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Finding your cadence Although we’re told that local elections have the greatest impact on our lives, younger generations are slower to put down roots—often because of a job market increasingly dema... (Read more)

Making an impact There’s a vital step between attending protests and holding local office that most people sleep on: force-multiplying outreach for under-the-radar local policy. Most people don’t c... (Read more)

Insights from a former conservative I grew up Boston Irish Catholic, raised on faith, family, and Republican talking points. Starting in middle school, I attended GOP rallies, collected signatures,... (Read more)

Regressive opacity Massachusetts carries a lot of pride in being a progressive leader among the States. However, our state legislature is among the least transparent in the country; power in the St... (Read more)

(Source: Mass.gov) Strategic silence We expect bad actors to spin and mislead in politics; that’s the nature of the game. The more insidious and ubiquitous rhetorical failure is when politicians an... (Read more)

Semantic drift There’s an interesting phenomenon emerging in today’s fast-paced and buzzword-saturated political discourse. In short: A word comes into use, describing a phenomenon. The word gets w... (Read more)

Background Parties, politicians, and supporters often take advantage of a rhetorical strategy I call “distraction discourse”: Using proxy arguments to shift public conversation away from the outcom... (Read more)

Background The role of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Massachusetts is a subject of growing contention, even within left-leaning communities. While liberals and moderate Democrat... (Read more)

As humans we are naturally social. From birth, we depend on others for survival, learning, love, and even to figure out who we are. No one grows up in a vacuum, and communities give us the environm... (Read more)

Background The previous post covered the importance of recognizing that slavery was the principal reason for secession, the creation of the Confederacy, and the Civil War. This is important to coun... (Read more)