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Much has been made over the failed prognostications by pundits and pollsters this past election at the presidential level. One particularly fascinating epic "miss" was predicting how the "Catholic Bloc" would vote. The results of the 2016 election reveal, if anything, how difficult it is to
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"I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine." –Terry Goodkind, as quoted in Moving to Maine, 2007
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Tracing the "psychologies" and "pathologies" of this season's presidential election in her new book, The Year of Voting Dangerously, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd writes that the "fury" of the 2016 electorate is spawning a number of "wildly improbable candidates
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"I don't mean to sound arrogant, but even at this stage, I do feel that we are meant to be one of the great groups." — Bono, as told to Rolling Stone, 1981 No one could have imagined the significance of that first gathering, held in a
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Five years ago, on September 30, "Occupy Boston" first pillaged Dewey Square. For 72 days its participants appeared to be darlings of left-leaning media and left-leaning office holders until the lawless occupation of public space was finally dismantled. Today, remarkably, the Occupy movement is a fast fading memory,
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"There's many a king on a gilded throne But there's only one king on an ice-cream cone. So we crown him today with friendly acclaim, All over the country we'll blazen his name. With hot dogs barking in approbation, He's the
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State Rep. Randy Hunt was casually flippant — but with an intentionally serious undertone — when he imagined the day when constituents would call him complaining that they "can't find any heroin anymore." Given the still-raging opioid crisis in the Commonwealth, that call will take time arriving as
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As the national media focus on the civil war within the Republican Party, the Republican governor of this liberal state is leading a quiet revolution in state government, and, in the process, creating a model of New Republicanism. Gov. Charlie Baker – and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito – are governing in style