So far in the current US presidential campaign, there has been virtually no attention paid to doing something about the US public debt…
When President Obama declared that we should try diplomacy with Iran before war, it was fascinating, and a little disconcerting, to watch…
It need not take one US soldier to attack and kill 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, to remind us that war is horrible. The…
Applause is in order. The Kabuki theater is over. Last week’s annual meeting of the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC,…
As they have before in the aftermath of financial crises or wars, governments and central banks are increasingly resorting to a form of “…
This year’s presidential campaign in the United States has been marked by calls from Barack Obama’s would-be Republican challengers for a…
Dust off your banjos, because “Charlie on the MTA,’’ the old song bemoaning Boston-area transit fares, is timely once again. Facing a…
It is de rigueur these political days to claim that anything Massachusetts does is bad for the nation as a whole. Health care aside, a new…
Some footnotes to Super Tuesday after a night that never ended:
-- Mitt Romney's narrow victory in Ohio inevitably brought back memories…
The Republican presidential nomination contest is dragging on because Mitt Romney is a weak front-runner—right? That's the media narrative…