Pure and simple, Mass Fiscal Alliance’s “poll” on MBTA reform is a fraud.

The Legislature has a fever, and the only prescription is an advisory opinion.  Thankfully, the Massachusetts Constitution obliges.

What follows is the text of a speech delivered by a friend at the Agawam National Cemetery on Memorial Day 2012, just months before a momentous and important national election. It’s a powerful reminder that citizen soldiers who’ve made the ultimate sacrifice shouldn’t just be remembered.

Tom Brady is getting high priced legal advice about the Wells investigation but the guy who could really explain what is going on is former Massachusetts House Speaker Charles Flaherty.

The conflict between Governor Charlie Baker and the legislature over MBTA reform is like a graduate class in political science.

So far Governor Charlie Baker has maintained cordial relations with the legislature. The senate’s rejection of his MBTA reform plan may mean it’s time to drop the gloves.

As the gruesome evidence mounted against Boston Marathon Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, public support for executing him seemingly dropped. What gives?

Undergraduates from public universities in Massachusetts and Maine presented their work at the recent meeting of the New England Political Science Association and showed that the future of political science research is in good hands.

Remember 2000 and hanging chads? That's pretty much routine for Florida politics.

Highway pollution is dangerous in ways most of us haven’t even heard about. Our research team looked at a population in Somerville and showed that exposure to ultrafine particles characteristicof motor vehicles--and hence concentrated along highways--was associated with elevated blood biomarkers.