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Showtime for New Boston

With the Urban League conference coming next week, Boston's movers and shakers are scrambling to project a progressive racial image
After years of trying to convince groups with large minority membership that the Hub is now a welcoming, friendly destination for African-Americans, this is the first big organization to test the theory.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | July 27, 2011

Big conservative funders are making a new push at universities

Right turn on campus
Funders are working through official university channels to underwrite lecture series, conferences and colloquia, and centers geared for the general-interest student, all carrying university imprimatur.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | July 18, 2011

Review: Page One

Get me rewrite
Watching Carr work those stories reveals little about the media revolution, and nothing about its effects on the Times.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | June 29, 2011

massachusetts scandal with house of representatives

In the wake of the latest corruption scandal, let's just torch the offending chamber

Burning Down the House
Burning Down the House

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | June 22, 2011

Deval Patrick is on a second-term winning streak, and casinos might be the next payoff

Gaming the system
Last summer, when Deval Patrick's veto killed a gaming bill in the final days of the legislative session, many thought he had badly damaged himself politically. He was, after all, the one who had pushed for casinos in Massachusetts almost from the day he entered office.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | June 20, 2011

What happens if they hold a city election and nobody notices?

Quiet fight
The past few years, Boston has been almost continuously wrapped up in big, attention-getting elections.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | June 09, 2011

Sarah Palin joins the GOP presidential race

Palin's magic bus ride just might save Romney -- and run over Obama

Sarah to the rescue?
Democrats are positively giddy over the sudden re-entry of Sarah Palin into Republican presidential politics.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | June 01, 2011

Anyone but Mitt

Romney vs. the GOP
Political leaders don't always rally around the front-runner for their party's presidential nomination, but they normally at least offer deference and respect. That doesn't, however, seem to be the case with Mitt Romney.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | May 25, 2011

The Third Annual Phoenix Memorial Day look at the laughable state of Massachusetts politics

Ready, Aim — Roast
Hey, thanks for having me back for the Third Annual Boston Phoenix Memorial Day Political Roast! Good to see so many of you here — the last time I saw this many Beacon Hill insiders in one place was on the prospective witness list for the Sal DiMasi trial!

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | May 31, 2011

God Hates FAQs

Everything you always wanted to know about the Rapture, but were afraid to ask
Editors' note: We selected David S. Bernstein to serve as our resident Rapture expert, on account of his having seen all three Kirk Cameron Left Behind series film adaptations.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | May 19, 2011

Bliss of Rapture

Farewell, Christians — don't let the gates of paradise hit you on the ass on your way out
Okay, I'm not happy , exactly, that, as a Jew, I am excluded from Saturday's date with Heaven's eternal rewards, and will instead be left to suffer through great tribulations before perishing, with the rest of the Army of the Antichrist, as a dismembered corpse beneath a waste-deep river of blood.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | May 19, 2011

No more Mr. Nice Council

Five-way Boston bloodbath
By announcing his campaign for city council, Michael Flaherty immediately unleashed the bitter side of Boston politics.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | May 11, 2011

Obama's rebirth

By exposing his haters, the president has forced the GOP into a corner
It was a good weekend for the president.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | May 05, 2011

Thomas Menino plans to run for mayor of Boston yet again

Tom Menino's final term as mayor? Don't bet on it.

Here He Goes Again
Mark this down: Tom Menino, already the longest-serving mayor in Boston history, will run for re-election in 2013.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | April 27, 2011

Romney rides again

To win the GOP nomination, Mitt will need to do things differently this time. Here's how.
Mitt Romney has been running for president more or less nonstop for the past seven years — and still hasn't figured out how to do it.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | April 14, 2011

Choosing sides

New Hampshire's GOP operatives have lined up for the 2012 primary, and are ready to do battle
Over the next two weeks, New Hampshire will quietly transform into a proving ground for the Republican 2012 race to recapture the White House. At least 10 potential candidates, from heavyweights like Mitt Romney to obscurities like Fred Karger, are scheduled to visit this month.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | April 14, 2011

It's a reasonable bet that gaming could once again gridlock Beacon Hill

Slow play
Gaming bills have plagued the last two legislative sessions on Beacon Hill.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | April 04, 2011

After Clinton

The State of State
With a world full of crises in full flower, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton surprised a lot of people last week by declaring, in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, that she will not continue to serve beyond 2012, should Barack Obama win a second term as president.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | March 23, 2011

China Syndrome

Ian Bowles reflects on moving Massachusetts into the lead on clean energy -- and how the feds might have thrown it all away
Massachusetts has successfully jumped way out in front of every other state in the race for a share of the emerging trillion-dollar clean-energy market — which might end up meaning nothing, as the United States pisses away its chance to be part of that industry.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | March 18, 2011

The Governor in his Labyrinth

In year five of his administration, Patrick is keeping his options open
Governor Deval Patrick has always excelled at inciting political speculation. Through his first three years in office, most Beacon Hill insiders remained convinced — even as his re-election effort began — that Patrick would not serve out his full four-year term.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | March 10, 2011

Will Women Fight Back?

Republicans trying to gut four decades of women’s progress have met with very little resistance — but that’s changing
Ominous headlines are dominating the news: revolution in the Middle East; surging gas prices; even a possible government shutdown. Getting less attention, but with equally dire implications, is the concerted war against women being waged by Republicans.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | March 02, 2011

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