Elizabeth Warren is riding high, polling ahead of Joe Biden in early voting Iowa and New Hampshire, and closing the gap in national polls. But that surge has come with a downside — the front-runner bullseye now firmly on her back. In this week’s Democratic presidential debate, most of the arrows fired her way had […]
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Police group blasts Warren over Ferguson comments
ELIZABETH WARREN IS IN HOT WATER over a comment marking the fifth anniversary of the Ferguson, Missouri, police shooting of Michael Brown.  Warren tweeted that Officer Darren Wilson “murdered” the 18-year-old black man in 2014. The state’s largest police association quickly voiced its displeasure, the second time in just over a year that the organization has ripped the state’s senior […]
Posted inPolitics
Could Warren-Castro be the ticket?
You have to wonder if Warren-Castro could be the ticket to Democrats unseating President Donald Trump in 2020. In a very crowded debate of 10 Democratic candidates, Sen. Elizabeth Warren got the chance to bookend the night during opening and closing statements, with her standard policy-laden plans sprinkled in between. As the top polling candidate […]
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Could Warren-Castro be the ticket?
You have to wonder if Warren-Castro could be the ticket to Democrats unseating President Donald Trump in 2020. In a very crowded debate of 10 Democratic candidates, Sen. Elizabeth Warren got the chance to bookend the night during opening and closing statements, with her standard policy-laden plans sprinkled in between. As the top polling candidate […]
Posted inGuns
Does attention to shooting miss the mark?
YESTERDAY’S DAYTIME FATAL SHOOTING of a taxi driver near the Prudential Center in Boston was the top story among local media outlets throughout the day and it’s the lead front-page story in both Boston daily newspapers this morning. The argument for the flood-the-zone coverage, of course, is that the more out of the ordinary an […]
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Does attention to shooting miss the mark?
Yesterday’s daytime fatal shooting of a taxi driver near the Prudential Center in Boston was the top story among local media outlets throughout the day and it’s the lead front-page story in both Boston daily newspapers this morning. The argument for the flood-the-zone coverage, of course, is that the more out of the ordinary an […]
Posted inOpinion
Warren should now champion race dialogue at home, too
SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN is running for president with an ever-percolating pot of policy ideas. She has advanced a cornucopia of legislative proposals in recent weeks, earning her the mark of a wonk in a recent Time magazine profile. While reaching the White House may preoccupy her ambitions these days, looking to Massachusetts as a potential incubator for her […]
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Trump tweet stalls Wampanoag bill
A TWEET BY PRESIDENT TRUMP uprooted the strategy of legislators who aim to save Mashpee Wampanoag plans for a $1 billion casino in Taunton. “Republicans shouldn’t vote for H.R. 312, a special interest casino Bill, backed by Elizabeth (Pocahontas) Warren. It is unfair and doesn’t treat Native Americans equally!” said Trump in a tweet. Democrats responded […]
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Trump tweet stalls Wampanoag bill
A tweet by President Trump uprooted the strategy of legislators who aim to save Mashpee Wampanoag plans for a $1 billion casino in Taunton. “Republicans shouldn’t vote for H.R. 312, a special interest casino Bill, backed by Elizabeth (Pocahontas) Warren. It is unfair and doesn’t treat Native Americans equally!” said Trump in a tweet. Democrats […]
Posted inBook Review
Reforming capitalism to save it
IN THE FIVE YEARS since the publication of Thomas Piketty’s runaway bestseller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, rising inequality has yet to force any consensus on what to do about it, while the macro trends of globalization and automation continue to make America unequal. Now, at the start of the 2020 election cycle, actors of […]