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Is his call for citywide ballot initiative an innocuous, family-friendly proposal? Or a way to get elected to the state assembly? What if it's both? When Board of Supervisors President David Chiu introduced his proposal last week for a citywide ballot initiative setting laws around flexible schedules for caregivers, he was not only cribbing from ... (more)

It is the slogan that Ted Kennedy used when he first ran for the U.S. Senate a lifetime ago.

That common definition of insanity comes to mind when observing the current debate about the latest attempt at immigration "reform."

On Sept. 18, 2008, with the nation on the precipice of a financial crisis, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to gather a bipartisan group of lawmakers that very day.

Editor's note: Patrick J. Kennedy is the former U.S. representative for Rhode Island's 1st congressional district, serving from 1995 until 2011.

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Should we fear our government? Can we trust it anymore? When you get right down to it, the government is supposed to be us.

It looks very much like Ed Markey's cautious "get out the base" campaign will be enough to get him over the finish line in the special Senate election.

The story of healthcare reform in the United states begins not with Obama, Clinton or even Johnson, but almost a century ago, in the years leading up to World War I. Although the Socialist Party of America had called for insurance for workers "against accident, sickness and lack of employment" as early as 1904, it wasn't until 1912 , when the ... (more)

To break the ice at this year's Middlesex Community College Celebrity Forum, Jenna Bush Hager emphasized her mother's lifelong commitment to knowledge by revealing how her mother, at 10 years old, named her pet Dewey -- after the Dewey Decimal System.

Noted marijuana enthusiast Bill Maher had little patience on Real Time on Friday for former Rep. Patrick Kennedy's campaign against legalizing the drug.

Despite the fact that Massachusetts is a very blue state, Republicans regularly win elections here.

After Ted Kennedy was elected for the first time, at age 30, his home state sent him back to the Senate eight times, all but once by unassailable margins.

With Election Day in the special Senate contest in Massachusetts closing in, and the polls relatively tight, another top Democrat will make the trek to the Bay State next week to try and keep the long-held seat in party hands.

Strong fundraising in April and May added to his $4.6 million cash balance on 4/11 helped Rep. Edward Markey far outspend Gabriel Gomez in the battle to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by John Kerry, now President Obama's Secretary of State.

It may sound unbelievable, but just a few weeks ago it would have sounded equally unbelievable that the IRS would admit to targeting American citizens for the "crime" of being "Patriots" - a Watergate-esque scandal that threw the White House into crisis, forced the head of the IRS to resign, and led a senior IRS official to plead the 5th Amendment ... (more)

Edward Snowden , 29-year-old techie with a GED who was smart enough to work for the CIA and NSA for the last ten years, has turned the US Intel community inside out with revelations about domestic and foreign data-mining and digital-spying so vast and complex, pundits and politicians have stopped calling it 'Orwellian.'

Recent polls suggest Republican Gabriel Gomez is within striking distance of Rep. Ed Markey in a contest for a U.S. Senate seat from Massachusetts.

Recent polls suggest Massachusetts Republican Gabriel Gomez is within striking distance of Rep. Ed Markey in a contest for a U.S. Senate seat.

Recent polls suggest Republican Gabriel Gomez is within striking distance of Rep. Ed Markey in a contest for a U.S. Senate seat from Massachusetts.