.

As we seriously consider whether the GOP front runner is a Fascist, and his chief competitor exploits the competitive advantage of telling penis jokes, we should take stock of the health of our democracy.

With the prospects of Donald Trump winning the Massachusetts GOP primary tomorrow, it is hard to imagine a worse time to try and bring some common sense to the Republican State Committee.

Marco Rubio's attack on Donald Trump's hiring practices adopted a liberal critique of conservative free market capitalism: that it undermines the American family.

While I am sure Jimmy Buffet was thinking of warmer climes when he penned his Changes in Latitude song, part of the reason I was brought on to this blog was to highlight the politics outside of the beltway of Boston, so that’s what I am going to do today.

Bernie Sanders is a socialist, Ronald Reagan is the avatar of free market capitalism. But their presidential announcement speeches share this trait: they both address you, the citizen, with the dignity you deserve.

More than anything else right now President Obama wants to insure that his successor is a Democrat. If the next president is a Republican, everything President Obama was able to achieve via executive order would be undone post-haste, and his most important legislative accomplishments would undoubtedly be scaled back or reversed. The negative consequences of GOP control of both Congress and the White House would be catastrophic.  Until the untimely death of Antonin Scalia, Obama’s 2016 electoral calculations were even simpler.