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Donald Trump is dying! The left can’t stop The Storm from coming! Biden, Clinton, and Fauci are going to be arrested! Trump is going to be taken down in court! Every day, I see the rabid masses of ... (Read more)

Massachusetts bill H.551 isn’t exactly a repeat of Florida’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay” bill, but it does rhyme. These types of bills follow the “if you don’t talk about it, it doesn’t exist” school ... (Read more)

The push to exclude undocumented immigrants from the US census strikes at the intersection of constitutionality, dehumanization, and political maneuvering. The Massachusetts Republican party has re... (Read more)

I don’t know if there’s a formal name for this—when two sides of an argument try to “cancel” their hypocrisy out—but it’s one of the most frustrating habits I regularly notice. You see it all the t... (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)