Give the New York Times credit for publishing, earlier this month, a long investigative piece about the strange enthusiasm of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for the communist strongman Daniel Ortega, who ruled Nicaragua in the 1980s and is in power there again today.
It bears remembering, though, that the group of Democratic presidential candidates who might be described as Ortega groupies extends well beyond the self-described socialist senator from Vermont.
About 65 percent of residents in Massachusetts oppose letting 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds vote in federal elections and only 29 percent support it, a newly released poll found.
