So, is this the best the Massachusetts Republican Party can offer? Longtime Republican operative Beth Lindstrom, a former senior aide to Mitt Romney and manager of Scott Brown’s victorious Senate campaign, said Wednesday she is considering a challenge to US Senator Elizabeth Warren. Lindstrom has held a series of conversations with top state Republicans about […]
D.R. Tucker
D. R. Tucker is a Massachusetts-based journalist who has served as the weekend contributor for the Washington Monthly since May 2014. He has also written for the Huffington Post, the Washington Spectator, the Metrowest Daily News, investigative journalist Brad Friedman's Brad Blog and environmental journalist Peter Sinclair's Climate Crocks.
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The Courts Will Not Save Us from Trump’s Climate Callousness
Last year, I argued that an effort by young climate activists in Oregon to compel the federal government to reduce carbon emissions was well-intentioned but doomed. I didn’t anticipate that this effort would be doomed so quickly: A landmark climate change lawsuit, brought against the federal government by 21 children, has encountered yet another hurdle […]
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Anyone Who Thought Trump Would Stand Up for the LGBT Community is a Fool
None are so blind as those who refuse to see, eh? It’s hard to fathom the mentality of anyone who thought Donald Trump would do anything to benefit members of the LGBT community–and it’s also hard not to react with sarcasm and scorn over the fact that some of the folks who supported Trump are […]
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HBO’s “Confederate” Will Never Make It to the Airwaves, and That’s a Good Thing
Not a chance in hell. Rest assured, no matter what its executives are saying now, Time Warner will not damage its corporate reputation by putting a show with a concept as contemptuous as Confederate on the air. Who would be the audience for such nonsense, anyway? As the New York Times noted last week: It […]
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Jeff Sessions Deserves to Be Humiliated
What did I tell you back down the line? I’ll scratch your back, you can scratch mine… Steely Dan, “Gaucho,” 1980 You have to admit: it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, and it feels good to see him get screwed. Jeff Sessions probably looks in the mirror now and finds himself restraining the urge […]
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The Republican Party is a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Imagine, for a moment, an organization that sought to deprive millions of people of access to medical treatment. An organization that did all within its considerable power to remove policies that ensured access to clean air and clean water. An organization that took the side of arms manufacturers who wanted no restrictions on the ability […]
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“Post-Trump Stress Disorder” Will Haunt Americans for Years to Come
A few weeks back, progressive Rep. Mike Capuano (D-MA) attempted to hit the brakes on impeachment talk in Democratic circles, suggesting that such chatter was far too premature. The odds of Trump being impeached and removed from office remain low: the chances of Republicans in the House and Senate holding Trump fully accountable over his […]
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Operation Bury Bernie: The Political Motive of the Jane Sanders Investigation
Imagine a sports team celebrating a championship victory even before the playoffs have started, and you have a good idea of what the mood must have been like among Donald Trump’s top political advisors after the New York Times ran this story: A federal investigation into a long-ago land deal by Senator Bernie Sanders’s wife […]
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Despite McConnell’s Delay, Trumpcare Could Still Make It Through the Senate
Like the proverbial horror-movie character whose hand rises up from the grave, let’s not assume that the monster known as Trumpcare is dead and buried yet. Yes, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has, ironically enough, delayed the effort to kill the Affordable Care Act until after Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) recovers from surgery to remove […]
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Green Lantern: Gore’s Return to the Spotlight Has Implications for 2018 and Beyond
Accepting the Vice Presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention 25 years ago today, then-Tennessee Senator Al Gore declared: I’ve spent much of my career working to protect the environment, not only because it is vital to the future of my State of Tennessee, our country and our earth, but because I believe there is […]
