Commentary
Buyers and Sellers of Bitter Butter
The Bitter Butter Award of early 2017 goes to … drum roll, please … Georgia Representative John Lewis. Why?
Politics
News
Speaker, Senate President Could Get 65% Pay Raises
By Matt Murphy and Colin A. Young STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Beacon Hill lawmakers waded into potentially treacherous political waters Thursday as they started the ball rolling on what could become significant pay raises for legislative leaders and statewide officeholders.
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Maine GOP Senator Draws Fire From Anti-Sessions Protesters
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Protests have coincided with Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins's introduction of President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general before the U.S. Judiciary Committee. Demonstrators appeared outside several of Collins's offices in Maine to protest her support of Alabama Senator
Commentary
Not All Interests Are Conflicts
There's a difference between an interest and a conflict of interest, and between the appearance of a conflict of interest and an actual conflict of interest. Remembering those distinctions, understanding them, and keeping them in mind is the key to making sense of the ongoing political uproar over
Commentary
Donald Trump’s Worst Idea
Hillary Clinton didn't just run such a bad campaign that she made Donald Trump president. She ran such a bad campaign that it has effectively disarmed her party from its ability to challenge President-elect Trump's worst idea.
Donald Trump
We’re About To Become Great Again … Maybe
Donald J. Trump, Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America, New York: Simon and Schuster Threshold Trade Paperback Editions, 2016 (originally published in 2015 as Crippled America), with a new foreword by President-Elect Donald J. Trump. Donald J. Trump, who is scheduled to take the oath of office as
Commentary
Can U2 Save America from Donald Trump?
Suit and tie comes up to me His face red Like a rose on a thorn bush Like all the colours of a royal flush And he's peeling off those dollar bills — "Bullet the Blue Sky," 1987 U2's angry, angst-driven anthem was meant to
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Church/State Flap Nixes School Chorus Easter Appearance at Italian Basilica
A Massachusetts public school chorus cancelled a performance planned for Easter Sunday Mass in Italy after an advocacy organization told school officials it would violate the First Amendment. The chamber chorus at Groton-Dunstable Regional High School is planning to tour Europe in the spring. The highlight of the original schedule
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